Ballymacarret

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• Today: 15° / 8° · 32% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:43Sunset 19:57

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Belfast Centre, United Kingdom

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 423 rated 4–5 ★ (332 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£184,768 average▲ 7.7% YoY

Across Belfast · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

105 charging locations within ~8 km

• 33 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Avoniel Leisure Centre (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist Party

Belfast East

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• SF 22
• DUP 14
• Alli 10
• UUP 2
• SDLP 4
• Oth 8

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

15,465 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,429 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.4
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Belfast East:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s312 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership306 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office196 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test172 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth141 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Lagan Canal · 0.2 km

  The Lagan Canal was a 44-kilometre (27 mi) canal built to connect Belfast to Lough Neagh. The first section, which is a river navigation, was opened in 1763, and linked Belfast to Lisburn. The second section from Lisb…

• Comber Greenway · 0.4 km

  The Comber Greenway is a 7-mile (11 km) traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network that runs along the old Belfast-Comber railway line. The cycle path starts on Dee Street in east Belfast and finishes at Combe…

• Cluan Place · 0.4 km

  Cluan Place is a Protestant working-class area in eastern inner-city Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

• Battle of St Matthew's · 0.4 km

  The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an…

• 1871 Ballymacarrett rail crash · 0.5 km

  The Ballymacarrett rail crash of 1871 occurred on 13 May 1871 at the Ballymacarrett Junction of the Belfast and County Down Railway in Belfast, Ireland, which at the time was in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and…

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  Pottinger (District Electoral Area) · 0.5 km

  Pottinger was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1985 to 2014. Located in the east of the city, the district elected six members to Belfast City Council and contained the…

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