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Settlement Proposals
Small Settlements
GRACEFIELD
Designation
GD 01
Settlement Development Limit
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A settlement development limit is designated as
identified on Map No. 96a - Gracefield.
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The settlement development limit is designated
to provide
development opportunities in line with the scale, character and role
of the settlement, while preventing ribboning and encroachment
into the surrounding countryside. It excludes surrounding lands
of high environmental quality and wildlife value, and historically
important features of the man-made landscape.
Designation
GD 02
Local Landscape Policy Area
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A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as
identified on Map No. 96a - Gracefield, Map No. 1 - Countryside and Map No. 96b
– Local Landscape Policy
Areas.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental
quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below:
- Former Moravian Church, now Gracefield CofI Church, is of particular
historical interest, and is a landmark building; including its setting and
views;
- Moravian Burial Ground, its historical interest, setting and views;
- Visually significant band of trees around the Moravian Burial Ground and their
contribution to the setting of the settlement;
- Industrial heritage value associated with the spade mill site, mill dams and
millrace on Gracefield Road;
- Several stream corridors traverse the area, providing an important local
landscape feature and act as wildlife corridors.
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The Department has included part of a field to
the east of the Gracefield Road within Designation GD 02. Residential
Development proposals on this site shall be in accordance with the following
site development requirements:
Site Development Requirements
• Dwellings shall be either 1 or 11⁄2 storey, or a
combination of both;
• Dwellings shall be of a modest scale with single storey dwellings having a
maximum floor area of 120 square metres, and 11⁄2 storey dwellings having
a maximum floor area of 160 square metres;
• Dwellings shall be of vernacular design and proportions, including a vertical
emphasis to fenestration with a bias in favour of the solid to void ratio, with
roofs pitched and ridged and rising away from the road;
• Dwellings shall face the public road;
• Dwellings shall open directly onto the back edge of the public footpath/road
or be set back with short front gardens;
• Dwellings shall be a mixture of detached, semidetached or short terraces of 3,
irregularly spaced and with gaps affording views from the Gracefield
Road to the Ballymaguigan Road and beyond;
• Outbuildings shall be sited to the rear of the dwellings;
• There shall be a maximum of 8 dwelling units on the site; in depth development
is not appropriate within the context of Gracefield.
Policy for the control of development in Local Landscape Policy Areas is
contained in
Policy CON 2 in Part 2 of the Plan.
Click here to view Map 96a - Gracefield
Click here to
view Map 96b - Gracefield Local Landscape Policy Area
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