The Belfast Council People and Communities Committee approved the installation of dual language street signs featuring Ulster Scots and English at Ravenscroft Avenue, situated off Upper Newtownards Road and Beersbridge Road in East Belfast.

This decision follows a meeting held this week at City Hall where elected representatives agreed to place signage on forty-nine streets across the city.

Among those consulted, nineteen residents supported adding an Ulster-Scots translation, representing approximately seventeen per cent of respondents.

Under the former regulations, a petition needed signatures from sixty-six point six per cent of eligible voters to secure approval for new dual language plates on a specific street.

The previous framework also mandated that thirty-three point three per cent of the electorate sign a petition to initiate the consultation process.

In 2022, local government altered these rules so that merely one resident or councillor could trigger a discussion regarding a second nameplate.

If at least fifteen per cent of surveyed occupants expressed desire for a dual language sign in the requested tongue, authorities would proceed with its erection.

The current policy framework requires only one resident or council member to initiate consultation on adding a second nameplate to any Belfast street.

While nineteen people favoured the Ulster-Scots addition, twenty-one others opposed it and ten had no stated preference regarding the change.

Sinn Féin, the Alliance Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, the Green Party, and the People Before Profit Party all backed the new street sign policy.

The three unionist parties comprising the DUP, UUP and PUP opposed the proposed changes to the signage regulations.

Prior to this approval, two hundred twenty-six Irish language signs received official sanction but only three Ulster-Scots signs were physically installed at Oregon Gardens, Silverstream Park and Westway Crescent.

Ten occupiers rejected the rule modification while a single respondent indicated no preference on the matter.

Hundreds of streets throughout Belfast have since adopted dual language signage in Irish and English following the official policy's inception.

No street in Ulster-Scots has received such bilingual marking since the regulatory adjustments were implemented.