Location
The village of Crooke is located approximately 1 mile south of Passage East and 8 miles from Waterford City. (Download Crooke (adobe .pdf, 480 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 Crooke are shared with the nearby village of Passage East.  The shared services include school, church, playing field and local shops.

Infrastructure
The sewerage network and treatment facility at Crooke has limited capacity. There is need for a new wastewater treatment plant to service all development.  Water supply provision is also a problem in so far as the supply network serves Cheekpoint and Faithlegge and increased draw in any one center causes supply problems up stream.  A proposal for upgrading the water supply in the area has been included in the Government's Water Services Investment Programme, 2004 - 2006, as a scheme approved to enter the advanced planning phase.

Development Strategy
There is a considerable landbank zoned for development, particularly to the West, Northwest and Southwest of the village core (see Map). The 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 9.2.

Development of Residential zoned lands to the north of the village will only be considered where it can be sewered by gravity.