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

Meath: homes with planning permission that nobody has started

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

17,000 homes in 276 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Meath since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 49% of them. 5,068 still have a live permission and no start; 385 of those lapse within a year, and 2,511 have already lapsed.

17,000
homes permitted · 276 sites
49%
started · 8,393 homes
5,068
not started · live permission
385
lapse within 12 months
2,511
already lapsed

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

By local electoral area 3

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
Ratoath825,65134%2,80652452
Ashbourne191,28342%664—75
Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7583,37246%3042011,203

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
20171499465%0349
2018241,63743%205723
20192796861%185197
2020262,13853%43960
2021251,19871%213135
2022361,14158%23757
2023261,21884%15435
2024331,66587%19129
2025373,04531%2,06926
2026282,99613%1,771—

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 91% 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
John Connaughton Limited18100%810—
Glenveagh Homes Limited151,11820%365409
Beo Properties Limited13640%364—
Castlethorn Construction Unlimited Company33699%31421
McGarrell Reilly Homes637917%28333
Kingscroft Developments Limited33050%251—
Arnub Limited22517%233—
Azra Property Company Limited12110%211—
Rockmill Limited12010%201—
Andrews Construction Limited437450%186—
Carroll Estates Dunboyne Limited11710%171—
Marshall Yards Development Company Limited226050%130—
Cairn Homes Properties Limited660280%123—
Orion Wave Limited1980%98—
The Academy Street Partnership1950%95—
Apolloseven Investments Limited211136%71—
Carroll Estates (Dublin) Limited530639%56130
Aspect Houses (ADC) Limited1560%56—
Rockture 1 Limited21470%5196
Leinster Land Developments Limited1430%43—
Rycroft Living Limited1400%40—
Indus Properties Limited1370%37—
Poplock Limited1360%36—
Pavement Homes Limited1360%36—
Elderwood Construction Limited1350%35—
Hora Developments Limited37555%34—
Danceglen Limited T1300%30—
Quabury Limited1290%29—
Sasula Unlimted Company1250%25—
Minson Property Limited1240%24—

Work started 145 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Glebe Townland TA2015531622 Apr 2021Started notice 27 Aug 2021
Glebe Townland TA1916681620 Oct 2020Started notice 5 May 2021
Ledwidge Hall Green LB1805191615 Nov 2018Started notice 12 Nov 2021Slane
Grangend Common 25601581527 May 2025Started notice 21 Jan 2026Dunshaughlin
Carlanstown 2215381529 Jun 2023Started notice 17 Nov 2023
31 & 32 Flower Hill NA190283154 Sept 2019Started notice 19 May 2023Navan
Moydervy Manor 225611414 Nov 2022Started notice 19 May 2023Longwood
Commons LB1902401430 Jul 2019Started notice 5 Sept 2019Duleek
No. 10 the Paddocks 25603741324 Jul 2025Started notice 17 Feb 2026Ratoath
Saint Jude 23603091318 Jun 2024Started notice 30 Sept 2024Summerhill
New Road 2123481314 Nov 2022Started notice 24 Apr 2024Enfield
Donacarney House 21631136 Dec 2021Started notice 27 Sept 2023Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
Dunshaughlin Road RA1908741318 Dec 2019Started notice 17 Jun 2020Ratoath
Bettystown Road LB1703121327 Sept 2017Started notice 9 Oct 2017Donacarney
Block 1 Donacarney Village Square 23603281223 Jan 2024Started notice 28 Mar 2024Donacarney
Maydenhayes LB1907531228 Feb 2020Started notice 26 Mar 2020Mornington
Commons Road NA1705661222 Sept 2017Started notice 16 May 2018Commons
CARLANSTOWN 25605451122 Oct 2025Started notice 7 Nov 2025
Ardmore Avenue LB190215117 Nov 2019Started notice 27 Sept 2024Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
Larrix Street 24602241027 Mar 2025Started notice 20 Mar 2026Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
Killeen Castle Demesne 23578107 Sept 2023Started notice 19 Jul 2024Ratoath
Bracken Hill 228501024 Nov 2022Started notice 28 Apr 2023Kilmessan
Dunshaughlin Road RA2000531018 Jun 2020Started notice 14 Dec 2020Ratoath
Newtownmoyaghy RA191535103 Mar 2020Started notice 23 Mar 2020Ratoath
Dunshaughlin Co. Meath RA180619101 Feb 2019Started notice 23 Jan 2019Dunshaughlin

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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 = 'MEATH' 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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