Ards and North Down Councillors have criticised a Stormont department over continuing delays to a £50 million regeneration plan for Bangor.
At the full monthly meeting of Ards North Down Council (January 26) elected members condemned delays from the Department for Infrastructure, which is looking at potential flooding risk from a reservoir in the Clandeboye estate, more than two miles away.
Despite the plan being approved by Ards and North Down Council last year, the department, which has the power to 'call-in' or end the project, has been carrying out an assessment on the planning application, in relation to the scheme falling within the flood inundation zone of Clandeboye Lake.
