Land by postcode · SE area · SE19
What the open records say about the SE19 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 Croydon, 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
751
Median sale price
£447,500
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,031
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+2.3%
£440,000 → £450,000
Mix of sales: 5% detached, 7% semi-detached, 18% terraced, 70% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 15 of 780 (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 600 live postcodes in SE19 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
164 of 600 postcodes
Upper Norwood Triangle · Belvedere Road, Anerley · Church Road, Upper Norwood · Harold Road · COA00000370 and 3 more
No postcodes in SE19 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.
27% 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.
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 SE19 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. 34 decided since 2021, 17 refused, typically 96 days to a decision.
12 of 34
approved, 35%
47% across London
29 homes approved of 119 applied for
Approved examples
130 Gipsy Hill London Southwark SE19 1PL (1 new home)
Conversion of 2no studio flats (C3) to 1no one-bedroom flat (C3) at second floor level.
Approved 2022-01-13, Southwark ref 21/AP/4016
16D Highfield Hill Upper Norwood London SE19 3PS (6 new homes)
Demolition of the existing dwelling, erection of 6 three storey houses, provision of associated off-street parking.
Approved 2022-01-17, Croydon ref 21/03083/FUL
69 Westow Street Upper Norwood London SE19 3RW (5 new homes)
Erection of 3.5 storey mixed-use building comprising of commercial unit (Class E) at ground floor level with associated facilities with five...
Approved 2024-05-09, Croydon ref 23/02917/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
30 decided since 2021, 19 refused, typically 111 days to a decision
5 of 30
approved, 17%
43% across London
Approved examples
1A Buckleigh Way Upper Norwood London SE19 2PZ
Erection of four bed end of terrace house (retrospective)
Approved 2022-05-24, Croydon ref 22/01476/FUL
Land Adjoining 54 Beulah Hill Upper Norwood London SE19 3ER
The erection of 5no. three storey detached dwellings with a vehicle access from Harold Road. Other site alterations. Outline application wit...
Approved 2025-04-10, Croydon ref 24/01818/OUT
99 Hermitage Road Upper Norwood London SE19 3QL
Demolition of existing garage and erection of two-storey three bedroom attached dwelling
Approved 2024-07-17, Croydon ref 24/01722/FUL
7 decided since 2021, 4 refused, typically 130 days to a decision
1 of 7
approved, 14%
49% across London
Approved examples
16D Highfield Hill Upper Norwood London SE19 3PS
Demolition of the existing dwelling, erection of 6 three storey houses, provision of associated off-street parking.
Approved 2022-01-17, Croydon ref 21/03083/FUL
Also decided here: 16 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 12 approved, typically 133 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.
SE19 is split between planning authorities: Croydon (59% of sampled postcodes), Lambeth (18% of sampled postcodes), Bromley (13% of sampled postcodes), Southwark (10% of sampled postcodes).
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 SE19, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 27% 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 SE19, 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 SE19 the median sale is £447,500, 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 SE19 would be measured against a £447,500 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: the 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.