Land by postcode · SE area · SE18
What the open records say about the SE18 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 Greenwich, 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
1,079
Median sale price
£420,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,897
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-0.7%
£422,750 → £420,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 8% semi-detached, 35% terraced, 56% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 182 of 1,344 (14%). 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 1453 live postcodes in SE18 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
220 of 1453 postcodes
COA00000760 · COA00000756 · COA00000765 · COA00000183
No postcodes in SE18 fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Article 4 Direction 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in SE18. 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 SE18 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. 222 decided since 2021, 108 refused, typically 84 days to a decision.
92 of 222
approved, 41%
47% across London
205 homes approved of 553 applied for
Approved examples
79 BROOKHILL ROAD, WOOLWICH (4 new homes)
Demolition of the existing building and construction of a new 3-storey block comprising 4 flats (2xStudio, 1x1-Bed and 1x2-Bed)
Approved 2021-06-07, Greenwich ref 21/1115/F
LAND ADJACENT TO 42 PARKDALE ROAD (40 PARKDALE ROAD), PLUMSTEAD (1 new home)
Construction of part 3/part 2-storey end of terrace dwelling of three bedrooms, four person design with associated rear garden, secure cycle...
Approved 2021-08-18, Greenwich ref 21/1767/F
Building 10, Major Draper Street (8 new homes)
Changes to the ground floor commercial units within Building 10 to convert units 6, 7 and 8 to residential homes (Use Class C3) and amend un...
Approved 2022-03-15, Greenwich ref 21/2055/F
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
16 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 96 days to a decision
4 of 16
approved, 25%
36% across London
Approved examples
FLAT 5, GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Construction of a self standing, 2.5m x1.4m and 2m high, bike store matching existing bike stores at the rear of Government House.
Approved 2023-08-18, Greenwich ref 23/1057/F
LAND REAR OF 16-14 VICARAGE PARK, VICARAGE ROAD
Construction of three, two-storey dwellings with associated landscaping, refuse storage, cycle parking and cycle parking, to the rear of no....
Approved 2024-02-08, Greenwich ref 23/3977/F
LAND REAR OF 65 EGLINTON HILL, PLUMSTEAD
Construction of a single storey detached two bedroom dwelling on land to the rear of 65 Eglinton Hill fronting Mayplace Lane and all associa...
Approved 2025-10-31, Greenwich ref 24/1621/F
56 decided since 2021, 20 refused, typically 88 days to a decision
28 of 56
approved, 50%
43% across London
Approved examples
79 BROOKHILL ROAD, WOOLWICH
Demolition of the existing building and construction of a new 3-storey block comprising 4 flats (2xStudio, 1x1-Bed and 1x2-Bed)
Approved 2021-06-07, Greenwich ref 21/1115/F
OLD TRAMYARD, PLUMSTEAD
Demolition of existing buildings and construction of residential dwellings (Use Class C3) and flexible light industrial, offices/workspace a...
Approved 2024-05-16, Greenwich ref 21/1189/F
LAND ADJACENT TO 42 PARKDALE ROAD (40 PARKDALE ROAD), PLUMSTEAD
Construction of part 3/part 2-storey end of terrace dwelling of three bedrooms, four person design with associated rear garden, secure cycle...
Approved 2021-08-18, Greenwich ref 21/1767/F
3 decided since 2021, typically 142 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
15 FOXCROFT ROAD, PLUMSTEAD
Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of 2 x semi-detached dwellings and all associated works (within setting of Conservation Are...
Approved 2024-05-29, Greenwich ref 23/4103/F
189 SHOOTERS HILL, PLUMSTEAD
Outline planning application (access, layout and scale) for the demolition of the existing dwelling and the erection of 9 residential units ...
Approved 2024-09-13, Greenwich ref 24/1346/O
6 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 76 days to a decision
3 of 6
approved, 50%
45% across London
Approved examples
BUILDING ADJACENT TO 53 (NOW KNOWN AS 51) MACOMA ROAD, PLUMSTEAD
Retrospective change of use of the building from a former storage and distribution unit (Use Class B8), to a one bedroom, 1 person dwellingh...
Approved 2021-06-09, Greenwich ref 21/1358/F
3 RIPON ROAD, LONDON
Retrospective planning consent for change of use of B8 ancillary office space to first-floor, one bedroom dwellinghouse (Use Class C3).
Approved 2023-12-21, Greenwich ref 23/0508/F
1 LENTON PATH PLUMSTEAD LONDON, SE18 2QE
Proposed change of use and conversion of existing commercial building into a 2 bedroom 3 person dwelling (Use Class C3), removal of existing...
Approved 2023-08-31, Greenwich ref 23/1938/F
Also decided here: 20 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 14 approved, typically 83 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.
Greenwich covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in SE18.
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 SE18, 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for SE18, so houses keep their normal permitted development rights for outbuildings and extensions within the size limits. Those rights do not extend to agricultural land, paddocks or a change of use to residential, which normally need 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 SE18 the median sale is £420,000, and only 14% 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 SE18 would be measured against a £420,000 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: Greenwich'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.