Permitted, not started · Cork County · grants of 10+ homes since 2021
Cork County planning permission: the homes nobody has started
Data updated 6 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
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By local electoral area 10
| Local electoral area | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsing | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobh | 35 | 2,436 | 49% | 1,241 | 332 | 10 |
| Midleton | 40 | 2,804 | 63% | 987 | 56 | 51 |
| Mallow | 10 | 1,065 | 24% | 807 | — | — |
| Bandon - Kinsale | 27 | 1,380 | 50% | 690 | 55 | — |
| Carrigaline | 24 | 1,364 | 49% | 687 | 239 | 12 |
| Fermoy | 16 | 792 | 39% | 480 | 69 | — |
| Macroom | 15 | 478 | 70% | 128 | — | 14 |
| Kanturk | 5 | 231 | 49% | 117 | — | — |
| Bantry-West Cork | 4 | 129 | 23% | 99 | 42 | — |
| Skibbereen-West Cork | 8 | 456 | 93% | 34 | 13 | — |
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | 625 | 55% | 196 | 87 |
| 2022 | 45 | 1,931 | 62% | 730 | — |
| 2023 | 40 | 2,336 | 79% | 499 | — |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,607 | 64% | 579 | — |
| 2025 | 30 | 1,948 | 32% | 1,324 | — |
| 2026 | 31 | 2,688 | 28% | 1,942 | — |
Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.
Permission lapsed 5 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broomfield West Midleton Co. Cork 21/5664 | 41 | 20 Oct 2021 | Lapsed lapsed recently | Midleton |
| Dromatimore Aghabullogue Co. Cork 21/5352 | 14 | 9 Aug 2021 | Lapsed lapsed 3 months ago | Macroom |
| Janeville Shannonpark Carrigaline Co. Cork 21/5151 | 12 | 6 Aug 2021 | Lapsed lapsed 3 months ago | Carrigaline |
| House No's 44-61 inclusive 'The Fairways' Tir Cluain 21/4573 | 10 | 2 Sept 2021 | Lapsed lapsed 2 months ago | Midleton |
| Carrigtohill Carrigtwohill Co. Cork 21/4267 | 10 | 6 May 2021 | Lapsed lapsed 6 months ago | Cobh |
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 6 Nov 2026, 23:00
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 6 Nov 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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