Land by postcode · SE area · SE6
What the open records say about the SE6 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
891
Median sale price
£465,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,667
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-4.4%
£470,500 → £450,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 14% semi-detached, 45% terraced, 40% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 14 of 820 (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 863 live postcodes in SE6 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
79 of 863 postcodes
Culverley Green · Stanstead Grove
863 of 863 postcodes
8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in SE6 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.
100% 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 SE6 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. 102 decided since 2021, 47 refused, typically 83 days to a decision.
50 of 102
approved, 49%
47% across London
114 homes approved of 227 applied for
Approved examples
1-3 Excalibur Estate, BAUDWIN ROAD (4 new homes)
The demolition of 1-3 Baudwin Road, Excalibur Estate SE6 and the construction of 3, two bedroom and 1, three bedroom two storey houses, toge...
Approved 2021-11-02, Lewisham ref DC/21/120084
93 MINARD ROAD, LONDON (1 new home)
The construction of a two storey one bedroom dwelling house adjacent to 93 Minard Road SE6, together with the provision of amenity space, cy...
Approved 2021-07-14, Lewisham ref DC/21/121779
93 MINARD ROAD, LONDON (1 new home)
Part retrospective application for the construction of a two storey dwelling house adjacent to 93 Minard Road SE6, together with the provisi...
Approved 2022-04-28, Lewisham ref DC/22/125678
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
22 decided since 2021, 9 refused, typically 74 days to a decision
11 of 22
approved, 50%
36% across London
Approved examples
3 CHILTHORNE CLOSE, LONDON
The construction of a two storey two bedroom house on land adjacent to 3 Chilthorne Close SE6, together with the provision of a car parking ...
Approved 2021-04-13, Lewisham ref DC/21/120221
LAND AT, 12 RUTLAND PARK
The construction of a three bedroom, two storey dwelling house at the rear of 12 Rutland Park SE6 (fronting Castlands Road), together with w...
Approved 2022-11-11, Lewisham ref DC/22/128474
GARAGES AT THE REAR OF 293 & 295, BROWNHILL ROAD
Demolition of existing garages to the rear of 293 & 295 Brownhill Road SE6 and construction of a two storey house, landscaping improvements,...
Approved 2023-07-12, Lewisham ref DC/23/130249
25 decided since 2021, 11 refused, typically 77 days to a decision
13 of 25
approved, 52%
43% across London
Approved examples
93 MINARD ROAD, LONDON
The construction of a two storey one bedroom dwelling house adjacent to 93 Minard Road SE6, together with the provision of amenity space, cy...
Approved 2021-07-14, Lewisham ref DC/21/121779
93 MINARD ROAD, LONDON
Part retrospective application for the construction of a two storey dwelling house adjacent to 93 Minard Road SE6, together with the provisi...
Approved 2022-04-28, Lewisham ref DC/22/125678
122 ALLERFORD ROAD, LONDON
Construction of a 2 storey plus roof space three-bedroom house at the side of 122 Allerford Road SE6.
Approved 2022-06-21, Lewisham ref DC/22/125787
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 69 days to a decision
2 of 4
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
141 WELLMEADOW ROAD, LONDON
Partial demolition of existing detached dance studio building at 141 Wellmeadow Road, SE6 and rebuilding of rear (east facing) wall with ass...
Approved 2023-02-08, Lewisham ref DC/22/129588
4 MUIRKIRK ROAD, LONDON
Alteration and conversion of the ground floor unit hot food takeaway (Sui generis) to a studio flat to the rear (Use Class C3) and a retail ...
Approved 2025-04-04, Lewisham ref DC/24/138350
Also decided here: 38 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 28 approved, typically 65 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 100% of the sampled postcodes in SE6.
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 SE6, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 9% 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. 100% of postcodes in SE6 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 SE6 the median sale is £465,000, 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 SE6 would be measured against a £465,000 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: 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.