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What the open records say about the CR2 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 South 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
1,177
Median sale price
£460,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,480
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+4.4%
£450,000 → £470,000
Mix of sales: 20% detached, 30% semi-detached, 19% terraced, 30% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 26 of 1,152 (2%). 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 996 live postcodes in CR2 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
6 of 996 postcodes
The Waldrons · Chapman Houses, Croham Manor Road
No postcodes in CR2 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 CR2. 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 CR2 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. 94 decided since 2021, 52 refused, typically 142 days to a decision.
31 of 94
approved, 33%
47% across London
77 homes approved of 283 applied for
Approved examples
6 - 8 The Gallop South Croydon CR2 7LP (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing pair of bungalows and replacement with 9 dwelling houses. Formation of vehicular access to the front of the site.
Approved 2022-03-01, Croydon ref 21/00816/FUL
97 Wentworth Way South Croydon CR2 9EZ (2 new homes)
Erection of a one and two storey building to provide a semi-detached pair of 2 bed houses, together with associated amenity space, landscapi...
Approved 2021-09-09, Croydon ref 21/01110/FUL
158 Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RF (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and garage and erection of two 3-storey buildings, comprising of 7 dwellings, together with car parking, ame...
Approved 2022-02-25, Croydon ref 21/01619/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
16 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 119 days to a decision
8 of 16
approved, 50%
36% across London
Approved examples
R/O 19 Sanderstead Hill South Croydon CR2 0HD
Demolition of a garage and erection of a two-storey detached dwellinghouse to the rear of 19 Sanderstead Hill, fronting Ownstead Gardens.
Approved 2023-01-31, Croydon ref 21/01289/FUL
Land R/O 50-52 Glebe Hyrst South Croydon CR2 9JF
Erection of two storey 4 bedroom detached house with integral garage to the rear of no's 50 & 52 Glebe Hyrst fronting North Down, refuse sto...
Approved 2021-06-18, Croydon ref 21/01810/FUL
112 Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RR
The erection two new dwellings on land to the rear of the existing semi-detached dwelling and associated works.
Approved 2021-12-03, Croydon ref 21/04797/FUL
7 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 224 days to a decision
1 of 7
approved, 14%
41% across London
Approved examples
5 Dornton Road South Croydon CR2 7DR
Conversion of the existing dwellinghouse into 1 x one bedroom flat, 1 x two bedroom flat and 1 x three bedroom flat.
Approved 2025-12-12, Croydon ref 25/01269/FUL
92 decided since 2021, 53 refused, typically 165 days to a decision
25 of 92
approved, 27%
43% across London
Approved examples
97 Wentworth Way South Croydon CR2 9EZ
Erection of a one and two storey building to provide a semi-detached pair of 2 bed houses, together with associated amenity space, landscapi...
Approved 2021-09-09, Croydon ref 21/01110/FUL
2 Ravenshead Close South Croydon CR2 8RL
Erection of a four bedroom detached dwelling with associated parking, landscaping, cycle storage and refuse storage
Approved 2022-07-21, Croydon ref 21/02848/FUL
Land R/o 67 Kendall Avenue South South Croydon CR2 0QR
Erection of a two bedroom dwelling with associated works.
Approved 2022-05-06, Croydon ref 21/04462/FUL
25 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 175 days to a decision
8 of 25
approved, 32%
49% across London
Approved examples
158 Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RF
Demolition of existing dwelling and garage and erection of two 3-storey buildings, comprising of 7 dwellings, together with car parking, ame...
Approved 2022-02-25, Croydon ref 21/01619/FUL
18 Rectory Park South Croydon CR2 9JN
Demolition of existing property and construction of a block of 5 flats plus 3 houses with associated access, car parking and landscaping (am...
Approved 2022-05-19, Croydon ref 21/03703/FUL
Oak Lodge Sanderstead Road South Croydon CR2 0PB
Demolition of the existing dwelling, erection of 3 storey building comprising 6 flats with associated parking, refuse and cycle facilities.
Approved 2024-09-18, Croydon ref 22/02349/FUL
6 decided since 2021, 4 refused, typically 201 days to a decision
2 of 6
approved, 33%
45% across London
Approved examples
7 - 9 Spencer Road South Croydon CR2 7EL
Conversion of the existing garage to the side of the property in order to extend one of the flats from a one bedroom unit into a two bedroom...
Approved 2023-04-12, Croydon ref 22/03286/FUL
560 Brighton Road South Croydon CR2 6AW
Conversion of first floor office space to 1 no x self contained residential unit and associated internal alterations with cycle and parking ...
Approved 2024-02-26, Croydon ref 23/03821/FUL
Also decided here: 34 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 28 approved, typically 71 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 100% of the sampled postcodes in CR2.
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 CR2, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 1% 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 CR2, 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 CR2 the median sale is £460,000, and only 2% 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 CR2 would be measured against a £460,000 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.