Well Road, Kilkee Lower, Kilkee Co Clare

Tourism: Land zoned for tourism development shall be used for a range of structures and activities which are primarily designed to facilitate tourism development

Land zoned for business use. Expect offices, warehousing, industry or retail rather than housing; a residential application here is swimming against the plan.

Buffer spaces are intended to provide a buffer of undev. land for the conservation of biodiversity, visual amenity or green space. Buffer spaces may include natural features e.g. floodplains, riparian zones, turloughs, valuable biodiversity areas etc.

Protected high-amenity landscape. Development is resisted to preserve the character of the area.

Agriculture: This zone is for the use of land for agricultural purposes and farming-related activities and to preserve the amenity of the town or village setting.

Zoned to protect agriculture, rural enterprise and biodiversity. New houses are restricted to demonstrated local need.

Existing Residential: The obj. for land zoned ‘existing residential’ is to conserve & enhance the quality and character of the areas, to protect residential amenities and to allow for small scale infill development which is appropriate to the character and pattern of Dev

An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.

Strategic Residential Reserve lands have been identified across serviced settlements to facilitate longer term growth needs across the county. These lands comprise infill/contiguous sites or in some cases there is an on-site planning history of res. use

Land zoned for housing. Expect infill, extensions and — on larger plots — apartment or scheme applications that accord with the objective.