Land by postcode · NW area · NW2
What the open records say about the NW2 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 Brent, 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
803
Median sale price
£565,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£8,250
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-4.4%
£570,000 → £545,000
Mix of sales: 4% detached, 16% semi-detached, 16% terraced, 65% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 53 of 811 (7%). 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 1334 live postcodes in NW2 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
130 of 1334 postcodes
Mapesbury · Willesden Green · Railway Terraces · Brondesbury · Homestead Park
1329 of 1334 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in NW2 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.
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 NW2 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. 135 decided since 2021, 69 refused, typically 70 days to a decision.
51 of 135
approved, 38%
47% across London
121 homes approved of 326 applied for
Approved examples
97 Hendon Way London NW2 2LY (2 new homes)
Conversion of the existing dwelling into 3no. self-contained flats
Approved 2023-10-02, Barnet ref 23/1421/FUL
Rear Of 130 Clitterhouse Road London NW2 1DN (1 new home)
Erection of a single storey dwelling. Associated refuse/recycling/cycle storage, parking and amenity space (amended drawings).
Approved 2024-07-22, Barnet ref 24/0173/FUL
181 Chatsworth Road, London (2 new homes)
Conversion of existing first and second floor maisonette into 2 self-contained flats; installation of 6 x new rooflights, provision of waste...
Approved 2021-06-18, Brent ref 21/0804
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 123 days to a decision
2 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
Land to rear of, 287-289 Willesden Lane
Partial demolition of existing garage and proposed development of a parcel of land to the rear of No.287 & No.289 Willesden Lane to provide ...
Approved 2023-04-28, Brent ref 22/2153
Land to the Rear of 12 Sarre Road London NW2 3SL
Erection of a two-storey dwelling house fronting Gondar Gardens to the rear of 12 Sarre Road. Provision of external amenity space, cycle sto...
Approved 2024-12-18, Camden ref 2024/3478/P
24 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 72 days to a decision
7 of 24
approved, 29%
41% across London
Approved examples
181 Chatsworth Road, London
Conversion of existing first and second floor maisonette into 2 self-contained flats; installation of 6 x new rooflights, provision of waste...
Approved 2021-06-18, Brent ref 21/0804
49 Olive Road, London
Conversion of existing dwellinghouse into two self-contained flats with proposed enclosed roof terrace for upper flat at rear of property an...
Approved 2021-06-11, Brent ref 21/0948
23 Lechmere Road, London
Retention of two, 2-storey terraced dwellinghouses (1 x 3-bed and 1 x 4-bed) with first floor front balconies, rear first floor terrace, ass...
Approved 2022-02-02, Brent ref 21/3604
46 decided since 2021, 22 refused, typically 94 days to a decision
23 of 46
approved, 50%
43% across London
Approved examples
21 Farm Avenue London NW2 2BJ
Erection of a new two storey dwelling with rooms in the roofspace following demolition of existing dwelling and garage. Associate cycle stor...
Approved 2021-11-19, Barnet ref 21/0027/FUL
Rear Of 147 Cricklewood Lane London NW2 2EL
Erection of a single storey dwelling with basement level. Associated refuse/recycling and cycle store
Approved 2023-10-20, Barnet ref 21/1094/FUL
62 Clitterhouse Crescent London NW2 1DA
Erection of a two storey dwelling including a lower ground floor level. Associated refuse/recycling store and amenity space
Approved 2022-03-03, Barnet ref 21/4382/FUL
5 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 236 days to a decision
2 of 5
approved, 40%
49% across London
Approved examples
1 Hocroft Walk London NW2 2LT
Demolition of the existing dwelling and erection of three storey plus accommodation in the roofspace building to provide 6no. self-contained...
Approved 2024-07-09, Barnet ref 22/1976/FUL
167 Hendon Way London NW2 2NB
Demolition of the existing dwelling and garage and erection of a two storey building with rooms in the roofspace comprising 4no. self-contai...
Approved 2023-01-04, Barnet ref 22/2582/FUL
9 decided since 2021, 8 refused, typically 72 days to a decision
0 of 9
approved, 0%
45% across London
Also decided here: 61 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 40 approved, typically 79 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.
NW2 is split between planning authorities: Brent (60% of sampled postcodes), Barnet (33% of sampled postcodes). The remaining 7% of postcodes fall under authorities not resolved for this page.
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 NW2, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 10% 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. 100% of postcodes in NW2 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 NW2 the median sale is £565,000, and only 7% 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 NW2 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: 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.