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Permitted, not started · Wexford · grants of 10+ homes since 2021

Wexford planning permission: the homes nobody has started

Data updated 22 Oct 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

3,094 homes in 75 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Wexford since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 65% of them. 1,075 still have a live permission and no start; 138 of those lapse within a year, and 11 have already lapsed.

3,094
homes permitted · 75 sites
65%
started · 2,008 homes
1,075
not started · live permission
138
lapse within 12 months
11
already lapsed

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By local electoral area 6

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
Wexford311,33460%534118—
Enniscorthy965168%210——
New Ross719929%14220—
Rosslare1439081%73——
Kilmuckridge47319%59——
Gorey1044785%57—11

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
2021629996%011
20221146864%168—
20232072086%101—
2024832981%63—
20251248481%94—
20261879418%649—

Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.

Under appeal 0 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

Nothing in this list.

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 = 'WEXFORD' 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 22 Oct 2026, 23:33
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC BY 4.022 Oct 2026, 23:33open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC BY 4.022 Oct 2026, 23:33open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC BY 4.022 Oct 2026, 23:33open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 22 Oct 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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