Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council have made tentative plans for a Titanic-style drone show at future North West 200s.

At September’s Environmental Services Committee, members were asked to approve Council’s corporate response to the UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards’ (OPSS) Fireworks and Pyrotechnics in the UK consultation.

During discussion of the consultation, TUV councillor Jonathan McAuley said a request he made last November for a paper around alternatives to fireworks during Halloween events, such as drone shows, has not yet been actioned by Council officers.

Councillor McAuley was told that a paper would be returned to a future Leisure and Development Committee meeting.

Causeway Coast and Glens Council is discussing the possibility of a Titanic-style drone event for NW200.

placeholder image — Causeway Coast and Glens Council is discussing the possibility of a Titanic-style drone event for NW200.

Chair of the Environmental Services Committee, UUP councillor Richard Holmes, recommended that he put in an update request to the Leisure and Development Committee via a notice of motion.

He also noted he and other the committee members had recently discussed the possibility of a drone show at the North West 200, similar to one organised in March by the BBC as part of its ‘Made Of Here’ campaign.

The campaign celebrated BBC programming made in Northern Ireland by recreating the RMS Titanic in Belfast Harbour with a 950-drone display, which was then broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Thursday, April 2.

Councillor Holmes concluded: “We were just talking yesterday about the drone displays and speculating on motorbike drones at the North West show or something like that.

“Whenever you see what happened with the Titanic display, there down in Belfast a few months back, it does look pretty impressive now.”