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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; 3,594 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
3,594
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%946358300
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

Permission, no start 98 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Nos 16-19 3747/232414 Feb 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsFindlater's Corner
former Faulkners Industries Factory 3617/24241 Aug 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsBallyfermot
Leitrim Lodge 4260/222324 Apr 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsDublin
17 Pearse Square 3452/212313 Dec 2021Lapsing lapses in 3 monthsDublin
35/35A Bolton Street 4568/222210 Mar 2023Not started lapses within a yearZhivago's Corner
Ballyfermot United Sports and Social Club 3959/202222 Nov 2021Lapsing lapses in 2 monthsGrange Cross
44/45 Dolphin's Barn WEB2869/252113 Feb 2026Not started lapses in 4 yearsDolphin's Barn
'Nissan Site' WEB5179/252117 Dec 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsDrimnagh
52 & 54 Quarry Road WEB2381/252112 Sept 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsCabra East
Island View Court WEB2694/242013 Jul 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsDublin
Keeper Road, Drimnagh 4374/23201 Oct 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsDublin
2 Eglinton Road 3386/222017 Aug 2022Lapsing lapses in 11 monthsDonnybrook
No. 27 3352/20201 Feb 2022Lapsing lapses in 4 monthsStoneybatter
44 Kenilworth Square South rear of nos.45-47 Kenilworth Squa WEB2682/251928 Apr 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsKenilworth Cross
Parnell Square West 3885/241914 Jul 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsFindlater's Corner
38-48A Broombridge Road WEB2346/24195 Jun 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsDublin
Nos. 39-43 3067/21195 Jan 2022Lapsing lapses in 4 monthsDublin
62-66 Faussagh Avenue WEB2447/241820 Jul 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsCabra
Old County Road WEB2791/241819 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsCrumlin
Britain Place 3980/241731 Jul 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsFindlater's Corner
Blackhorse Avenue 4370/231723 Apr 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsDublin
Nos. 36 WEB2816/241622 Oct 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsRathmines
31 Jamestown Road 4160/241619 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsFinglas
James's Street and the corner of Steeven's Lane 3912/231523 Jan 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsDublin
10-13 & 18-21 Moore Street 2862/211516 Sept 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsFindlater's Corner
Main Street & Parnell's GAA Club access road 4108/21151 Jul 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsCoolock
33 and 34 Dame Street 4467/241427 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsNorwich Corner
138-139 Phibsborough Road and Devery's Lane 3261/241310 Dec 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsDoyle's Corner
Piper's Corner 3546/22133 Jan 2023Not started lapses within a yearFindlater's Corner
Parkview WEB2407/261229 Jul 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsDublin
Fegan's WEB1433/261227 May 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsDublin
6 & 7 4856/221212 Jun 2024Not started lapses in 3 yearsZhivago's Corner
Nos124 & 125 Baggot Street Lower 3000/211224 Sept 2021Lapsing lapses within a monthDublin
67-70 Meath Street WEB2256/25111 Dec 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsThe Liberties
Home Villas WEB1204/221113 Jun 2022Lapsing lapses in 9 monthsDonnybrook
47/49 Fairview Strand WEB5185/251012 Jun 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsBallybough
No. 22 Dominick Street Lower WEB5801/25109 Mar 2026Not started lapses in 4 yearsZhivago's Corner
Usher's Island 4035/24108 May 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsDublin

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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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