These lands are especially important to all lucan and surrounding areas voting public, the local natural environment and green space concept surrounding existing highly developed areas. Indeed once lands are developed they never return to green space so should continue to be preserved when other options for development are available. Lucan and its surrounding townlands need to retain existing public open spaces/amenities and if anything needs more as the population continues to grow at such an unprecedented space. I fully support the removal of rezoning them for housing. These comments also reflect the same opinion for the St. Edmundsbury omission from rezoning too another great natural space.