Land by postcode · CR area · CR8
What the open records say about the CR8 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 Purley.
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
796
Median sale price
£500,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,667
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-8.2%
£525,000 → £482,000
Mix of sales: 31% detached, 25% semi-detached, 13% terraced, 31% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 89 of 895 (10%). 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 803 live postcodes in CR8 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
11 of 803 postcodes
Croydon · Sutton
20 of 803 postcodes
The Webb Estate · Upper Woodcote Village
No postcodes in CR8 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 CR8 are inside the Green Belt, so Purley 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 CR8 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. 107 decided since 2021, 70 refused, typically 145 days to a decision.
24 of 107
approved, 22%
47% across London
82 homes approved of 484 applied for
Approved examples
1 Kearton Close Kenley CR8 5EN (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of 9 x 3 bedroom dwellings of 2 storeys plus accommodation in the roof with associated access, ...
Approved 2022-02-23, Croydon ref 21/00339/FUL
58 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4DF (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing detached house and replacement with a new development of 9 flats over 3 floors with 8 parking spaces.
Approved 2021-12-03, Croydon ref 21/00954/FUL
40A Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3EE (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing detached bungalow and erection of three storey building with accommodation within the roof space comprising 7 apartme...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02022/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
13 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 153 days to a decision
3 of 13
approved, 23%
36% across London
Approved examples
12 Wattendon Road Kenley CR8 5LU
Proposed conversion and enlargement of existing garage at the rear of the property to form habitable area ancillary to main dwelling.
Approved 2023-11-07, Croydon ref 23/03674/HSE
24 Smitham Bottom Lane Purley CR8 3DA
Demolition of the existing garage and the subdivision of the existing garden of 24 Smitham Bottom Lane; erection of 4 dwellings with associa...
Approved 2025-07-29, Croydon ref 24/01099/OUT
23 Monahan Avenue Purley CR8 3BB
Demolition of existing garage and erection of a detached two-storey dwellinghouse within the rear garden of No.23 Monahan Avenue, provision ...
Approved 2025-06-03, Croydon ref 25/00679/FUL
7 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 150 days to a decision
0 of 7
approved, 0%
41% across London
100 decided since 2021, 42 refused, typically 187 days to a decision
42 of 100
approved, 42%
43% across London
Approved examples
25 Smitham Downs Road Purley CR8 4NH
Construction of a single storey building to the side of the host dwelling (following demolition of existing garages/structures) including pr...
Approved 2021-03-15, Croydon ref 21/00374/HSE
58 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4DF
Demolition of existing detached house and replacement with a new development of 9 flats over 3 floors with 8 parking spaces.
Approved 2021-12-03, Croydon ref 21/00954/FUL
40A Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3EE
Demolition of existing detached bungalow and erection of three storey building with accommodation within the roof space comprising 7 apartme...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02022/FUL
77 decided since 2021, 54 refused, typically 168 days to a decision
11 of 77
approved, 14%
49% across London
Approved examples
1 Kearton Close Kenley CR8 5EN
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of 9 x 3 bedroom dwellings of 2 storeys plus accommodation in the roof with associated access, ...
Approved 2022-02-23, Croydon ref 21/00339/FUL
18 Rose Walk Purley CR8 3LG
Demolition of existing house and outbuildings; erection of two storey 8 bedroom detached house with accommodation in roofspace and garage
Approved 2022-01-13, Croydon ref 21/03900/FUL
314 & 316 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4AQ
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of 5 dwellings with associated access, amenity and cycle/refuse provision.
Approved 2022-12-12, Croydon ref 21/04007/OUT
Also decided here: 29 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 16 approved, typically 88 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 95% of the sampled postcodes in CR8.
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 CR8, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 2% 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 CR8, 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 CR8 the median sale is £500,000, and only 10% 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 CR8 would be measured against a £500,000 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.