Land by postcode · EN area · EN5
What the open records say about the EN5 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 Barnet.
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
766
Median sale price
£585,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,184
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
0%
£585,000 → £585,000
Mix of sales: 12% detached, 32% semi-detached, 18% terraced, 37% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 35 of 769 (5%). 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 1045 live postcodes in EN5 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
66 of 1045 postcodes
Barnet · Hertsmere
89 of 1045 postcodes
Wood Street · Monken Hadley
1018 of 1045 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in EN5 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.
6% of postcodes in EN5 are inside the Green Belt, so Barnet 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 EN5 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. 52 decided since 2021, 25 refused, typically 102 days to a decision.
23 of 52
approved, 44%
47% across London
50 homes approved of 155 applied for
Approved examples
134 Bells Hill Barnet EN5 2SJ (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing dwelling and erection of a two storey dwelling with rooms in the roofspace. Associated refuse/recycling store, cy...
Approved 2021-06-10, Barnet ref 21/0317/FUL
1 Mill Corner Barnet EN5 4PX (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing dwelling and garage and erection of a new two storey dwelling with basement level and detached garage. Relocation...
Approved 2021-07-16, Barnet ref 21/0844/FUL
4 Nesbitts Alley Barnet EN5 5XG (3 new homes)
Conversion of the existing office building into 3no self-contained flats, alterations to existing fenstration
Approved 2022-03-14, Barnet ref 21/1453/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 134 days to a decision
3 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
1 Raydean Road Barnet EN5 1AN
Erection of a two storey dwelling with associated refuse storage, landscaping and cycle storage in the side garden of No. 1 Raydean Road. (A...
Approved 2022-04-27, Barnet ref 21/5860/FUL
1 Raydean Road Barnet EN5 1AN
Erection of a two-storey dwelling. Associated refuse storage, landscaping, and cycle storage in the side garden of No. 1 Raydean Road. (amen...
Approved 2022-11-23, Barnet ref 22/3067/FUL
1 Raydean Road Barnet EN5 1AN
Erection of a two storey dwelling plus basement level in the side garden of No. 1 Raydean Road with associated amenity space, landscaping, o...
Approved 2023-03-21, Barnet ref 22/5871/FUL
57 decided since 2021, 28 refused, typically 77 days to a decision
24 of 57
approved, 42%
43% across London
Approved examples
Oak End 266 Barnet Road Barnet EN5 3JD
Erection of a garage to side of the property linked to existing dwelling (as amended)
Approved 2021-08-13, Barnet ref 21/2121/HSE
Holmside 145 Barnet Road Barnet EN5 3JZ
Demolition of an existing two storey house, associated outbuildings, tennis court and hardstanding. Erection of a two storey dwelling and re...
Approved 2021-09-22, Barnet ref 21/3951/FUL
17 Meadway Close Barnet EN5 5LA
Erection of a log cabin in the rear garden for use as office space ancillary to main dwelling following removal of the existing shed
Approved 2021-11-22, Barnet ref 21/4844/FUL
35 decided since 2021, 13 refused, typically 85 days to a decision
20 of 35
approved, 57%
49% across London
Approved examples
134 Bells Hill Barnet EN5 2SJ
Demolition of the existing dwelling and erection of a two storey dwelling with rooms in the roofspace. Associated refuse/recycling store, cy...
Approved 2021-06-10, Barnet ref 21/0317/FUL
1 Mill Corner Barnet EN5 4PX
Demolition of the existing dwelling and garage and erection of a new two storey dwelling with basement level and detached garage. Relocation...
Approved 2021-07-16, Barnet ref 21/0844/FUL
3 Cavendish Road Barnet EN5 4ED
Demolition of the existing bungalow and detached garage and erection of 2no two storey dwellinghouses with rooms in the roofspace. Associate...
Approved 2021-08-05, Barnet ref 21/2002/FUL
4 decided since 2021, typically 98 days to a decision
2 of 4
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
4 Nesbitts Alley Barnet EN5 5XG
Conversion of the existing office building into 3no self-contained flats, alterations to existing fenstration
Approved 2022-03-14, Barnet ref 21/1453/FUL
First Floor 17 Park Road Barnet EN5 5RY
Change of use of the first floor from commercial to 3no dwellinghouses (Class C3). Associated refuse and recycling cycle storage and accessi...
Approved 2024-12-17, Barnet ref 24/3239/FUL
Also decided here: 51 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 40 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.
Barnet covers 97% of the sampled postcodes in EN5.
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 EN5, 6% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 9% 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 EN5 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 EN5 the median sale is £585,000, and only 5% 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 EN5 would be measured against a £585,000 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: Barnet'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.