Land by postcode · N area · N7
What the open records say about the N7 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 Islington, 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
667
Median sale price
£565,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£9,133
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-4.4%
£574,000 → £549,000
Mix of sales: 3% semi-detached, 13% terraced, 84% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 720 (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 902 live postcodes in N7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
199 of 902 postcodes
COA00000629 · COA00000614 · COA00000583 · COA00000604 · COA00000581 and 1 more
17 of 902 postcodes
2 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in N7 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.
22% 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.
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 N7 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. 64 decided since 2021, 18 refused, typically 157 days to a decision.
46 of 64
approved, 72%
47% across London
95 homes approved of 134 applied for
Approved examples
Garages to the rear of Parkhurst Court, Warlters Road (8 new homes)
Proposed demolition of 27 existing single storey garages on the site and erection of 7 dwellings (5 x 2 bedroom and 2 x 3 bedroom) including...
Approved 2022-03-18, Islington ref P2021/0733/FUL
138 Tufnell Park Road, London (1 new home)
Demolition of existing detached store to the rear of no. 138 and erection of 1no. single storey infill residential studio dwelling (C3 use c...
Approved 2022-10-04, Islington ref P2021/1463/FUL
97 Hornsey Road, London (2 new homes)
Conversion of single dwellinghouse into 1 x 3 bedroom and 1 x 2 bedroom flats with associated cycle and refuse storage.
Approved 2022-09-20, Islington ref P2022/1670/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
6 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 99 days to a decision
5 of 6
approved, 83%
41% across London
Approved examples
97 Hornsey Road, London
Conversion of single dwellinghouse into 1 x 3 bedroom and 1 x 2 bedroom flats with associated cycle and refuse storage.
Approved 2022-09-20, Islington ref P2022/1670/FUL
37 Axminster Road, London
Conversion of the existing dwelling into 2 x self-contained flats (1 x 4 bed and 1 x 2 bed) together with provision of refuse and cycle stor...
Approved 2022-07-25, Islington ref P2022/2109/FUL
1A Axminster Road, London
Conversion of existing single dwellinghouse into 1 x 3 bed and 1 x 2 bed self contained flats and erection of associated cycle and refuse st...
Approved 2023-01-16, Islington ref P2022/4027/FUL
8 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 355 days to a decision
5 of 8
approved, 63%
43% across London
Approved examples
Garages to the rear of Parkhurst Court, Warlters Road
Proposed demolition of 27 existing single storey garages on the site and erection of 7 dwellings (5 x 2 bedroom and 2 x 3 bedroom) including...
Approved 2022-03-18, Islington ref P2021/0733/FUL
Lennox House, 75 Durham Road
Erection of single storey building to accommodate sprinklers house
Approved 2022-03-11, Islington ref P2021/2817/FUL
Flat C, 100 Huddleston Road
Erection of railings as a means of enclosure & safety to use the rear first floor flat roof area as a roof terrace.
Approved 2022-08-18, Islington ref P2022/2446/FUL
Also decided here: 33 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 27 approved, typically 84 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.
Islington covers 98% of the sampled postcodes in N7.
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 N7, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 22% 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. 2% of postcodes in N7 are under an Article 4 direction (2 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 N7 the median sale is £565,000, 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 N7 would be measured against a £565,000 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: Islington'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.