100 High Street

Development of existing gap site to provide a modern city-centre 6-storey office building beside a listed building.

Issues Encountered

• Within a Conservation Area
• Adjoins the noteworthy Grade A listed TGWU building
• Design was closely scrutinised by Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), who were originally opposed to a modern infill building of scale beside the listed building

Our Involvement

We provided pre-application advice to the client and architect and instigated a number of pre-application meetings with Planning Service and NIEA to discuss the proposal.

Following NIEAs continued objection to the proposal, through effective lobbying, we gained support for the proposal from a number of local councillors and MLAs and, along with strong planning and design arguments, were able to overcome NIEAs opposition to the proposal and obtain planning approval for the project.