Belfast Council this week saw bitter exchanges during a discussion over draft proposals to change city centre by-laws covering street preachers, performers and protestors.
At the council’s full meeting on Tuesday, March 1, elected members took part in a tense and impassioned debate over a draft plan by the council to change by-laws concerning noise and amplification used by groups and performers in the city centre.
The chamber agreed to a Sinn Fein proposal to forward the first draft proposal, which has not yet been made public, to the Stormont department for consultation. A proposal by People Before Profit to return the draft back to a council committee, supported by the DUP, failed to pass.
