Aerial view of the countryside around Galgorm and Fenaghy Road

The cumulative case

One corridor, twelve applications

Not one scheme in isolation. Twelve applications have been lodged within about 2.5 km of the same stretch of the River Maine, four of them major, and each one is assessed on its own.

The IFA National Football Centre is one of twelve applications lodged within about 2.5 km of the same stretch of the River Maine. Four of them are major. Each has been assessed on its own.

Our planning consultant’s cumulative impact summary sets out that the EIA Regulations (NI) 2017 require cumulative and in combination effects to be assessed. Each of these applications has been screened on its own. The corridor below shows them in the order they were lodged, from 2017 to 2026.

Cullybackey

Galgorm Resort estate
Major application · LA02/2024/0264/F · 32 apartments, and five more applications on the estate
- 5 more at this point
- Ten log cabins · LA02/2026/0182/F
- Eleven self catering cottages · LA02/2018/0184/F
- Twenty self catering cottages · LA02/2020/0263/F
- Reroofing, six fishermen's cottages · LA02/2019/0389/F
- Hotel wing, 64 bedrooms · LA02/2017/0970/F
IFA National Football Centre
Major application · LA02/2026/0169/F · the application this site objects to
Galgorm Castle Hotel
Major application · LA02/2026/0159/F · with listed building consent

Ballymena

River Maine Greenway · LA02/2025/0477/F · links all fourabout 2.5 kmAlso before the Council: padel courts at Galgorm Castle (LA02/2025/0689/F), agricultural sheds at Woodhill Farm (LA02/2026/0144/F), and further permitted works on the estate (LA02/2022/0660/F). Twelve in all.

Every application in the vicinity

From our planning consultant’s cumulative impact summary. Site plans are extracts from the planning register showing the extent of land under each application.