Are there settlements that could absorb greater development and what criteria should be used to determine how much and where it should be provided?Subscribe to Are there settlements that could absorb greater development and what criteria should be used to determine how much and where it should be provided?

Yes. There are villages and smaller settlements/ settlement nodes around the major centres of population which have the potential to absorb limited very low-density housing. Some were previously...
Kilkenny’s population in the 2016 Census was 99,232 persons, which was a 4% increase from the 2011 figure.   The City’s population was 26,512, which was an increase of 8.5%.    Kilkenny works...