Council to build new town in west Dublin

Dublin City Council has announced it is to build 1,500 new houses in Cherry Orchard in the biggest urban regeneration project since Ballymun.

The houses, shopping, a new town centre and a railway station are to be built on a 25 acre site east of the M50.

The site is north of the railway line to Kildare and west of the new road extending across the railway from Park West Avenue to the roundabout on Cloverhill Road.

It will effectively be a new town developed under a Public Private Partnership. A total of six tenders are being considered, with negotiations expected to begin with the preferred bidder within the next four weeks.

The project will comprise 1500 residential units, 30 per cent of which will be affordable and available in the early stages of the project, new civic plazas and open spaces, commercial and retail properties, leisure and community facilities and a network of new traffic calmed and tree-lined streets.

The site will be served by a new railway station and civic plza, which is being built by Dublin City Council in partnership with Harcourt Developments. Work on the scheme, which is currently being designed, is expected to begin by next year.

A new bridge has been built linking the main roads either side of the railway. Two axial routes will link the new rail station with Ballyfermot Road to the north and Park West Road to the south.