Kilmacthomas

Location
The town of Kilmacthomas is categorized as a District Service Centre in County Waterford given its strategic location close to the N.25 (15 miles from Dungarvan) and 15 miles from Waterford City and the employment opportunities available. Kilmacthomas is a most accessible town (using both public and private transport modes) in East Waterford and has a broad range of services available, which include, a supermarket, pharmacy, hardware shop, two bank branches and a post office. It also has a fire station, a Garda station and a dispensary. The community facilities in the town include a secondary school, a community hall and playing fields.

(Download Kilmacthomas Map (adobe .pdf, 716 kbs)   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.

Infrastructure
The town is well serviced with access roads i.e just off the N25 it also connects to Carrick-on-siur via the Regional route R677.  A new waste-water treatment plant for the town is included in the Seven Villages Scheme, and will commence construction in early 2007.

Water supply is limited, but has recently been augmented from a borewell drilled in the Respond Housing site.  A proposal for upgrading the Kilmacthomas Water Supply, has been included in the Government's Water Services Investment Programme, as a scheme approved to enter the Planning Stage. Other difficulties are contamination of sources, difficulty in water source identification, and storage capacity.

Development Strategy
The objective of the Council is to encourage industrial development and improve infrastructure in the town.  The inclusion of Kilmacthomas in the Urban and Village Renewal Scheme and the installation of the town as a priority for sanitary services investment, are designed to address these issues.  There was a separate Integrated Area Plan (IAP) prepared for Kilmacthomas (in 2004) which will inform of the development proposals and potential of the area into the future.

The development boundary is illustrated on the attached Map.  The area to the north of Kilmacthomas at Kilnagrange Bridge is zoned industrial (Flahavan's Mills) and the Union Buildings and adjoining land has been zoned for additional industrial use to facilitate start-up industry, this will allow further expansion of this function in the area. The low-lying area between the west and east of the town is zoned as open space. This will ensure that the land will remain undeveloped and available for fyrture recreational use

There are large amounts of land available for development to the south west of the town, which are zoned for residential use. The constraints to development are 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.

Any development of the Light Industrial zoned lands to the south of Kilmacthomas at Graigeshoneen, will be subject to the following limitations: height shall be conventional 1-storey; indoor fabrication only, excluding ironworks or other development that would negatively impact on residential amenity of adjoining lands; heavy screening (vegetation) will be required.