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; 3,594 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 | 358 | 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 | — |
Permission, no start 98 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nos 16-19 3747/23 | 24 | 14 Feb 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Findlater's Corner |
| former Faulkners Industries Factory 3617/24 | 24 | 1 Aug 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Ballyfermot |
| Leitrim Lodge 4260/22 | 23 | 24 Apr 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Dublin |
| 17 Pearse Square 3452/21 | 23 | 13 Dec 2021 | Lapsing lapses in 3 months | Dublin |
| 35/35A Bolton Street 4568/22 | 22 | 10 Mar 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | Zhivago's Corner |
| Ballyfermot United Sports and Social Club 3959/20 | 22 | 22 Nov 2021 | Lapsing lapses in 2 months | Grange Cross |
| 44/45 Dolphin's Barn WEB2869/25 | 21 | 13 Feb 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Dolphin's Barn |
| 'Nissan Site' WEB5179/25 | 21 | 17 Dec 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Drimnagh |
| 52 & 54 Quarry Road WEB2381/25 | 21 | 12 Sept 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Cabra East |
| Island View Court WEB2694/24 | 20 | 13 Jul 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Dublin |
| Keeper Road, Drimnagh 4374/23 | 20 | 1 Oct 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Dublin |
| 2 Eglinton Road 3386/22 | 20 | 17 Aug 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 11 months | Donnybrook |
| No. 27 3352/20 | 20 | 1 Feb 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 4 months | Stoneybatter |
| 44 Kenilworth Square South rear of nos.45-47 Kenilworth Squa WEB2682/25 | 19 | 28 Apr 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Kenilworth Cross |
| Parnell Square West 3885/24 | 19 | 14 Jul 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Findlater's Corner |
| 38-48A Broombridge Road WEB2346/24 | 19 | 5 Jun 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Dublin |
| Nos. 39-43 3067/21 | 19 | 5 Jan 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 4 months | Dublin |
| 62-66 Faussagh Avenue WEB2447/24 | 18 | 20 Jul 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Cabra |
| Old County Road WEB2791/24 | 18 | 19 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Crumlin |
| Britain Place 3980/24 | 17 | 31 Jul 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Findlater's Corner |
| Blackhorse Avenue 4370/23 | 17 | 23 Apr 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Dublin |
| Nos. 36 WEB2816/24 | 16 | 22 Oct 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Rathmines |
| 31 Jamestown Road 4160/24 | 16 | 19 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Finglas |
| James's Street and the corner of Steeven's Lane 3912/23 | 15 | 23 Jan 2025 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Dublin |
| 10-13 & 18-21 Moore Street 2862/21 | 15 | 16 Sept 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Findlater's Corner |
| Main Street & Parnell's GAA Club access road 4108/21 | 15 | 1 Jul 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Coolock |
| 33 and 34 Dame Street 4467/24 | 14 | 27 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Norwich Corner |
| 138-139 Phibsborough Road and Devery's Lane 3261/24 | 13 | 10 Dec 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Doyle's Corner |
| Piper's Corner 3546/22 | 13 | 3 Jan 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | Findlater's Corner |
| Parkview WEB2407/26 | 12 | 29 Jul 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Dublin |
| Fegan's WEB1433/26 | 12 | 27 May 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Dublin |
| 6 & 7 4856/22 | 12 | 12 Jun 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Zhivago's Corner |
| Nos124 & 125 Baggot Street Lower 3000/21 | 12 | 24 Sept 2021 | Lapsing lapses within a month | Dublin |
| 67-70 Meath Street WEB2256/25 | 11 | 1 Dec 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | The Liberties |
| Home Villas WEB1204/22 | 11 | 13 Jun 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 9 months | Donnybrook |
| 47/49 Fairview Strand WEB5185/25 | 10 | 12 Jun 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | Ballybough |
| No. 22 Dominick Street Lower WEB5801/25 | 10 | 9 Mar 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Zhivago's Corner |
| Usher's Island 4035/24 | 10 | 8 May 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | 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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