A RESIDENTS group on the Ormeau Road is "monitoring closely" an application for a loyalist parade through the area next month.
A request has been submitted to the Parades Commission by Belfast Walker Club (Apprentice Boys of Derry) for Saturday, November 7.
The proposed parade would leave Ballynafeigh Orange Hall before taking in Ormeau Road, Ormeau Bridge, Ormeau Road and Donegall Pass.
The application follows comments from Orange Order legal advisor Jamie Bryson on Monday that "all traditional routes will be walked again".
He was speaking after Garvaghy Road residents failed in a bid to challenge the Parades Commission's decision to allow the Drumcree parade to walk down the predominantly nationalist road in Portadown.
"For those 11 residents' groups dug up from the 1990s to threaten parades, go ahead, go ahead, open them all up," Bryson said. "Because see after the Court of Appeal decision today, we're going to be walking all of those traditional routes again."
Gerard Rice, from Lower Ormeau Concerned Community, said they were monitoring the application closely.
"They have been applying for about ten years. It has never got across the bridge," he said. "We are monitoring the situation closely for now.
"I think there is nervousness across the board as to where this is all taking us. I would caution people not to get caught up in this circus that people are creating. It gets in the way of good work that goes on.
"People have chose to raise this up again for their own political agenda. For our community, we shouldn't fall into the trap.
"The Ormeau Road is as emotive as the Garvaghy Road. When Garvaghy Road was raised a number of weeks back, the first thing that happened was the Sean Graham memorial was attacked.
"The desire of the Orange Order to parade in Catholic areas is well recorded.
"The direction of the Parades Commission seems to be at odds with everyone including police. It's as if parades aren't an issue anymore and people can parade where they want and when they want?"
