Former DUP leader and Stormont minister Edwin Poots has told Belfast Council the Suffolk community is being “discriminated against” as a new plan for an enhanced Lidl in the area was given the green light.
At Belfast City Council ’s Planning Committee this week, elected representatives approved the demolition of the existing discount supermarket for the erection of a larger building, as well as new car parking, landscaping and associated site works.
The plan involves improvements to green space to enhance its usability and amenity involving new landscaping and the creation of pedestrian walkway and sitting areas. The site, in the boundary area between South and West Belfast, is at 100-116 Stewartstown Road and land to the immediate south and southeast bounded by Kells Avenue, Oranmore Drive, Suffolk Crescent and Suffolk Drive.
