Land by postcode · CR area · CR5
What the open records say about the CR5 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 Coulsdon.
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
710
Median sale price
£556,625
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,972
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-0.9%
£560,000 → £555,000
Mix of sales: 31% detached, 36% semi-detached, 19% terraced, 13% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 7 of 730 (1%). 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 700 live postcodes in CR5 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
79 of 700 postcodes
Croydon · Reigate and Banstead · Sutton
5 of 700 postcodes
Surrey Hills
22 of 700 postcodes
Netherne-on-the-Hill · Elmore Road, Chipstead · Bradmore Green · High Road, Chipstead
No postcodes in CR5 fall inside: 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.
11% of postcodes in CR5 are inside the Green Belt, so Coulsdon 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 CR5 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. 67 decided since 2021, 36 refused, typically 146 days to a decision.
23 of 67
approved, 34%
47% across London
85 homes approved of 263 applied for
Approved examples
116 Reddown Road Coulsdon CR5 1AL (8 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two X 3 storey terraced blocks comprising 8 three bedroom dwelling houses with associated ac...
Approved 2021-09-28, Croydon ref 21/00338/FUL
86 Bradmore Way Coulsdon CR5 1PB (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and garage and erection of a 2-3 storey building (including lower ground floor), comprising 7 dwellings, tog...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02020/FUL
18 The Grove Coulsdon CR5 2BH (8 new homes)
Demolition of the existing house and erection of a three storey plus lower ground floor level detached building comprising of 8 flats togeth...
Approved 2022-05-05, Croydon ref 21/02291/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
15 decided since 2021, 9 refused, typically 175 days to a decision
6 of 15
approved, 40%
36% across London
Approved examples
Crossways Dental Practice 328 Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 1EB
Erection of a part 1, part 2 storey detached dwelling to the rear of 328 Coulsdon Road, accessed from The Crossways, with car parking, and e...
Approved 2024-09-06, Croydon ref 22/03139/FUL
Land At The Rear Of 394-398 Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 1EF
Construction of a three-bedroom detached dwelling in the rear gardens of nos. 394 and 398 Coulsdon Road with access from Lacey Avenue and pr...
Approved 2025-01-23, Croydon ref 23/02364/FUL
76 Rickman Hill Coulsdon CR5 3DP
Construction of a 1-bedroom detached dwellinghouse with 1no. on-site car parking space, associated access, soft and hard landscaping on land...
Approved 2025-08-15, Croydon ref 23/03604/FUL
45 decided since 2021, 25 refused, typically 154 days to a decision
13 of 45
approved, 29%
43% across London
Approved examples
North Lodge Portnalls Road Coulsdon CR5 3DE
Demolition of the existing North Lodge and the erection of a two storey dwelling with associated landscaping and car parking.
Approved 2021-11-12, Croydon ref 21/03130/FUL
23 Taunton Lane Coulsdon CR5 1SG
Demolition of existing double garage, erection of a detached two-storey building comprising 2x 1-bed flats with associated parking, cycle an...
Approved 2022-05-13, Croydon ref 21/03882/FUL
61 Fairdene Road Coulsdon CR5 1RJ
Demolition of existing garage/store and erection of a single-storey detached dwelling and associated parking.
Approved 2023-06-08, Croydon ref 22/02245/FUL
32 decided since 2021, 18 refused, typically 174 days to a decision
9 of 32
approved, 28%
49% across London
Approved examples
116 Reddown Road Coulsdon CR5 1AL
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two X 3 storey terraced blocks comprising 8 three bedroom dwelling houses with associated ac...
Approved 2021-09-28, Croydon ref 21/00338/FUL
86 Bradmore Way Coulsdon CR5 1PB
Demolition of existing dwelling and garage and erection of a 2-3 storey building (including lower ground floor), comprising 7 dwellings, tog...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02020/FUL
18 The Grove Coulsdon CR5 2BH
Demolition of the existing house and erection of a three storey plus lower ground floor level detached building comprising of 8 flats togeth...
Approved 2022-05-05, Croydon ref 21/02291/FUL
Also decided here: 21 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 14 approved, typically 64 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.
CR5 is split between planning authorities: Croydon (75% of sampled postcodes), Reigate and Banstead (20% of sampled postcodes).
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 CR5, 11% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 1% in a National Landscape, 3% 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 CR5, 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 CR5 the median sale is £556,625, and only 1% 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 CR5 would be measured against a £556,625 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: the 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.