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The former JJB Sports shop, vacant since the company passed into administration in October 2012, now with the following planning permission (15 April 2015): “Z/2015/0119/F 58-66 Royal Avenue Belfast BT1 1DJ Change of use from retail to public house with external beer garden/smoking area and associated works including alteration to shopfront”. The NI planning portal shows that the applicant is J D Wetherspoon PLC. The photographs submitted by me appear as a neutral matter of record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the proposed development.

A University of Ulster press release dated 7 March 2013, commenting on the proposed new Belfast campus at York Street Link contained the following: “This will mean around 14,000 students and 1,500 staff will occupy the building over the course of a week . . . . . The University has been working with partners in government on a Community Business Opportunities Plan which will capture these benefits for the advantage of the surrounding communities”.
The appearance of Royal Avenue and York Street and the types of businesses accommodated there (and surrounding streets) seems likely to change in line with developments as the University becomes established.
This is a collection of photographs of the area “for the record”.