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Cork County planning permission: the homes nobody has started

Data updated 13 Nov 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

11,135 homes in 184 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Cork County since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 52% of them. 5,270 still have a live permission and no start; 806 of those lapse within a year, and 87 have already lapsed.

11,135
homes permitted · 184 sites
52%
started · 5,778 homes
5,270
not started · live permission
806
lapse within 12 months
87
already lapsed

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

By local electoral area 10

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
Cobh352,43649%1,24133210
Midleton402,80463%9875651
Mallow101,06524%807——
Bandon - Kinsale271,38050%69055—
Carrigaline241,36449%68723912
Fermoy1679239%48069—
Macroom1547870%128—14
Kanturk523149%117——
Bantry-West Cork412923%9942—
Skibbereen-West Cork845693%3413—

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
20211462555%19687
2022451,93162%730—
2023402,33679%499—
2024241,60764%579—
2025301,94832%1,324—
2026312,68828%1,942—

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

Work started 93 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Cois Máigh 26/11932123 Oct 2026Started notice 17 Nov 2026Midleton
Lavallin 25/59352124 Apr 2026Started notice 12 May 2026Cobh
Aghada at Aghada Upper Co.Cork . 22/42252123 Feb 2023Started notice 24 Oct 2023Midleton
Inchydoney Hotel Apartments Inchydoney Island Clonakilty Co. 24/1302014 Jun 2024Started notice 22 Jan 2025Skibbereen-West Cork
No 31-50 Glenwood Fermoy Townland Fermoy Co Cork 23/54362017 Oct 2023Started notice 5 Sept 2024Fermoy
Knockgriffin 25/6447195 May 2026Started notice 28 May 2026Midleton
Knocknagarrane & Roundhill Old Chapel Bandon Co. Cork 24/41651920 Sept 2024Started notice 16 Dec 2024Bandon - Kinsale
Cois Máigh Mogeely Co Cork 23/44661924 Oct 2023Started notice 29 Nov 2023Midleton
Barnahely Ringaskiddy Co.Cork 22/5633183 Mar 2023Started notice 24 Mar 2023Carrigaline
Newtown Bantry Co. Cork 21/5331816 Aug 2022Started notice 23 Dec 2024Bantry-West Cork
Co. Cork 21/6713186 Apr 2022Started notice 8 Mar 2024Carrigaline
Main Street Killeagh Gardens Killeagh Co Cork 21/7461173 Feb 2023Started notice 15 Apr 2024Midleton
Knocknagarrane 25/63461611 Feb 2026Started notice 14 Oct 2026Bandon - Kinsale
Gort Alainn Dromatimore Aghabullogue Co Cork 22/5828162 Jun 2023Started notice 18 Sept 2024Macroom
Ard Aoibhinn Laherfineen Inishannon Co.Cork 22/6741156 Oct 2023Started notice 3 Jan 2024Bandon - Kinsale
Saint Patrick's Boys National School 25/67011423 Mar 2026Started notice 1 May 2026Skibbereen-West Cork
Glenbeg 23/57211424 Nov 2023Started notice 5 Jul 2024Kanturk
Castle Court Whitechurch Co. Cork 21/74001414 Oct 2022Started notice 24 Oct 2022Cobh
Lisnagar Demense Rathcormac Co. Cork 23/5043138 Sept 2023Started notice 21 Mar 2024Fermoy
No's 5 21/68051314 Jun 2022Started notice 1 Feb 2023Mallow
Dromdaleague Drimoleague Co. Cork 24/3631223 Jun 2025Started notice 24 Aug 2026Bantry-West Cork
Knocklaun Cork Road Knockgriffin 23/5744121 Mar 2024Started notice 18 Apr 2024Midleton
Cooline Ballyvoloon Cobh Co. Cork 22/5726122 Jun 2023Started notice 5 Jul 2023Cobh
Ros Álainn Gurteenroe Macroom Co. Cork 21/70511221 Jul 2022Started notice 2 Sept 2022Macroom
Elder Grove Castle Heights 22/4693124 Jul 2022Started notice 25 Jul 2022Carrigaline
Pairc An Aonaigh Killeagh Rd Mogeely Co. Cork 21/4602123 Jun 2021Started notice 15 Mar 2022Midleton
Ard Abhainn Gogganstown Knockraha Co Cork 22/52161118 Oct 2022Started notice 10 Mar 2023Cobh
Ard Chriocha Dromadda Beg Ladysbridge Co. Cork 25/50791017 Dec 2025Started notice 23 Feb 2026Midleton
Harbour Heights 24/5270104 Mar 2025Started notice 2 Apr 2025Carrigaline
Lagile Killeagh Co.Cork 22/62561016 Jun 2023Started notice 10 Oct 2024Midleton
Mitchelstown Mart Georges Street 22/47511011 May 2023Started notice 4 Oct 2024Fermoy
Barleyfields Farranastig Whitechurch Co. Cork 22/43331015 Nov 2022Started notice 3 Jan 2023Cobh
Curraheen Rosscarbery Co. Cork 22/150105 Jul 2022Started notice 12 Sept 2022Skibbereen-West Cork

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How it is counted

  • A site is one grant of permission for 10 or more homes since 2021: 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 2021 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 13 Nov 2026, 23:02
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC BY 4.013 Nov 2026, 23:02open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC BY 4.013 Nov 2026, 23:02open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC BY 4.013 Nov 2026, 23:02open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 13 Nov 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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