Land by postcode · RM area · RM8
What the open records say about the RM8 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
516
Median sale price
£380,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,000
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+5.1%
£370,000 → £389,000
Mix of sales: 12% semi-detached, 74% terraced, 14% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 460 (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 587 live postcodes in RM8 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
567 of 587 postcodes
2 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in RM8 fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Conservation Area.
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.
97% 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 RM8 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. 46 decided since 2021, 29 refused, typically 58 days to a decision.
14 of 46
approved, 30%
47% across London
32 homes approved of 101 applied for
Approved examples
16 Nicholas Road, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a new two storey, 2x bedroom dwellinghouse
Approved 2021-10-18, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00922/FULL
732 - 738 Green Lane, Barking And Dagenham (8 new homes)
Demolition of four existing single storey commercial units. Construction of new three storey building in their place, with four A1 units, tw...
Approved 2021-09-06, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01323/FULL
174 Bennetts Castle Lane, Dagenham (2 new homes)
Construction of an additional storey to create a 1x bedroom flat and one studio self contained unit
Approved 2021-12-09, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01911/FULL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
9 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 58 days to a decision
1 of 9
approved, 11%
36% across London
Approved examples
4 Grafton Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new two- storey 2x bed dwelling with associated external amenity space, car parking, refuse and cycle storage at land adja...
Approved 2025-12-16, Barking and Dagenham ref 25/01471/FULL
7 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 57 days to a decision
2 of 7
approved, 29%
41% across London
Approved examples
31 Joan Road, Dagenham
Conversion of property into two dwellings (1x two bed and 1x three bed), including alterations to the front and rear elevations.
Approved 2021-05-14, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00501/FULL
307a Wood Lane, Dagenham
Conversion of existing dwelling into two flats (2x1 bed) and associated works
Approved 2026-04-14, Barking and Dagenham ref 26/00193/FULL
22 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 56 days to a decision
8 of 22
approved, 36%
43% across London
Approved examples
11 Homestead Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new two storey, 1x bedroom dwellinghouse.
Approved 2021-02-26, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00063/FULL
16 Nicholas Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new two storey, 2x bedroom dwellinghouse
Approved 2021-10-18, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/00922/FULL
18 Stockdale Road, Dagenham
Demolition of existing garage and the construction of a two storey, 1x bedroom dwelling
Approved 2021-08-12, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01190/FULL
5 decided since 2021, 5 refused, typically 70 days to a decision
0 of 5
approved, 0%
45% across London
Also decided here: 44 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 38 approved, typically 51 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 97% of the sampled postcodes in RM8.
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 RM8, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt. 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. 97% of postcodes in RM8 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 RM8 the median sale is £380,000, 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 RM8 would be measured against a £380,000 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.