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University Street, BELFAST, BT7 1EU

A terrace of three former houses on the southern side of University Street. Currently offered on various permutations of “to let” and “to let/may sell”. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the letting/sale. Continue to Image

See Image (September 2013). Still advertised for sale as a residential conversion opportunity. The agents’ website includes the following “The premises comprises of 3no. three-storey terrace office buildings fronting onto University Street between its junction with Sandhurst Road and Dudley Street. The premises benefit from being easily accessible to Belfast City Centre via the Ormeau Road or Botanic Avenue. The offices are finished to include carpeted floors, smooth plastered and painted walls and ceilings with strip fluorescent lighting. Potential for conversion to residential, subject to Planning, however income producing in the short term.” I have no connection with the premises or sale.

A combined Cliftonville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliftonville_F.C. and Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_F.C. mural at Essex Grove, Ormeau Road.

Dudley Street runs from Rugby Avenue, across University Avenue and Fitzroy Avenue, to University Street (background).

Part of a terrace, at the corner of Dudley Street, now offered for sale. The agents’ description includes “Unique Opportunity to acquire 5 adjoining terrace properties. Excellent Re-development Potential ( subject to planning). Currently in use as Hostel 36 beds with additional office accommodation. Site Area: 0.15 acres, ( 0.06 Hecatres [sic])”. I have no connection with the property and cannot enter into correspondence.

Cut bench mark on a low wall at University Street in Belfast. The mark is 7.82 metres above MSL. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

A mid-terrace house, possibly built in the 1870’s, currently vacant and offered for sale. The agent’s brochure describes it as a “Substantial period townhouse with rear garden offering excellent development potential (subject to planning) Six bedrooms : two reception rooms Large rear garden . . . . This property would ideally lend itself to some form of residential re-developement [sic], subject to planning”. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the sale.

Seen from the third floor of the Holiday Inn Express hotel. Clouds obscure the tops of the hills to the north

A clamped car, possibly in relation to road tax, at University Street.

Housing association apartments under construction at the corner of Dudley Street (right). The following planning permission (16 March 2016) applies “LA04/2015/1227/F Retention and restoration of façade and demolition of the building to the rear and erection of 15 apartments with access arrangements, parking, landscaping and associated site works 49-57 Fitzroy Avenue Belfast BT7 1HX”. This was previously a vacant site. The retained façades are on the left.