Meath planning permission: the homes nobody has started
Data updated 13 Nov 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
11,650 homes in 178 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Meath since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 56% of them. 4,387 still have a live permission and no start; 266 of those lapse within a year, and 87 have already lapsed.
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By local electoral area 6
By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 525 | 62% | 201 | — |
| 2022 | 38 | 1,283 | 76% | 110 | 13 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,399 | 87% | 142 | 35 |
| 2024 | 35 | 1,912 | 91% | 164 | 13 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,415 | 42% | 1,958 | 26 |
| 2026 | 31 | 3,116 | 28% | 1,812 | — |
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 63% 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 | — |
| Beo Properties Limited | 1 | 364 | 0% | 364 | — |
| KINGSCROFT DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED | 1 | 240 | 0% | 240 | — |
| Azra Property Company Limited | 2 | 420 | 50% | 211 | — |
| Rockmill Limited | 1 | 201 | 0% | 201 | — |
| Carroll Estates Dunboyne Limited | 1 | 171 | 0% | 171 | — |
| The Academy Street Partnership | 1 | 95 | 0% | 95 | — |
| Apolloseven Investments Limited | 2 | 111 | 36% | 71 | — |
| Leinster Land Developments Limited | 1 | 43 | 0% | 43 | — |
| Indus Properties Limited | 1 | 37 | 0% | 37 | — |
| Poplock Limited | 1 | 36 | 0% | 36 | — |
| Pavement Homes Limited | 1 | 36 | 0% | 36 | — |
| Danceglen Limited T | 1 | 30 | 0% | 30 | — |
| Sasula Unlimted Company | 1 | 25 | 0% | 25 | — |
| Minson Property Limited | 1 | 24 | 0% | 24 | — |
| Sasula Unlimited Company | 4 | 59 | 76% | 14 | — |
| Rocktop Asset Management Limited | 1 | 14 | 0% | 14 | — |
| Cosgrove Properties Limited | 1 | 13 | 0% | 13 | — |
| Bluehume Limited | 2 | 23 | 48% | 12 | — |
| Leonard Price Developments Limited | 1 | 10 | 0% | 10 | — |
| KADA Limited | 1 | 10 | 0% | 10 | — |
| Laurem Construction Limited | 1 | 10 | 0% | 10 | — |
| Albert Developments Limited | 2 | 420 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Marina Quarter Limited | 2 | 400 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Glenveagh Homes Limited | 8 | 373 | 67% | 0 | — |
| Cairn Homes Properties Limited | 4 | 282 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Marina Quarter Limited. N | 1 | 256 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Manley Developments Limited | 4 | 225 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Andrews Construction Limited | 2 | 188 | 100% | 0 | — |
| Rocture 1 Limited Rocture 1 Limited | 1 | 181 | 100% | 0 | — |
Work started 113 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cogan Street& Cavan Street 24393 | 39 | 20 Dec 2024 | Started notice 21 Mar 2025 | Kells |
| R147 / Dublin Road Dunshaughlin County Meath. 2460950 | 38 | 24 Feb 2025 | Started notice 8 Jul 2025 | Zone 4, Dunshaughlin Business Park |
| Veldonstown Road 2460284 | 38 | 21 Oct 2024 | Started notice 8 Jan 2025 | Kentstown |
| Donacarney Little 23348 | 38 | 7 Sept 2023 | Started notice 29 Sept 2023 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Windtown/Proudstown Link Road 22395 | 36 | 14 Jul 2022 | Started notice 12 Jun 2023 | Clonmagaddan |
| Longwood 212073 | 35 | 8 Jun 2022 | Started notice 23 Apr 2024 | Longwood |
| Drumree Road Readsland 2560259 | 34 | 18 Jun 2025 | Started notice 2 Dec 2025 | Ratoath |
| Phase 9 Avourwen Platin Road 2460832 | 32 | 22 Oct 2025 | Started notice 16 Sept 2026 | Lagavooren |
| Castle Street Killegland 2460158 | 30 | 6 Jun 2024 | Started notice 1 Jul 2024 | Ashbourne |
| Clonmagaddan Road 221558 | 29 | 22 May 2023 | Started notice 16 Sept 2024 | Clonmagaddan |
| Townparks 21548 | 29 | 7 Apr 2022 | Started notice 14 Jun 2022 | Kells |
| BECTIVE STREET 2460354 | 28 | 6 Aug 2024 | Started notice 19 Sept 2024 | Kells |
| Townparks 22502 | 28 | 18 Oct 2022 | Started notice 4 Nov 2022 | Kells |
| Commons Road 24357 | 27 | 28 Nov 2024 | Started notice 11 Dec 2024 | Balreask Old |
| Killegland 2360224 | 26 | 27 Jun 2024 | Started notice 18 Dec 2024 | Ashbourne |
| Phase 10 Avourwen Platin/Duleek Road 23423 | 24 | 21 Jul 2023 | Started notice 15 Feb 2024 | Lagavooren |
| Station Road 22675 | 23 | 4 Jul 2023 | Started notice 3 Jan 2024 | Dunboyne |
| Loughmore Square 2 2460547 | 22 | 29 Oct 2024 | Started notice 2 Jan 2025 | Ratoath |
| No. 5 The Burrows 221693 | 22 | 4 Apr 2023 | Started notice 21 Apr 2023 | Killien |
| 2 The Burrows 221074 | 22 | 17 Nov 2022 | Started notice 10 Apr 2023 | Killien |
| 3 The Burrows 22400 | 22 | 15 Jul 2022 | Started notice 28 Jul 2022 | Killien |
| Plot 13 Loughmore Walk 22338 | 22 | 23 Jun 2022 | Started notice 18 Jul 2022 | Ratoath |
| 14 Loughmore Walk 212212 | 22 | 7 Mar 2022 | Started notice 9 Aug 2022 | Ratoath |
| 16 Loughmore Walk 212182 | 22 | 1 Mar 2022 | Started notice 14 Jun 2022 | Ratoath |
| 20 Loughmore Walk 212020 | 22 | 31 Jan 2022 | Started notice 24 Aug 2022 | Ratoath |
| 15 Loughmore Walk 211577 | 22 | 15 Nov 2021 | Started notice 21 Jun 2022 | Ratoath |
| 18 Loughmore Walk 211045 | 22 | 2 Sept 2021 | Started notice 20 Jan 2022 | Ratoath |
| COMMONS 2560372 | 19 | 24 Jul 2025 | Started notice 19 Jun 2026 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Belmount House 221309 | 19 | 15 Jun 2023 | Started notice 23 Jan 2024 | Navan |
| PITCHER LANE 2461069 | 18 | 22 Sept 2025 | Started notice 9 Mar 2026 | Kells |
| Baltrasna and Milltown 2460848 | 18 | 24 Jan 2025 | Started notice 13 Aug 2026 | Baltrasna |
| Tiveragh 22204 | 17 | 16 Dec 2022 | Started notice 15 Dec 2023 | Ratoath |
| Drumree Road 212329 | 17 | 14 Jun 2022 | Started notice 5 Oct 2023 | Ratoath |
| Kildalkey Road 21387 | 17 | 21 Jan 2022 | Started notice 18 Apr 2025 | Trim |
| Dublin Road and Academy Street 2360450 | 16 | 20 Jun 2024 | Started notice 16 Sept 2024 | Navan |
| Grangend Common 2560158 | 15 | 27 May 2025 | Started notice 21 Jan 2026 | Dunshaughlin |
| Carlanstown 221538 | 15 | 29 Jun 2023 | Started notice 17 Nov 2023 | Kells |
| Moydervy Manor 22561 | 14 | 14 Nov 2022 | Started notice 19 May 2023 | Longwood |
| 9 The Paddocks Killeen Castle Demesne 2660688 | 13 | 9 Sept 2026 | Started notice 9 Oct 2026 | Ratoath |
| No. 7 The Paddocks 2560841 | 13 | 7 Nov 2025 | Started notice 4 Aug 2026 | Ratoath |
| 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 |
| Killeen Castle Demesne 2250 | 13 | 29 Apr 2022 | Started notice 28 Nov 2022 | Ratoath |
| Maudlin Friarspark 2nd Division and Iffernock 212161 | 13 | 24 Feb 2022 | Started notice 18 May 2022 | Trim |
| Donacarney House 21631 | 13 | 6 Dec 2021 | Started notice 27 Sept 2023 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Block 1 Donacarney Village Square 2360328 | 12 | 23 Jan 2024 | Started notice 28 Mar 2024 | Donacarney |
| Summerhill 221276 | 12 | 13 Jan 2023 | Started notice 12 Apr 2024 | Summerhill |
| CARLANSTOWN 2560545 | 11 | 22 Oct 2025 | Started notice 7 Nov 2025 | Kells |
| Emmet Street 211907 | 11 | 10 Jun 2022 | Started notice 1 Dec 2023 | Wellington Place |
| 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 |
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How it is counted
- A site is one grant of permission for 10 or more homes since 2021: 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 2021 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 13 Nov 2026, 23:02
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Planning Application Database (NPAD) | CC BY 4.0 | 13 Nov 2026, 23:02 | open |
| An Coimisiún Pleanála case list | CC BY 4.0 | 13 Nov 2026, 23:02 | open |
| Building Control Management System commencement notices | CC BY 4.0 | 13 Nov 2026, 23:02 | open |
Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 13 Nov 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.
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