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

Louth: homes with planning permission that nobody has started

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

13,278 homes in 211 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Louth since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 47% of them. 4,061 still have a live permission and no start; 747 of those lapse within a year, and 1,554 have already lapsed.

13,278
homes permitted · 211 sites
47%
started · 6,205 homes
4,061
not started · live permission
747
lapse within 12 months
1,554
already lapsed

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By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2017843979%023
201881,32195%062
2019191,50630%352705
2020161,21355%0548
20212166561%18577
2022271,26772%26199
2023361,75930%1,18340
2024261,59245%881—
2025251,27057%547—
2026252,2469%652—

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 90% 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
Ballymakenny Residential Properties Limited1597558%406—
McCaughey Homes Limited33560%356—
Ballymakenny Developments Limited745655%206—
F J Developments Limited12050%205—
Sionna Homes Limited11920%192—
Housing Section Louth County Council21900%190—
McParland Bros Builders Limited220310%183—
Groveview Builders Limited1248058%17921
Lorrac Developments Limited21160%116—
Tapemount Limited1990%99—
Dwellings Developments Drogheda Limited217945%98—
Propchain Solutions Limited526764%97—
Ballymakenny SW Limited217846%97—
LAJONA LIMITED1910%91—
Wonderglade Unlimited Company425866%89—
Independent Trustee Company Limited1800%80—
Crescent Sites Limited1580%58—
Urban Life (GSD) Limited1570%57—
Armagh Construction Limited1570%57—
Urban Life (BVH) Limited1540%54—
Fichidi Lane Developments Limited1540%54—
The Ardee Partnership211756%52—
Birchgrange Limited1510%51—
OHMG (Rol) Limited2500%50—
May Ard Developments Limited1480%48—
Dundalk Racing (1999) Limited1450%45—
Urban Life Developments Limited829563%4464
Burmilla Limited1430%43—
Curo Developments Limited1400%40—
Molaris Limited1390%39—

Permission, no start 77 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Castletown Road 224581626 Jun 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
‘Norhalton‘ Raynoldstown Village 24604291514 Oct 2024Not started lapses in 2 years
Birch's Lane 2360177158 Jul 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
Termonfeckin Rd Newtownstalaban 23602711429 Apr 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
57 Clanbrassil Street 2360103149 Jan 2024Not started lapses in 2 years
Lismullen Grove 211056145 Sept 2022Lapsing lapses in 11 months
16 Park Street 26601881330 Jul 2026Not started lapses in 5 years
North Road 25600031331 Mar 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsMoneymore
Lough Boy 227041311 Aug 2023Not started lapses in 3 yearsMell
Listoke Willows 25606731230 Mar 2026Not started lapses in 5 years
Yellowbatter 233281225 Sept 2023Not started lapses in 2 years
Unit / Site No. s 11 12 13 14 15 20 21 22 23 24 & 25 Bothar 24602881112 Aug 2024Not started lapses in 3 years
Muirhevnamore 2114031112 Feb 2022Lapsing lapses in 5 months
84-88 Dublin Street 21582114 Jan 2022Lapsing lapses in 3 months
Gravel Walk 23600281014 Dec 2023Not started lapses in 3 yearsDrogheda
Castletowncooley 2115471017 Jan 2023Not started lapses within a year
Irish Street/Rogan's Lane/Markethouse Lane 223751030 Jun 2022Not started lapses in 2 years

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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 = 'LOUTH' 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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