Land by postcode · SE area · SE14
What the open records say about the SE14 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 Lewisham, 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
443
Median sale price
£462,500
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,250
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-6.8%
£480,000 → £447,500
Mix of sales: 0% detached, 5% semi-detached, 29% terraced, 66% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 45 of 455 (10%). 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 419 live postcodes in SE14 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
138 of 419 postcodes
Telegraph Hill · Hatcham · Deptford Town Hall · Deptford High Street & St Pauls Church
414 of 419 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in SE14 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.
33% 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.
99% 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 SE14 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. 25 decided since 2021, 11 refused, typically 106 days to a decision.
14 of 25
approved, 56%
47% across London
27 homes approved of 65 applied for
Approved examples
37 LAURIE GROVE, LONDON (1 new home)
Change of use from educational use associated with Goldsmith University (Use Class Eg(i)) to residential use (Use Class C3) together with co...
Approved 2021-08-26, Lewisham ref DC/21/121063
36 LAURIE GROVE, LONDON (1 new home)
Change of use from educational use associated with Goldsmith University (Use Class F1a) to residential use (Use Class C3) together with cons...
Approved 2021-08-26, Lewisham ref DC/21/121062
35 LAURIE GROVE, LONDON (1 new home)
Change of use from educational use associated with Goldsmith University (Use Class F1a) to residential use (Use Class C3) together with cons...
Approved 2021-08-26, Lewisham ref DC/21/121060
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
7 decided since 2021, typically 73 days to a decision
5 of 7
approved, 71%
43% across London
Approved examples
5 TARRAGON CLOSE, LONDON
The construction of a two-storey, one bedroom dwelling house at the side of 5 Tarragon Close SE14 together with the provision of 1 car parki...
Approved 2021-07-29, Lewisham ref DC/21/121869
79 DRAKEFELL ROAD, LONDON
The demolition of a single storey residential unit at 79 Drakefell Road, SE14 and the construction of a two storey, 4-bedroom house with ass...
Approved 2022-07-25, Lewisham ref DC/21/123923
WALSHAM HOUSE, WALSHAM ROAD
Demolition of existing garage block at Walsham House Walsham Road SE14 and the construction of a three storey building comprising 4 x 1 bedr...
Approved 2022-01-10, Lewisham ref DC/21/124271
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 74 days to a decision
1 of 4
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
2 EGMONT STREET, LONDON
Change of use of ground floor retail unit (Use Class E (a)) to residential flat (Use Class C3) at 2 Egmont Street SE14, together with altera...
Approved 2022-12-30, Lewisham ref DC/22/128930
Also decided here: 17 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 16 approved, typically 85 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.
Lewisham covers 98% of the sampled postcodes in SE14.
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 SE14, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 33% 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. 99% of postcodes in SE14 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 SE14 the median sale is £462,500, and only 10% 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 SE14 would be measured against a £462,500 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: Lewisham'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.