Annabella Mallow 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.

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.

Residential Reserve: Provide a land reserve for the long term orderly development of the Metropolitan towns of Carrigaline, Carrigtwohill, Cobh and Midleton and the Key Towns of Mallow and Clonakilty and some County Towns where appropriate.

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