Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little Pengelly to meet board of development corporation tasked with transforming Maze/Long Kesh site
The potential of the former Maze prison site must be matched by political action to kick-start its full redevelopment, the First Minister has said.
While there has been some development – most significantly the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society becoming an anchor tenant and moving the annual Balmoral Show to the venue – the wider transformation of the site has been stalled for over a decade. The Ulster Aviation Society and the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance also operate out of the site.
A political impasse has continued since. In 2019 the corporation said it was setting aside the plan for the peace centre as it focused on progressing the wider redevelopment. “It has great potential in itself but also can be an economic driver, not just for Lagan Valley, but for the whole region,” she said.
She added: “We must build on the common ground that we all share and that is to realise the potential of the site for the benefit of all and we are absolutely committed to working with the development corporation to achieve that.”“We need to match the potential of the site with a similar level of ambition and, as I said, the site has such enormous potential for business, for housing, for recreation, for learning, for sport, for us all,” said the First Minister.
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