The Department for Communities invites applications to operate the visitor centre and cafe at Ballycopeland Windmill outside Millisle. The site closed in April 2024. Bids close at 3pm on April 15.

Northern Ireland's only working windmill before closure, Ballycopeland features a four-storey stone tower, miller's cottage and kiln. The Department for Communities' Historic Environment Division manages the tender for an initial three-year contract, extendable to February 2037.

Refurbished in 2020 at a cost of £1.7 million, the site added car parking, a learning space and visitor centre. The cafe seats 50 indoors and 25 outdoors. It drew 3,000 visitors annually prior to refurbishment.

Located on Windmill Road a mile from Millisle in County Down, the windmill dates to the 1780s or 1790s. It first appeared on ordnance survey maps in the 1830s. The last remaining windmill in the county, it survived from a period when over 100 mills operated in the area.