The nine month saga surrounding a Belfast Council decision to place Irish street signs on a North Belfast street has come to a conclusion - with the authority voting conclusively to erect four signs along the full length of the road.
In January the DUP had 'called in' the decision to place Irish signs at Clifton Street, which connects the city centre with the north of the city, for legal advice, on the grounds the local approval rating for the signs did not meet the council criteria at the time.
The application for Irish signs at Clifton Street hit 64.3 percent in favour, just below the 66.6 percent figure required under the council’s policy to erect the signs at the time. However councillors were given legal advice at last December’s People and Communities committee that given such marginal figures the committee could have “discretion” to go ahead and approve the signs.
