Land by postcode · BR area · BR3
What the open records say about the BR3 postcode district in Greater London: recent sales, planning designations and controls, and the council that decides applications. District-level facts to read before you sell or develop a plot in Beckenham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07. This is market context for the district, not a land valuation: what a plot is worth depends on what can be built on it, which these figures do not show.
Sales in 24 months
1,426
Median sale price
£540,265
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,222
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.9%
£540,000 → £550,000
Mix of sales: 11% detached, 18% semi-detached, 27% terraced, 44% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 95 of 1,492 (6%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.
For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 1125 live postcodes in BR3 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
61 of 1125 postcodes
Park Langley, Beckenham · Downs Hill, Beckenham · COA00000028 · Elm Road · Barnmead Road, Beckenham and 3 more
No postcodes in BR3 fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Article 4 Direction area.
Flood zones, tree preservation orders, local plan allocations, settlement boundaries and non-designated heritage are not included here and are checked in a full assessment.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in BR3. What can be built on a given plot is decided by the local plan, settlement boundaries and site-specific matters such as access, flood risk and neighbours, none of which this page measures.
These are district-level facts. The free assessment checks your actual boundary against the same registers and the local plan and tells you plainly what they mean for your plot.
Decided planning applications in BR3 since 2021, from the council registers, grouped by the kind of scheme a landowner might be weighing up. Extensions, conditions and tree works are left out. Counts, not estimates.
Taken from the units table on the planning form itself, so this is homes actually created, not a reading of the description. 35 decided since 2021, 16 refused, typically 107 days to a decision.
17 of 35
approved, 49%
47% across London
50 homes approved of 105 applied for
Approved examples
3 Beckenham Road, Beckenham (4 new homes)
Conversion of the existing first floor from office space (Use Class E (g)(i)) into 4 No flats (Use Class C3) with associated external altera...
Approved 2024-05-09, Bromley ref 24/00897/FULL1
Flat, 22 High Street (3 new homes)
Change of use from single dwellinghouse into 3no. one bedroom apartments with refuse and cycle provision.
Approved 2024-05-29, Bromley ref 24/00470/FULL1
Top Flat, 4 Westfield Road (1 new home)
Use of second floor as a 1 bedroom, 1 person flat.
Approved 2024-05-13, Bromley ref 24/00640/FULL1
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
5 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 150 days to a decision
3 of 5
approved, 60%
43% across London
Approved examples
15 St James's Avenue, Beckenham
Formation of vehicular access and parking area associated with existing vicarage, widening of existing vehicular access, demolition of exist...
Approved 2024-07-31, Bromley ref 23/04927/FULL1
68 Bramerton Road, Beckenham
Construction of raised patio at rear of house.
Approved 2024-06-25, Bromley ref 24/01394/FULL6
Woodhayes, 76A The Avenue
Demolition of existing houses and the construction of 6 homes together with the construction of a new access road, car parking spaces, bin a...
Approved 2025-02-27, Bromley ref 24/03645/FULL1
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 106 days to a decision
1 of 4
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
4A Blakeney Road, Beckenham
Demolition of existing dwelling. Erection of 2x three storey blocks containing total of 9 apartments incorporating habitable roof space with...
Approved 2025-06-17, Bromley ref 24/01018/FULL1
8 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 73 days to a decision
3 of 8
approved, 38%
45% across London
Approved examples
3 Beckenham Road, Beckenham
Conversion of the existing first floor from office space (Use Class E (g)(i)) into 4 No flats (Use Class C3) with associated external altera...
Approved 2024-05-09, Bromley ref 24/00897/FULL1
7 Kelsey Square, Beckenham
Change of use of existing office space (Use Class E(g)(i)) to a 2 bedroom residential flat. Internal alterations only. (Use Class C3).
Approved 2024-11-06, Bromley ref 24/03131/FULL2
Burnhill House, 50 Burnhill Road
Change of use of part of first floor from ancillary office / storage and facilities to provide 2 no. residential flats (1 no. 1 bedroom flat...
Approved 2024-12-16, Bromley ref 24/03881/FULL1
Also decided here: 6 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 4 approved, typically 54 days.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) in this postcode district from the councils' own registers, classified by the wording of each proposal. Counts, not estimates; where a class has fewer than three applications it is not shown.
Bromley covers 99% of the sampled postcodes in BR3.
Draw your boundary, tell us what you own, and an architect checks it against these registers and the local plan. Free, no obligation, and you get a straight written answer.
It depends on where the plot sits, not on the district average. In BR3, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 5% in a conservation area. Outside those designations the questions that decide it are whether the plot is inside or adjoining the settlement boundary in the local plan, whether it has its own road access, and what is next to it. A plot on the edge of a village or town with access has the best chance; an open field outside the settlement boundary rarely gets consent for housing whatever the market is doing.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for BR3, so houses keep their normal permitted development rights for outbuildings and extensions within the size limits. Those rights do not extend to agricultural land, paddocks or a change of use to residential, which normally need permission or prior approval.
Developers look at three things before they talk about price: whether the plot is outside the Green Belt and any National Landscape, whether it sits inside or beside the settlement boundary, and what finished homes sell for. In BR3 the median sale is £540,265, and only 6% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders have been quiet here. A single plot usually goes to a local builder or a self-builder; a site for five or more homes attracts regional housebuilders, normally through an option or a conditional contract rather than an outright purchase, so the price you see quoted is not the price you receive.
There is no district figure for land, because a plot's value comes from what can be built on it, not from where it is. As a guide, a serviced plot with consent for one house commonly sells for around a third of the finished house value, which in BR3 would be measured against a £540,265 median sale. The same plot without consent, or inside the Green Belt, is worth a small fraction of that, and a paddock with no realistic route to consent is worth agricultural or amenity value only. The free check tells you which of those your plot is before you talk to anyone about a price.
Three places: Bromley's local plan and its policies map for the settlement boundary and allocations, the council's planning register for what has been approved or refused on neighbouring land, and planning.data.gov.uk for the national designations. That is an evening's work if you know what you are looking for. The alternative is to draw your boundary on this site: an architect checks it against the same records and writes back within 48 hours with a plain answer, free and without obligation.
Computed from open-data records; district-level, not plot-level measurements. Sales: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (2024-08-01 to 2026-07-31), © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence. Designations: planning.data.gov.uk (OGL), retrieved 2026-09-05; conservation areas and Article 4 directions are made locally and published on that national register. Postcode centroids: OS Code-Point Open 2026.3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Place name is the most common post town in the sales records. Figures computed 2026-09-06.