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Land in Waltham Forest, London (E10)

What the open records say about the E10 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 Waltham Forest, London.

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What homes sold for in E10

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

854

Median sale price

£503,375

Median £ per m² of floor area

£7,667

Median, last 12m vs prior 12m

+3.4%

£497,000 → £513,660

Mix of sales: 0% detached, 3% semi-detached, 41% terraced, 56% flats.

New-build sales 2023–2024: 115 of 820 (14%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.

Planning designations and controls in E10

For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 607 live postcodes in E10 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.

Conservation Area

2%

14 of 607 postcodes

Bakers Arms · Leyton Town Centre · Thornhill Road

Article 4 Direction area

100%

607 of 607 postcodes

8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.

No postcodes in E10 fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB), National Park.

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.

What the figures mean for land in Waltham Forest, London

100% of postcodes are covered by an Article 4 direction, which removes specific permitted development rights in that area, so changes that are automatic elsewhere need a planning application there.

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.

What landowners have been granted in E10

Decided planning applications in E10 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.

Applications creating one to nine new homes

Taken from the units table on the planning form itself, so this is homes actually created, not a reading of the description. 4 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 356 days to a decision.

1 of 4

approved

47% across London

2 homes approved of 8 applied for

By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:

Splitting a plot or a house into more homes

3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 156 days to a decision

1 of 3

approved

41% across London

Approved examples

  • 1A Huxley Road, Leyton

    Demolition of existing garage and subdivision of site to provide for one detached two storey dwellinghouse with room in roof and rear roof-l...

    Approved 2023-03-23, Waltham Forest ref 220382

New homes on other land

9 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 249 days to a decision

3 of 9

approved, 33%

43% across London

Approved examples

  • 103/111 Vicarage Road, Leyton

    Construction of two-storey 1 x 4 bedroom house

    Approved 2022-09-01, Waltham Forest ref 213515

  • LEA BRIDGE GAS WORKS, 78 Perth Road

    A phased development comprising demolition of existing buildings and structures, and erection of buildings to provide a mixed use scheme res...

    Approved 2025-05-27, Waltham Forest ref 232678

  • 101 St Marys Road, Leyton

    Demolition of existing garages and construction of a single storey 3 bedroom dwellinghouse, including excavation to create basement with ass...

    Approved 2025-12-12, Waltham Forest ref 242441

Also decided here: 31 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 31 approved, typically 66 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.

Who decides planning here

Waltham Forest covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in E10.

Check your own plot in Waltham Forest, London

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.

Questions landowners ask about Waltham Forest, London

Can I build on land I own in Waltham Forest, London?

It depends on where the plot sits, not on the district average. In E10, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 2% 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.

Do I need planning permission for an outbuilding, extension or change of use in E10?

Often, yes. 100% of postcodes in E10 are under an Article 4 direction (8 separate directions), which withdraws particular permitted development rights, so an outbuilding, extension or change of use that is automatic elsewhere needs an application there. Outside those areas, permitted development applies to houses and their gardens but not to agricultural land or paddocks, where a new building or a new use normally needs permission or prior approval.

Will a developer be interested in a plot in Waltham Forest, London?

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 E10 the median sale is £503,375, and only 14% 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.

What is a plot of land worth in Waltham Forest, London?

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 E10 would be measured against a £503,375 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.

How do I find out what applies to my own plot in Waltham Forest, London?

Three places: Waltham Forest'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.

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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.