Public Consultation: Proposed Amendment No. 10 Cherrywood Non-Residential Car Parking Standards

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council as the Development Agency appointed by Government to promote the Cherrywood Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme made an application to An Bord Pleanála on 29 November 2024 to amend the approved Cherrywood Planning Scheme 2014 (as amended) in relation to Non-Residential Car Parking Standards in Section 4.2.10 Car Parking Standards. 

The main reasons for the proposed Amendment are: 

• To update the Planning Scheme to align and accord with changed and emerging national, regional and local policy context relating to non-residential car parking, and to further promote sustainable public transport and active travel modes, and climate change mitigation.  

• To guide the provision of an appropriate level of specific non-residential car parking provision, including having regard also to the need to consider car ownership and usage trends, changes in travel behaviour, climate action, and emerging best practice in relation to car parking. 

• To set out reduced maximum non-residential car parking standards for Employment, Retail and Mixed-use development on the basis of potential for travel by sustainable, active or public transport modes, as well as a proposed increase in bicycle parking standards. 

• To reduce the maximum car parking standards for Employment, Retail and Mixed-use development and moderating parking availability alongside sustainable transport measures as proposed by way of this Amendment take cognisance of proximity to public transport services, the ambitious modal split targets for sustainable transport modes as set in the Cherrywood Planning Scheme, and the potential for car sharing and other recent and emerging innovations in car parking.  

An Coimisiún Pleanála (previously An Bord Pleanála ), as the relevant Competent Authority, notified the Planning Authority on 29 July 2025 regarding their determination, under Section 170A(4)(b), that the proposed Amendment to the Cherrywood Planning Scheme constitutes a material change but which falls within the criteria set out in subsection 3(b). Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 170A(7) of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended, that a copy of the proposed Amendment, along with the Reports to Inform Screening for SEA and AA in accordance with subsection (6)(b) may be inspected at the following locations, during normal opening hours, for a specific period of not less than four weeks from Tuesday 2 September 2025 to Tuesday 30 September 2025 inclusive at: 

• The Planning Department, County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, between 10.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays, and 

• The Council Offices, Dundrum Office Park, Dundrum, between 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays, and 

• Via the dlr consultations on the Council’s website homepage https://www.dlrcoco.ie and at https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com 

Written submissions or observations with respect to the proposed Amendment and associated Reports to Inform Screening for SEA and AA are invited from members of the public and other interested parties including children or groups or associations representing the interests of children and may be made in writing to the Planning Authority not later than 11:59pm on Tuesday 30 September 2025 as follows: 

• Online at https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com, or 
• By email to FPIadmin@dlrcoco.ie, or 
• In writing to Administrative Officer, Forward Planning Infrastructure Department, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 

Submissions and Observations should be clearly marked “Non-Residential Car Parking Standards – Proposed Amendment Cherrywood SDZ”. Any such submissions or observations will be taken into consideration before making a decision on the proposed Amendment.