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.
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By local electoral area 3
| Local electoral area | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsing | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ratoath | 82 | 5,651 | 34% | 2,806 | 52 | 452 |
| Ashbourne | 19 | 1,283 | 42% | 664 | — | 75 |
| Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 | 58 | 3,372 | 46% | 304 | 201 | 1,203 |
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 14 | 994 | 65% | 0 | 349 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,637 | 43% | 205 | 723 |
| 2019 | 27 | 968 | 61% | 185 | 197 |
| 2020 | 26 | 2,138 | 53% | 43 | 960 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,198 | 71% | 213 | 135 |
| 2022 | 36 | 1,141 | 58% | 237 | 57 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,218 | 84% | 154 | 35 |
| 2024 | 33 | 1,665 | 87% | 191 | 29 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,045 | 31% | 2,069 | 26 |
| 2026 | 28 | 2,996 | 13% | 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.
| Applicant | Sites | Homes permitted | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Connaughton Limited | 1 | 810 | 0% | 810 | — |
| Glenveagh Homes Limited | 15 | 1,118 | 20% | 365 | 409 |
| Beo Properties Limited | 1 | 364 | 0% | 364 | — |
| Castlethorn Construction Unlimited Company | 3 | 369 | 9% | 314 | 21 |
| McGarrell Reilly Homes | 6 | 379 | 17% | 283 | 33 |
| Kingscroft Developments Limited | 3 | 305 | 0% | 251 | — |
| Arnub Limited | 2 | 251 | 7% | 233 | — |
| Azra Property Company Limited | 1 | 211 | 0% | 211 | — |
| Rockmill Limited | 1 | 201 | 0% | 201 | — |
| Andrews Construction Limited | 4 | 374 | 50% | 186 | — |
| Carroll Estates Dunboyne Limited | 1 | 171 | 0% | 171 | — |
| Marshall Yards Development Company Limited | 2 | 260 | 50% | 130 | — |
| Cairn Homes Properties Limited | 6 | 602 | 80% | 123 | — |
| Orion Wave Limited | 1 | 98 | 0% | 98 | — |
| The Academy Street Partnership | 1 | 95 | 0% | 95 | — |
| Apolloseven Investments Limited | 2 | 111 | 36% | 71 | — |
| Carroll Estates (Dublin) Limited | 5 | 306 | 39% | 56 | 130 |
| Aspect Houses (ADC) Limited | 1 | 56 | 0% | 56 | — |
| Rockture 1 Limited | 2 | 147 | 0% | 51 | 96 |
| Leinster Land Developments Limited | 1 | 43 | 0% | 43 | — |
| Rycroft Living Limited | 1 | 40 | 0% | 40 | — |
| Indus Properties Limited | 1 | 37 | 0% | 37 | — |
| Poplock Limited | 1 | 36 | 0% | 36 | — |
| Pavement Homes Limited | 1 | 36 | 0% | 36 | — |
| Elderwood Construction Limited | 1 | 35 | 0% | 35 | — |
| Hora Developments Limited | 3 | 75 | 55% | 34 | — |
| Danceglen Limited T | 1 | 30 | 0% | 30 | — |
| Quabury Limited | 1 | 29 | 0% | 29 | — |
| Sasula Unlimted Company | 1 | 25 | 0% | 25 | — |
| Minson Property Limited | 1 | 24 | 0% | 24 | — |
Work started 145 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glebe Townland TA201553 | 16 | 22 Apr 2021 | Started notice 27 Aug 2021 | |
| Glebe Townland TA191668 | 16 | 20 Oct 2020 | Started notice 5 May 2021 | |
| Ledwidge Hall Green LB180519 | 16 | 15 Nov 2018 | Started notice 12 Nov 2021 | Slane |
| Grangend Common 2560158 | 15 | 27 May 2025 | Started notice 21 Jan 2026 | Dunshaughlin |
| Carlanstown 221538 | 15 | 29 Jun 2023 | Started notice 17 Nov 2023 | |
| 31 & 32 Flower Hill NA190283 | 15 | 4 Sept 2019 | Started notice 19 May 2023 | Navan |
| Moydervy Manor 22561 | 14 | 14 Nov 2022 | Started notice 19 May 2023 | Longwood |
| Commons LB190240 | 14 | 30 Jul 2019 | Started notice 5 Sept 2019 | Duleek |
| No. 10 the Paddocks 2560374 | 13 | 24 Jul 2025 | Started notice 17 Feb 2026 | Ratoath |
| Saint Jude 2360309 | 13 | 18 Jun 2024 | Started notice 30 Sept 2024 | Summerhill |
| New Road 212348 | 13 | 14 Nov 2022 | Started notice 24 Apr 2024 | Enfield |
| Donacarney House 21631 | 13 | 6 Dec 2021 | Started notice 27 Sept 2023 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Dunshaughlin Road RA190874 | 13 | 18 Dec 2019 | Started notice 17 Jun 2020 | Ratoath |
| Bettystown Road LB170312 | 13 | 27 Sept 2017 | Started notice 9 Oct 2017 | Donacarney |
| Block 1 Donacarney Village Square 2360328 | 12 | 23 Jan 2024 | Started notice 28 Mar 2024 | Donacarney |
| Maydenhayes LB190753 | 12 | 28 Feb 2020 | Started notice 26 Mar 2020 | Mornington |
| Commons Road NA170566 | 12 | 22 Sept 2017 | Started notice 16 May 2018 | Commons |
| CARLANSTOWN 2560545 | 11 | 22 Oct 2025 | Started notice 7 Nov 2025 | |
| Ardmore Avenue LB190215 | 11 | 7 Nov 2019 | Started notice 27 Sept 2024 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Larrix Street 2460224 | 10 | 27 Mar 2025 | Started notice 20 Mar 2026 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Killeen Castle Demesne 23578 | 10 | 7 Sept 2023 | Started notice 19 Jul 2024 | Ratoath |
| Bracken Hill 22850 | 10 | 24 Nov 2022 | Started notice 28 Apr 2023 | Kilmessan |
| Dunshaughlin Road RA200053 | 10 | 18 Jun 2020 | Started notice 14 Dec 2020 | Ratoath |
| Newtownmoyaghy RA191535 | 10 | 3 Mar 2020 | Started notice 23 Mar 2020 | Ratoath |
| Dunshaughlin Co. Meath RA180619 | 10 | 1 Feb 2019 | Started notice 23 Jan 2019 | Dunshaughlin |
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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
| 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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