Permitted, not started · Cork County · grants of 10+ homes since 2017
Cork County: homes with planning permission that nobody has started
Data updated 26 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
15,204 homes in 303 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Cork County since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 55% of them. 5,738 still have a live permission and no start; 496 of those lapse within a year, and 1,103 have already lapsed.
15,204
homes permitted · 303 sites
55%
started · 8,363 homes
5,738
not started · live permission
496
lapse within 12 months
1,103
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 | 30 | 2,664 | 26% | 1,967 | — |
Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.
Lapses within a year 10 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janeville Shannonpark Carrigaline Middle 21/5936 | 98 | 17 Nov 2021 | Lapsing lapses in 2 months | |
| Ashbourne House Johnstown Glounthaune Co. Cork 21/5072 | 94 | 9 May 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 8 months | |
| Inis Alainn Carrignafoy Cobh Co. Cork 21/5240 | 71 | 4 May 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 7 months | |
| Cooline Ballyvoloon Cobh Co. Cork 21/6367 | 65 | 17 May 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 8 months | |
| Broomfield West Midleton Co. Cork 21/5664 | 41 | 20 Oct 2021 | Lapsing lapses within a month | |
| Station Road Carrigtwohill Carrigtohill 21/6240 | 38 | 21 Jan 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 4 months | |
| Rath-Beg Abbey-Lands Kinsale Co. Cork 21/6059 | 35 | 1 Jun 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 8 months | |
| Kilnaglery Carrigaline Co. Cork 20/6940 | 24 | 6 Dec 2021 | Lapsing lapses in 2 months | |
| Gully Bandon Co. Cork 21/5565 | 20 | 3 May 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 7 months | |
| Site No's 40 - 49 Garrán Ferney Kilnaglery Td. 21/6308 | 10 | 8 Apr 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 6 months |
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 26 Sept 2026, 07:08
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC-BY-4.0 | 26 Sept 2026, 07:08 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC-BY-4.0 | 26 Sept 2026, 07:08 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC-BY-4.0 | 26 Sept 2026, 07:08 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 26 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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