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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 54 Glasnevin Hill and "Ardmore" with lands adjacent ther ABP-308905 | 101 | 13 Apr 2021 | Started notice 3 Jul 2023 | Glasnevin |
| Dominican Convent Campus 4718/22 | 95 | 28 Nov 2022 | Started notice 6 May 2025 | Dublin |
| Capel Site 2596/20 | 92 | 8 Mar 2021 | Started notice 29 Jul 2021 | Dublin |
| Classic Cinema Site 3026/19 | 91 | 2 Mar 2020 | Started notice 17 Jun 2020 | Kenilworth Cross |
| Tom Kelly Road/ Charlemont Street 2107/20 | 90 | 29 Jun 2020 | Started notice 13 Jan 2020 | Kelly's Corner |
| Blocks 70 and 72 Park West Avenue and Park West Road 3403/21 | 86 | 6 Dec 2021 | Started notice 22 Jul 2026 | Dublin |
| Holy Faith Convent Building 3826/19 | 86 | 13 Aug 2020 | Started notice 10 Feb 2020 | Dublin |
| 'Former Des Kelly Site' a site of 0.262Ha. bounded by 364-37 4145/22 | 80 | 29 Jul 2024 | Started notice 5 Feb 2025 | Doyle's Corner |
| 36-41 Henry Street 2861/21 | 79 | 16 Sept 2024 | Started notice 11 Feb 2022 | Findlater's Corner |
| Brookfield Road 2725/21 | 79 | 24 Jan 2022 | Started notice 24 May 2023 | Dublin |
| 11C and 9/14 Milltown Road WEB2775/24 | 74 | 28 Jul 2025 | Started notice 17 Sept 2026 | Milltown |
| Wall Road 3159/21 | 72 | 10 Nov 2023 | Started notice 18 Apr 2024 | Dublin |
| Collins Avenue Extension WEB1287/25 | 67 | 29 Sept 2025 | Started notice 3 Jun 2026 | Collins Avenue Entrance |
| 67 & 67A Collins Avenue East, Dublin 5 2934/21 | 67 | 23 Jun 2022 | Started notice 3 Jan 2023 | Killester |
| St. Mary's Home 2704/21 | 64 | 15 May 2023 | Started notice 20 Jul 2021 | Dublin |
| Grattan Lodge WEB2207/24 | 62 | 13 Jun 2025 | Started notice 25 Sept 2025 | Dublin |
| Terenure Synagogue WEB2171/24 | 60 | 12 Sept 2025 | Started notice 2 Sept 2026 | Terenure |
| Strand View 2475/19 | 58 | 7 Feb 2020 | Started notice 20 Feb 2019 | Dublin |
| Cardiff Lane and Hanover Street East DSDZ3545/19 | 56 | 12 Sept 2019 | Started notice 30 Jan 2023 | Dublin |
| Apollo House 3684/21 | 54 | 25 Apr 2022 | Started notice 24 Jul 2025 | Dublin |
| Site 5 4658/23 | 53 | 17 Apr 2024 | Started notice 26 Aug 2024 | Belmayne |
| 47b 2463/21 | 53 | 20 Dec 2021 | Started notice 14 Aug 2023 | Dublin |
| Templeogue Road 2065/20 | 53 | 9 Aug 2021 | Started notice 22 Apr 2024 | Dublin |
| Glenavon House 2683/21 | 52 | 21 Jul 2023 | Started notice 17 Feb 2023 | Glasnevin |
| 49-53 North Great Charles Street 2017/21 | 52 | 12 Aug 2021 | Started notice 8 Apr 2024 | Mountjoy |
| Site known as Site 1b St. Michael's Estate 4260/19 | 52 | 24 Jan 2020 | Started notice 17 Aug 2022 | Dublin |
| Incarnation 3529/22 | 51 | 14 Dec 2022 | Started notice 20 Feb 2025 | Dublin |
| Lighting & Electrical Distribution Group Ltd Factory Complex 3978/24 | 50 | 15 Oct 2024 | Started notice 3 Nov 2025 | Dublin |
| Donnybrook Road 3513/20 | 49 | 26 May 2021 | Started notice 6 Sept 2021 | Donnybrook |
| located at Brunswick Villas 4778/19 | 49 | 12 Oct 2020 | Started notice 17 Jul 2021 | Dublin |
| Philipsburgh Avenue 5176/22 | 48 | 21 Dec 2023 | Started notice 22 Apr 2025 | Ballybough |
| Gowan Motors Compound site 4051/21 | 46 | 7 Jul 2022 | Started notice 16 Mar 2026 | Merrion Gates |
| 'The Haven' 3234/19 | 44 | 25 Nov 2020 | Started notice 22 Nov 2021 | Dublin |
| Donnybrook 2412/19 | 44 | 29 Jan 2020 | Started notice 14 Oct 2019 | Donnybrook |
| Jamestown Court 4821/22 | 43 | 25 Jan 2024 | Started notice 30 Oct 2025 | Dublin |
| Leech Papers 4524/19 | 41 | 8 Oct 2020 | Started notice 19 Apr 2024 | Five Lamps |
| Clonshaugh House 4855/23 | 40 | 14 May 2024 | Started notice 4 Jun 2024 | Dublin |
| Marlborough Road 5046/22 | 38 | 13 Nov 2024 | Started notice 30 Jan 2026 | Dublin |
| Raven House 3253/22 | 37 | 14 Dec 2022 | Started notice 26 Mar 2024 | Finglas |
| Richmond Avenue 3295/21 | 35 | 11 Jan 2022 | Started notice 20 Nov 2023 | Dublin |
| Parkview 3069/22 | 33 | 17 Aug 2022 | Started notice 28 Oct 2024 | Dublin |
| Meridian Court Building on the corner of Spindrift Avenue an 3873/24 | 29 | 31 Jan 2025 | Started notice 19 Dec 2024 | Dublin |
| Rathgar Road 3381/20 | 29 | 26 Jan 2022 | Started notice 21 Feb 2024 | Dublin |
| 6A and 7 3662/21 | 29 | 14 Jan 2022 | Started notice 22 Feb 2022 | McGoverns Corner |
| 9/9a 3483/22 | 28 | 16 Mar 2023 | Started notice 19 Mar 2024 | Dublin |
| Site at 39 3619/20 | 28 | 6 Aug 2021 | Started notice 6 Sept 2022 | Portobello |
| Corner of Sandwith Street and Boyne Street 3080/19 | 28 | 19 May 2020 | Started notice 11 Jan 2021 | Dublin |
| Incarnation WEB2762/24 | 27 | 26 Mar 2025 | Started notice 27 Aug 2025 | Dublin |
| Bow Lane West 3127/21 | 27 | 6 Jan 2022 | Started notice 11 Dec 2023 | Heuston South Quarter |
| Sweeney's Terrace 3826/22 | 25 | 11 Jan 2024 | Started notice 27 May 2026 | The Liberties |
| Jervis Shopping Centre 2479/20 | 24 | 14 Jan 2021 | Started notice 2 Jan 2021 | The Diceman's Corner |
| Nos 23 WEB1732/25 | 22 | 3 Mar 2026 | Started notice 14 Sept 2026 | Oxmantown |
| Baggotrath House 5480/22 | 22 | 9 Apr 2024 | Started notice 11 Sept 2024 | Irishtown |
| Harolds Cross Road 3779/22 | 22 | 14 Dec 2022 | Started notice 22 Apr 2024 | Harold's Cross |
| 17-19 Richmond Street South and 14 Gordon Place 3546/21 | 22 | 10 Mar 2022 | Started notice 13 Dec 2022 | Kelly's Corner |
| 16 & 16A Camac Park 3006/21 | 21 | 21 Jun 2022 | Started notice 23 Apr 2024 | Bluebell |
| Rosemount 3169/20 | 20 | 14 Jun 2022 | Started notice 30 Mar 2023 | May Park |
| 146 Connaught Street 2840/19 | 20 | 17 Dec 2019 | Started notice 24 May 2021 | Cabra East |
| Peter Place 3233/21 | 19 | 4 May 2023 | Started notice 1 May 2024 | Kelly's Corner |
| Nos. 20-22 Fitzgibbon Street 2427/21 | 19 | 29 Apr 2022 | Started notice 21 May 2025 | Mountjoy |
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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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