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

Cork County: homes with planning permission that nobody has started

Data updated 19 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

15,104 homes in 301 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Cork County since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 55% of them. 5,638 still have a live permission and no start; 496 of those lapse within a year, and 1,103 have already lapsed.

15,104
homes permitted · 301 sites
55%
started · 8,363 homes
5,638
not started · live permission
496
lapse within 12 months
1,103
already lapsed

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

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
20171564174%0165
2018231,11271%0317
2019371,16978%0263
20202064285%099
2021401,55467%261259
2022451,93165%675—
2023391,93673%528—
2024241,60762%611—
2025301,94813%1,696—
2026282,56427%1,867—

Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.

Permission, no start 90 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Gully Bandon Co. Cork 21/5565203 May 2022Lapsing lapses in 7 months
Scarteen Lower Newmarket Co Cork 24/43241928 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Glanduff Kilbrittain Co Cork 24/41391920 Dec 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
Millbrook Townparks Upper Mill Road Midleton 25/57391822 Jan 2026Not started lapses in 4 years
Catholic Walk Rathmore 25/40091821 Aug 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Mount Saint Josephs Back Road Pembroke Passage West Co. Cork 23/66081820 Jan 2025Not started lapses in 3 years
Blind Gate Street & Rampart Lane Town-Plots Kinsale Co Cork 23/49461815 Jan 2024Not started lapses in 2 years
Friar Street & South Main Street Youghal-Lands Youghal Co.Co 24/6467161 Apr 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Elmbury Carrigtohill Carrigtwohill Co Cork 24/6016164 Feb 2025Not started lapses in 3 years
Curragh Glen 26/0412149 Sept 2026Not started lapses in 5 years
Cloughduv GAA Ryecourt Cloughduv Co.Cork 22/61141421 Apr 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
Catherine Street 24/41491310 Jan 2025Not started lapses in 3 years
Coach Road Kilworth Co. Cork 25/43621212 Feb 2026Not started lapses in 4 years
The Oak Water Rock Manor Water-Rock Midleton Co Cork 25/55631231 Oct 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Knocklaun Cork Road Knockgriffin 23/5744121 Mar 2024Not started lapses in 2 years
Drakes Point Knocknagore Crosshaven Co.Cork 22/6519129 Jun 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
Meadstown TD 22/43741221 Mar 2023Not started lapses within a year
Lisnagar Demesne Rathcormac Co.Cork 22/62741212 Jan 2023Not started lapses within a year
Garranenagappul Clondrohid Macroom Co Cork 24/63731119 Sept 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Gurteenroe Macroom Co. Cork 24/54331125 Oct 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
Lower Road Knocknagore Crosshaven Co. Cork 23/51791128 May 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
Killeagh Mills Aghadoe Killeagh Co.Cork 22/66221110 Jul 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
Janeville 26/13541019 Aug 2026Not started lapses in 5 years
Bishop's Island 26/07741025 Jun 2026Not started lapses in 5 years
Carrigleigh Inchigeelagh Village Co. Cork 25/50781026 Nov 2025Not started lapses in 4 years
Harbour Heights 24/5270104 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 3 years
No. 3 Strand Street Youghal-Lands Youghal 23/5184107 Mar 2024Not started lapses in 2 years
Helm's Point Church Bay Road Crosshaven Co.Cork 23/41721018 Aug 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
former Sluagh Hall Coolbawn Town Parks [townland] Midleton 22/4298103 Feb 2023Not started lapses within a year
Site No's 40 - 49 Garrán Ferney Kilnaglery Td. 21/6308108 Apr 2022Lapsing lapses in 6 months

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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 = 'CORKCO' 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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