A public consultation is reportedly being conducted by the Belfast City Council regarding the possibility of amending the capital city’s licensing laws and to measure interest in building a major casino complex there worth as much as £300m.
According to the councilor Jim McVeigh, “The consultation is to gauge the opinion of the people of Belfast, and people within our tourism and hospitality sector. It’s in two halves -one is around flexibility around opening hours, exploring the idea that those areas should be devolved to councils. And the other, the entertainment complex, is to gauge the mood of the people in the city.”
Unlike the Republic of Ireland or Ireland, currently, in Northern Ireland, the gambling laws do not allow for the development of casino properties in Belfast but as said by McVeigh, the development could create as many as 1,000 jobs and that the potential value could be £300m. (READ SO: GAMBLING IN IRELAND PREPARING A RENOVATION IN THE LAW)
According to the report, the public consultation is slated to begin on the 11th of December and to close on the 5th of March in the New Year.
