South Belfast residents have come together to improve and enhance their local area.
Families living in Great Northern Street and Adelaide Avenue, Lisburn Road, have been regenerating their alleyways and the entrance to the local train station, which had been plagued by graffiti.
The project has seen residents work with The Conservation Volunteers, Leonard Cheshire and Translink to carry out the work, which has been praised by local councillor Gary McKeown who felt that it had "completely transformed the area".
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He said: "It has been great working with the residents of Great Northern Street and Adelaide Avenue who have come together to completely transform the area and make it a better place for everyone to live.
"The alleyway at Great Northern Street looks brilliant now and we are thankful for the help of The Conservation Volunteers who have taken the time to work with the community here and help them create this.
"For years there has also been a problem with graffiti at the entrance to Adelaide Train Station, where every time that it is painted more appears.
"So a group of young children with disabilities got together with artists through Leonard Cheshire and Kids Together to help create a nice positive mural which celebrates the people who live in the area and its history and heritage, with the Train Station having its 125th anniversary next year.
"Thanks must go to Belfast City Council and Forward South Partnership for enabling this mural to happen, and it has been enhanced even more by the floral displays provided by Translink."
The councillor said that he was pleased to see how communities across Belfast have begun to transform their areas with alleyway regeneration projects and said further funding would soon be made available for alley gates and transformation of neglected space.
He said: "Communities have begun empowering themselves and taking ownership of the alleyways and spaces that they normally wouldn't and we are beginning to see that snowball across Belfast.
"It is giving families and neighbours new places to go and socialise on their doorsteps. Further funding will soon be made available for alley gates and help with alleyway regeneration schemes in Belfast which will help even more areas, and if communities have an idea for something they want to do they should go for it."
