The Christmas tree countdown and light switch-on event is to return to the City Centre this year, but it will be beside Primark instead of in front of City Hall due to what a council officer describes as “an incredibly tight budget.”
Elected representatives at a Belfast City Council committee meeting this week agreed to a combination of a switch-on event and city-centre wide programme for Christmas 2023. It will involve a ‘switch on’ event on a small riser stage at Castle Junction/Donegall Place, beside 2 Royal Avenue, formerly the Tesco, and the Primark at Bank Building.
In March Belfast Councillors agreed a return of the Christmas tree countdown and light switch-on event as part of the city’s celebrations this year, after a surge of criticism from the public about the lack of the traditional switch-on in front of City Hall in recent years.
