Hardwood: Cherry Wood

Saturday 20 October 2012

Cherry Wood

Cherrywood (Irish: Coill na Silíní) is a planned new suburb of Dublin, withhin the broad Loughlinstown area, and bordering Rathmichael. It is located to the south east of the city, in the administrative county of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. In 2012, it is partly developed and many remaining planned developments will not proceed at this time. The development primarily comprises Cherrywood Business Park, with modest residential development. In 1998 the first office-building was developed in the Cherrywood Business Park but development proceeded slowly. As at May 2012 several of the buildings are still empty while other developments were never completed and there are also broad areas without any building activities. In total the area is around 400 acres. As with many planned developments in Ireland, the crash of the economy in 2008 also affected this development: groundwork had started on the new national headquarters for Royal Bank of Scotland and other office blocks but building is halted since the collapse of the property market and some other (nearly) completed blocks remain empty.