Land by postcode · EN area · EN2
What the open records say about the EN2 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
713
Median sale price
£540,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,933
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+3.9%
£530,000 → £550,675
Mix of sales: 10% detached, 24% semi-detached, 34% terraced, 32% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 17 of 660 (3%). 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 834 live postcodes in EN2 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
82 of 834 postcodes
Enfield · Welwyn Hatfield
111 of 834 postcodes
ENFIELD TOWN · CLAY HILL · FORTY HILL
832 of 834 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in EN2 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.
10% of postcodes in EN2 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 EN2 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. 48 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 96 days to a decision.
29 of 48
approved, 60%
47% across London
64 homes approved of 119 applied for
Approved examples
Land Adjacent To 1 Mount View EN2 8JJ (1 new home)
Redevelopment of site to create 1 x 2-storey single family dwelling, with a basement level, vehicle crossover, electric charging point and r...
Approved 2021-06-01, Enfield ref 21/00166/FUL
9 Ridgemount Gardens Enfield EN2 8QL (4 new homes)
Redevelopment of site and erection of 4x single family dwellings (outline -Access).
Approved 2021-06-10, Enfield ref 21/00874/OUT
31 Trinity Street Enfield EN2 6NT (1 new home)
Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house with associated landscaping, parking, bin store and amenity ...
Approved 2021-09-02, Enfield ref 21/02661/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
24 decided since 2021, 8 refused, typically 83 days to a decision
14 of 24
approved, 58%
41% across London
Approved examples
38 Lea Road Enfield EN2 0LA
Conversion of single family dwelling into 2 x self contained flats.
Approved 2021-08-17, Enfield ref 21/01521/FUL
31 Trinity Street Enfield EN2 6NT
Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house with associated landscaping, parking, bin store and amenity ...
Approved 2021-09-02, Enfield ref 21/02661/FUL
6 Burlington Road Enfield EN2 0LJ
Conversion of single family dwelling house into 2 self-contained flats with external rear staircase. (RETROSPECTIVE)
Approved 2022-11-09, Enfield ref 22/00976/FUL
40 decided since 2021, 10 refused, typically 110 days to a decision
25 of 40
approved, 63%
43% across London
Approved examples
Land Adjacent To 1 Mount View EN2 8JJ
Redevelopment of site to create 1 x 2-storey single family dwelling, with a basement level, vehicle crossover, electric charging point and r...
Approved 2021-06-01, Enfield ref 21/00166/FUL
9 Ridgemount Gardens Enfield EN2 8QL
Redevelopment of site and erection of 4x single family dwellings (outline -Access).
Approved 2021-06-10, Enfield ref 21/00874/OUT
Land Adjacent To 33 Perry Mead Enfield EN2 8BP
Residential development of land (Permission in Principle) for the erection of up to 5 single family dwellings.
Approved 2021-07-02, Enfield ref 21/02071/PIP
5 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 94 days to a decision
4 of 5
approved, 80%
45% across London
Approved examples
54 Church Street Enfield EN2 6AX
Reconfiguration and change of use of part ground and first floor from retail / office (Use class A1) to residential (use class C3), involvin...
Approved 2023-09-15, Enfield ref 21/00670/FUL
4 Chase Side Enfield EN2 6NF
Change of use of first and second floors from offices (Use Class E) to 2 self-contained flats (Use Class C3), with associated cycle parking ...
Approved 2023-12-19, Enfield ref 22/01304/FUL
Coach House Longbourn B Forty Hill Enfield EN2 9EU
Conversion of the Coach House from garage/storage at ground floor for ancillary use for 1st floor flat into a single family dwelling (Class ...
Approved 2025-06-04, Enfield ref 25/01115/FUL
Also decided here: 4 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 3 approved, typically 123 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 EN2.
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 EN2, 10% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 13% 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 EN2 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 EN2 the median sale is £540,000, and only 3% 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 EN2 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: 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.