What's planned around Cherrywood — the register within 2 km of the town centre

Within 2 km of Cherrywood town centre — the point at 53.246, −6.150, taking in Laughanstown, Tully, Lehaunstown, the Brides Glen Luas stop and the edges of Cabinteely and Loughlinstown — the register holds 225 planning applications lodged in the 24 months to 12 September 2026, 102 commencement notices, 30 appeals and 131 Property Price Register sales in the last year at a median of €445,000. Six applications are inside their observation window today. Cherrywood is the largest planned town in the State, and the register is how you watch it fill.

The scheme, and why objections work differently here

Cherrywood is a strategic development zone under Part IX of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Government designated it in 2010 and An Bord Pleanála approved Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown's planning scheme in 2014, with amendments since. The scheme fixes the development areas, the heights, the unit numbers and the infrastructure sequence, and section 170 then changes the ordinary rules: the council must grant an application that is consistent with the scheme, and under section 170(3) its decision cannot be appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála. You can still make an observation for €20 in the five weeks, and the council must consider it, but the argument is about consistency with the scheme, not about whether the scheme is a good idea. That was decided in 2014.

The effect shows in the appeal count: 30 in two years on 225 applications is low for the volume, and the appeals that exist are on the sites outside the SDZ boundary, on the Old Bray Road, Brennanstown Road and Glenamuck Road, where the ordinary rules apply.

Lodged this summer

Two SDZ applications went in on 30 July 2026, both in Development Area 7 at Laughanstown: 32 residential units at Bishop Street (DZ26A/0580/WEB) and 40 at Castle Street (DZ26A/0579/WEB). Both are due a decision by 23 September 2026, and because they are inside the scheme the council's decision on that date is final. The observation windows on them closed in early September. Our reading: an observation on an SDZ application is worth making when it points at a specific inconsistency — a height over the scheme's limit, a road link the scheme sequences first — and not otherwise.

The older permissions still running

Around the scheme's edge, the permissions that shaped the last decade are still live. The strategic housing development of 234 units at the former Doyles Nursery and Benoni on Brennanstown Road (ABP-305859-19) had its duration extended by the council on 26 May 2025 (ABP30585919/E), which means the five-year clock was running out without a commencement. The 42 units at Loughlinstown Wood, granted in 2017 and upheld on appeal (D17A/0381, ABP-300006-17), had their duration extended in August 2023. The 72 dwellings at Ards, Cartref and Foxley on the Old Bray Road, granted in January 2019 and upheld (D18A/0551, ABP-303675-19), are the third attempt on a site the Board refused at 127 units in 2008.

An extension of duration is the register saying a scheme has not started; the 102 commencement notices within the circle say which ones have. The commencements guide explains the notice, and the map's commencements layer shows the two side by side.

The RZLT map and the prices

The 2026 final RZLT map puts 369 hectares in 354 parcels inside the circle — most of the undeveloped scheme land, taxed at 3% of market value a year until it is built and its houses become liable to LPT, with deferrals during construction. It is the financial reason the summer's applications were lodged. The Property Price Register shows 131 sales inside the circle in 12 months at a median of €445,000, with the new-build apartments in the town centre below that line and the houses on the older roads above it. The Explorer shows each sale beside the permission it was built under.

What to watch next

Three things, in order. The decisions on DZ26A/0579 and 0580 on 23 September 2026. Whether the Brennanstown Road SHD commences before its extended duration runs out. And the town-centre applications in Development Area 6, which the scheme sequences after the Druids Glen Road link — the deadlines page lists the windows as they open.

Frequently asked questions

Can I object to a planning application in Cherrywood?

Yes — an observation to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown within five weeks of receipt, for €20. Because Cherrywood is a strategic development zone, a decision consistent with the 2014 planning scheme cannot be appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála under section 170(3) of the 2000 Act.

How many homes are planned in Cherrywood?

The 2014 planning scheme provides for a town of about 8,000 homes across its development areas; the council's Cherrywood SDZ page carries the current phasing. The register shows the applications as they come, two of them lodged on 30 July 2026.

What is being built near the Luas at Cherrywood?

The register within 2 km of the town centre carries 102 commencement notices in the last 12 months, on town-centre apartment blocks and on the Laughanstown and Tully development areas. The map's commencements layer places each one.

What are house prices in Cherrywood?

The Property Price Register shows 131 sales within 2 km of the town centre in the last 12 months at a median of €445,000. The Explorer lists each sale with its address and date.

The Luas guide covers what the Green Line did to this register; the RZLT parcels guide covers the mapped land. See the circle in the Explorer, or open the Killiney-Shankill place page and the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown place page.

Figures from the register on 12 September 2026 (live callouts refresh hourly); scheme checked against the council's Cherrywood SDZ page on 12 September 2026. Check with the council or a planning consultant before relying on this.