Dwelling units granted permission — Cork County Council

1,423, latest Q2 2026.

The count stood at 1,423 in Q2 2026. That is 195.2% higher than a year earlier. That is the highest value in the published series, which begins in Q1 2018. Its low point was 261 in Q4 2020; the latest reading is 445% above that.

What these terms mean

Units for which Permission Granted

CSO's quarterly count of new dwelling units — houses and apartments — covered by the planning permissions granted that quarter. Not extensions or alterations. Source

Why this is not New Dwelling Completions

Permissions measure intent to build; completions (a separate dataset on this site) measure homes actually finished. The two move at different times, for different reasons, and the gap between them can run to years.

Before you use these figures

• Counts dwelling units, not permissions: Each permission counts for the number of homes it covers — a permission for a 100-apartment block counts as 100, a one-off house as 1. The separate 'Planning permissions granted' figure counts each permission once, so the two can tell quite different stories about the same council.
• Not available for this area: No figure is published at or above Cork.
• Unusually high compared with other areas: This figure is unusually high compared with other areas currently publishing this dataset — 1,423 against a typical figure (median) of about 252 across 30 other areas. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward comparison.
• Unusually high in Q1 2018: This area's Q1 2018 figure is unusually high compared with what other areas reported for Q1 2018 — 1,217 against a typical figure (median) of about 91 across 30 other areas that period. No longer this dataset's latest period, so a look at just today's headline figure would not have caught it — flagged here from a check across the dataset's full history. Worth checking against the source before treating it as a straightforward trend.
• A permission granted, not a home built: This counts planning permissions granted for new dwellings, not dwellings actually built. Permission is an early step — some approved schemes are delayed, scaled back or never built out, and the gap between permission and a finished home can run years. Treat this as a leading indicator of intended supply, not a measure of completed housing.
• New construction only, houses and apartments combined: Only permissions for entirely new houses and apartments are counted here — extensions and alterations to existing buildings are not included.
• Council-level history starts in 2018: CSO's council-level breakdown of this release begins in 2018Q1. Earlier history exists only at the national/regional level (see the separate region-level planning permissions figures).
• A single scheme can dominate a council's quarter: 31 councils is a much smaller base than the 8 regions this dataset is also published for, so one large development finishing can swing a quarter's total sharply. Percentage changes at this level are large and ordinary, and describe development scheduling more than housing policy.
• A missing apartments figure is counted as none: For some quarters CSO publishes a houses figure but no apartments figure, almost always for councils where apartment building is rare. Those quarters are counted as houses only, the same as the permissions figure.

Cite this figure:

Dwelling units granted permission — Cork County Council
1,423 for Cork County Council (not the same area as Cork), Q2 2026
Caveats: Counts dwelling units, not permissions; Not available for this area; Unusually high compared with other areas; Unusually high in Q1 2018; A permission granted, not a home built; New construction only, houses and apartments combined; Council-level history starts in 2018; A single scheme can dominate a council's quarter; A missing apartments figure is counted as none
StatsMapped last confirmed this figure unchanged on 23 Sep 2026.
Source: CSO PxStat
https://statsmapped.com/ireland/county/cork/planning-permission-units-cork-county-council

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