Kingscourt Road, Carrickmacross, Co.Monaghan

Existing Commercial: To provide for established commercial development and facilitate its appropriate expansion.

Zoned for waterfront and harbour-related development.

Landscape Protection/Conservation: To protect important landscape features within the towns from development that would detrimentally impact on the amenity of the landscape, on the natural setting of the town or on the natural attenuation offered by flood plains.

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

Recreation/Amenity: To protect and provide for recreation, open space and amenity.

Land zoned to stay open — parks, playing fields, amenity corridors. Built development is very hard to justify, which also means the view is protected.

Proposed Residential A: To provide for new residential development and for new and improved ancillary services.

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: To protect and enhance existing residential amenity,to facilitate residential development on small infill sites within established residential areas,the comprehensive redevelopment of brownfield residential sites for sustainable residential development.

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.

Community Services/Facilities: To protect, provide and improve community facilities and services.

Reserved for the schools, creches, community and health facilities a neighbourhood needs.