Cork City: homes with planning permission that nobody has started
Data updated 19 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
15,305 homes in 164 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Cork City since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 36% of them. 7,481 still have a live permission and no start; 554 of those lapse within a year, and 2,094 have already lapsed.
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By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 118 | 84% | 0 | 19 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,824 | 48% | 0 | 703 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,109 | 44% | 0 | 616 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,126 | 51% | 0 | 555 |
| 2021 | 18 | 478 | 46% | 58 | 201 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,193 | 37% | 749 | — |
| 2023 | 21 | 3,529 | 10% | 3,179 | — |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,314 | 71% | 384 | — |
| 2025 | 22 | 4,614 | 33% | 3,111 | — |
Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.
Work started 79 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merton Lodge 2241080 | 16 | 22 Mar 2023 | Started notice 30 Oct 2023 | |
| Old Fort Gate 2140554 | 16 | 28 Apr 2022 | Started notice 24 Apr 2024 | |
| Baker Street 2139822 | 16 | 2 Dec 2021 | Started notice 10 Jun 2022 | |
| Lake View 2039576 | 16 | 11 Aug 2021 | Started notice 2 May 2025 | |
| with Strawberry Hill 1938706 | 16 | 30 Sept 2020 | Started notice 24 Nov 2023 | |
| Unit no's. 4 6-18 Heritage Walk 1938677 | 16 | 5 Jul 2020 | Started notice 10 May 2023 | |
| 24-39 Farm Green 175706 | 16 | 3 Oct 2017 | Started notice 25 May 2018 | |
| Ivy Lawn 2342205 | 15 | 11 Mar 2024 | Started notice 23 Dec 2024 | |
| Boherboy Road 1837939 | 15 | 1 May 2019 | Started notice 1 Nov 2021 | |
| Carmelite Place 2140598 | 14 | 23 May 2022 | Started notice 16 Sept 2024 | |
| 8&8A Ballinure Cottages 2140402 | 13 | 19 Jan 2022 | Started notice 2 Aug 2024 | |
| Crenagh Hill 2039213 | 13 | 10 May 2021 | Started notice 4 Aug 2021 | |
| Crenagh Hill 2039116 | 13 | 10 May 2021 | Started notice 11 Apr 2022 | |
| Hettyfield 2139825 | 12 | 17 May 2023 | Started notice 12 Sept 2023 | |
| Drumcora House 2039055 | 12 | 5 Nov 2020 | Started notice 25 Aug 2022 | |
| Coolflugh 194718 | 12 | 8 Aug 2019 | Started notice 7 Apr 2020 | |
| Saint Patrick's Street 106-107 2039026 | 11 | 10 Feb 2021 | Started notice 30 Jul 2021 | |
| South Mall Court 1938970 | 11 | 30 Mar 2020 | Started notice 14 Jul 2020 | |
| Blackrock Avenue 1737293 | 10 | 16 May 2017 | Started notice 12 Jun 2017 |
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How it is counted
- A site is one grant of permission for 10 or more homes since 2017: the register's own unit count where the council publishes one, else the count written in the description ("48 no. apartments"). Retention, outline and extension-of-duration applications are not grants of new homes and are left out. Strategic housing developments the Board decided directly (2017–2022) come from its case list.
- Started means a commencement notice on the Building Control Management System names the permission. A notice is lodged 14 to 28 days before work begins, so this is a count of sites where building was formally begun, not of homes finished.
- Not started is a live permission with no notice. Lapsing is one that expires within 12 months; lapsed is past its expiry. The expiry is the register's where it has one, else five years from the grant (s.40 of the Planning and Development Act 2000). An extension of duration granted later is not seen here.
- When a later grant amends an earlier one on the same site (a large-scale residential development revising a strategic housing permission, a scheme quoting its parent reference) only the later one is counted, so one site is one count of homes.
- The Department's 4Dublin pipeline counts every permitted unit from 2016 and reports 41.9% "activated" at Q2 2026; this table counts sites of 10+ from 2017 and starts on the permission itself, so the two will not match to the unit. The point is the map, not the total: which sites, where, and when they lapse.
The SQL behind the table
select la, count(*) as sites, sum(units) as homes, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'started') as started, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'unbuilt') as unbuilt, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'lapsing') as lapsing, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'lapsed') as lapsed from pipeline_site where superseded_by is null and la = 'CORKCITY' group by la order by homes desc
Sources: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), An Coimisiún Pleanála case list, Building Control Management System commencement notices · fetched 19 Sept 2026, 07:05
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 19 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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