The Land Development Agency and Dublin City Council have lodged a Part 10 planning application for Phase 3 of Cherry Orchard Point in Dublin 10, a scheme that matters to building and architecture professionals because it shows a state agency and local authority sequencing a single large brownfield site into three overlapping delivery phases rather than one long single build.The LDA and DCC target appointing a contractor after tendering in the first quarter of 2028.

The Land Development Agency is a commercial state agency accelerating housing delivery on public and private land, holding planning permission for more than 3,500 affordable homes nationally.

Dublin City Council is the local authority that owns the underlying Cherry Orchard land, acting as landowner on whose behalf the LDA is making this application.

Phase 3 would deliver 312 new starter and social homes alongside retail and commercial units, following Phase 1's 708 cost-rental and social homes now under construction since November 2025, and Phase 2's 137 affordable purchase homes.

The structural driver is the LDA's now-established model of phasing very large sites so construction, planning and tendering run concurrently, with Phase 1 already on site while Phase 3 enters planning, keeping a continuous pipeline of work live at once.

For the sector, the timing matters because setting a Q1 2028 contractor appointment target now, more than a year ahead of any planning decision, gives contractors and design teams unusually long visibility into a tender they can begin resourcing for in advance.

Cherry Orchard Point's growth from an initial 708-home Phase 1 to a 1,157-home total across three phases shows the LDA and DCC willing to add scope to a live site as delivery progresses, rather than fixing the final unit count at the outset.

The broader implication for the sector is that large joint LDA-council sites are becoming multi-year programmes with their own cadence of planning, tendering and construction running in parallel, a structure that rewards contractors and consultants able to sustain a relationship across successive phases rather than bid once and move on.

Source: LDA / Dublin People / inDublin