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Permitted, not started · Dublin City · grants of 10+ homes since 2017

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.

41,662
homes permitted · 281 sites
58%
started · 24,202 homes
9,191
not started · live permission
3,802
lapse within 12 months
8,017
already lapsed

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

By local electoral area 11

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
North Inner City508,47148%2,9572,0511,238
Ballyfermot-Drimnagh204,63464%1,29222368
South East Inner City293,53265%1,11854124
Kimmage-Rathmines252,18142%946566300
South West Inner City395,27375%708426574
Artane-Whitehall224,43737%6952,044
Ballymun-Finglas1286048%444321
Cabra-Glasnevin304,21681%402162413
Clontarf182,32659%292169657
Pembroke201,37975%2873163
Donaghmede164,35347%502,236

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2018262867%0208
2019267,02539%04,275
2020489,02283%01,505
2021439,01555%2,0592,029
2022417,23876%1,743
2023252,32173%626
2024312,66637%1,687
2025392,32315%1,963
2026261,4244%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.

ApplicantSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsed
CWTC Multi Family ICAV11,6140%1,614
Serendale Limited14570%457
HPREF HSQ Investments Limited13990%399
Trinity College Dublin13580%358
Jamestown Village Limited13210%321
Terenure Land Limited12080%208
Savona Limited11310%131
Development Ocht Limited11310%131
Matriciana Limited1860%86
Focus Housing Association CLG2810%81
Elm Real Estate Investments1800%80
Fruit Market Development Company Limited1640%64
Westridge Milltown Limited1630%63
Lidl Ireland GmbH1600%60
Cluid Housing Association211147%59
Cabhrú Housing Association1530%53
Sales Limited1510%51
Ginxo Trading Limited1460%46
Double E Investments Limited1420%42
Gerard Kelly Holdings Limited1410%41
Inglewood Development Limited1380%38
Lark Finance Limited & SM Blackhorse Limited1330%33
Creedon Group Limited1330%33
October Two Limited1300%30
Esprit Investments Limited23727%27
Vesada Private Limited1270%27
Independant Clothing Holdings Limited1270%27
Sevona Limited1240%24
Infield Developments Limited1230%23
Somerton House Limited1210%21

Work started 146 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
East Wall Road and Alfie Byrne Road 3265/231818 Jul 2023Started notice 4 Mar 2024Dublin
Nos 2 4807/191821 Apr 2020Started notice 10 May 2021Dublin
146-147 Phibsborough Road & 10 Eglinton Terrace 3391/201713 Dec 2021Started notice 24 Dec 2024Doyle's Corner
North Strand Road / Poplar Row 2213/20171 Jul 2020Started notice 12 Nov 2021North Strand
Captains Place WEB2347/251610 Sept 2025Started notice 22 May 2026Crumlin
Home Farm Park 3479/241615 Jul 2024Started notice 14 Oct 2024Dublin
Poplar Row, North Strand 4331/231623 Apr 2024Started notice 8 Oct 2024North Strand
Elmpark Green 4848/221619 Dec 2022Started notice 1 Mar 2023Merrion Gates
Inchicore Road 2738/191627 Jan 2020Started notice 24 Feb 2020Dublin
Scruffy Murphy's Public House 3932/221510 Jul 2024Started notice 14 Jul 2025Dublin
29 Bow Lane West WEB1042/26148 Apr 2026Started notice 22 Apr 2026Heuston South Quarter
Two separate sites located on the corner of Park Street and WEB2332/25145 Sept 2025Started notice 16 Mar 2026Clongriffin
10 & 11 2556/201422 Jun 2021Started notice 1 Nov 2022Mountjoy
Block K1 and Block K2 2527/201415 Dec 2020Started notice 20 Apr 2021Islandbridge
Aspen Student Accommodation WEB5696/251325 Feb 2026Started notice 12 May 2026Dublin
North Strand Road 3023/23131 Aug 2023Started notice 4 Nov 2024Five Lamps
Balbutcher Lane Lower 3623/191324 Mar 2020Started notice 2 Oct 2023Dublin
173 & 174 5385/22125 May 2023Started notice 25 Feb 2024Five Lamps
Fenian Street and site to rear facing Denzille Lane 3900/201226 Mar 2021Started notice 29 Jul 2022Dublin
Unit 1 KCR Estate 3193/191224 Oct 2019Started notice 18 Jun 2019Kimmage Cross Roads
Meath Street 3102/19128 Oct 2019Started notice 29 Oct 2019The Liberties
& 19 2618/191227 Jun 2019Started notice 5 Apr 2019McGoverns Corner
St Agnes Convent WEB1373/251127 May 2025Started notice 29 Aug 2025Crumlin
Earl Street North WEB2181/251012 Mar 2026Started notice 10 Sept 2026Findlater's Corner
Catholic University School 5010/22109 Jun 2023Started notice 28 Mar 2024Dublin
Molyneux Home 3349/191014 May 2020Started notice 23 Jul 2020Dublin

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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
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC-BY-4.019 Sept 2026, 07:05open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 19 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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