Wexford: homes with planning permission that nobody has started
Data updated 19 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
5,369 homes in 134 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Wexford since 2017. A commencement notice was lodged for 75% of them. 1,186 still have a live permission and no start; 138 of those lapse within a year, and 136 have already lapsed.
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By year granted
| Granted in | Sites | Homes | Started | Not started | Lapsed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | 356 | 100% | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 19 | 522 | 98% | 10 | — |
| 2019 | 13 | 528 | 96% | 0 | 21 |
| 2020 | 10 | 458 | 87% | 0 | 60 |
| 2021 | 16 | 733 | 90% | 20 | 55 |
| 2022 | 11 | 468 | 64% | 168 | — |
| 2023 | 20 | 720 | 84% | 118 | — |
| 2024 | 10 | 354 | 75% | 88 | — |
| 2025 | 12 | 484 | 78% | 107 | — |
| 2026 | 15 | 746 | 10% | 675 | — |
Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.
Permission, no start 33 sites
Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest
| Site | Homes | Granted | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonhasten 20251145 | 99 | 22 Apr 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Lyre 20251340 | 99 | 11 Mar 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Rocksborough 20251388 | 98 | 11 May 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Ballyboggan 20250486 | 98 | 31 Mar 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Churchtown 20251281 | 74 | 24 Jun 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Butlersland/Chambersland 20251010 | 50 | 16 Jan 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Oaklands 20260190 | 44 | 4 Sept 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Ballyboggan 20230670 | 34 | 19 Mar 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Ballowen or Ramsfortpark 20251086 | 33 | 24 Nov 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Ardcavan 20220584 | 32 | 19 Jun 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Tinnacree 20220247 | 30 | 14 Nov 2022 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Coolcotts 20240492 | 29 | 24 Jul 2024 | Not started lapses in 3 years | |
| Ballygillane Little 20250869 | 27 | 21 Jan 2026 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Ballowen or Ramsfortpark 20250196 | 24 | 14 Jul 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Crosstown 20260158 | 22 | 28 Aug 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Stonybatter 20251399 | 22 | 1 Jul 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| St. John's 20210958 | 20 | 20 Dec 2021 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Litter More 20211302 | 19 | 13 Jul 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| New Ross 20250321 | 18 | 8 Apr 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Ballytramon 20221663 | 17 | 8 Mar 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Coolrainey 20230580 | 16 | 16 Aug 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Coolcots 20241350 | 15 | 30 Sept 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Rocksborough 20221336 | 14 | 11 Jan 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| Mulgannon 20250763 | 13 | 26 Nov 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Lake/Bridgetown South 20231020 | 13 | 12 Feb 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Ballyphillip 20260142 | 12 | 19 Aug 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Ballygillane Big 20260238 | 12 | 17 Apr 2026 | Not started lapses in 5 years | |
| Ballycrane 20250113 | 12 | 15 Oct 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Townparks 20200916 | 12 | 25 Jan 2024 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| New Ross 20241272 | 10 | 14 Apr 2025 | Not started lapses in 4 years | |
| Rosetown 20221527 | 10 | 14 Apr 2023 | Not started lapses in 2 years | |
| Ballymurn Upper 20220768 | 10 | 1 Feb 2023 | Not started lapses within a year | |
| BALLYGORMAN 20171379 | 10 | 20 Mar 2018 | Not started lapses in 4 years |
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 = '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 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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