Cairn’s Big, Big Plans For 14-Acre Charlesland Site D

Last plot standing…

ou know straight away that you’re dealing with a big development when the notice pops up in the back pages of The Irish Daily Star, the no.127 most popular newspaper around these here parts.

That this latest pre-validation planning application for Greystones is a bit of a monster mash-up is worth paying attention to though.

We’re talking close to 14 acres, on the last remaining big chunk of land in Charlesland that hasn’t been developed, sitting pretty between the new Greystones Community College and the Eden Gate roundabout. And Cairn Homes are now all set to transform this teenage wasteland into a major hive of activity under the banner of the Glenheron Employment Lands Site D. Which means business and pleasure, and a few more houses. Naturally enough.

We showed these plans to a top local real estate agent, and he spotted a potential Applegreen Service Station as part of a separate audit. Which is something that’s been long overdue on that side of town.

Filed on April 27th 2026, planning application number 2660340 reads…

water services infrastructure / trunk routes (watermains, potable water, and foul), roads and access points / spurs to each site; a new vehicular access from the R761 serving plots, along with all associated upgrade works to the public road required to facilitate the access; extension of the existing Greystones Regional Innovation District Road access from the east to provide access to the plots; new cycle and pedestrian routes running east–west through the site, including connections to the north; site regrading to provide level development platforms for future development; all associated works, relocation of the existing bus stop on the R761, attenuation and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), and connections to the Uisce Éireann network, public lighting, landscaping, boundary treatments, and ancillary site development works.

In their Infrastructure Design Report, the official line is that the development ‘intended as an infrastructure only application to provide the necessary access and servicing infrastructure to facilitate future development of individual sites within the landbank’.

So, that’s cleared that up.

You can check out that full report here, and go check out the application itself over on Wicklow Planning here, with submissions for case no.2660340 due by May 31st and the decision coming down from on high June 21st.