Land by postcode · EN area · EN1
What the open records say about the EN1 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 Enfield.
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
808
Median sale price
£475,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,333
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
0%
£475,000 → £475,000
Mix of sales: 2% detached, 19% semi-detached, 51% terraced, 28% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 779 (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 958 live postcodes in EN1 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
9 of 958 postcodes
Enfield
67 of 958 postcodes
BUSH HILL PARK · ENFIELD TOWN · FORTY HILL
958 of 958 postcodes
5 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in EN1 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.
1% of postcodes in EN1 are inside the Green Belt, so Enfield 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.
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.
Decided planning applications in EN1 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. 68 decided since 2021, 19 refused, typically 73 days to a decision.
42 of 68
approved, 62%
47% across London
79 homes approved of 140 applied for
Approved examples
936 Great Cambridge Road Enfield EN1 4JS (2 new homes)
Conversion of single family dwelling into 2 self-contained flats involving front landscaping with associated parking and bin storage (Amende...
Approved 2021-05-13, Enfield ref 21/00604/FUL
106 Pembroke Avenue Enfield EN1 4EY (2 new homes)
Conversion of single family dwellinghouse into 2 x self contained units.
Approved 2023-06-22, Enfield ref 22/00991/FUL
16A Leighton Road Enfield EN1 1XJ (9 new homes)
Redevelopment of site, involving demolition of existing building and erection of a 4-storey block of 9 self-contained flats.
Approved 2022-09-23, Enfield ref 22/00974/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
33 decided since 2021, 14 refused, typically 87 days to a decision
17 of 33
approved, 52%
41% across London
Approved examples
936 Great Cambridge Road Enfield EN1 4JS
Conversion of single family dwelling into 2 self-contained flats involving front landscaping with associated parking and bin storage (Amende...
Approved 2021-05-13, Enfield ref 21/00604/FUL
269 Hoe Lane Enfield EN1 4JL
Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house with associated car parking at rear.
Approved 2021-12-08, Enfield ref 21/03699/FUL
Bush Hill Park Bowls Tennis And Social Club Abbey Road Enfield EN1 2QP
Redevelopment of site involving removal of 2 disused tennis courts and subdivision of site to provide 4 single family dwellings together wit...
Approved 2023-06-09, Enfield ref 21/03370/FUL
22 decided since 2021, 8 refused, typically 111 days to a decision
7 of 22
approved, 32%
43% across London
Approved examples
2 Donkey Lane Enfield EN1 3PL
Demolition of existing 2 storey cottage and erection of a part 1, part 2 and part 3 storey block of 6 apartments with associated parking and...
Approved 2021-12-16, Enfield ref 21/03649/FUL
16A Leighton Road Enfield EN1 1XJ
Redevelopment of site, involving demolition of existing building and erection of a 4-storey block of 9 self-contained flats.
Approved 2022-09-23, Enfield ref 22/00974/FUL
Land Adjacent 251 Ladysmith Road Enfield EN1 3AQ
Replacement of existing commercial storage outbuilding with construction of a single dwelling house at rear.
Approved 2022-11-11, Enfield ref 22/02975/FUL
3 decided since 2021, typically 283 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
65A Park Avenue Enfield EN1 2HH
Redevelopment of site involving demolition of existing dwelling house and erection of 5 terraced dwelling houses.
Approved 2025-06-18, Enfield ref 25/01246/FUL
4 Dryden Road Enfield EN1 2PP
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two storey dwelling.
Approved 2026-04-30, Enfield ref 25/02512/FUL
5 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 114 days to a decision
2 of 5
approved, 40%
45% across London
Approved examples
4 East Crescent Enfield EN1 1BS
Conversion of the existing detached garage at rear into a studio ancillary to the dwelling (Granny Annexe).
Approved 2023-01-11, Enfield ref 22/02195/HOU
97 Lincoln Crescent Enfield EN1 1JZ
Use of existing outbuilding to rear as annexe ancillary to main dwelling.
Approved 2025-11-14, Enfield ref 25/02538/CEU
Also decided here: 8 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 7 approved, typically 64 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.
Enfield covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in EN1.
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 EN1, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 7% 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. 100% of postcodes in EN1 are under an Article 4 direction (5 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 EN1 the median sale is £475,000, 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 EN1 would be measured against a £475,000 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: Enfield'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.