Aim to make Belfast one of the world’s great waterfront cities. The Belfast Waterfront Promenade provides a framework to ensure that future regeneration of the city’s waterfront, one of the largest in Europe, follows an agreed set of design principles. The new approach was developed by the Belfast Waterfront Task Group, made up of representatives…

Spectacular aerial pictures of a huge and unique piece of grass art beside NI’s iconic Titanic Belfast building have been created by local charity NIPANC to mark this year’s #TimeMatters campaign during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Captured by drone footage from the sky, the remarkable images show a giant alarm clock cut out of a…

CATAGEN, Terex and WRIGHTBUS have been awarded £6.27 million funding by the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero through Phase 2 of the Red Diesel Replacement programme, as part of the £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). In total this funding is part of an £8.1 million project to decarbonise non road mobile machinery,…

Maritime Belfast Trust, the charity that preserves and promotes Belfast’s maritime heritage, has worked with Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland’s leading photography organisation, and the local community to create a photograph exhibition that will be launched as part of the Belfast Maritime Festival. This exhibition showcases photographs taken by local community neighbourhoods of Belfast’s historic waterfront….

The More than a Bike scheme, is sponsored by Maritime Belfast Trust and Sustrans, who have come together with Migrant Help to offer individuals seeking sanctuary in Belfast refurbished bicycles, safety equipment and cycling skills training. As part of the Sustrans Community Active Travel Programme (CAPT), funded by the Public Health Agency, a six-week training…

Whiskey production is now under way in Belfast for the first time since prohibition in 1930s. For the first time in almost 90 years, the production of whiskey is under way again in Belfast, on the site of the historic Thompson Dock and Pumphouse, the birthplace of the Titanic. Drinks company Titanic Distillers has invested…

CATAGEN, the net zero innovation company, has been awarded a record £4.9 million funding by the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to develop its novel ClimaHtech BIOHGEN Biohydrogen Reactor in Belfast. Having already built a prototype Biohydrogen Generator and successfully completed feasibility studies in real-world industrial settings, including at the Mannok…

Watkin Jones, the UK’s leading developer and manager of residential for rent, in partnership with Lacuna Developments, announces that it has exchanged contracts with L&G and Clanmil Housing Association to forward fund the new urban residential community, Loft Lines, at Titanic Quarter in Belfast. The agreed fundings amounting to c.£155 million of a wider c.£175…

We are very excited to welcome Belfast’s newest tourist attraction to Thompson Dry Dock and pumphouse, in the heart of the Maritime Mile. Titanic Distillers is the city’s first working whiskey distillery in almost 90 years, and it is certainly worth the wait! Visitors can visit the listed building, the Pumphouse, and neighbouring Thompson Dry…

Sundays on the Maritime Mile are back offering free musical performances running from 12noon to 5pm every Sunday throughout May and August, popping up at various locations along Belfast’s waterfront. Programmed by Snow Water on behalf of Maritime Belfast Trust, the charity responsible for preserving and promoting Belfast’s maritime heritage, Sundays on the Maritime Mile…