To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the additional design criteria applying to the Malone Conservation Area Policy BT024 will apply to the application for the proposed extension to Rushmere House, Cadogan Park. (101351)

The additional design criteria applying to the Malone Conservation Area and set out in the draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan policy BT024 cannot be applied to the application because they have been the subject of objections that will be considered at the forthcoming public inquiry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Planning Policy Guidance Note 6 will apply to the application for the proposed extension to Rushmere House, Cadogan Park. (101352)

My Department is legally required to apply Planning Policy Statement 6, ‘Planning Archaeology and Built Heritage’, to this application.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many objections his Department has received to the proposed extension to Rushmere House, Cadogan Park within the Malone Conservation Area. (101353)

To date 110 individual objections and a petition of objection containing 40 names have been received.