Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 4th June, 2010.

The Government pursuant to a proposal by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, being of the opinion that the development specified in Article 4 is of economic and social importance to the State, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 166(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30 of 2000), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Strategic Development Zone: Cherrywood, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County) Order 2010.

2. This Order shall come into operation on 25 May 2010.

3. In this Order-

"Act" means the Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30 of 2000),

"Greater Dublin Area" means the County Borough of Dublin and the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow.

4. The area consisting of the lands identified within the inner margin of the red line and hatched in red, on the map titled "Boundary of the Proposed SDZ for Cherrywood" dated March 2009 and attached to this Order is designated as a site for the establishment of a strategic development zone in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Act for residential development and the provision of schools and other educational facilities, commercial activities, including office, hotel, leisure and retail facilities, rail infrastructure, emergency services and the provision of community facilities as referred to in Part III of the First Schedule to the Act, including health and childcare services.

5. The site referred to in Article 4 has been designated for the establishment of a strategic development zone for the development specified in that Article, taking into consideration the potential for comprehensive planning and development of the sites due to its scale and configuration, the efficient use of public investment in infrastructural facilities, including public transport, water, waste water and roads and that development of the site will help give effect to the policies in the Regional Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area 2004-2016.

6. The development agency specified for the purposes of section 168 of the Act is Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

25 May 2010.

BRIAN COWEN,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to designate a site in Cherrywood, Dún Laoighaire-Rathdown County in the administrative area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the establishment of a strategic development zone for development in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Planning and Development Act 2000 .