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Wicklow hosts a wealth of wildlife including a range of threatened habitats and species which are protected by law and are recognised as being of local, national and EU importance. Many habitats and species are designated for protection / preservation under national and/or EU leg
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This detailed Landscape Character Assessment identified 15 distinctive landscape categories, which were placed within a landscape hierarchy detailed below and as shown on Map 17.09A-E of this plan and remain as described as set out in the Landscape Character Assessment appendix o
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Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework Boundary (Adopted 2026)Wicklow County CouncilGovernment
Greystones / Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF) /Variation No. 4 to the Wicklow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 was adopted and came into effect on 09 February 2026. An 'interim' LPF/Variation document is available to view below and the final adopted LPF/Va
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Environment
The project created a digital GIS wetlands map and database of known and potential freshwater and coastal wetland sites in Wicklow. A variety of third party datasets, published surveys and reports on wetlands, and a systematic aerial photographic survey were used to identify site
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Tree Preservation Orders are created under section 205 of the Planning and development Act 2000-2010. This allows for the Planning Authority to make provision for the preservation of any tree, trees or woodlands as specified in the order. Within the County Development Plan, a num
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Dataset showing the boundary of the Bray Head SAAO produced by Bray Town Council/ Wicklow County Council in 2007. A Special Amenity Area Order (SAAO) is designed to protect areas that are of particularly high amenity value, which are sensitive to intense development pressure and
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Survey conducted by Lott architectural consultants during 2007 of of a representative sample (147) of the traditional houses of rural Co. Wicklow.
This is a point-based dataset, with associated attributes documents and photographs
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Landscape Survey of Great and Little Sugar Loaf Mountains carried out in 2010 by Atkins. Dataset includes survey information on the landscape character, ecology (mapped to Fossit level III and Habitats directive Annex1), geology, archaeology and built heritage of area with recom
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Transport
Wicklow County Council Bridge dataset consists of the bridges recorded and surveyed by the Road Section. It also includes Bridges on National Routes.
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Town boundaries for towns which have separate town councils, within Wicklow County
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Wicklow County Council Road Network consists of approximately 2190 kilometres of Public Road. The spatial data is normally the centre line of the road.
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Architectural Conservation Areas. These areas are created legally under Section 10(2)(g) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 - 2010. This allows for groups of buildings, streets, villages, small towns and larger areas to be designated as Architectural Conservation Areas. Oth
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This dataset consists of the special speed limit zones for County Wicklow Speed limits were amended nationally in 2005, when all measurements changed from the old miles per hour system to the new kilometers per hour. Speed limits used in County Wicklow include the 50kph Built Up
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Historic and 'active' graveyards based on graveyards survey undertaken in 2006 by Architectural Recording and Research (AR&R) and modified by Environment Section. Data Owner: Heritage Officer / Environment Section.
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Environment
WCC Urban Habitat Mapping Project 2008 to carry out habitat surveys (classified to Fossitt level III and Habitats Directive Annex 1) of the towns of Bray, Wicklow and Arklow and their environs. Data owner: Deirdre Burns. Last Updated: Jan 2009
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The Register of Protected Structures is a statutory document maintained under Section 10(2)(f) of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 – 2010. Structures can be added at any time. This is a polygon only dataset. The polygon represents the general location of the structure and d
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Flood Zone B: Moderate probability of flooding - Where the probability of flooding from rivers and the sea is moderate (between 0.1% or 1 in 1000 and 1% or 1 in 100 for river flooding and between 0.1% or 1 in 1000 year and 0.5% or 1 in 200 for coastal flooding).
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Flood Zone A: High probability of flooding - Where the probability of flooding from rivers and the sea is highest (greater than 1% or 1 in 100 for river flooding or 0.5% or 1 in 200 for coastal flooding).
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Integrated tourism / leisure / recreational (ITLR) complexes are medium to large-scale leisure and recreational developments that will often include accommodation facilities. The development of a limited number of exceptionally high quality integrated tourism, leisure and recreat
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The strategy and policies for retailing set out in this plan have been prepared having regard to the guidance set out in the ‘Retail Planning Guidelines for planning authorities’ (DoECLG, 2012). This development plan addresses the list of matters to be considered in a plan, as re
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