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.
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By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | 439 | 79% | 0 | 23 |
| 2018 | 8 | 1,321 | 95% | 0 | 62 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,506 | 30% | 352 | 705 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,213 | 55% | 0 | 548 |
| 2021 | 21 | 665 | 61% | 185 | 77 |
| 2022 | 27 | 1,267 | 72% | 261 | 99 |
| 2023 | 36 | 1,759 | 30% | 1,183 | 40 |
| 2024 | 26 | 1,592 | 45% | 881 | — |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,270 | 57% | 547 | — |
| 2026 | 25 | 2,246 | 9% | 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.
| Applicant | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballymakenny Residential Properties Limited | 15 | 975 | 58% | 406 | — |
| McCaughey Homes Limited | 3 | 356 | 0% | 356 | — |
| Ballymakenny Developments Limited | 7 | 456 | 55% | 206 | — |
| F J Developments Limited | 1 | 205 | 0% | 205 | — |
| Sionna Homes Limited | 1 | 192 | 0% | 192 | — |
| Housing Section Louth County Council | 2 | 190 | 0% | 190 | — |
| McParland Bros Builders Limited | 2 | 203 | 10% | 183 | — |
| Groveview Builders Limited | 12 | 480 | 58% | 179 | 21 |
| Lorrac Developments Limited | 2 | 116 | 0% | 116 | — |
| Tapemount Limited | 1 | 99 | 0% | 99 | — |
| Dwellings Developments Drogheda Limited | 2 | 179 | 45% | 98 | — |
| Propchain Solutions Limited | 5 | 267 | 64% | 97 | — |
| Ballymakenny SW Limited | 2 | 178 | 46% | 97 | — |
| LAJONA LIMITED | 1 | 91 | 0% | 91 | — |
| Wonderglade Unlimited Company | 4 | 258 | 66% | 89 | — |
| Independent Trustee Company Limited | 1 | 80 | 0% | 80 | — |
| Crescent Sites Limited | 1 | 58 | 0% | 58 | — |
| Urban Life (GSD) Limited | 1 | 57 | 0% | 57 | — |
| Armagh Construction Limited | 1 | 57 | 0% | 57 | — |
| Urban Life (BVH) Limited | 1 | 54 | 0% | 54 | — |
| Fichidi Lane Developments Limited | 1 | 54 | 0% | 54 | — |
| The Ardee Partnership | 2 | 117 | 56% | 52 | — |
| Birchgrange Limited | 1 | 51 | 0% | 51 | — |
| OHMG (Rol) Limited | 2 | 50 | 0% | 50 | — |
| May Ard Developments Limited | 1 | 48 | 0% | 48 | — |
| Dundalk Racing (1999) Limited | 1 | 45 | 0% | 45 | — |
| Urban Life Developments Limited | 8 | 295 | 63% | 44 | 64 |
| Burmilla Limited | 1 | 43 | 0% | 43 | — |
| Curo Developments Limited | 1 | 40 | 0% | 40 | — |
| Molaris Limited | 1 | 39 | 0% | 39 | — |
Permission, no start 77 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletown Road 22458 | 16 | 26 Jun 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| ‘Norhalton‘ Raynoldstown Village 2460429 | 15 | 14 Oct 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Birch's Lane 2360177 | 15 | 8 Jul 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Termonfeckin Rd Newtownstalaban 2360271 | 14 | 29 Apr 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| 57 Clanbrassil Street 2360103 | 14 | 9 Jan 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Lismullen Grove 211056 | 14 | 5 Sept 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 11 months | |
| 16 Park Street 2660188 | 13 | 30 Jul 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| North Road 2560003 | 13 | 31 Mar 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | Moneymore |
| Lough Boy 22704 | 13 | 11 Aug 2023 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Mell |
| Listoke Willows 2560673 | 12 | 30 Mar 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Yellowbatter 23328 | 12 | 25 Sept 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Unit / Site No. s 11 12 13 14 15 20 21 22 23 24 & 25 Bothar 2460288 | 11 | 12 Aug 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Muirhevnamore 211403 | 11 | 12 Feb 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 5 months | |
| 84-88 Dublin Street 21582 | 11 | 4 Jan 2022 | Lapsing lapses in 3 months | |
| Gravel Walk 2360028 | 10 | 14 Dec 2023 | Not started lapses in 3 years | Drogheda |
| Castletowncooley 211547 | 10 | 17 Jan 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Irish Street/Rogan's Lane/Markethouse Lane 22375 | 10 | 30 Jun 2022 | Not 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
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC-BY-4.0 | 19 Sept 2026, 07:05 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 19 Sept 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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