Land by postcode · KT area · KT1
What the open records say about the KT1 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 Kingston upon Thames.
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
481
Median sale price
£535,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,433
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-0.5%
£537,500 → £535,000
Mix of sales: 6% detached, 30% semi-detached, 14% terraced, 50% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 192 of 664 (29%). 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 687 live postcodes in KT1 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
170 of 687 postcodes
KINGSTON OLD TOWN CONSERVATION AREA · Hampton Wick · FAIRFIELD/KNIGHTS PARK CONSERV AREA · GROVE CRESCENT CONSERVATION AREA · RIVERSIDE SOUTH CONSERVATION AREA and 3 more
151 of 687 postcodes
7 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in KT1 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.
25% of postcodes fall within a conservation area. Inside one, demolition needs consent, some permitted development rights are reduced, and new work is assessed against the character and appearance of the area.
22% 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 KT1 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. 36 decided since 2021, 20 refused, typically 135 days to a decision.
13 of 36
approved, 36%
47% across London
26 homes approved of 92 applied for
Approved examples
34 Portsmouth Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BF (6 new homes)
Demolition of existing buildings on site and erection of six residential units (Class C3) and two office units (Class E(g)), measuring 140 s...
Approved 2023-02-28, Kingston upon Thames ref 22/01923/FUL
Former Builders Yard Off Littlefield Close Land Rear Of 6 To 9A Fairfield West Littlefield Close Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2UG (2 new homes)
Erection of 2nos semi-detached dwelling with associated bins, cycle provision and removal of existing drop kerb.
Approved 2023-11-10, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01755/FUL
33 Fleetwood Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 3QD (2 new homes)
Conversion of a single dwellinghouse to 2nos flats 1no 3 bedroom and 1no 1 bedroom flat.
Approved 2024-12-04, Kingston upon Thames ref 24/02233/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
18 decided since 2021, 10 refused, typically 85 days to a decision
6 of 18
approved, 33%
43% across London
Approved examples
5 Quayside Walk Kingston Upon Thames KT1 1HY
Erection of external staircase and door on south elevation for direct access from the house to the garden deck, replacement of large rooflig...
Approved 2022-03-01, Kingston upon Thames ref 21/04081/HOU
34 Portsmouth Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BF
Demolition of existing buildings on site and erection of six residential units (Class C3) and two office units (Class E(g)), measuring 140 s...
Approved 2023-02-28, Kingston upon Thames ref 22/01923/FUL
Former Builders Yard Off Littlefield Close Land Rear Of 6 To 9A Fairfield West Littlefield Close Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2UG
Erection of 2nos semi-detached dwelling with associated bins, cycle provision and removal of existing drop kerb.
Approved 2023-11-10, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01755/FUL
3 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 122 days to a decision
1 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
1 - 3 Portland Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2SG
Subdivision and change of use of educational building (Use Class F1(a)) to 2nos. residential dwellings (Use Class C3)
Approved 2024-07-23, Kingston upon Thames ref 24/00516/FUL
Also decided here: 13 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 10 approved, typically 57 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.
KT1 is split between planning authorities: Kingston upon Thames (89% of sampled postcodes), Richmond upon Thames (11% of sampled postcodes).
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 KT1, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 25% 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.
Often, yes. 22% of postcodes in KT1 are under an Article 4 direction (7 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 KT1 the median sale is £535,000, and 29% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders are active 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 KT1 would be measured against a £535,000 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: the 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.