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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%66475
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
‘Ferganstown 246041532225 Mar 2025Started notice 7 Jul 2026Athlumney
Charterschool Land SH3075073198 Dec 2020Started notice 23 Apr 2024
Limekilnhill Belmount SH30602127511 Aug 2020Started notice 16 Nov 2021
Cois Glaisin Johnstown NA17074726514 Nov 2017Started notice 30 Nov 2017Johnstown
Principally located in Bennetstown 23602902564 Jun 2024Started notice 16 Dec 2024Ratoath
Churchfields AA1704882241 Dec 2017Started notice 2 Jan 2018Ashbourne
Athlumney Alexander Reid Ferganstown and Ballymacon 256053922312 Jan 2026Started notice 5 Feb 2026Athlumney
Grangend SH30724421120 Oct 2020Started notice 14 Jul 2023Dunshaughlin
Rathmullan Road LB17067515623 Nov 2018Started notice 24 Sept 2019Rathmullan
Clonmagaddan road 2292413830 Jan 2023Started notice 24 Oct 2023Clonmagaddan
Main Street & Ballybin Road 246048713018 Dec 2024Started notice 5 Nov 2025Ratoath
Trim Road 242011108 Nov 2024Started notice 26 Nov 2025Balreask Old
Summerseat RA17026810724 Jan 2018Started notice 2 May 2018Summerseat
Friarspark 2nd Divison & Effernock 2393010221 Nov 2023Started notice 31 May 2024
Ferganstown Ballymacon & Athlumney 2110469820 Jan 2022Started notice 4 Mar 2024Ferganstown and Ballymacon
Duffsland & Commons 23625976 Jun 2024Started notice 2 Sept 2024Balreask Old
Bryanstown Cross Route 2213659624 Aug 2023Started notice 15 Oct 2024Bryanstown
St. Seachnails Road & South East Of Junction with Ratoath Ro RA171239969 Apr 2018Started notice 4 Jun 2018Dunshaughlin
Old Road 21219523 Sept 2021Started notice 30 Sept 2022Alexander Reid
Boyne Road 2210089311 Jul 2023Started notice 9 Jan 2025Athlumney Bridge
Clonmagadden 24602829114 Nov 2024Started notice 9 Dec 2024Clonmagaddan
Phase 7a Avourwen 2114489017 Feb 2022Started notice 21 Jul 2023Lagavooren
Rathmolyon 24603618627 Aug 2024Started notice 5 Dec 2024
Townparks 2460667859 Jun 2025Started notice 9 Feb 2026Athboy
Cois Glaisin Avenue NA1702248527 Jul 2017Started notice 20 Oct 2017Johnstown
Phase 8 Avourwen LB2019378216 Jun 2021Started notice 30 Sept 2024Lagavooren
Phase #2 Kestrel Manor LB2004848215 Mar 2021Started notice 11 Jul 2023Lagavooren
Bryanstown SH3037998222 Nov 2019Started notice 5 Dec 2019Bryanstown
R148/Dublin Road 25610488124 Mar 2026Started notice 2 Sept 2026Johnstown
Castletown KA1808158019 Mar 2019Started notice 25 Oct 2021Athboy
Phase 7 Avourwen Platin/Duleek Road 2110477922 Nov 2021Started notice 14 Dec 2022Lagavooren
Enfield Relief Road 23272777 Nov 2023Started notice 12 Sept 2024Enfield
Station Road 2460468766 Feb 2025Started notice 15 Jun 2026Ratoath
Ratoath 25606767423 Dec 2025Started notice 30 Jan 2026Ratoath
Veldonstown Road 2560593744 Dec 2025Started notice 5 Feb 2026Kentstown
Moathill NA181543749 Jul 2019Started notice 9 Apr 2024
Townparks KA1805777420 Dec 2018Started notice 18 Apr 2019
Archerstown Wood AA2016927323 Feb 2021Started notice 16 Apr 2024Ashbourne
Avourwen LB2004037324 Nov 2020Started notice 16 Dec 2021Lagavooren
Rockfield Road 23604017231 Oct 2024Started notice 6 Dec 2024
Boyne Road NA201296725 Jul 2021Started notice 14 Oct 2022Ferganstown and Ballymacon
Summerhill Demesne 2310417028 Mar 2024Started notice 30 Sept 2024
Donacarney Little LB1908126622 Jan 2020Started notice 29 Nov 2022Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
3 The Longwood Killeen Castle Demense 25606926521 Nov 2025Started notice 1 May 2026Ratoath
2 The Longwood 24604246517 Sept 2024Started notice 19 Dec 2024Ratoath
Killeen Castle Demesne 2311396526 Mar 2024Started notice 21 Aug 2026Ratoath
Kells Road 2216306530 Nov 2023Started notice 4 Oct 2024
R148/Dublin Road 229596530 Mar 2023Started notice 26 Apr 2024Johnstown
Doncarney Great Mornington & Betaghstown LB1908166318 Jun 2020Started notice 5 Oct 2021Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
Kilmessan RA1813586319 Aug 2019Started notice 16 Apr 2021Kilmessan
Brackinrainey Wood 2460008625 Sept 2024Started notice 20 Sept 2024Longwood
Jamestown 23882623 Nov 2023Started notice 24 Sept 2024Ratoath
Donacarney Little LB180982625 Dec 2018Started notice 23 Apr 2021Donacarney
Donacarney Little LB1807386212 Oct 2018Started notice 31 Oct 2018Donacarney
Castletown Manor 223276116 Jun 2022Started notice 29 Jun 2022Athboy
Sevitsland LB1813855824 Aug 2021Started notice 24 Jul 2023Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7
Site D Mornington 236955712 Dec 2023Started notice 10 Sept 2025Mornington
Enfield Relief Road and to 2114615515 Jul 2022Started notice 11 Sept 2024Enfield
Beaufort Place 21205418 Jan 2022Started notice 8 Apr 2024Navan
Newtownmoyaghy RA201384535 Aug 2021Started notice 13 Jun 2022Ratoath

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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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