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Ex base militare ospiterà 200 nuove abitazioni sociali

Ex-military base welcomes 200 homes

Two hundred homes are to be built on the site of a former military base in north Belfast as part of a £20m social housing project.

Girdwood Barracks, North BelfastThe plans to transform the grounds of Girdwood barracks, beside Crumlin Road gaol, were announced on Monday by SDLP Social Development Minister Alex Attwood.

He called it one of the biggest development schemes to take place in Northern Ireland in recent years.

“This will be a tremendous housing boost for the people of north Belfast,” Mr Attwood said.

“My predecessor has already announced a £38m investment to transform the quality of homes in north Belfast. I am now adding quantity to that quality with 200 new social and affordable homes at the former military base at Girdwood.

“Windows and washing lines replacing watchtowers and sangers offers a much brighter future for everyone in the area.”

The proposals have been drawn up by Apex Procurement Group and will now be put out for consultation by the local community.

However the process been slammed as “cynical’ by the DUP‘s Nigel Dodds, who said the DSD Minister cannot turn them into reality without the agreement of the Executive.

“The former Girdwood barracks site is a key interface location in North Belfast which is being advanced through an inter-community master-planning process under OFMDFM and DSD,” the north Belfast MP said.

“Given that the development will be cross-cutting and significant it will also be subject to approval from the Assembly Executive.

“For minister Attwood to ignore all of this and to announce consultation on an unapproved plan for 200 social houses on the site is totally reckless and contrary to the agreed process. It could be ignored if it were not so deeply destabilising for local community relations.”

Sinn Fein has welcomed the announcement but asked “when will construction on this site begin and finish.”

“If Alex Attwood is not simply electioneering then we need to know when exactly the housing development at Girdwood will begin and be completed”, North Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said.

The announcement comes in addition to a number of other north Belfast schemes in the Lower Shankill, lower Oldpark and Somervale areas.

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