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.
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By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 15 | 641 | 74% | 0 | 165 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,112 | 71% | 0 | 317 |
| 2019 | 37 | 1,169 | 78% | 0 | 263 |
| 2020 | 20 | 642 | 85% | 0 | 99 |
| 2021 | 40 | 1,554 | 67% | 261 | 259 |
| 2022 | 45 | 1,931 | 65% | 675 | — |
| 2023 | 39 | 1,936 | 73% | 528 | — |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,607 | 62% | 611 | — |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,948 | 13% | 1,696 | — |
| 2026 | 28 | 2,564 | 27% | 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
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gully Bandon Co. Cork 21/5565 | 20 | 3 May 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 7 months | |
| Scarteen Lower Newmarket Co Cork 24/4324 | 19 | 28 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Glanduff Kilbrittain Co Cork 24/4139 | 19 | 20 Dec 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Millbrook Townparks Upper Mill Road Midleton 25/5739 | 18 | 22 Jan 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Catholic Walk Rathmore 25/4009 | 18 | 21 Aug 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Mount Saint Josephs Back Road Pembroke Passage West Co. Cork 23/6608 | 18 | 20 Jan 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Blind Gate Street & Rampart Lane Town-Plots Kinsale Co Cork 23/4946 | 18 | 15 Jan 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Friar Street & South Main Street Youghal-Lands Youghal Co.Co 24/6467 | 16 | 1 Apr 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Elmbury Carrigtohill Carrigtwohill Co Cork 24/6016 | 16 | 4 Feb 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Curragh Glen 26/0412 | 14 | 9 Sept 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Cloughduv GAA Ryecourt Cloughduv Co.Cork 22/6114 | 14 | 21 Apr 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Catherine Street 24/4149 | 13 | 10 Jan 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Coach Road Kilworth Co. Cork 25/4362 | 12 | 12 Feb 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| The Oak Water Rock Manor Water-Rock Midleton Co Cork 25/5563 | 12 | 31 Oct 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Knocklaun Cork Road Knockgriffin 23/5744 | 12 | 1 Mar 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Drakes Point Knocknagore Crosshaven Co.Cork 22/6519 | 12 | 9 Jun 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Meadstown TD 22/4374 | 12 | 21 Mar 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Lisnagar Demesne Rathcormac Co.Cork 22/6274 | 12 | 12 Jan 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Garranenagappul Clondrohid Macroom Co Cork 24/6373 | 11 | 19 Sept 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Gurteenroe Macroom Co. Cork 24/5433 | 11 | 25 Oct 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Lower Road Knocknagore Crosshaven Co. Cork 23/5179 | 11 | 28 May 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Killeagh Mills Aghadoe Killeagh Co.Cork 22/6622 | 11 | 10 Jul 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Janeville 26/1354 | 10 | 19 Aug 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Bishop's Island 26/0774 | 10 | 25 Jun 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Carrigleigh Inchigeelagh Village Co. Cork 25/5078 | 10 | 26 Nov 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Harbour Heights 24/5270 | 10 | 4 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| No. 3 Strand Street Youghal-Lands Youghal 23/5184 | 10 | 7 Mar 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Helm's Point Church Bay Road Crosshaven Co.Cork 23/4172 | 10 | 18 Aug 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| former Sluagh Hall Coolbawn Town Parks [townland] Midleton 22/4298 | 10 | 3 Feb 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Site No's 40 - 49 Garrán Ferney Kilnaglery Td. 21/6308 | 10 | 8 Apr 2022 | Lapsing 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
| 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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