Images have been released of an architect’s vision for hundreds of homes at the old Mackies site in West Belfast.
The artist’s impressions emerged after London-based Matthew Lloyd Architects won a Belfast urban design competition run by Take Back the City who are campaigning for homes to be built at the 25 acre space on the Springfield Road.
Call for homes to be built at the site have been ongoing for years, but have been rejected by Belfast Council. The land is not ‘zoned’ for housing, but campaigners have said that can be changed with ‘political will’. Belfast Council has started work on a section of urban greenway at the site - a move campaigners say has been given undue priority over homes.
