Belfast being robbed of rates by the DUP

The leaked memo from Environment Minister, Edwin Poots, to the First and Deputy First Ministers has been well reported. Behind it is another story of border politics and cash grabs on the southern fringes of Belfast City.
Mr Poots and Mr Robison’s, new Lisburn – Castlereagh council was set to loose the valuable rates from the Forestside Shopping Centre in south Belfast to Belfast City Council under the original boundary proposals. This seems to have irked the DUP and Minister Poots who has decided to take Forestside back (and all its cash) and in return give Belfast the Robinson Centre and Dundonald Ice Bowl in the east of the city which are expensive to run and bring no cash in for the local authority.
I live in South Belfast. The reality of is that those of us paying rates in this part of the city are paying for a big chunk of the Council’s services across the city. We shop in Forestside and yet will see none of the benefits from its rates coming back into the city it so relies on for its trade. What Min Poots is proposing is that Belfast rate payers take on another loss making leisure centre but be denied the rates from a shopping centre they all use.
No wonder people think the boys on the hill are a bit of a joke.