Housing campaigners have laid out alternative visions for social housing at the publicly-owned Mackie's site in West Belfast.
Belfast City Council voted in August to rezone the land as parkland, including foot and cycle pathways, lighting columns, new entrances and street furniture.
The Take Back The City Coalition has revealed 11 different visions from architects and planners for the site which they say could address around a third of the need for housing in West Belfast.
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Marissa McMahon is part of that coalition and said the plans being laid out offered hope of a better use for the site.
"I've been doing this for over 10 years and I've seen drone footage of the site, so many pictures and discussions and it's only now when you see these visions being laid out that you see the real potential.
"It really emphasises the waste of space in that area, that it could be so much more.
"The families [those waiting on housing lists] have come up with so many ideas and it's great to see it brought to life and that they've worked together with these planners."
She went on to say that without urgent action, the housing demand in West Belfast was only going to worsen and it was already having devastating consequences.
"It's the largest publicly owned site in an area which has the highest need for homes in Northern Ireland and the fact we wouldn't be looking at pieces of land like that to put homes on is ludicrous," she said.
"People are literally dying on our streets and yet you've land, planners, architects and families all invested in putting sustainable homes there but yet we don't seem to have the political will.
"As it stands it's to be greenway only on that massive, massive piece of land.
"I would say that we're not really committed to solving this housing crisis, this cost-of-living-crisis, this climate crisis because if we were, we would be looking at pieces of land like this."
The designs, which are being exhibited at The MAC in Belfast, before being moved around various places in the city, were submitted as part of a competition launched in May to seek out new sustainable visions for the area.
They also included pictures from the children of families waiting on housing, incorporating what they thought their future could look like.
"We're not saying to pile houses on top of each other with no infrastructure, amenities or facilities where it doesn't work," Marissa said.
"Loads of different things have been integrated into the designs so that you wouldn't have to take a taxi to get your groceries, you wouldn't have to take two buses to get to your doctors.
"Things like that, other places in Europe like Vienna, it's all filtered in, it makes so much sense and it works.
"Then you look at it and say why aren't we doing that here?'"
The submitted designs can be viewed online at www.takebackthecity.ie.
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