# Buildable

> Buildable finds development land in Dublin from public records: planning permissions running out or never started, derelict sites registers, council land disposals (s.183), stalled builds, the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) map and public land.

Covers the four Dublin councils: Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. Every fact links to the public record it came from, and each page says when it was last checked. Developer profiles name companies only, never people.

When you quote a fact, cite the page it came from. Source: Buildable (buildable.ie), from public registers. Link to the page the fact came from.

## Development land in Dublin

- [Dublin development land](https://buildable.ie/land): Every council, every signal, this week's new sites
- [Development land in Dublin City](https://buildable.ie/land/dcc): Council hub: counts by signal, sites to look at first
- [Development land in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown](https://buildable.ie/land/dlr): Council hub: counts by signal, sites to look at first
- [Development land in Fingal](https://buildable.ie/land/fingal): Council hub: counts by signal, sites to look at first
- [Development land in South Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/sdcc): Council hub: counts by signal, sites to look at first
- [The map](https://buildable.ie/sites): Every site with a public reason it could sell, free, no sign-up
- [This week](https://buildable.ie/land/weekly): New signals each week

## Signals (Dublin-wide lists)

- [Derelict sites in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/derelict): Derelict Sites Register
- [Housing land taxed 3% a year in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/rzlt): Residential Zoned Land Tax
- [Council selling land in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/council-disposals): s.183 disposal notices
- [Planning permissions running out in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/expiring): expiring and lapsed grants, s.40
- [Building sites that started and stopped in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/stalled): commenced, not completed
- [Homes with permission, not started, in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/permitted-not-built): live grants, no commencement notice
- [Land owned by the State in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/land/public-land): LDA Register of Relevant Lands

## Entities

- [Developers in Dublin](https://buildable.ie/developers): Companies' permissions, homes permitted, started and not started
- [Zoning objectives](https://buildable.ie/zoning): Each zone in the development plans' own words, with live site counts
- [Longest on Dublin's derelict sites registers](https://buildable.ie/land/derelict/longest): Oldest register entries first, from the registers only

## Data

- [Public data API](https://buildable.ie/developers/api): Free read-only JSON, no key
- [Calendar: Dublin](https://buildable.ie/calendars/dublin.ics): Permission expiries, RZLT dates, s.183 meetings (.ics)
- [Calendar: Dublin City](https://buildable.ie/calendars/dcc.ics): Permission expiries, RZLT dates, s.183 meetings (.ics)
- [Calendar: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown](https://buildable.ie/calendars/dlr.ics): Permission expiries, RZLT dates, s.183 meetings (.ics)
- [Calendar: Fingal](https://buildable.ie/calendars/fingal.ics): Permission expiries, RZLT dates, s.183 meetings (.ics)
- [Calendar: South Dublin](https://buildable.ie/calendars/sdcc.ics): Permission expiries, RZLT dates, s.183 meetings (.ics)
- [How it works](https://buildable.ie/how-it-works): Sources, signals and what they mean
- [Guides](https://buildable.ie/guides): RZLT, derelict sites, s.183 disposals, permission expiry

## Optional

- [Full text with today's figures](https://buildable.ie/llms-full.txt): headline numbers and where each comes from
- [Sitemap](https://buildable.ie/sitemap.xml)

## Figures on 2026-09-25

- Derelict sites (Derelict Sites Register): 214 in Dublin (Dublin City 145, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 16, Fingal 27, South Dublin 26). https://buildable.ie/land/derelict
- RZLT map (Residential Zoned Land Tax): 10,263 in Dublin (Dublin City 3,636, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 2,021, Fingal 2,866, South Dublin 1,740). https://buildable.ie/land/rzlt
- Council land for sale (s.183 disposal notices): 184 in Dublin (Dublin City 64, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 3, Fingal 111, South Dublin 6). https://buildable.ie/land/council-disposals
- Permissions running out (expiring and lapsed grants, s.40): 81 in Dublin (Dublin City 48, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 12, Fingal 13, South Dublin 8). https://buildable.ie/land/expiring
- Stalled builds (commenced, not completed): 648 in Dublin (Dublin City 340, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 135, Fingal 101, South Dublin 72). https://buildable.ie/land/stalled
- Permitted, not started (live grants, no commencement notice): 177 in Dublin (Dublin City 77, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 41, Fingal 17, South Dublin 42). https://buildable.ie/land/permitted-not-built
- Public land (LDA Register of Relevant Lands): 2,935 in Dublin (Dublin City 948, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 273, Fingal 1,037, South Dublin 677). https://buildable.ie/land/public-land
- Developers: 258 companies hold permission or applied for homes in Dublin in the last five years; 257 permissions for 48,653 homes, 25,685 started. https://buildable.ie/developers
  - Cairn Homes Properties Limited: 6,356 homes permitted. https://buildable.ie/developers/cairn-homes-properties
  - The Shoreline Partnership: 1,951 homes permitted. https://buildable.ie/developers/the-shoreline-partnership
  - Glenveagh Homes Limited: 1,846 homes permitted. https://buildable.ie/developers/glenveagh-homes
- Longest on a Dublin derelict sites register: 144 Harold's Cross Road Dublin 6W (Dublin City), entered 2007-06-08, 19 years. https://buildable.ie/land/derelict/longest

## Zoning objectives (the plans' own words)

- Dublin City Z1 (Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods): To protect, provide and improve residential amenities. 2,862 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z1
- Dublin City Z2 (Residential Neighbourhoods (Conservation Areas)): To protect and/or improve the amenities of residential conservation areas. 968 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z2
- Dublin City Z3 (Neighbourhood Centres): To provide for and improve neighbourhood facilities. 28 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z3
- Dublin City Z4 (Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages): To provide for and improve mixed-services facilities. 101 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z4
- Dublin City Z5 (City Centre): To consolidate and facilitate the development of the central area, and to identify, reinforce, strengthen and protect its civic design character and dignity. 237 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z5
- Dublin City Z6 (Employment/Enterprise): To provide for the creation and protection of enterprise and facilitate opportunities for employment creation. 172 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z6
- Dublin City Z7 (Employment (Heavy)): To provide for the protection and creation of industrial uses, and facilitate opportunities for employment creation including Port Related Activities. 23 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z7
- Dublin City Z8 (Georgian Conservation Areas): To protect the existing architectural and civic design character, and to allow only for limited expansion consistent with the conservation objective. 54 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z8
- Dublin City Z9 (Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network): To preserve, provide and improve recreational amenity, open space and ecosystem services. 341 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z9
- Dublin City Z10 (Inner Suburban and inner City Sustainable Mixed-Uses): To consolidate and facilitate the development of inner city and inner suburban sites for mixed-uses. 49 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z10
- Dublin City Z11 (Waterways Protection): To protect and improve canal, coastal and river amenities. 15 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z11
- Dublin City Z12 (Institutional Land (Future Development Potential)): To ensure existing environmental amenities are protected in the predominantly residential future use of these lands. 39 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z12
- Dublin City Z14 (Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRAs)): To seek the social, economic and physical development and/or regeneration of an area with mixed-use, of which residential would be the predominant use. 174 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z14
- Dublin City Z15 (Community and Social Infrastructure): To protect and provide for community uses and social infrastructure. 145 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dcc/z15
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown A: To provide residential development and improve residential amenity while protecting the existing residential amenities 2,124 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/a
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown A1: To provide for new residential communities and Sustainable Neighbourhood Infrastructure in accordance with approved local area plans 7 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/a1
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown A2: To provide for the creation of sustainable residential neighbourhoods and preserve and protect residential amenity. 7 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/a2
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown B: To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture. 6 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/b
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown DC: To protect, provide for and-or improve mixed-use district centre facilities. 17 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/dc
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown E: To provide for economic development and employment. 18 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/e
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown F: To preserve and provide for open space with ancillary active recreational amenities. 116 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/f
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown G: To protect and improve high amenity areas. 6 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/g
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown LIW: To improve and provide for low density warehousing-light industrial warehousing uses. 7 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/liw
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown MOC: To provide for a mix of uses. Which complements the inner core, but with less retail and residential and more emphasis on employment and services. 16 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/moc
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown MTC: To protect, provide for and-or improve major town centre facilities. 23 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/mtc
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown NC: To protect, provide for and-or improve mixed-use neighbourhood centre facilities. 22 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/nc
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown OE: To provide for office and enterprise development. 23 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/oe
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown SNI: To protect, improve and encourage the provision of sustainable neighbourhood infrastructure. 36 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/sni
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown TLI: To facilitate, support and enhance the development of third level education institutions. 16 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/dlr/tli
- Fingal CI (Community Infrastructure): Provide for and protect civic, religious, community, education, health care and social infrastructure 86 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ci
- Fingal FP (Food Park): Provide for and facilitate the development of a Food Industry Park 4 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/fp
- Fingal GB (Green Belt): Protect and provide for a Greenbelt 18 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/gb
- Fingal GE (General Employment): Provide opportunities for general enterprise and employment 76 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ge
- Fingal HA (High Amenity): Protect and enhance high amenity areas 119 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ha
- Fingal HT (High Technology): Provide for office, research and development and high technology/high technology manufacturing type employment in a high quality built and landscaped environment 66 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ht
- Fingal LC (Local Centre): Protect, provide for and/or improve local centre facilities 16 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/lc
- Fingal MC (Major Town Centre): Protect, provide for and/ or improve major town centre facilities 46 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/mc
- Fingal MRE (Metro and Rail Economic Corridor): Facilitate opportunities for high-density mixed-use employment generating activity and commercial development and support the provision of an appropriate quantum of residential development within the Metro and Rail Economic Corridor. 53 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/mre
- Fingal NSC (National Sports Campus): Provide for and facilitate the development of a National Sports Campus 7 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/nsc
- Fingal OS (Open Space): Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities 356 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/os
- Fingal RA (Residential Area): Provide for new residential communities subject to the provision of the necessary social and physical infrastructure 172 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ra
- Fingal RS (Residential): Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity 2,702 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/rs
- Fingal RU (Rural): Protect and promote in a balanced way, the development of agriculture and rural related enterprise, biodiversity, the rural landscape, and the built and cultural heritage 16 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/ru
- Fingal RV (Rural Village): Protect and promote the character of the Rural Village and promote a vibrant community in accordance with an approved land use plan, and the availability of physical and community infrastructure 38 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/rv
- Fingal TC (Town and District Centre): Protect and enhance the special physical and social character of town and district centres and provide and/ or improve urban facilities 69 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/fingal/tc
- South Dublin DC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of District Centres 7 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/dc
- South Dublin EE: To provide for enterprise and employment related uses 83 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/ee
- South Dublin HA-DV: To protect and enhance the outstanding character and amenity of the Dodder Valley 21 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/ha-dv
- South Dublin HA-LV: To protect and enhance the outstanding character and amenity of the Liffey Valley 15 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/ha-lv
- South Dublin LC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Local Centres 22 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/lc
- South Dublin MRC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of a Major Retail Centre 6 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/mrc
- South Dublin OS: To preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities 338 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/os
- South Dublin REGEN: To facilitate enterprise and/or residential led regeneration 78 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/regen
- South Dublin RES: To protect and/or improve residential amenity 1,687 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/res
- South Dublin RES-N: To provide for new residential communities in accordance with approved area plans 95 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/res-n
- South Dublin RU: To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture 18 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/ru
- South Dublin SDZ: To provide for strategic development in accordance with approved planning schemes 130 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/sdz
- South Dublin TC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Town Centres 32 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/tc
- South Dublin VC: To protect, improve and provide for the future development of Village Centres 19 sites with a signal. https://buildable.ie/zoning/sdcc/vc

## Public data API

Base: https://buildable.ie/api. 120 requests a minute per IP address. No key. Source: Buildable (buildable.ie), from public registers. Link to the page the fact came from.

- GET /public/land/signal/{signal} (la, limit): Sites with one signal (derelict, rzlt, council-disposals, expiring, stalled, permitted-not-built, public-land) in a council or all Dublin, with counts and sources.
- GET /public/sites/{slug}: One site's public facts: location, area, zoning, signals and their sources.
- GET /public/sites/sitemap (offset, limit): Every public site's slug and when its facts last changed.
- GET /public/land/hub (la, lea): A council or electoral area: zoning, RZLT, unbuilt permissions, disposals, starts.
- GET /public/land/derelict/longest (la, limit): Sites longest on the derelict sites registers, oldest entry first.
- GET /public/developers (limit): Companies with homes permitted or applied for in Dublin in the last five years.
- GET /public/developers/{slug}: One company's permissions, homes started and not started, schemes and nearby signal sites.
- GET /public/zoning: Every Dublin zoning objective in the plans' own words, with site counts.
- GET /public/zoning/{la}/{code}: One zoning objective: wording, plan, sites so zoned and their signals.
- GET /public/calendar/events (la): Permission expiries, RZLT dates and s.183 meetings (also as .ics at /calendars/{feed}.ics on the website).