Debate contribution: Urban Villages: Update
Debate contribution by Ms Aisling Reilly on .
- MLA
- Ms Aisling Reilly
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 3 March 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Urban Villages: Update
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4825847
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I am not sure what the exact question is, but, of course, there should absolutely be full transparency. I have visited many Urban Villages projects, and it is clear that they have achieved a transformative impact or that such transformation is under way. I look at the Colin area of my constituency in West Belfast. It has been transformed and has been changed so much for the better as to be unrecognisable. We want to build on that, and that is why we have put together a working group to take forward the development of phase 2 of Urban Villages, which will also look at criteria. We must remember that Urban Villages was a first. We can learn from it for the next phase: what phase 1 looks like and how it can be improved on. We will certainly look at doing that.
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