Regardless, Mr Dillon insisted it was a good decision and extolled the benefits it has brought the area in the years since. Lisburn is growing, and the problems we have are planning issues over the last while. We want to expand in different directions. Planning takes light years, if it gets through at all. It has allowed us to grow, despite all the difficulties.
Has the award put paid to the perception some people have that Lisburn is merely a satellite of Belfast that will one day be subsumed by the capital? Lisburn is not a suburb of Belfast. Lisburn would never join up with Belfast. They [councillors] then quickly saw the benefits to the area. The main thing is the recognition that it is now a city. People, to this day, still say that. Many public facilities are available for you to choose from.
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Birmingham was the first town without a cathedral to become a city, in Places can also lose their city status overnight as Rochester in Kent did overnight due to a technical oversight when it became part of a single large urban area known as the Medway Towns. City status can act as a symbol of pride for its residents and increase the number of visitors, therefore boosting the economy.
Professor John Beckett, who has written a book on the subject, has said it is primarily a "status thing" which "gives a bit of patronage to government".
He told the BBC: "There never has been any privileges.
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