Dublin City: homes with planning permission that nobody has started
Data updated 19 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
41,662 homes in 281 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Dublin City since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 58% of them. 9,191 still have a live permission and no start; 3,802 of those lapse within a year, and 8,017 have already lapsed.
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By local electoral area 11
| Local electoral area | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsing | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Inner City | 50 | 8,471 | 48% | 2,957 | 2,051 | 1,238 |
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | 20 | 4,634 | 64% | 1,292 | 22 | 368 |
| South East Inner City | 29 | 3,532 | 65% | 1,118 | 54 | 124 |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | 25 | 2,181 | 42% | 946 | 566 | 300 |
| South West Inner City | 39 | 5,273 | 75% | 708 | 426 | 574 |
| Artane-Whitehall | 22 | 4,437 | 37% | 695 | — | 2,044 |
| Ballymun-Finglas | 12 | 860 | 48% | 444 | 321 | — |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | 30 | 4,216 | 81% | 402 | 162 | 413 |
| Clontarf | 18 | 2,326 | 59% | 292 | 169 | 657 |
| Pembroke | 20 | 1,379 | 75% | 287 | 31 | 63 |
| Donaghmede | 16 | 4,353 | 47% | 50 | — | 2,236 |
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 628 | 67% | 0 | 208 |
| 2019 | 26 | 7,025 | 39% | 0 | 4,275 |
| 2020 | 48 | 9,022 | 83% | 0 | 1,505 |
| 2021 | 43 | 9,015 | 55% | 2,059 | 2,029 |
| 2022 | 41 | 7,238 | 76% | 1,743 | — |
| 2023 | 25 | 2,321 | 73% | 626 | — |
| 2024 | 31 | 2,666 | 37% | 1,687 | — |
| 2025 | 39 | 2,323 | 15% | 1,963 | — |
| 2026 | 26 | 1,424 | 4% | 1,113 | — |
Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.
Who holds the permissions 30 named
The organisation named on the grant, ranked by homes permitted and not started. Names are on 70% of the homes in this council; a company that only appears in a council without a name source is not here. Private individuals are never named.
| Applicant | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWTC Multi Family ICAV | 1 | 1,614 | 0% | 1,614 | — |
| Serendale Limited | 1 | 457 | 0% | 457 | — |
| HPREF HSQ Investments Limited | 1 | 399 | 0% | 399 | — |
| Trinity College Dublin | 1 | 358 | 0% | 358 | — |
| Jamestown Village Limited | 1 | 321 | 0% | 321 | — |
| Terenure Land Limited | 1 | 208 | 0% | 208 | — |
| Savona Limited | 1 | 131 | 0% | 131 | — |
| Development Ocht Limited | 1 | 131 | 0% | 131 | — |
| Matriciana Limited | 1 | 86 | 0% | 86 | — |
| Focus Housing Association CLG | 2 | 81 | 0% | 81 | — |
| Elm Real Estate Investments | 1 | 80 | 0% | 80 | — |
| Fruit Market Development Company Limited | 1 | 64 | 0% | 64 | — |
| Westridge Milltown Limited | 1 | 63 | 0% | 63 | — |
| Lidl Ireland GmbH | 1 | 60 | 0% | 60 | — |
| Cluid Housing Association | 2 | 111 | 47% | 59 | — |
| Cabhrú Housing Association | 1 | 53 | 0% | 53 | — |
| Sales Limited | 1 | 51 | 0% | 51 | — |
| Ginxo Trading Limited | 1 | 46 | 0% | 46 | — |
| Double E Investments Limited | 1 | 42 | 0% | 42 | — |
| Gerard Kelly Holdings Limited | 1 | 41 | 0% | 41 | — |
| Inglewood Development Limited | 1 | 38 | 0% | 38 | — |
| Lark Finance Limited & SM Blackhorse Limited | 1 | 33 | 0% | 33 | — |
| Creedon Group Limited | 1 | 33 | 0% | 33 | — |
| October Two Limited | 1 | 30 | 0% | 30 | — |
| Esprit Investments Limited | 2 | 37 | 27% | 27 | — |
| Vesada Private Limited | 1 | 27 | 0% | 27 | — |
| Independant Clothing Holdings Limited | 1 | 27 | 0% | 27 | — |
| Sevona Limited | 1 | 24 | 0% | 24 | — |
| Infield Developments Limited | 1 | 23 | 0% | 23 | — |
| Somerton House Limited | 1 | 21 | 0% | 21 | — |
Work started 146 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Wall Road and Alfie Byrne Road 3265/23 | 18 | 18 Jul 2023 | Started notice 4 Mar 2024 | Dublin |
| Nos 2 4807/19 | 18 | 21 Apr 2020 | Started notice 10 May 2021 | Dublin |
| 146-147 Phibsborough Road & 10 Eglinton Terrace 3391/20 | 17 | 13 Dec 2021 | Started notice 24 Dec 2024 | Doyle's Corner |
| North Strand Road / Poplar Row 2213/20 | 17 | 1 Jul 2020 | Started notice 12 Nov 2021 | North Strand |
| Captains Place WEB2347/25 | 16 | 10 Sept 2025 | Started notice 22 May 2026 | Crumlin |
| Home Farm Park 3479/24 | 16 | 15 Jul 2024 | Started notice 14 Oct 2024 | Dublin |
| Poplar Row, North Strand 4331/23 | 16 | 23 Apr 2024 | Started notice 8 Oct 2024 | North Strand |
| Elmpark Green 4848/22 | 16 | 19 Dec 2022 | Started notice 1 Mar 2023 | Merrion Gates |
| Inchicore Road 2738/19 | 16 | 27 Jan 2020 | Started notice 24 Feb 2020 | Dublin |
| Scruffy Murphy's Public House 3932/22 | 15 | 10 Jul 2024 | Started notice 14 Jul 2025 | Dublin |
| 29 Bow Lane West WEB1042/26 | 14 | 8 Apr 2026 | Started notice 22 Apr 2026 | Heuston South Quarter |
| Two separate sites located on the corner of Park Street and WEB2332/25 | 14 | 5 Sept 2025 | Started notice 16 Mar 2026 | Clongriffin |
| 10 & 11 2556/20 | 14 | 22 Jun 2021 | Started notice 1 Nov 2022 | Mountjoy |
| Block K1 and Block K2 2527/20 | 14 | 15 Dec 2020 | Started notice 20 Apr 2021 | Islandbridge |
| Aspen Student Accommodation WEB5696/25 | 13 | 25 Feb 2026 | Started notice 12 May 2026 | Dublin |
| North Strand Road 3023/23 | 13 | 1 Aug 2023 | Started notice 4 Nov 2024 | Five Lamps |
| Balbutcher Lane Lower 3623/19 | 13 | 24 Mar 2020 | Started notice 2 Oct 2023 | Dublin |
| 173 & 174 5385/22 | 12 | 5 May 2023 | Started notice 25 Feb 2024 | Five Lamps |
| Fenian Street and site to rear facing Denzille Lane 3900/20 | 12 | 26 Mar 2021 | Started notice 29 Jul 2022 | Dublin |
| Unit 1 KCR Estate 3193/19 | 12 | 24 Oct 2019 | Started notice 18 Jun 2019 | Kimmage Cross Roads |
| Meath Street 3102/19 | 12 | 8 Oct 2019 | Started notice 29 Oct 2019 | The Liberties |
| & 19 2618/19 | 12 | 27 Jun 2019 | Started notice 5 Apr 2019 | McGoverns Corner |
| St Agnes Convent WEB1373/25 | 11 | 27 May 2025 | Started notice 29 Aug 2025 | Crumlin |
| Earl Street North WEB2181/25 | 10 | 12 Mar 2026 | Started notice 10 Sept 2026 | Findlater's Corner |
| Catholic University School 5010/22 | 10 | 9 Jun 2023 | Started notice 28 Mar 2024 | Dublin |
| Molyneux Home 3349/19 | 10 | 14 May 2020 | Started notice 23 Jul 2020 | Dublin |
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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 = 'DCC' 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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