Land by postcode · CR area · CR0
What the open records say about the CR0 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 Croydon.
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
2,660
Median sale price
£385,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,088
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+4.2%
£378,000 → £394,000
Mix of sales: 6% detached, 21% semi-detached, 38% terraced, 35% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 81 of 2,582 (3%). 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 2791 live postcodes in CR0 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
39 of 2791 postcodes
Croydon
153 of 2791 postcodes
East India Estate · Central Croydon · Chatsworth Road · Church Street · COA00000303 and 3 more
No postcodes in CR0 fall inside: 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.
1% of postcodes in CR0 are inside the Green Belt, so Croydon has land both inside and outside it. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.
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 CR0 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. 197 decided since 2021, 122 refused, typically 113 days to a decision.
57 of 197
approved, 29%
47% across London
148 homes approved of 577 applied for
Approved examples
110 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA (5 new homes)
Conversion of 110 Canterbury Road from an office into a dwelling and the demolition of existing storage buildings to rear and erection of 4 ...
Approved 2022-01-14, Croydon ref 21/00871/FUL
88 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA (2 new homes)
Alterations, conversion of single-dwelling to form 1x 3b flat and 1x 2b flat.
Approved 2021-08-25, Croydon ref 21/00533/FUL
57 Castle Hill Avenue Croydon CR0 0TG (1 new home)
Demolition of existing garage and construction of a new 2 storey (3 bed) house with living accommodation in the roof space.
Approved 2021-08-12, Croydon ref 21/02708/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
18 decided since 2021, 13 refused, typically 111 days to a decision
4 of 18
approved, 22%
36% across London
Approved examples
7 Ledbury Road Croydon CR0 1EP
Erection of a new single storey dwelling at the rear of the site
Approved 2023-06-15, Croydon ref 23/00586/FUL
41 St Peter's Road Croydon CR0 1HN
Demolition of garage. Erection of single storey 1-bedroom detached dwellinghouse on land to the rear of No. 41 St Peter's Road, including la...
Approved 2024-03-07, Croydon ref 23/03567/FUL
4 Devonshire Way Croydon CR0 8BR
Erection of a 2-bedroom bungalow within the rear garden of No. 4 Devonshire Way together with new vehicular crossover from Westway.
Approved 2025-10-08, Croydon ref 24/04236/FUL
26 decided since 2021, 19 refused, typically 63 days to a decision
6 of 26
approved, 23%
41% across London
Approved examples
88 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA
Alterations, conversion of single-dwelling to form 1x 3b flat and 1x 2b flat.
Approved 2021-08-25, Croydon ref 21/00533/FUL
74 Spring Park Road Croydon CR0 5EL
Conversion of existing dwelling into two new dwellings
Approved 2021-09-17, Croydon ref 21/02333/FUL
162 Markfield Court Wood Lane Croydon CR0 9HQ
Subdivision of property and creation of studio flat at first floor level, associated alterations
Approved 2022-05-12, Croydon ref 22/00275/FUL
146 decided since 2021, 93 refused, typically 148 days to a decision
40 of 146
approved, 27%
43% across London
Approved examples
Rear Of 83 - 87 Edridge Road Croydon CR0 1EJ
Erection of single-storey 2 bedroom detached dwelling.
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/01509/FUL
Land Rear Of 83 Lansdowne Road Croydon CR0 2BF
Construction of two storey building containing two self-contained flats
Approved 2022-05-06, Croydon ref 21/01616/FUL
57 Castle Hill Avenue Croydon CR0 0TG
Demolition of existing garage and construction of a new 2 storey (3 bed) house with living accommodation in the roof space.
Approved 2021-08-12, Croydon ref 21/02708/FUL
41 decided since 2021, 21 refused, typically 109 days to a decision
13 of 41
approved, 32%
49% across London
Approved examples
1 The Warren The Green Croydon CR0 9AL
Demolition of existing bungalow and erection of 2X2 pairs of semi detached 4 bedroom dwellings with associated landscapeing, parking and oth...
Approved 2021-08-05, Croydon ref 21/02468/FUL
86 Sumner Road Croydon CR0 3LJ
Demolition of existing house and associated outbuildings. Erection of 2-storey block with roof space accommodation comprising of 2 x one bed...
Approved 2021-11-01, Croydon ref 21/04015/FUL
275 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 7HY
Demolition of the existing house and replacement with a new three storey detached house (C3 use) plus basement, with associated on site car ...
Approved 2022-12-09, Croydon ref 22/03222/FUL
25 decided since 2021, 11 refused, typically 179 days to a decision
9 of 25
approved, 36%
45% across London
Approved examples
110 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA
Conversion of 110 Canterbury Road from an office into a dwelling and the demolition of existing storage buildings to rear and erection of 4 ...
Approved 2022-01-14, Croydon ref 21/00871/FUL
267 Violet Lane Croydon CR0 4HN
Conversion of existing basement and garage into 1x self-contained residential dwelling with associated external alterations.
Approved 2021-05-21, Croydon ref 21/01562/FUL
267 Violet Lane Croydon CR0 4HN
Conversion of existing basement and garage into 1x self-contained residential dwelling with associated external alterations.
Approved 2021-12-22, Croydon ref 21/04752/FUL
Also decided here: 83 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 60 approved, typically 77 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.
Croydon covers 96% of the sampled postcodes in CR0.
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 CR0, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 5% in a conservation area. On Green Belt or National Landscape plots a new home is the exception and needs a specific case; a replacement dwelling, a conversion or a modest extension is usually the realistic route there. 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 CR0, 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 CR0 the median sale is £385,000, and only 3% 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 CR0 would be measured against a £385,000 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: Croydon'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.