The Alliance party has welcomed the decision to approve planning permission for Kinnegar Sewerage Works.

North Down Alliance Councillor Andrew Muir Has said he is delighted with the decision and is looking forward to seeing machinery on site.

Councillor Muir added: "Despite repeated assurances from NI Water planned work at Kinnegar to address the sewage problems has yet to commence. Again and again we have been promised action but to date no work has started. Work was first due to commence in 2012 but two years later nothing has happened. I am therefore glad that the Planning Application has finally been approved after being submitted in May 2013.

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"With an NI Water official recently informing me that if Planning Permission is given we will be a position to start work early next month. I look forward to seeing machinery on site to address this long running saga which I have campaigned on since becoming a Councillor in 2010, securing £100,000 to identify the cause in 2010 and then over £3million to rectify."

(CD/JP)