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

Kildare: homes with planning permission that nobody has started

Data updated 26 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

14,572 homes in 249 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Kildare since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 42% of them. 4,364 still have a live permission and no start; 765 of those lapse within a year, and 3,625 have already lapsed.

14,572
homes permitted · 249 sites
42%
started · 6,178 homes
4,364
not started · live permission
765
lapse within 12 months
3,625
already lapsed

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

By local electoral area 4

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
Maynooth343,06035%1,244148694
Naas462,79244%61711947
Leixlip141,42544%243—551
Celbridge1590333%170—437

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2017824242%0140
2018282,05443%01,162
2019341,77544%268724
2020402,66548%01,383
2021211,16329%294196
2022211,32329%93210
20231773547%38110
2024311,58175%400—
2025321,54342%870—
2026171,49115%1,219—

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 74% 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
Briargate Developments Newbridge Limited23290%329—
Ardstone Homes Limited61,2251%268947
Cairn Homes Properties Limited51,04550%243283
The Land Development Agency12190%219—
Lagan Homes South Salt Limited11640%164—
Oakway Homes321529%152—
Cairn Homes11480%148—
Pousterle Limited11360%136—
Alchemy Homes Development (Kilcullen) Limited11250%125—
Ladas Property Company Limited11150%115—
Glan Developments1980%98—
Eurkon (Kildare) Limited1880%88—
Thoval Properties Limited1870%87—
Seattle Construction Limited1760%76—
David Walsh Homes Limited1740%74—
Killross Properties Limited510726%6712
Kilcullenbridge Developments Limited1670%67—
Tapeford Limited317867%58—
O'Flynn Construction Co. Unlimited Company22270%57170
Mountkerry Ventures Limited1550%55—
Balyna Hotel Limited1540%54—
Debussy Properties Limited1500%50—
Nua Healthcare Services Limited1500%50—
Springwood Limited26627%48—
Heathcote Holdings Limited1400%40—
Clúid Housing1340%34—
Masonbrook Holdings Limited627083%2916
Moortrim Limited1280%28—
Kestorra Limited24745%26—
O’Flynn Construction (Dublin) Limited1250%25—

Permission, no start 60 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

Nothing in this list.

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 = 'KILDARE' 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 26 Sept 2026, 07:08
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC-BY-4.026 Sept 2026, 07:08open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC-BY-4.026 Sept 2026, 07:08open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC-BY-4.026 Sept 2026, 07:08open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 26 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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