[ Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Section 15(2) Two-Year Progress Report ]
SECTION 1: RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY MONITOR This section of this Chapter addresses residential activity in Cork City, including dwelling completions and planning activity, focussing on the residential sites identified in the Plan’s Core Strategy. The Cork City Residential Activity Monitor tracks activity on sites identified in the Core Strategy. It analyses planning, commencement and delivery related activity within these sites and all other sites with +10 units. This includes Large Residential Developments (LRDs), mix-use developments and Part 8 social and affordable housing projects. The status of planning applications on all sites was reviewed to determine whether permission was granted or pending, and the status of the construction and delivery on all sites was also reviewed to determine whether works had been completed, commenced or not commenced.
Summary of Findings • Planning, commencement and delivery
• CSO data indicates that commencement notices for 2,534 new residential units were received between Q3, 2022 and Q1, 2024, giving a quarterly average of 362 units. • Over the last 2 years, quarterly unit totals for residential commencement notices are 31% higher than equivalent totals for residential delivery. • Given the time lags from commencement to delivery of around 12-18 months, this trend indicates an increasing housing delivery rate is pending in the city , up to end of 2025. • A breakdown of new dwelling completions within the five Local Electoral Areas (LEAs) in Cork City shows that the Northeast accounts for 30% of the City total , with over half (53%) occurring in the north of the city. • Non-apartment units in housing schemes account for 69% of the overall units delivered, with apartments accounting for 26% and single homes accounting for 5%. • The average quarterly delivery rate of apartments/townhouses and duplexes delivery in the City is 73 units within the review period and is predominantly occurring in edge-of-city locations.
of houses in the city have all increased over the last 5 years, with a doubling of residential units granted during this period. • The ratio of private houses to private apartments, including townhouses and duplexes, granted planning permission is 40:60 during the last 2 years . • A spike in units granted in Q4, 2023 is primarily due to the granting of a major development on the Goulding’s site in the Cork Docklands (planning ref. no. 23/42106). • The residential completion rate in the City between Q3, 2022 and Q1, 2024 equates to a delivery rate of 33% of City Development Plan’s new residential target (5,399 units) for the same period. • An average quarterly completion rate of 280 units during this period is below the 852-unit quarterly delivery target set out in the City Plan. • Social Housing and Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) apart, the rate of apartment delivery in central areas of the city remains low .
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