Land by postcode · CR area · CR7
What the open records say about the CR7 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 Thornton Heath.
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
558
Median sale price
£410,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,475
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+3.7%
£405,000 → £420,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 11% semi-detached, 61% terraced, 26% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 558 (0%). 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 609 live postcodes in CR7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
No postcodes in CR7 fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Conservation Area, 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 CR7. 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 CR7 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. 97 decided since 2021, 61 refused, typically 82 days to a decision.
31 of 97
approved, 32%
47% across London
74 homes approved of 240 applied for
Approved examples
Ground Floor Unit 5 - 7 Heath Road Thornton Heath CR7 8NF (1 new home)
Change the use of the ground floor unit (formerly Class A1) (now Class E) to a residential unit (Class C3) and associated external alteratio...
Approved 2021-03-08, Croydon ref 21/00085/FUL
55 Queenswood Avenue Thornton Heath CR7 7HZ (1 new home)
Conversion of ground floor annex to 1 bed apartment
Approved 2021-04-23, Croydon ref 21/01082/FUL
96 Beulah Road Thornton Heath CR7 8JF (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing rear outbuildings and erection of single storey one bedroom dwelling, with associated site alterations
Approved 2021-05-07, Croydon ref 21/01038/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 94 days to a decision
2 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
945 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 6JE
Erection of 4 no. mews houses at the rear of the site, with associated refuse storage and landscaping.
Approved 2021-09-28, Croydon ref 21/01272/FUL
44 Winterbourne Road Thornton Heath CR7 7QU
Permission in principle for demolition of existing detached garage and erection of 1x 1 bedroom two storey dwelling to the rear of 44 Winter...
Approved 2024-01-02, Croydon ref 23/04362/PIP
9 decided since 2021, 8 refused, typically 85 days to a decision
1 of 9
approved, 11%
41% across London
Approved examples
24 Sandfield Road Thornton Heath CR7 8AU
Alterations, conversion of single dwelling to form 1 x 3-bed flat and 1 x 2-bed flat (retrospective).
Approved 2022-09-16, Croydon ref 21/05215/FUL
69 decided since 2021, 46 refused, typically 90 days to a decision
17 of 69
approved, 25%
43% across London
Approved examples
96 Beulah Road Thornton Heath CR7 8JF
Demolition of the existing rear outbuildings and erection of single storey one bedroom dwelling, with associated site alterations
Approved 2021-05-07, Croydon ref 21/01038/FUL
224 Bensham Manor Road Thornton Heath CR7 7AW
Demolition of existing building and redevelopment of site to provide 9 residential units (Use Class C3) comprising of a part 4-5 storey bloc...
Approved 2022-09-13, Croydon ref 21/05131/FUL
100 - 102 Green Lane Thornton Heath CR7 8BH
Demolition of two existing dwellings and the erection of three new 3-storey 4 bedroom dwellinghouses and three new 2-storey 3 bedroom dwelli...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/05624/FUL
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 46 days to a decision
3 of 4
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
251 Galpins Road, Thornton Heath
ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLINGHOUSE, INCLUDING LANDSCAPING AND PARKING.
Approved 2023-08-15, Merton ref 23/P1858
253 Galpins Road, Thornton Heath
ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLINGHOUSE, INCLUDING LANDSCAPING AND PARKING.
Approved 2023-08-15, Merton ref 23/P1857
255 Galpins Road, Thornton Heath
ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLINGHOUSE, INCLUDING LANDSCAPING AND PARKING.
Approved 2024-07-31, Merton ref 24/P1595
Also decided here: 21 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 15 approved, typically 79 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 99% of the sampled postcodes in CR7.
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 CR7, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt. 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 CR7, 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 CR7 the median sale is £410,000, and only 0% 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 CR7 would be measured against a £410,000 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.