Permitted, not started · Dublin City · grants of 10+ homes since 2021
Dublin City planning permission: the homes nobody has started
Data updated 6 Nov 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
21,300 homes in 177 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Dublin City since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 54% of them. 6,943 still have a live permission and no start; 1,641 of those lapse within a year, and 2,675 have already lapsed.
21,300
homes permitted · 177 sites
54%
started · 11,430 homes
6,943
not started · live permission
1,641
lapse within 12 months
2,675
already lapsed
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By local electoral area 12
| Local electoral area | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsing | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | 16 | 4,091 | 70% | 1,235 | — | — |
| South East Inner City | 19 | 2,925 | 62% | 1,095 | 42 | 12 |
| North Inner City | 33 | 5,303 | 37% | 955 | 99 | 2,198 |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | 19 | 1,641 | 42% | 946 | 566 | — |
| Artane-Whitehall | 11 | 1,147 | 36% | 695 | — | — |
| South West Inner City | 19 | 1,200 | 42% | 681 | 399 | — |
| Ballymun-Finglas | 10 | 718 | 43% | 410 | 321 | — |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | 17 | 969 | 53% | 255 | 63 | 205 |
| Clontarf | 11 | 982 | 74% | 254 | 131 | — |
| Pembroke | 12 | 574 | 62% | 218 | 20 | — |
| Clondalkin | 1 | 78 | 0% | 78 | — | — |
| Donaghmede | 8 | 1,601 | 81% | 50 | — | 260 |
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | 5,672 | 50% | 154 | 2,675 |
| 2022 | 36 | 7,120 | 79% | 1,487 | — |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,985 | 76% | 486 | — |
| 2024 | 31 | 2,681 | 37% | 1,701 | — |
| 2025 | 37 | 2,216 | 17% | 1,847 | — |
| 2026 | 30 | 1,626 | 7% | 1,268 | — |
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 65% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Matriciana Limited | 1 | 86 | 0% | 86 | — |
| Focus Housing Association CLG | 2 | 81 | 0% | 81 | — |
| O'Flynn Construction (Milltown) Limited | 1 | 78 | 0% | 78 | — |
| Marbelsand Holdings Limited | 1 | 71 | 0% | 71 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Pembroke Partnership Limited | 1 | 38 | 0% | 38 | — |
| Creedon Group Limited | 1 | 33 | 0% | 33 | — |
| Lark Finance Limited | 1 | 31 | 0% | 31 | — |
| October Two Limited | 1 | 30 | 0% | 30 | — |
| Esprit Investments Limited | 1 | 27 | 0% | 27 | — |
| Vesada Private 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 | — |
| Raya Investments Limited | 1 | 20 | 0% | 20 | — |
| Murphy and Gunn Limited | 1 | 19 | 0% | 19 | — |
Under appeal 4 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-6 Beresford Street WEB5590/25 | 189 | 1 May 2026 | Under appeal decision pending | Zhivago's Corner |
| Larch Hill Estate WEB5466/25 | 39 | 9 Feb 2026 | Under appeal decision pending | Dublin |
| Emmet Court WEB5546/25 | 13 | 24 Apr 2026 | Under appeal decision pending | Dublin |
| Terenure Business Park WEB1117/26 | 11 | 27 Jul 2026 | Under appeal decision pending | Terenure |
How it is counted
- A site is one grant of permission for 10 or more homes since 2021: 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 2021 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 6 Nov 2026, 23:00
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC BY 4.0 | 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 6 Nov 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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