Dun Laoghaire Rathdown council has granted planning approval for two parks at Cherrywood in south Dublin, the first step in the development of a new town for the area which will include 3,800 new homes and a town centre which will include retail areas, cinema, other leisure uses, restaurants and apartments.

Hines Ireland was granted planning permission by the council under the fast track Strategic Development Zone (SDZ). The two development will amount to a total of 35 acres.

Tully Park, at 22 acres, will be immediately adjacent to the planned town centre and will be equivalent in size to St Stephen’s Green, while Beckett Park (13 acres) will be located at the north-west end of the SDZ and will be similar in size to Merrion Square. An application for a third major development, the 22-acre Ticknick Park, is to be submitted in the coming months.

Hines stated that work on the parks will begin within weeks.

Brian Moran of Hines commented: “We are delighted that planning permission has been granted for the development of these flagship parks and that the initial phase of development can now get under way. These are the first planning permissions to be granted under the Cherrywood Strategic Development Zone and signal important progress for the project.

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“Hines is focused on rolling out the Cherrywood project as quickly as possible to deliver an unrivalled location for families to live in and for businesses to flourish. Our vision to have a high quality, amenity-led environment at the heart of the new Cherrywood is now becoming a reality with the upfront development of these large parks.

“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.”

A further announcement on the proposed development of 5.4km of new road network to serve the entire Cherrywood SDZ is expected to be made in the coming weeks.

A detailed planning application for the new town centre will be submitted later this year. The 400 acre site was acquired in November 2014 with SDZ approval for the construction of a new retail-led mixed use town centre with up to 3,800 apartments and houses; and zoning capacity to upgrade the second largest office park in Dublin.