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A brand new town is being planned for south Dublin and this is what its park will look like

Planning permission has been granted for two of the three parks.

View 1 - Aerial - FINAL  2015-11-2 A computer generated impression of what the completed Tully Park will look like.

CONSTRUCTION IS SET to begin in the coming weeks on two new parks in the south of Dublin.

The parks in Cherrywood are part of wider plan to build a new town that will have 3,800 homes and a retail-led town centre that will employ over 1,000 people.

The plans for the new town began to take shape in 2014 when US-based property developers Hines acquired the site, but they’ve now moved a step closer as Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council granted planning permission for the two parks.

A third park is also planned but planning permission has not yet been granted.

For the two that have been given approval, Tully Park will be located beside the planned town centre and will be 22 acres in area. That’s equivalent to the size of St. Stephen’s Green.

Beckett Park will be located to the north west of the planned town and will be 13 acres in area, similar in size to Dublin’s Merrion Square.

Hines says that it hopes to get the project completed “as quickly as possible” with senior managing director Brian Moran saying that the planning permission is a major step forward:

We will break ground on this initial phase in the coming weeks, and in doing so it will raise the flag on what is set to become the largest construction project in the state, a completely new town for south Dublin which when completed will be home to 30,000 people.

As part of the plans, 5.4km of new roads are also set to be developed.

A planning application for Cherrywood town centre which will include the housing as well as a cinema, restaurants and other amenities will be submitted in the autumn.

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    Mute Rosa Parks
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    Jul 17th 2016, 4:59 PM

    I wish they could give these towns more interesting names

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    Mute Mr Phil Officer
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:11 PM

    Cherrywood, sounds like a STD.

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    Mute Carina Clarke
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:55 PM

    Lets hope they don’t forget to build schools for this new town

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    Mute Simon
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:42 PM

    Who’s up for a petition to rename it to Towny McTownface?

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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:04 PM

    Do you ever get that feeling, that this is going to be another infrastructural mess. And those who benefit most will be long gone.

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    Mute garb yakob
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:14 PM

    Don’t worry, I’m sure with this new government everything will be fine. Or the popular lads can come fix it with their experience in this stuff. But, i bet it all becomes a mess and the guys who didn’t do their census form properly messed up the data and now they’re no new hospitals or schools planned… Sur theres lots of space in current ones anyway

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 17th 2016, 9:20 PM

    Rosa the towns are already named and have those names for a couple of hundred years

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 17th 2016, 9:22 PM

    Aubrey before you knock it you should look at the plans.
    Straight away before they turn a sod they have the Luas, M50,N11 with QBCs.

    The plans are pretty good and they are actual building the infrastructure before the houses.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 11:47 PM

    Brian I’m not knocking it, but history tends to repeat and now, with the pressures put on councils – there are not enough qualified good people to keep an eye on the quality of the building. And quality of the infrastructure. That worries me. Potential for a lot of cowboys.

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    Mute Jho Harris
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    Jul 18th 2016, 7:43 AM

    It was originally just a town land called Cherrywood, now it is an industrial estate with high rise flats, sorry snowflakes have I offended you? We’ll call them apartments so. I was there a few months ago and to counteract the ban on satellite dishes a lot of the balconies are festooned with cheap, gawdy plastic hedges to hide the forbidden receivers. Back to town lands, few people in suburbia use them now but us you yokels still do and that won’t last if Eircode gets a grip.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 7:58 AM

    Really what type of STD’s have you contracted?

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    Mute stopit
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:21 PM

    a “retail-led” town?

    not a community-led town, or a healthy liveable town or a “happy place for kids to grow up” sort of town.

    how depressing a vision for a new town.

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:38 PM

    Well they’re starting off by building three large parks so it can’t be all that unhappy.

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    Mute Frederick Higginbottom
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:39 PM

    1001 Maple Systems Drive

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    Mute The Viking
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:47 PM

    Its a start.. And I would love a park close to were I live. The likes of Johnstown Park in Finglas is excellent.

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    Mute Nick Allen
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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:09 PM

    Stopit

    A retail led town means that it has a retail centre. Modern towns that don’t have retail outlets don’t work, this is the going away from having outlet malls and is a positive thing.
    If you weren’t so hell bent on finding fault you might think before you post

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    Mute Old Gordon
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    Jul 17th 2016, 10:47 PM

    Well compared to the past where they just shoved up hundreds of flats without any infrastructure, this is a way better way of doing things.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 6:37 AM

    Sounds like Ireland’s answer to Milton Keynes or Slough

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    Mute lostintallaght
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:48 AM

    Building parks is only the start, they have to be maintained and utilised properly too. That’s not something that Irish councils do very well outside of the city centre.

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    Mute Andy Lane
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:50 AM

    It’s 30 minutes from Dublin city centre, Baireid, and there are already plenty of residents.

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    Mute Cathal Jenkinson
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:08 PM

    3,800 homes to house 30,000 people? 8 people per home? Sardine town!

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    Mute Random_paddy
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:20 PM

    Maybe they’re counting all the existing residents in cherrywood?

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    Mute scoop delivery
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:01 PM

    Can’t wait for more tiny apartments designed to maximise profits and insure that families cant actually live in them. High turnover tiny units more of the same wooooo

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    Mute Ger Comings
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:06 PM

    Why can’t you wait?

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:29 PM

    In fairness, given the housing shortage and skyrocketing rents, there’s is a massive need for denser living in Dublin. Now, it’d be better if it was in the city centre but Dublin City Council, An Bord Pleanála etc. are seeing to it that we use space very inefficiently in the city.

    At least this area will have a dedicated Luas stop, parks and amenities. It’s not exactly going to be Ballymun II.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:44 PM

    We’ve already had denser living low quality shoeboxes built in the suburbs I expect this one to be no different. No one minds dense but its the scale and quality thats laughable. They are just not medium or long term homes.

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    Mute Ger Comings
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:01 PM

    They haven’t been built yet!

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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:26 PM

    Monorail??

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    Jul 17th 2016, 9:09 PM

    *ensure

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    Mute Paul
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:07 PM

    So John if it was social housing been built bet there would be no brown envelope comment. Will be great for working people to have some additional housing supply in the capital.

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    Mute John O'Neill
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:15 PM

    Corruption in the planning system has been and still is rife, irrespective of the type of housing being built. You’re blinkered if you think that it only at the planning permission stage that corruption in public office happens. Awarding of building contracts for public housing can also be a nice little earner…

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:22 PM

    Lets not build them so in case some people might make money out of a them.

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    Mute lostintallaght
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:45 AM

    How does building houses in Loughlinstown create ‘additional housing supply in the capital’? Cherrywood is closer to the border of county Wicklow than it is to the city. Has Dublin City sprawled so much now that Loughlinstown is defined as being in the capital now?

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    Jul 17th 2016, 4:59 PM

    The brown envelopes must be whizzing around the place at the moment….

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:07 PM

    It’s all about private whatsapp groups these days.

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    Mute Barry Evans
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:08 PM

    Imagine the gridlock… Will be the whole way from Sandford now to kilmacanogue

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:19 PM

    It’s like that most evenings now already

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:39 PM

    It’s got two motorways serving it before it’s even got built. People really love being negative.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:08 PM

    Stupid name, too dense, not dense enough, too retail orientated, too much traffic, brown envelopes, white envelopes, private whatsapp messages,trees too mature, Adamstown 2, moan moan moan moan moan.

    People have being crying out for additional housing in Dublin for years now and all commentators on here can do is bloody moan when there is an announcement for a substantial housing scheme

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    Mute Keelan O'neill
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:13 PM

    I wasn’t moaning with my whatsapp comment.

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    Mute garb yakob
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:25 PM

    They could just make the existing buildings taller. Why must Dublin stay a 3 floor city? Why is building on ever rarer land better? Or they could improve rail services to satellite towns, better roads too.

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    Mute Nick Allen
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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:10 PM

    Spot on Tweety

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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:11 PM

    garb

    “They could just make the existing buildings taller.”

    Are you trying to get dumbest quote of the week by any chance?

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    Mute Barry Evans
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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:23 PM

    Says the smug cyclist/public transport user!

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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:49 AM

    What’s being a cyclist got to do with pointing out the ‘make the existing buildings taller’ is the sort of suggestion my 4 year old would make?

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    Jul 18th 2016, 9:10 AM

    Why is it dumb to say make existing buildings take its happening along the docklands

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    Mute Richard Curtis
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:13 PM

    So…Adamstown Part 2 then

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 17th 2016, 9:24 PM

    No , this place is much better, it’s inside the M50 has the Luas etc

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    Mute lostintallaght
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:51 AM

    Brian must have some sort of holding in the development company. He’s only short of linking to a PDF of the sales brochure here.

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    Mute MARK O 'LEARY
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:36 PM

    I hope the building standards are up to scratch on this site unlike some of houses and apartments that where built by Dustin and Socky during “The Boom”.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:17 PM

    Yes, I hope that too. And that the councillors have made sure of this, and ensured that a reserve fund is in place. Just in case.

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    Mute Jeff Nolan
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:17 PM

    Adamstown 2. Started but never finished.

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    Mute Random_paddy
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:22 PM

    Those wasters in Leinster house better do something to ensure the houses around affordable and not 2 bed apartments starting a half a million..

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    Mute Random_paddy
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:22 PM

    * houses ARE affordable

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    Mute Tweety McTweeter
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:13 PM

    How can the government dictate what a private company will charge for houses?

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    Mute Random_paddy
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    Jul 17th 2016, 9:01 PM

    @tweety – it was govt owned land (nama). They could put conditions on the sale of the land

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    Mute Frederick Higginbottom
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:35 PM

    To put the supply issue into context, in relation to this development. It’s not even big enough to house the 20,000 refugees we have committed to accept in 2015/16

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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:19 PM

    Do you have a source for that number? I don’t think it’s accurate. The only sources I can find state that we’ll be taking in 2,622 or 4,000 and that’s as part of the overall scheme, not simply in 15/16.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/30-more-syrian-refugees-for-ireland-by-end-of-month-1.2599299
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/ireland-wont-take-any-more-refugees-in-deal-34554418.html

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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:42 PM

    Yes, can’t post links but if you Google search you’ll find articles stating the 4,000 are allowed bring family members when they’re granted asylum pushing the figure to roughly 20,000

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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:46 PM

    Add on the 5 family members each that they’ll be allowed to being over ..

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:38 PM

    Will the FG politician get her second and final brown envelope from the developer she kissed the night planning was granted. I keep forgetting the names of corrupt politicians.

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    Mute Ger Comings
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:01 PM

    Pleasant Valley Sunday – status symbols everywhere…

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    Mute Jackie Fitzgerald
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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:06 PM

    Well if it is the same style of Developers that built Charlesland in Greystones and the whole infrastructure to go with the size of it’s development it will be a smashing place to live. They don’t let them just build little boxes anymore. My bet is that it will have all the social, medical and schooling requirements built in, like Greystones/Charlesland. It was a huge development and stands out for it’s amenities and cycle lanes and playgrounds, pools, gyms etc. Fingers crossed for what could be a great project.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:27 PM

    I’m aware about Ireland being the laughing stock of the world, but, we can’t be that thick….can we? Building more homes, when so many lay vacant. Someone must be on the make.

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    Mute Rand McNally
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:15 PM

    It’s a private enterprise. There’ll be no shortage of demand. There’s a massive housing shortage in Ireland. Those vacant homes aren’t in areas that people want to live in.

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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:28 PM

    Great news. That waste land needed something.

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    Mute fiachra29
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:09 PM

    It really is amazing that they can apparently build parks complete with fully mature trees these days.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:24 PM

    yeah there’s machines that can uproot and replant fully mature trees

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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:37 PM

    There’s a big difference between fully mature trees and the ones those machines can lift. If you’ve ever had to dig out a fully mature tree you would see the roots can extend incredibly deep and cover a massive radius.

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    Mute Ronan Quinn
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    Jul 17th 2016, 10:36 PM

    M50 on one side…. Oh wait, that’s at full capacity and is at a standstill in morning and evening already.

    N11 on the other side…. Again at full capacity and a car park in the morning.

    A Luas line won’t be able to service the area unless theres one every 30 seconds at peak. Miles away from a Dart line.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 7:23 AM

    Ronan ,

    It’s not that far from the DART line, and LUAS is being upgraded to a Metro.

    The N11 isn’t to bad, I use it every morning. If you use the Bus it’s even better, no need to use a private vehicle to go to town

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    Mute lostintallaght
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:57 AM

    Can you point to proof that the Luas will be upgraded to a Metro? I believe that there was the usual vague talk about it last year but I don’t believe that any definite pans have been out in place have they?

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    Jul 18th 2016, 9:51 AM

    The plan is to build the metro line from Stephen’s Green to Swords via the Airport and the onto Swords. Then the plan is to upgrade the Green Line to Metro but only as far as Ranelagh so it probably won’t affect this. It’s also someway down the line.

    There’s no need for massive cynicism in relation to transport links for this area in particular, it will be fairly well served by road, Luas and bus compared to many other areas. There is a need for cynicism (or action, more accurately) in relation to Dublin transport as a whole. If projects like Dart Underground, Metro North and the Luas line to Lucan were fast tracked then they’d take strain off the roads generally, meaning you’d see fewer “carparks” in the first place. However, no new project is on the cards in the lifetime of this government. Dublin needs modernisation and fast.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 10:11 AM
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    Jul 18th 2016, 11:19 AM

    Brian, the nearest Dart is 6kms away. Thats too far for anyone to bother with.

    Luas is Luas! Forget Metro, unless theres another line built it will not be able to cope with peak passengers.

    I work & live in the area and can vouch for current levels of traffic on the N11, to add potentially thousands of housing units and an insufficient public transport service will grind everything to a halt.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 1:50 PM

    Rand they plan is to upgrade it to a metro as far as brides glen

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    Jul 18th 2016, 1:54 PM

    Ronan,
    It’s only 2.7km from the cherrywood Luas stop to Killiney DART station,

    No idea where you are getting 6KM.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 10:56 PM

    6km is to Dun Laoghaire.

    Granted Killiney is closer, but its still a 40 min walk. If the next best option to an overloaded Luas is 40 mins walk away then they have failed before they’ve started.

    The M50 was engineered as a bypass to the city. It’s supposed to take traffic around the city rather than through it. At no stage was it supposed to act as a driveway to residential overdevelopment and a replacement to an incapable public transport system.

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    Mute Paul McNevin
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    Jul 17th 2016, 5:48 PM

    Watch this focked up and brown enveloped right before your very eyes.

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    Mute Fred Johnson
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:15 PM

    Infuriating that they’re only building 3,000 homes here. They could easily fit 30,000 and keep the parks if they build sufficient density. Average of 8 storey residential along with a few 15-20 story towers with spectacular views of the Dublin Mountains would be wonderful. Plenty of room there for large 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Instead we get more low density suburban sprawl.

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    Mute Brendan O'Sullivan
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    Jul 18th 2016, 9:36 AM

    I’ve been living in cherrywood for the last 7 years. It’s a super area to live in. Really looking forward to the new developments.

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    Mute Irish Cottage Rental
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    Jul 17th 2016, 11:22 PM

    Meanwhile dereliction continues uninterrupted across Dublin. The city spreads evermore across Leinster like a an American donut with a big hole in the middle.

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    Mute Kate Mchugh
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:47 PM

    Dublin Dublin Dublin !! That’s where all the money goes

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    Jul 18th 2016, 3:21 PM

    Where else would you recommend it goes to? Leitrim?

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    Mute Ken Fallon
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:05 PM

    Adamstown 2.

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    Mute Buzz Cauldron
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:39 PM

    Nothing will come of this.

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    Mute Techbuzz Ireland
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    Jul 17th 2016, 6:05 PM

    I really think the first line should change from CONSTRUCTION IS SET to CONSTRUCTION SET..

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    Mute Dermot Keogh
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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:47 PM

    And when the property prices crashes it with become another ghetto like all the rest dotted around Dublin,will they ever learn?

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    Mute David Hefner
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    Jul 17th 2016, 8:38 PM

    Its going to turn into a ghetto with a transient population.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:43 PM
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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 17th 2016, 10:15 PM

    Yes, just not at rush hour

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    Mute Andy Lane
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    Jul 18th 2016, 8:56 AM

    Fake Avast, I commuted between the city centre and Cherrywood for 8 years on bus. At off peak times it was often less than 30 minutes.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 9:04 AM

    But Fake Avast said ‘by car’ not ‘on bus’.

    Also, I assume that you were going city centre to Cherrywood in the mornings which went against the flow of traffic. The people selling Cherrywood are selling it as a place you can live and then commute TO the city centre in the mornings in 24 minutes. I think they’re being very optimistic. Remember too that even if you can do it in 24 minutes now God only knows how more congested the M50 and N11 will be in a few years time.

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    Jul 18th 2016, 9:13 AM

    I think it’s fair to assume that the time they’ve quoted isn’t what you’re going to be spending driving to Stephen’s Green at 8.30am. It’s currently an accurate number when you remove variables, i.e. traffic. Yes there’ll always be other cars on the road, but the number will change significantly, so it’s fair – and obvious – that they’ve presented the best case scenario.

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 18th 2016, 1:56 PM

    Considering there is a LUAS and a QBC I would put them ahead of the car.
    The days of commuting with a private motor car are dying.

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    Jul 17th 2016, 11:11 PM

    Doubt if they will be affordable.. More ftb with a substantial mortgage..the usual story

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    Mute John Cusack
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    Jul 17th 2016, 11:17 PM

    Another Ongar, when will the shootings start?

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    Mute WFUk7OGf
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    Jul 17th 2016, 10:43 PM

    Oh yay, more urban sprawl!

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    Mute Paul Cunningham
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    Jul 17th 2016, 10:27 PM

    So long as they put the future spot near Laughanstown LUAS, otherwise its a waste of a stop, what with it being purpose built for future village building.

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    Mute Catherine Mc
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    Jul 17th 2016, 11:50 PM

    It’s an US based property developer who is building, how come ? Or is it a knockdown sale through Nama ?

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 18th 2016, 7:25 AM

    Because they bought the land for about 400million on the open market

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    Jul 17th 2016, 7:58 PM
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