Land by postcode · DA area · DA7
What the open records say about the DA7 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 Bexleyheath.
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
835
Median sale price
£470,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,531
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.9%
£465,000 → £473,750
Mix of sales: 4% detached, 56% semi-detached, 27% terraced, 12% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 799 (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 674 live postcodes in DA7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
No postcodes in DA7 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 DA7. 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 DA7 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. 40 decided since 2021, 15 refused, typically 119 days to a decision.
21 of 40
approved, 53%
47% across London
42 homes approved of 95 applied for
Approved examples
190 Erith Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6HU (2 new homes)
Conversion of existing dwelling to provide 2 x 3 bed flats.
Approved 2022-02-16, Bexley ref 21/03260/FUL
190-192 Erith Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6HU (1 new home)
Demolition of existing garage and erection of 1 x 3 bedroom new dwelling.
Approved 2022-05-12, Bexley ref 21/03622/FUL
94 Heversham Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 5BJ (2 new homes)
Demolition of existing bungalow and erection of 2 x 3 bed semi-detached dwellings with associated parking and amenity space.
Approved 2022-05-05, Bexley ref 22/00118/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
28 decided since 2021, 15 refused, typically 121 days to a decision
12 of 28
approved, 43%
43% across London
Approved examples
190-192 Erith Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6HU
Demolition of existing garage and erection of 1 x 3 bedroom new dwelling.
Approved 2022-05-12, Bexley ref 21/03622/FUL
Land Rear Of 141-159 And Rear Of 165-169 Parkside Avenue Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6NP
Application for Permission in Principle for a residential development of between 5 and 7 dwellings and associated garages (Revised proposal ...
Approved 2022-04-28, Bexley ref 22/00131/PIP
379 Long Lane Bexleyheath Kent DA7 5JJ
Demolition of existing detached garage and erection of a three bedroom detached dwelling with associated parking and amenity space.
Approved 2023-06-16, Bexley ref 22/02412/FUL
3 decided since 2021, typically 322 days to a decision
3 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
94 Heversham Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 5BJ
Demolition of existing bungalow and erection of 2 x 3 bed semi-detached dwellings with associated parking and amenity space.
Approved 2022-05-05, Bexley ref 22/00118/FUL
31 Erith Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6BS
Demolition of existing dwelling and the erection of 1x 4bed detached dwelling
Approved 2023-07-28, Bexley ref 22/01792/FUL
14 Pickford Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 4AQ
Demolition of existing property and erection of a detached two story dwelling comprising 4 self contained units with refuse storage and park...
Approved 2024-08-08, Bexley ref 23/02348/FUL
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 67 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
2 Leysdown Avenue Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6AY
Conversion of garage into a habitable room, front drive to dwellinghouse and external alterations.
Approved 2021-03-16, Bexley ref 21/00194/FUL
Garage Adjacent To 194 Erith Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6HT
Conversion of existing garage to self-contained residential unit with erection of a first floor.
Approved 2026-05-01, Bexley ref 26/00367/FUL
Also decided here: 23 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 20 approved, typically 56 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.
Bexley covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in DA7.
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 DA7, 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 DA7, 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 DA7 the median sale is £470,000, 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 DA7 would be measured against a £470,000 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: Bexley'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.