Land by postcode · SE area · SE9
What the open records say about the SE9 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
1,181
Median sale price
£471,294
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,083
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+0.4%
£470,647 → £472,500
Mix of sales: 5% detached, 31% semi-detached, 39% terraced, 25% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 6 of 1,182 (1%). 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 1209 live postcodes in SE9 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
87 of 1209 postcodes
COA00000753 · COA00000770 · COA00000758 · COA00000760
37 of 1209 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in SE9 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 SE9. 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 SE9 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. 115 decided since 2021, 60 refused, typically 94 days to a decision.
46 of 115
approved, 40%
47% across London
99 homes approved of 246 applied for
Approved examples
513 Foots Cray Road London SE9 3UG (1 new home)
Retrospective use of annex as a self-contained residential unit (Class C3).
Approved 2025-12-29, Bexley ref 25/02273/FUL
202-204 ELTHAM HIGH STREET, ELTHAM (2 new homes)
Construction of a second & third floor levels to create 2 x 2-bed maisonettes with associated elevation changes at first floor level togethe...
Approved 2022-01-28, Greenwich ref 21/0451/F
WESTMOUNT SURGERY, 191 WESTMOUNT ROAD (1 new home)
Change of use from medical surgery (Class E) to Residential (Class C3) (1 x 3-bed).
Approved 2021-05-14, Greenwich ref 21/1013/F
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
10 decided since 2021, 4 refused, typically 85 days to a decision
5 of 10
approved, 50%
36% across London
Approved examples
LAND TO REAR OF 182-184 AVERY HILL ROAD, AVERY HILL
Erection of three dwellings with pedestrian and cycle only access, landscaping and refuse on land to the rear of nos. 182 - 184 Avery Hill R...
Approved 2024-11-28, Greenwich ref 24/1100/F
SITE REAR OF 5-25 SPARROWS LANE, ELTHAM
Erection of five, four bedroom dwellings to the rear of 5-25 Sparrows Lane, and all associated works.
Approved 2025-10-03, Greenwich ref 24/1554/F
132-136 ELTHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON
Demolition of the existing structures (Use Class E) to the rear of nos. 132-136 (even) Eltham High Street and construction of three-storey b...
Approved 2024-12-02, Greenwich ref 24/3068/F
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 60 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
41% across London
Approved examples
21 LAVIDGE ROAD, ELTHAM
Subdivision of plot, demolition of existing garage store and erection of a new detached 3-bed dwellinghouse with car parking and associated ...
Approved 2023-08-10, Greenwich ref 23/1914/F
13 COURT YARD, LONDON
Conversion of existing two-bedroom maisonette into two (2) self-contained residential units
Approved 2026-05-15, Greenwich ref 26/0851/F
49 decided since 2021, 22 refused, typically 102 days to a decision
22 of 49
approved, 45%
43% across London
Approved examples
202-204 ELTHAM HIGH STREET, ELTHAM
Construction of a second & third floor levels to create 2 x 2-bed maisonettes with associated elevation changes at first floor level togethe...
Approved 2022-01-28, Greenwich ref 21/0451/F
Garages Rear of 461 Footscray Road, Eltham
Demolition of the existing garages and the erection of a single storey, two-bedroom dwelling, with associated landscaping, bicycle store, bi...
Approved 2022-06-07, Greenwich ref 21/2605/F
12 BUCKLER GARDENS, ELTHAM
Demolition of existing 2-storey end of terrace 3-bedroom dwelling house and construction of two 2-storey, 3-bedroom terraced dwelling houses...
Approved 2021-12-10, Greenwich ref 21/2922/F
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 105 days to a decision
1 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
474 FOOTSCRAY ROAD, ELTHAM
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of detached two storey dwelling with accommodation in the roof space and associated works.
Approved 2025-10-03, Greenwich ref 25/2216/F
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 70 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
24 CUFF CRESCENT, ELTHAM
Conversion of existing rear outbuilding to habitable space with internal alterations to allow access to main dwelling.
Approved 2021-10-04, Greenwich ref 21/1411/HD
19 NEWMARKET GREEN, ELTHAM
Conversion of garage into a Granny Annexe to be used ancillary to the main dwelling and associated works.
Approved 2022-12-21, Greenwich ref 22/3705/HD
Also decided here: 47 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 39 approved, typically 67 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.
SE9 is split between planning authorities: Greenwich (81% of sampled postcodes), Bromley (13% of sampled postcodes). The remaining 6% of postcodes fall under authorities not resolved for this page.
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 SE9, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 7% 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. 3% of postcodes in SE9 are under an Article 4 direction (1 separate direction), 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 SE9 the median sale is £471,294, and only 1% 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 SE9 would be measured against a £471,294 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.