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Belfast: what’s happening where you live
What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.
Belfast City Council: NI district (ni district), Northern Ireland. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council.
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- Household waste collection: Providing information
- Household waste collection: Reporting
- Flytipping: Reporting
- Road maintenance: Reporting
- Noise pollution: Reporting
- Council tax annual notification: Providing information
- Council tax discount: Applications for service
- Council tax benefit new claim: Applications for service
- Electoral register: Providing information
- Primary school places: Applications for service
- Secondary school places: Applications for service
- Library facilities: Providing information
- Planning decision notices: Providing information
- Councillors directory: Providing information
- Complaints procedure: Providing information
Housing
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Transport
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Council tax
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Environment
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Education
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Belfast in numbers
- Total population
- 352,390 people
- Median age
- 36 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £21,429
- Gross median weekly pay
- £575
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 22.1%
- Claimant Count
- 4.0%
- Average house price
- £184,768
- Female healthy life expectancy
- 56.6 years
- Male healthy life expectancy
- 56.9 years
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 4.1 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 95.7%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 77.5 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 11,895 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
60 seats in 2026. Run by: NULL, with a majority.
Councillors by party: Sinn Féin 22, Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. 14, Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 11, SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party) 4, Green Party (NI) 3, Independent / Other 2, Ulster Unionist Party 2, People Before Profit Alliance 1, Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 60 councillors, by ward
- Dónal Lyons (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Balmoral
- Geraldine McAteer (Sinn Féin) — Balmoral
- Micky Murray (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Balmoral
- Sarah Bunting (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Balmoral
- Tara Brooks (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Balmoral
- Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Arder Carson (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Ciaran Beattie (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Paul Doherty (Independent / Other) — Black Mountain
- Rois-Maire Donnelly (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) — Black Mountain
- Áine Groogan (Green Party (NI)) — Botanic
- Conor McKay (Sinn Féin) — Botanic
- Emmet McDonough-Brown (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Botanic
- Gary McKeown (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Botanic
- Tracy Kelly (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Botanic
- Brónach Anglin (Sinn Féin) — Castle
- Carl Whyte (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Castle
- Conor Maskey (Sinn Féin) — Castle
- Dean McCullough (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Castle
- Fred Cobain (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Castle
- Sam Nelson (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Castle
- Caoimhín McCann (Sinn Féin) — Collin
- Joe Duffy (Sinn Féin) — Collin
- Matt Garrett (Sinn Féin) — Collin
- Michael Collins (People Before Profit Alliance) — Collin
- Séanna Walsh (Sinn Féin) — Collin
- Siobhán McCallin (Sinn Féin) — Collin
- Christina Black (Sinn Féin) — Court
- Claire Canavan (Sinn Féin) — Court
- Frank McCoubrey (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Court
- Ian McLaughlin (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Court
- Nicola Verner (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Court
- Ron McDowell (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Court
- Bradley Ferguson (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Lisnasharragh
- Brian Smyth (Green Party (NI)) — Lisnasharragh
- Davy Douglas (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Lisnasharragh
- Eric Hanvey (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Lisnasharragh
- Michael Long (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Lisnasharragh
- Séamas De Faoite (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Lisnasharragh
- JJ Magee (Sinn Féin) — Oldpark
- Jordan Doran (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Oldpark
- Nichola Bradley (Sinn Féin) — Oldpark
- Paul McCusker (Independent / Other) — Oldpark
- Ryan Murphy (Sinn Féin) — Oldpark
- Tomás Ó Néill (Sinn Féin) — Oldpark
- Andrew McCormick (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Ormiston
- Anthony Flynn (Green Party (NI)) — Ormiston
- Christine Bower (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Ormiston
- Hedley Abernethy (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Ormiston
- James Lawlor (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Ormiston
- Jenna Maghie (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Ormiston
- Jim Rodgers (Ulster Unionist Party) — Ormiston
- David Bell (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Titanic
- Fiona McAteer (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Titanic
- Pádraig Donnelly (Sinn Féin) — Titanic
- Ruth Brooks (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Titanic
- Sammy Douglas (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Titanic
- Sonia Copeland (Ulster Unionist Party) — Titanic