Over £16m of funding for Phase One of the Newry City Park is due to be released by the Department of Finance.
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council councillors were updated this week with an officer confirming an outline business case had been approved by the Department for Communities . The Albert Basin Park Project agreed by NMDDC in 2017, will now see the development of a 15 acre site in the centre of the city once vital cash has been signed off.
The council officer said: "The outline business case for the Newry City Park has been completed and the permanent secretary of the DfC has approved it."It is now up tp the Department of Finance to release funding for Phase One." The update on the park has come as a notice of motion was brought forward by Alliance rep David Lee-Surginor in a bid to access increased EU funding to complete the entire project.