Location
Ballymacaw is located approximately 4.5 km west of Dunmore East, and 10.5km south east of Tramore. Waterford Regional Airport is located 4km north west of Ballymacaw. (Download Ballymacaw (adobe .pdf, 337 kbs) Map Here) and also download the pages relating to Zoning Objectives (word .doc, 183 kbs) . The Zoning Objectives and Landuse Zoning Matrix need to be used when looking at the individual settlement zonings.

Services
The service base and community facilities of Ballymacaw are limited, although two public houses exist within close proximity of each other. One of these incorporates a very limited retail function. A community hall is located less than 1km south east of the zoned lands.

Infrastructure
Ballymacaw overlies a locally important moderately productive aquifer, where groundwater has an extreme vulnerability to pollution.

The area is not served by a wastewater treatment system, although it is served by a Group Water Scheme. The council will require that all planning applications include proposals for the sustainable treatment of wastewater and an adequate or upgraded the water supply.  

Any such development proposals should be discussed with the Sanitary Services Section of Waterford County Council prior to the submission of a planning application.

Development Strategy
As the area has experienced considerable pressure for development, a significant level of which is urban generated, it is considered that the zoning of lands in this locality provides an opportunity for more sustainable and orderly development within the development boundary as indicated on the attached Zoning Map. 

Any constraint to development is associated with the infrastructural deficit as outlined above and development proposals will need to cater for this in any applications for permission along with satisfying the Planning Authority as to the standards for new development at Section 9.3.