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Land in Enfield, London (N9)

What the open records say about the N9 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, London.

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What homes sold for in N9

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

459

Median sale price

£405,000

Median £ per m² of floor area

£5,278

Median, last 12m vs prior 12m

+2.5%

£400,000 → £410,000

Mix of sales: 2% detached, 15% semi-detached, 57% terraced, 25% flats.

New-build sales 2023–2024: 14 of 448 (3%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.

Planning designations and controls in N9

For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 876 live postcodes in N9 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.

Conservation Area

4%

35 of 876 postcodes

CHURCH STREET, EDMONTON · FORE STREET NORTH · FORE STREET ANGEL · THE CRESCENT

Article 4 Direction area

100%

876 of 876 postcodes

2 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.

No postcodes in N9 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.

What the figures mean for land in Enfield, London

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.

What landowners have been granted in N9

Decided planning applications in N9 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.

Applications creating one to nine new homes

Taken from the units table on the planning form itself, so this is homes actually created, not a reading of the description. 90 decided since 2021, 33 refused, typically 74 days to a decision.

52 of 90

approved, 58%

47% across London

89 homes approved of 172 applied for

Approved examples

  • Unit 1 Mirror Works Cuckoo Hall Lane London N9 8DH (1 new home)

    Change of use from office (B1) and Storage (B8) to residential, involving partial demotion of existing, creating 1 x single family dwelling....

    Approved 2021-03-11, Enfield ref 21/00105/FUL

  • 63 Chichester Road London N9 9DH (1 new home)

    Sub-division of site and erection of a 2-storey end-of-terrace dwelling house at side.

    Approved 2022-01-10, Enfield ref 21/00625/FUL

  • 76 Dartford Avenue London N9 8HD (1 new home)

    Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house.

    Approved 2022-08-22, Enfield ref 22/02258/FUL

By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:

Splitting a plot or a house into more homes

31 decided since 2021, 18 refused, typically 84 days to a decision

10 of 31

approved, 32%

41% across London

Approved examples

  • 63 Chichester Road London N9 9DH

    Sub-division of site and erection of a 2-storey end-of-terrace dwelling house at side.

    Approved 2022-01-10, Enfield ref 21/00625/FUL

  • 11 Queens Road London N9 0RA

    Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terrace dwelling together with associated car and cycle parking and bins.

    Approved 2021-12-03, Enfield ref 21/02802/FUL

  • 76 Dartford Avenue London N9 8HD

    Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house.

    Approved 2022-08-22, Enfield ref 22/02258/FUL

New homes on other land

26 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 80 days to a decision

13 of 26

approved, 50%

43% across London

Approved examples

  • Land Adjacent To 34-36 Church Street, London N9 9GB

    Redevelopment of garage and existing site to provide two residential units with ancillary residential outbuilding and associated hard and so...

    Approved 2021-06-24, Enfield ref 21/00074/FUL

  • Walbrook House 1 Huntingdon Road London N9 8LS

    Erection of bin store and installation of crossover to rear of Walbrook House.

    Approved 2022-01-31, Enfield ref 21/04465/RE4

  • White Lodge 15A Cuckoo Hall Lane And Unit 1 Mirror Works Cuckoo Hall Lane London N9 8DH

    Redevelopment of site involving demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a 2-storey block of 9 self-contained flats, with rooms ...

    Approved 2022-11-11, Enfield ref 22/01565/FUL

Converting a shop, office, garage or other building into homes

7 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 71 days to a decision

1 of 7

approved, 14%

45% across London

Approved examples

  • 4 Boundary Road London N9 8AX

    Conversion of the existing outbuilding/garage into a granny annexe ancillary to the dwellinghouse involving alterations to elevations and ad...

    Approved 2024-12-17, Enfield ref 24/03477/HOU

Also decided here: 6 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 5 approved, typically 55 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.

Who decides planning here

Enfield covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in N9.

Check your own plot in Enfield, London

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.

Questions landowners ask about Enfield, London

Can I build on land I own in Enfield, London?

It depends on where the plot sits, not on the district average. In N9, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 4% 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.

Do I need planning permission for an outbuilding, extension or change of use in N9?

Often, yes. 100% of postcodes in N9 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.

Will a developer be interested in a plot in Enfield, London?

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 N9 the median sale is £405,000, 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.

What is a plot of land worth in Enfield, London?

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 N9 would be measured against a £405,000 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.

How do I find out what applies to my own plot in Enfield, London?

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.

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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.