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Permitted, not started · Cork City · grants of 10+ homes since 2017

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.

15,305
homes permitted · 164 sites
36%
started · 5,492 homes
7,481
not started · live permission
554
lapse within 12 months
2,094
already lapsed

All of IrelandDún Laoghaire-RathdownFingalDublin CitySouth DublinKildareMeathWicklowCarlowCavanClareCork CityCork CountyDonegalGalway CityGalway CountyKerryKilkennyLaoisLeitrimLimerickLongfordLouthMayoMonaghanOffalyRoscommonSligoTipperaryWaterfordWestmeathWexford

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2017411884%019
2018221,82448%0703
2019241,10944%0616
2020231,12651%0555
20211847846%58201
2022141,19337%749—
2023213,52910%3,179—
2024161,31471%384—
2025224,61433%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

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Merton Lodge 22410801622 Mar 2023Started notice 30 Oct 2023
Old Fort Gate 21405541628 Apr 2022Started notice 24 Apr 2024
Baker Street 2139822162 Dec 2021Started notice 10 Jun 2022
Lake View 20395761611 Aug 2021Started notice 2 May 2025
with Strawberry Hill 19387061630 Sept 2020Started notice 24 Nov 2023
Unit no's. 4 6-18 Heritage Walk 1938677165 Jul 2020Started notice 10 May 2023
24-39 Farm Green 175706163 Oct 2017Started notice 25 May 2018
Ivy Lawn 23422051511 Mar 2024Started notice 23 Dec 2024
Boherboy Road 1837939151 May 2019Started notice 1 Nov 2021
Carmelite Place 21405981423 May 2022Started notice 16 Sept 2024
8&8A Ballinure Cottages 21404021319 Jan 2022Started notice 2 Aug 2024
Crenagh Hill 20392131310 May 2021Started notice 4 Aug 2021
Crenagh Hill 20391161310 May 2021Started notice 11 Apr 2022
Hettyfield 21398251217 May 2023Started notice 12 Sept 2023
Drumcora House 2039055125 Nov 2020Started notice 25 Aug 2022
Coolflugh 194718128 Aug 2019Started notice 7 Apr 2020
Saint Patrick's Street 106-107 20390261110 Feb 2021Started notice 30 Jul 2021
South Mall Court 19389701130 Mar 2020Started notice 14 Jul 2020
Blackrock Avenue 17372931016 May 2017Started 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
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 19 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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