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

Longford: homes with planning permission that nobody has started

Data updated 19 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

566 homes in 22 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Longford since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 51% of them. 237 still have a live permission and no start; 10 of those lapse within a year, and 43 have already lapsed.

566
homes permitted · 22 sites
51%
started · 286 homes
237
not started · live permission
10
lapse within 12 months
43
already lapsed

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By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2017131100%0
2019512366%42
202026038%37
202136923%1043
2022112100%0
2023210787%14
20241120%12
2025614221%112
20261100%10

Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.

Who holds the permissions 9 named

The organisation named on the grant, ranked by homes permitted and not started. Names are on 67% 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
Watters Construction & Rental Limited1390%39
Beacon Assets Limited1370%37
Camlin Partnership1290%29
MFG Construction Limited25052%24
Adaview Limited193100%0
Faughnan Construction Limited261100%0
Donnelly Developments Limited130100%0
AMC Developments Limited125100%0
Avenir Homes Limited116100%0

Work started 9 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Ard Michael 221539325 Jan 2023Started notice 24 Sept 2024
Knock 172093114 Dec 2017Started notice 26 Apr 2018
Aghadegnan 2460144309 Jan 2025Started notice 26 Aug 2025
Forthill 19873010 Dec 2019Started notice 9 Jun 2023
Rathcronan 183062614 Oct 2019Started notice 23 Apr 2024
Farnagh 191112512 Nov 2019Started notice 5 Feb 2020
Richmond Street 19292231 Jul 2020Started notice 3 Jan 2023
Cluain Ri 2141165 May 2021Started notice 15 Mar 2023
Silver Birches 22421213 Oct 2022Started notice 20 Mar 2023

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 = 'LONGFORD' 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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