Land by postcode · SE area · SE15
What the open records say about the SE15 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 Southwark, 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
1,173
Median sale price
£525,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£8,333
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+10.4%
£510,000 → £563,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 5% semi-detached, 29% terraced, 65% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 23 of 1,047 (2%). 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 1196 live postcodes in SE15 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
182 of 1196 postcodes
Rye Lane Peckham · Nunhead Green · Holly Grove · Peckham Hill Street · Kentish Drovers and Bird in Bush and 3 more
219 of 1196 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in SE15 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in SE15. What can be built on a given plot is decided by the local plan, settlement boundaries and site-specific matters such as access, flood risk and neighbours, none of which this page measures.
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 SE15 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. 67 decided since 2021, 26 refused, typically 127 days to a decision.
32 of 67
approved, 48%
47% across London
100 homes approved of 201 applied for
Approved examples
250 Ivydale Road London Southwark SE15 3DF (1 new home)
Construction of a 2 storey 2 bed house in the side garden of 250 Ivydale Rd and surrounding wall
Approved 2021-03-26, Southwark ref 21/AP/0432
Unit 27 The Penarth Centre Penarth Street London Southwark SE15 1TR (2 new homes)
Addition of a third floor above Unit 27 to enable the creation of a commercial unit (Use Class E).
Approved 2023-02-17, Southwark ref 21/AP/0949
2 Linden Grove London Southwark SE15 3LF (6 new homes)
Change of Use of main building from Hostel (Sui Generis) into 4 (C3 Residential) units [providing 2 x three bedroom and 2 x one bedroom flat...
Approved 2022-10-06, Southwark ref 21/AP/2449
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
26 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 131 days to a decision
16 of 26
approved, 62%
43% across London
Approved examples
10 Evelina Road London Southwark SE15 2DX
Demolition of existing building and construction of part two, part three storey development to provide 6 residential flats (three x 1-bedroo...
Approved 2021-03-15, Southwark ref 21/AP/0136
The Olde Apple Tree Public House 107 Sumner Road London Southwark SE15 6JU
Minor material amendment to planning permission 18/AP/0581 (Demolition of the existing public house; construction of a new five storey build...
Approved 2021-05-11, Southwark ref 21/AP/0910
17B Waveney Avenue London Southwark SE15 3UF
Demolition of existing single storey dwelling and the construction of a 2bedroom 3person single family dwelling.
Approved 2021-08-06, Southwark ref 21/AP/1637
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 353 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
9A Blenheim Grove London Southwark SE15 4QS
Demolition of the existing house at No.9a Blenheim Grove and the construction of a new part single part two storey 2-bedroom dwelling with a...
Approved 2023-04-12, Southwark ref 22/AP/1422
40 Barforth Road London Southwark SE15 3PS
Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of three-storey building comprising of four residential apartments (Class C3) (four x 2-bed...
Approved 2025-02-27, Southwark ref 24/AP/0670
8 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 61 days to a decision
3 of 8
approved, 38%
45% across London
Approved examples
2 Linden Grove London Southwark SE15 3LF
Change of Use of main building from Hostel (Sui Generis) into 4 (C3 Residential) units [providing 2 x three bedroom and 2 x one bedroom flat...
Approved 2022-10-06, Southwark ref 21/AP/2449
6 Gibbon Road London Southwark SE15 2AS
Prior approval for change of use of ground floor premises (Class E) to a self-contained residential units (C3) comprising a one bedroom, 1 p...
Approved 2022-06-01, Southwark ref 22/AP/0998
61 Cheltenham Road London Southwark SE15 3AF
Prior approval notification (Schedule 2 Part 3 Class MA) for a change of use of the ground floor from a commercial unit (Class E(b)) to a 1x...
Approved 2022-11-15, Southwark ref 22/AP/3360
Also decided here: 18 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 15 approved, typically 64 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.
Southwark covers 97% of the sampled postcodes in SE15.
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 SE15, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 15% 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. 18% of postcodes in SE15 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 SE15 the median sale is £525,000, and only 2% 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 SE15 would be measured against a £525,000 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: Southwark'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.