A new Stormont Animal Health Science building and animal incinerator has been approved despite concerns about air quality.
At Belfast City Council ’s Planning Committee this week, an application by the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to replace Northern Ireland’s main animal health and food safety laboratory, the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute veterinary laboratory at Stoney Road, East Belfast, was approved by a majority vote. The Green Party voted against the application while People Before Profit abstained.
The proposal involves the development of a new, replacement Animal Health Sciences Building with a general stores building, post-mortem suite and carcass incineration facility, and associated works. None of the statutory consultees have raised any objections, nor were any objections from third parties received by the council.
