The Irish Times

Dublin City Council is to create a new town in Cherry Orchard as part of a €2 billion plan, which includes 5,000 houses, a town centre and train station. Cherry Orchard has previously been known for high levels of deprivation and at present consists mainly of large council estates and light industrial areas. The development will centre on the existing Park West site and an adjacent 25-acre site owned by the council, which between them will have more than 2,300 housing units. These two areas will include a railway station and town plaza, which is to begin construction next year. The plaza and station are being built by Harcourt Developments, the company behind the Park West site, but 40 per cent of the 6 million cost is being funded by Dublin City Council. The station, on the Kildare suburban Arrow service, is being developed in co-operation with Iarnród Éireann.