Belfast backs revised cruise terminal for £90m D3 project
The August committee decision covers revised passenger facilities at the harbour’s D3 berth. Conditions and delegated final details remain part of the recorded approval; an issued notice has not been verified.
Key takeaways
- The committee approved the D3 passenger-facility amendments on 18 August 2026, subject to conditions and delegated final details.
- £90 million describes the wider D3 project; the owner targets a new cruise home in 2028.
- A separate issued decision notice has not been verified.
What the committee approved
Belfast’s Planning Committee approved revised passenger facilities for the harbour’s D3 berth on 18 August 2026. Application LA04/2026/0442/F covers the relocation and enlargement of the cruise terminal, an additional luggage building, revised parking and drop-off areas, covered walkways and supporting access, lighting and landscaping works.
The minutes record approval subject to conditions. Officers were authorised to finalise their wording and address outstanding environmental and waste-management consultation responses where the issues were not substantive. A separate issued decision notice has not been verified for this report.
An amendment within a wider port project
The application revises an existing permission for D3. The £90 million figure is Belfast Harbour’s investment in the wider deepwater-quay project, rather than a separately stated cost for these amendments.
The harbour’s investment programme targets 2028 for the new cruise home and plans to repurpose the existing D1 cruise area for offshore-wind assembly and marshalling from 2029. Those dates are the owner’s programme targets. The accompanying visualisation follows the council-published CGI and planning-report elevations.
GoSiteHunt analysis: separate scope from scale
This decision concerns the passenger facilities and associated works within a larger infrastructure programme. Reading the application alongside the wider investment plan helps distinguish the works approved at this meeting from the harbour’s longer-term ambitions and delivery timetable.
Read the sources
Planning decision: . Source check: . Follow the original records for conditions, supporting documents and subsequent changes.
- Belfast City Council — Planning Committee minutes, 18 August 2026 ↗minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk
- Belfast City Council — D3 application report and elevations ↗minutes.belfastcity.gov.uk
- Belfast City Council — approval announcement and project CGI ↗belfastcity.gov.uk
- Belfast Harbour — investment programme and delivery targets ↗belfast-harbour.co.uk
About this story. The decision facts above come from the named sources. Sections labelled GoSiteHunt analysis are our interpretation. A permission is specific to its site and conditions; it does not establish what another property can build or confirm that construction has begun.
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