Kildare planning permission: the homes nobody has started
Data updated 22 Oct 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
7,709 homes in 129 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Kildare since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 48% of them. 3,817 still have a live permission and no start; 1,127 of those lapse within a year, and 46 have already lapsed.
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By local electoral area 8
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | 462 | 41% | 246 | 26 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,237 | 24% | 921 | 10 |
| 2023 | 16 | 720 | 67% | 231 | 10 |
| 2024 | 33 | 1,834 | 94% | 104 | — |
| 2025 | 33 | 1,557 | 47% | 799 | — |
| 2026 | 20 | 1,899 | 16% | 1,516 | — |
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 50% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briargate Developments Newbridge Limited | 2 | 329 | 0% | 329 | — |
| The Land Development Agency | 1 | 219 | 0% | 219 | — |
| Lagan Homes South Salt Limited | 1 | 164 | 0% | 164 | — |
| Cairn Homes | 1 | 148 | 0% | 148 | — |
| Alchemy Homes Development (Kilcullen) Limited | 1 | 125 | 0% | 125 | — |
| Ladas Property Company Limited | 1 | 115 | 0% | 115 | — |
| Glan Developments | 1 | 98 | 0% | 98 | — |
| Eurkon (Kildare) Limited | 1 | 88 | 0% | 88 | — |
| Seattle Construction Limited | 1 | 76 | 0% | 76 | — |
| David Walsh Homes Limited | 1 | 74 | 0% | 74 | — |
| Killross Properties Limited | 3 | 77 | 13% | 67 | — |
| Kilcullenbridge Developments Limited | 1 | 67 | 0% | 67 | — |
| Tapeford Limited | 1 | 58 | 0% | 58 | — |
| Balyna Hotel Limited | 1 | 54 | 0% | 54 | — |
| Debussy Properties Limited | 2 | 164 | 70% | 50 | — |
| Nua Healthcare Services Limited | 1 | 50 | 0% | 50 | — |
| Clúid Housing | 1 | 34 | 0% | 34 | — |
| Kestorra Limited | 2 | 47 | 45% | 26 | — |
| O’Flynn Construction (Dublin) Limited | 1 | 25 | 0% | 25 | — |
| Mayra Homes Limited | 1 | 20 | 0% | 20 | — |
| Clonmel Enterprises Limited | 1 | 16 | 0% | 16 | — |
| MA Tudor Investments Limited | 1 | 14 | 0% | 14 | — |
| Andrews Construction Limited | 1 | 14 | 0% | 14 | — |
| Ascot Construction Limited | 1 | 12 | 0% | 12 | — |
| Elmendorf Limited | 1 | 11 | 0% | 11 | — |
| Resource Five Limited | 1 | 10 | 0% | 10 | — |
| Cairn Homes Properties Limited | 2 | 380 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Westar Homes Limited | 2 | 291 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Ballymore Land Limited | 3 | 187 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Randelswood Holdings Limited | 1 | 172 | 100% | 0 | — |
Work started 75 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grattan Park Shackleton Road 2560748 | 14 | 27 Nov 2025 | Started notice 27 Aug 2026 | Celbridge |
| Craddockstown Court 2560896 | 14 | 10 Nov 2025 | Started notice 16 Jan 2026 | Naas |
| Craddockstown Court 2460374 | 14 | 6 Feb 2025 | Started notice 1 Aug 2025 | Naas |
| Capdoo 24140 | 14 | 30 Jul 2024 | Started notice 12 Aug 2024 | Clane |
| Kilbeg 21534 | 13 | 29 Jul 2021 | Started notice 17 Aug 2021 | Athy |
| Blackrath Vale 2460543 | 12 | 18 Sept 2024 | Started notice 3 Oct 2024 | Newbridge |
| Steeple View 2360328 | 12 | 10 Jun 2024 | Started notice 19 Sept 2024 | Newbridge |
| Suncroft Road 21529 | 12 | 8 Apr 2022 | Started notice 10 Apr 2023 | Brownstown |
| Limerick Road 21547 | 12 | 28 Jan 2022 | Started notice 15 Jun 2023 | Naas |
| Ballinagappa Road 21503 | 12 | 9 Aug 2021 | Started notice 19 Sept 2022 | Locán |
| Curryhills 2360467 | 11 | 6 Sept 2024 | Started notice 19 Mar 2025 | Prosperous |
| Oliver Plunkett Road 211643 | 11 | 29 Jun 2022 | Started notice 22 Apr 2024 | Ballymore Eustace |
| Kildare and Whitelands East 2660237 | 10 | 12 Aug 2026 | Started notice 31 Aug 2026 | Kildare |
| Curryhills 235 | 10 | 12 Feb 2024 | Started notice 18 Apr 2024 | Prosperous |
| Clough 21940 | 10 | 21 Dec 2021 | Started notice 22 Sept 2023 | Naas |
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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 = '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 22 Oct 2026, 23:33
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC BY 4.0 | 22 Oct 2026, 23:33 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC BY 4.0 | 22 Oct 2026, 23:33 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC BY 4.0 | 22 Oct 2026, 23:33 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 22 Oct 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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