Puckane Settlement Plan May 2005.

This is a historic village with a well defined and distinctive
character. The physical character of the village is
dominated by cottages, stone wall boundaries, mature
trees and holiday developments. There are good services
and recreational facilities in the village with two pubs, a
village shop, garage, GAA club with very good facilities,
and tennis courts. A sewerage treatment facility is located
on the fringe of the village. There is a primary school and
church available in the village. Outside the village at
Johnstown Gates there is a craft shop, and surrounding
the village there are a number of historic properties
including Lodge House, Balycraggan House, Lisduff,
Kilodiernan, Rookview, Wood Park, and formally
Johnstown House. The location of these houses has
influenced the historic development of Puckane in terms
of origin and development as a village.

Policy: Puckane

It is the policy of the Council to provide zoned 
land for residential use and specific sites selected 
for mixture of residential uses and other village uses.
 An overall plan shall be prepared by the developer 
for each sitebefore making a planning application 
to conform to the following;

Site 1:
This site is located adjacent to the hurling pitch
 and shall provide:

(i) A low density clustered development set back 
from the Dromineer road approach to the village
with adequate provision for car parking.

(ii) Provision of a play area as part of any new 
residential development.

Site 2:
To provide small cluster style housing development, 
designed around a small park-village green.

Specific Objectives:

1. To provide new and improved footpaths on the
Urra Road from the Council housing to the
junction with the R493. To extend this footpath
to Kildangan GAA club as part of new
development along the Urra Road
2. To protect and enhance the character of the
approach roads to the village. In particular, to
preserve the character of the northern approach
road including the earthen banks, mature trees
and stone walls.
3. To provide and improve linkages via new access
roads and footpaths as part of new
development.

4. To provide village green/parks as part of new
development. In addition to minimum open space 
requirements, residential and commercial
developments must provide a village green area 
to be a minimum area of 0.3 hectares.
5. To provide a village park and civic amenity site 
(minimum site area of 0.4) along the Urra Road as
part of new residential development.
6. Design an environmental improvement scheme 
for the village centre to provide, footpaths, parking
storm-water drainage, landscaping, lighting and 
street furniture.
7. To restrict future access points along the southern 
approach road on the R493 because of poor
horizontal and vertical alignment.
8. To provide for new streetscape as part of new 
village centre development to provide and enhance
village character.