Planning

Relocation of Newry Planning Office: From Monday 1 September 2025, the planning function will relocate to Haughey House, Unit 19, Rampart Road, Greenbank Industrial Estate, Newry, BT34 2QU. 

Development Management and Enforcement: If you wish to submit a planning application or enforcement complaint, you may do so at the Greenbank Industrial Estate Office.

Local Development Plan: The draft Plan Strategy and its associated documents will be available to inspect in Monaghan Row up until the end of the public consultation period ending 22 September 2025. The Local Development Plan will remain available for inspection in Monaghan Row up until Friday 31 October 2025.

Duty Planner Service: From Monday 1 September 2025, the Duty Planner role will be delivered from Haughey House, Unit 19, Rampart Road, Greenbank Industrial Estate, Newry, BT34 2QU. 

The Planning Department is seeking your views on the draft Planning Application Validation Checklist. 

The Validation Checklist applies to planning applications for outline permission, full permission, and approval of reserved matters. 

The draft Validation Checklist and online survey are both available to access via the following link. 

Please note: the consultation period will run for 6 weeks from Monday 31 March to Monday 12 May 2025.

Responsibility for the majority of local planning functions formally transferred from the Department of the Environment (DOE) to Newry, Mourne and Down District Council on 1 April 2015. 

This means Newry, Mourne and Down District Council: 

• receives and makes decisions on the majority of planning applications
• enforces breaches of planning permission
• makes tree preservation orders
• produced a local development plan outlining how land in Down and South Armagh should be used and developed in the future.

Further information on how the public can participate in the planning process is contained in the Council’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI).  (see download section below)

The Council's Planning Committee makes decisions about:

• all major applications
• all approvals which have received objections
• all refusals.

The Council delegate approval decisions to its planning manager for local applications which are not controversial and are in line with planning policy.

Regionally significant planning applications will be considered and decided by the Department of the Environment.

Applicants can lodge their planning applications at the Council Offices in the Downshire Civic Centre, Ardglass Road, Downpatrick or at the Council Offices in Haughey House, Unit 19, Rampart Road, Greenbank Industrial Estate, Newry, BT34 2QU. 

To track current planning applications, find out about application fees, access information to help you make your planning application, find out if you need planning permission or to download an application form visit the Planning Portal.

Recent information on Planning Applications can be found at Planning Applications

Contact Details

You can contact the Planning Service on 0330 137 4036

Email: Planning@nmandd.org 

How we use information obtained in the Planning Application process is detailed in the Planning Portal - Privacy Notice listed below. It is important to consider this information.