A Belfast Councillor has spoken of her “disappointment” at Stormont’s insistence that Fountain Street and Castle Street should be cleared of pavement cafes and reopened to traffic.
Elected members of Belfast City Council clashed with officials from the Department for Infrastructure during the recent meeting of the City Hall Licensing Committee. The department is asking the council to revoke temporary pavement cafe licences for two Fountain Street businesses, Voodoo public house and venue, and City Picnic restaurant.
Voodoo has a pavement cafe on Fountain Street, while City Picnic has one on Castle Street. Stormont is asking the council to end this arrangement, and free both streets to traffic, while negotiating new locations for the pavement cafes.
