Land by postcode · E area · E4
What the open records say about the E4 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.
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
1,200
Median sale price
£540,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,889
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+0.9%
£536,000 → £541,000
Mix of sales: 3% detached, 27% semi-detached, 43% terraced, 27% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 1,227 (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 970 live postcodes in E4 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
31 of 970 postcodes
Epping Forest · Waltham Forest
109 of 970 postcodes
Station Road · Chingford Green · Ropers Field
941 of 970 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in E4 fall inside: 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.
3% of postcodes in E4 are inside the Green Belt, so Waltham Forest, London 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.
97% 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.
Decided planning applications in E4 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. 11 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 91 days to a decision.
3 of 11
approved, 27%
47% across London
5 homes approved of 20 applied for
Approved examples
112 Hampton Road, Chingford (1 new home)
Demolition of existing garage and subdivision of the site with construction of one single storey dwelling (Use Class C3) fronting Soper Clos...
Approved 2026-03-13, Waltham Forest ref 241983
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 257 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
55 Seymour Road, Chingford
Demolition of an existing garage and sub-division of the land rear of No.55. Construction of a two storey building to provide a 3 bedroom dw...
Approved 2022-06-20, Waltham Forest ref 213190
44 Sinclair Road, Chingford
Sub-division of the land at Nos. 44 and 46 Sinclair Road and construction of a two-storey detached dwelling house (3-bed) (Use Class C3) tog...
Approved 2024-10-23, Waltham Forest ref 231227
20 decided since 2021, 11 refused, typically 151 days to a decision
4 of 20
approved, 20%
41% across London
Approved examples
69 Westward Road, Chingford
Subdivision of the site and construction of single storey building to provide 1 studio dwelling house with associated landscaping, refuse/re...
Approved 2022-03-07, Waltham Forest ref 210321
34-36 Old Church Road, Chingford
Conversion of the first and second floor maisonette into two self-contained flats (2 x studio) including the installation of a rear first fl...
Approved 2021-11-17, Waltham Forest ref 211649
192 Beech Hall Road, Chingford
Sub-division of the site at 192 Beech Hall Road and construction of two semi-detached 2-storey dwelling houses with roof accommodation (3-be...
Approved 2025-06-19, Waltham Forest ref 241490
14 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 190 days to a decision
5 of 14
approved, 36%
43% across London
Approved examples
14 Winslow Grove, Chingford
Subdivision of the cartilage land and construction of a two-storey (1 x 1 bedroom) dwelling along with associated landscaping and provision ...
Approved 2022-03-24, Waltham Forest ref 210416
244 Chingford Mount Road, Chingford
Construction of fourth floor to create 1 x 2 bedroom self-contained flat (Use Class C3).
Approved 2021-08-06, Waltham Forest ref 211161
223 Sinclair Road, Chingford
Creation of a dropped kerb to front of dwelling to allow vehicular access.
Approved 2021-08-18, Waltham Forest ref 211004
8 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 199 days to a decision
4 of 8
approved, 50%
49% across London
Approved examples
92 Connaught Avenue, Chingford
Demolition of existing bungalow and construction of two storey building to provide 2x4 bedroom dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) and all associa...
Approved 2021-11-01, Waltham Forest ref 212661
38 Antlers Hill, Chingford
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and construction of two storey 1x3 bedroom single dwellinghouse (Use Class C3). Including all associate...
Approved 2022-01-27, Waltham Forest ref 213018
22 South Avenue, Chingford
Demolition of the existing dwelling and construction of 4 x 2-storey (3-bedroom) semi-detached single dwelling houses with associated soft a...
Approved 2025-09-26, Waltham Forest ref 231162
7 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 86 days to a decision
3 of 7
approved, 43%
45% across London
Approved examples
20 The Avenue, Chingford
Conversion of existing two storey building comprised of six residential units (3x1, 3x2) into three storey building comprised of nine reside...
Approved 2022-02-17, Waltham Forest ref 212941
2a, CROWN BUILDINGS The Green
Change of use of from office (Use class E(g)(i)) to residential (Use class C3) and conversion of the upper floors to facilitate the creation...
Approved 2022-03-09, Waltham Forest ref 213504
27 Studley Avenue, Chingford
Conversion of existing two storey building comprised of two residential units (1x3-bed and 1x1-bed) (Use Class C3) into single dwellinghouse...
Approved 2022-06-01, Waltham Forest ref 220777
Also decided here: 48 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.
Waltham Forest covers 97% of the sampled postcodes in E4.
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 E4, 3% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 11% 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.
Often, yes. 97% of postcodes in E4 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.
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 E4 the median sale is £540,000, 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 E4 would be measured against a £540,000 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: 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.
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.