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What the open records say about the RM10 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 Dagenham.
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
463
Median sale price
£376,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,920
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.3%
£375,000 → £380,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 14% semi-detached, 67% terraced, 17% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 473 (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 583 live postcodes in RM10 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
6 of 583 postcodes
Barking and Dagenham
3 of 583 postcodes
Dagenham Village Conservation Area
583 of 583 postcodes
2 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in RM10 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.
1% of postcodes in RM10 are inside the Green Belt, so Dagenham 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.
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 RM10 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. 56 decided since 2021, 26 refused, typically 56 days to a decision.
29 of 56
approved, 52%
47% across London
46 homes approved of 83 applied for
Approved examples
37 Trefgarne Road, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a new two storey, 2x bedroom dwellinghouse.
Approved 2021-05-10, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00302/FULL
51 Hooks Hall Drive, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a two storey, 2x bedroom semi-detached house adjacent to 51 Hooks Hall Drive
Approved 2021-09-09, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01348/FULL
1 Beech Gardens, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a new two storey, 2x bedroom dwelling adjacent to no. 1 Beech Gardens, including the provision of parking
Approved 2021-10-15, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01547/FULL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
13 decided since 2021, 9 refused, typically 56 days to a decision
4 of 13
approved, 31%
36% across London
Approved examples
8 Park Drive, Dagenham
Construction of a new two storey 2xbedroom dwelling house at the land side of 8 Park Drive.
Approved 2021-03-22, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00199/FULL
1 Calverley Crescent, Dagenham
Retrospective application for the construction of two 3xbed dwellings on land adjacent to 1 Calverley Crescent ( The application is made ret...
Approved 2023-04-13, Barking and Dagenham ref 23/00340/FULL
14 Stratford Close, Dagenham
Construction of a new two- storey 2x bed, 3 person dwelling with associated external amenity area, car parking, bicycle storage and waste st...
Approved 2025-11-24, Barking and Dagenham ref 25/01225/FULL
6 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 57 days to a decision
2 of 6
approved, 33%
41% across London
Approved examples
784 Dagenham Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new two-storey new end-of-terrace 2-bedroom dwelling, associated subdivision of the site and landscaping, demolition, acce...
Approved 2022-07-20, Barking and Dagenham ref 22/00883/FULL
25 New Road, Dagenham
Conversion of the existing dwelling into two flats (1x 3bed and 1 x 4bed)
Approved 2025-12-15, Barking and Dagenham ref 25/01609/FULL
44 decided since 2021, 17 refused, typically 67 days to a decision
27 of 44
approved, 61%
43% across London
Approved examples
37 Trefgarne Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new two storey, 2x bedroom dwellinghouse.
Approved 2021-05-10, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00302/FULL
59 Marston Avenue, Dagenham
Construction of a new two storey 2x bedroom dwellinghouse.
Approved 2021-07-26, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00610/FULL
51 Hooks Hall Drive, Dagenham
Construction of a two storey, 2x bedroom semi-detached house adjacent to 51 Hooks Hall Drive
Approved 2021-09-09, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01348/FULL
Also decided here: 59 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 39 approved, typically 52 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.
Barking and Dagenham covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in RM10.
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 RM10, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 1% 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. 100% of postcodes in RM10 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 RM10 the median sale is £376,000, 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 RM10 would be measured against a £376,000 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: Barking and Dagenham'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.