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  • Open consultation Experimental Traffic Control Scheme - Hill Street and Gordon Street Belfast

    Topics:
    • Roads legislation, 
    • Road users

    Consultation closes 3 June 2026, 5.00 pm

    Summary

    EXPERIMENTAL TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHEME – HILL STREET AND GORDON STREET, BELFAST
    The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has made The Experimental Traffic Control Scheme – Hill Street and Gordon Street, Belfast, for a period of 6 months, which comes into operation on 4th December 2025.

    Documents

    • Experimental Traffic Control Scheme - Hill Street and Gordon Street Belfast - Made Direction Order Adobe PDF (178 KB)
    • Experimental Traffic Control Scheme - Hill Street and Gordon Street Belfast - NOM Adobe PDF (105 KB)
    • Experimental Traffic Control Scheme - Hill Street and Gordon Street Belfast - Map Adobe PDF (1 MB)

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    Consultation description

    The scheme will prohibit all vehicles from using Hill Street, Belfast for a distance of 120 metres from its junction with Gordon Street to its junction with Waring Street.
    Vehicles are excepted from the prohibition in certain circumstances, including to permit loading and unloading of goods between 6.00 a.m. and 12.00 noon to premises situated along the affected length of road.
    The scheme will also introduce a one-way traffic system on Gordon Street, Belfast from its junction with Hill Street to its junction with Dunbar Street in an easterly direction.
    The Department will consider in due course whether the provisions of the scheme should continue indefinitely.

    Making an objection
    Within a period of 6 months from 4th December 2025 any person may object to the making of a traffic regulation order for the purpose of continuing the provisions of the scheme in force indefinitely.
    Any such objection or other representation must be made in writing to the Department at DfI TRAM Eastern Division, Network Maintenance (East), Hydebank House, 4a Hospital Road, Ballydollaghan, Belfast, BT8 8JL or by emailing traffic.eastern@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk stating the grounds of objection.
    Information you provide in your response to this consultation, excluding personal information, may be published or disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). If you want the information you provide to be treated as confidential, please tell us why, but be aware that under the FOI/EIR we cannot guarantee confidentiality.
    For information regarding the Departmental Privacy Notice following the introduction on GDPR please go to the following link https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/dfiprivacy or phone the Data Protection Office on 028 90540540. For further details on confidentiality, the FOIA and EIR please refer to www.ico.org.uk

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