The annual Orange Order Whiterock parade, which last year erupted in major violence, will be restricted but permitted to parade on to the nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast on Saturday.
Serious disturbances flared in loyalist parts of west Belfast after the postponed Whiterock parade was banned from marching through the Workman Avenue "peace line" gates onto the Springfield Road last September.
This year, however, the Parades' Commission has decided that a single local Orange Order lodge, with district officers, will be allowed through the gate while the rest of the parade will march through the old Mackies factory on to the Springfield Road.
The commission has imposed strict rules in relation to how the major element of the parade is conducted. There must be no para- military displays and bands may only play hymns while parading along the Springfield Road.
The first contentious parade of the marching season - Friday's Orange Order Tour of the North parade through north Belfast - passed off without major incident after Orangemen, unionists and loyalists reached an agreement with nationalists on the parade at Ardoyne in north Belfast.
No such accommodation, however, has been achieved in relation to Whiterock.
Commission chairman Roger Poole said while the "savage and shameful violence" of last September weighed heavily in its decision, he also recognised that the nationalist Springfield Residents' Action Group and the loyalist North and West Belfast Parades and Cultural Forum had "shown courageous leadership and real commitment by taking part in meaningful dialogue".
