Skull Townland Schull Co. Cork

Greenbelt1: Discourage strongly new individual housing from being located within the greenbelts around the Main Towns.

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

Agriculture: Conserve and protect agricultural land from undesirable development and non agricultural uses and to prevent premature development of agricultural land adjacent to development areas.

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

Residential: Promote development mainly for housing, associated open space, community uses and, only where an acceptable standard of amenity can be maintained, a limited range of other uses that support the overall residential function of the area.

Zoned for new residential communities. This is where large housing schemes are expected to go, subject to the social and physical infrastructure arriving with them.

Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses: The scale of new residential and mixed residential developments within the Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses within the settlement network should normally respect the pattern and grain of existing urban development in the surrounding

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.