Live in Ireland, can confirm. Usually they’ll put parks around and plant trees in holes in the concrete. I recently went back to my parents place and saw a lot of the development nearby - just hundreds of houses ages away from the town. I think I maybe saw a couple of vertical duplexes, that’s the closest to apartments it got. No commercial zoning in sight, guaranteeing most people will drive every time they need to buy milk or whatever. Big shame.