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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Ferganstown 2460415 | 322 | 25 Mar 2025 | Started notice 7 Jul 2026 | Athlumney |
| Charterschool Land SH307507 | 319 | 8 Dec 2020 | Started notice 23 Apr 2024 | |
| Limekilnhill Belmount SH306021 | 275 | 11 Aug 2020 | Started notice 16 Nov 2021 | |
| Cois Glaisin Johnstown NA170747 | 265 | 14 Nov 2017 | Started notice 30 Nov 2017 | Johnstown |
| Principally located in Bennetstown 2360290 | 256 | 4 Jun 2024 | Started notice 16 Dec 2024 | Ratoath |
| Churchfields AA170488 | 224 | 1 Dec 2017 | Started notice 2 Jan 2018 | Ashbourne |
| Athlumney Alexander Reid Ferganstown and Ballymacon 2560539 | 223 | 12 Jan 2026 | Started notice 5 Feb 2026 | Athlumney |
| Grangend SH307244 | 211 | 20 Oct 2020 | Started notice 14 Jul 2023 | Dunshaughlin |
| Rathmullan Road LB170675 | 156 | 23 Nov 2018 | Started notice 24 Sept 2019 | Rathmullan |
| Clonmagaddan road 22924 | 138 | 30 Jan 2023 | Started notice 24 Oct 2023 | Clonmagaddan |
| Main Street & Ballybin Road 2460487 | 130 | 18 Dec 2024 | Started notice 5 Nov 2025 | Ratoath |
| Trim Road 24201 | 110 | 8 Nov 2024 | Started notice 26 Nov 2025 | Balreask Old |
| Summerseat RA170268 | 107 | 24 Jan 2018 | Started notice 2 May 2018 | Summerseat |
| Friarspark 2nd Divison & Effernock 23930 | 102 | 21 Nov 2023 | Started notice 31 May 2024 | |
| Ferganstown Ballymacon & Athlumney 211046 | 98 | 20 Jan 2022 | Started notice 4 Mar 2024 | Ferganstown and Ballymacon |
| Duffsland & Commons 23625 | 97 | 6 Jun 2024 | Started notice 2 Sept 2024 | Balreask Old |
| Bryanstown Cross Route 221365 | 96 | 24 Aug 2023 | Started notice 15 Oct 2024 | Bryanstown |
| St. Seachnails Road & South East Of Junction with Ratoath Ro RA171239 | 96 | 9 Apr 2018 | Started notice 4 Jun 2018 | Dunshaughlin |
| Old Road 2121 | 95 | 23 Sept 2021 | Started notice 30 Sept 2022 | Alexander Reid |
| Boyne Road 221008 | 93 | 11 Jul 2023 | Started notice 9 Jan 2025 | Athlumney Bridge |
| Clonmagadden 2460282 | 91 | 14 Nov 2024 | Started notice 9 Dec 2024 | Clonmagaddan |
| Phase 7a Avourwen 211448 | 90 | 17 Feb 2022 | Started notice 21 Jul 2023 | Lagavooren |
| Rathmolyon 2460361 | 86 | 27 Aug 2024 | Started notice 5 Dec 2024 | |
| Townparks 2460667 | 85 | 9 Jun 2025 | Started notice 9 Feb 2026 | Athboy |
| Cois Glaisin Avenue NA170224 | 85 | 27 Jul 2017 | Started notice 20 Oct 2017 | Johnstown |
| Phase 8 Avourwen LB201937 | 82 | 16 Jun 2021 | Started notice 30 Sept 2024 | Lagavooren |
| Phase #2 Kestrel Manor LB200484 | 82 | 15 Mar 2021 | Started notice 11 Jul 2023 | Lagavooren |
| Bryanstown SH303799 | 82 | 22 Nov 2019 | Started notice 5 Dec 2019 | Bryanstown |
| R148/Dublin Road 2561048 | 81 | 24 Mar 2026 | Started notice 2 Sept 2026 | Johnstown |
| Castletown KA180815 | 80 | 19 Mar 2019 | Started notice 25 Oct 2021 | Athboy |
| Phase 7 Avourwen Platin/Duleek Road 211047 | 79 | 22 Nov 2021 | Started notice 14 Dec 2022 | Lagavooren |
| Enfield Relief Road 23272 | 77 | 7 Nov 2023 | Started notice 12 Sept 2024 | Enfield |
| Station Road 2460468 | 76 | 6 Feb 2025 | Started notice 15 Jun 2026 | Ratoath |
| Ratoath 2560676 | 74 | 23 Dec 2025 | Started notice 30 Jan 2026 | Ratoath |
| Veldonstown Road 2560593 | 74 | 4 Dec 2025 | Started notice 5 Feb 2026 | Kentstown |
| Moathill NA181543 | 74 | 9 Jul 2019 | Started notice 9 Apr 2024 | |
| Townparks KA180577 | 74 | 20 Dec 2018 | Started notice 18 Apr 2019 | |
| Archerstown Wood AA201692 | 73 | 23 Feb 2021 | Started notice 16 Apr 2024 | Ashbourne |
| Avourwen LB200403 | 73 | 24 Nov 2020 | Started notice 16 Dec 2021 | Lagavooren |
| Rockfield Road 2360401 | 72 | 31 Oct 2024 | Started notice 6 Dec 2024 | |
| Boyne Road NA201296 | 72 | 5 Jul 2021 | Started notice 14 Oct 2022 | Ferganstown and Ballymacon |
| Summerhill Demesne 231041 | 70 | 28 Mar 2024 | Started notice 30 Sept 2024 | |
| Donacarney Little LB190812 | 66 | 22 Jan 2020 | Started notice 29 Nov 2022 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| 3 The Longwood Killeen Castle Demense 2560692 | 65 | 21 Nov 2025 | Started notice 1 May 2026 | Ratoath |
| 2 The Longwood 2460424 | 65 | 17 Sept 2024 | Started notice 19 Dec 2024 | Ratoath |
| Killeen Castle Demesne 231139 | 65 | 26 Mar 2024 | Started notice 21 Aug 2026 | Ratoath |
| Kells Road 221630 | 65 | 30 Nov 2023 | Started notice 4 Oct 2024 | |
| R148/Dublin Road 22959 | 65 | 30 Mar 2023 | Started notice 26 Apr 2024 | Johnstown |
| Doncarney Great Mornington & Betaghstown LB190816 | 63 | 18 Jun 2020 | Started notice 5 Oct 2021 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Kilmessan RA181358 | 63 | 19 Aug 2019 | Started notice 16 Apr 2021 | Kilmessan |
| Brackinrainey Wood 2460008 | 62 | 5 Sept 2024 | Started notice 20 Sept 2024 | Longwood |
| Jamestown 23882 | 62 | 3 Nov 2023 | Started notice 24 Sept 2024 | Ratoath |
| Donacarney Little LB180982 | 62 | 5 Dec 2018 | Started notice 23 Apr 2021 | Donacarney |
| Donacarney Little LB180738 | 62 | 12 Oct 2018 | Started notice 31 Oct 2018 | Donacarney |
| Castletown Manor 22327 | 61 | 16 Jun 2022 | Started notice 29 Jun 2022 | Athboy |
| Sevitsland LB181385 | 58 | 24 Aug 2021 | Started notice 24 Jul 2023 | Laytown Bettystown-Lea-7 |
| Site D Mornington 23695 | 57 | 12 Dec 2023 | Started notice 10 Sept 2025 | Mornington |
| Enfield Relief Road and to 211461 | 55 | 15 Jul 2022 | Started notice 11 Sept 2024 | Enfield |
| Beaufort Place 2120 | 54 | 18 Jan 2022 | Started notice 8 Apr 2024 | Navan |
| Newtownmoyaghy RA201384 | 53 | 5 Aug 2021 | Started notice 13 Jun 2022 | Ratoath |
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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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