DUP Councillor says: 'we are handing it over to the developers.”
Officers at City Hall are to look at allowing developers to name new Belfast streets and estates in Irish before residents move in.
Councillors were further requested by the developer to allow the street to be given bilingual signage in Irish. The English street name is derived from Divis, from the Irish “dubhais” which means 'black ridge'. The Divis mountain is situated north of the development. The street contains 93 residential properties.
“The benefit of it is that the sign would be erected by the developer now, and at their cost, before there would potentially be residents in the street, and a process that the council would have to pay for. DUP Councillor Tracy Kelly said: “We do take issue with this. There are quite a few homes there that are going to be, I assume, under an Irish language street name. We do not know who is going to be living in those properties and what language they are going to be speaking. We are assuming Irish because it is in the Gaeltacht Quarter.”
Sinn Féin Councillor Tomás Ó Néill successfully proposed council officers would bring back a report looking at options for a new policy.
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