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01/07/2014
DARD Relocates To Ballykelly
The NI Executive has approved to relocate the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) to Ballykelly in County Londonderry.
The department headquarters will now be moved to the Shackleton Barracks site in the north west.
DARD Minister Michelle O’Neill said: "Now that this approval has been received we will now press on with the necessary detailed design work with the intention of letting a contract to begin the building work by the end of 2015 for completion late 2017. The plan is to make the move in two phases; the first by the end of 2017 and the remainder by the end of 2020."
She added: "Consistent with the Executive’s commitment to relocate to a rural area, this move to Ballykelly forms part of a broader programme of relocations that is planning for Forest Service being headquartered in Fermanagh and Fisheries Division in Downpatrick by June 2015 and Rivers Agency headquartered in the Loughry Campus of the College of Agri Food and Rural Enterprise by March 2016."
(IT/MH)
The department headquarters will now be moved to the Shackleton Barracks site in the north west.
DARD Minister Michelle O’Neill said: "Now that this approval has been received we will now press on with the necessary detailed design work with the intention of letting a contract to begin the building work by the end of 2015 for completion late 2017. The plan is to make the move in two phases; the first by the end of 2017 and the remainder by the end of 2020."
She added: "Consistent with the Executive’s commitment to relocate to a rural area, this move to Ballykelly forms part of a broader programme of relocations that is planning for Forest Service being headquartered in Fermanagh and Fisheries Division in Downpatrick by June 2015 and Rivers Agency headquartered in the Loughry Campus of the College of Agri Food and Rural Enterprise by March 2016."
(IT/MH)
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