Lands at Auburn House, Malahide, Co. Dublin

RA - Residential Area: Ensure the provision of high quality new residential environments with good layout and design, with adequate public transport and cycle links and within walking distance of community facilities. Provide an appropriate mix of house sizes, types and tenures in order to meet household needs and to promote balanced communities.

GB - Green Belt: Protect and provide for a Greenbelt

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

OS - Open Space: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities

Open space and recreational amenity, to be preserved as such.

RV - Rural Village: Protect and promote the character of the Rural Village and promote a vibrant community in accordance with an approved land use plan, and the availability of physical and community infrastructure

The main town centre — retail, offices, civic uses, apartments.

LC - Local Centre: Protect, provide for and/or improve local centre facilities

A local centre: shops, services and apartments over them, serving the surrounding housing.

RA - Residential Area: Provide for new residential communities subject to the provision of the necessary social and physical infrastructure

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.

RS - Residential: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity

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.