Baile Uí Chuirc Thiar, Moycullen, Co. Galway

Zoned for employment uses. Housing is not the intended use here.

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

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

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.

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.

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