Land by postcode · SW area · SW14
What the open records say about the SW14 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 Richmond upon Thames, 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
459
Median sale price
£949,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£12,500
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-3.1%
£960,000 → £930,500
Mix of sales: 7% detached, 16% semi-detached, 40% terraced, 37% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 1 of 459 (0%). 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 366 live postcodes in SW14 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
95 of 366 postcodes
Mortlake · Christ Church Road · Mortlake Green · Sheen Lane (East Sheen) · Sheen Lane (Mortlake) and 3 more
No postcodes in SW14 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.
26% 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 SW14 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. 25 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 223 days to a decision.
17 of 25
approved, 68%
47% across London
37 homes approved of 57 applied for
Approved examples
311 Upper Richmond Road West East Sheen London SW14 8QR (2 new homes)
Change of use of ground floor to create mixed Class E and C3 uses to provide a retail unit at ground floor, a separately accessed office in ...
Approved 2022-06-28, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/2764/FUL
40 West Temple Sheen East Sheen London SW14 7AP (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing three storey house and erection of a replacement two
Approved 2022-08-10, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/2151/FUL
6 Colston Road East Sheen London SW14 7PQ (2 new homes)
Installation of front and rear rooflights to facilitate the conversion of an existing 3 bed maisonette to 2 x self-contained flats (1 x 1 be...
Approved 2022-09-16, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/0785/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
3 decided since 2021, typically 215 days to a decision
3 of 3
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
224 St Leonards Road East Sheen London SW14 7BN
Redevelopment of land to the rear of property to create 2-3 new dwellings, with the whole site to accommodate 4-5 dwellings in total.
Approved 2024-03-22, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/0230/PIP
134 St Leonards Road East Sheen London SW14 7NN
The erection of a self-build single-storey detached dwelling within the rear garden with associated cycle and refuse stores and 1x ASHP.
Approved 2024-10-29, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/0825/FUL
224 St Leonards Road East Sheen London SW14 7BN
Technical Details Consent for redevelopment of land to the rear of property to create 2 new dwellings. Permission in Principle granted under...
Approved 2025-06-27, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/2694/FUL
8 decided since 2021, 4 refused, typically 160 days to a decision
4 of 8
approved, 50%
43% across London
Approved examples
26 Fife Road East Sheen London SW14 7EL
Creation of a basement with an external stair well to the rear elevation of the dwelling, light well to the front elevation and two basement...
Approved 2021-12-15, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/3499/HOT
26-28 Priests Bridge East Sheen London SW14 8TA
Demolition of the existing buildings. Erection of a three storey mixed-use building on Priests Bridge (comprising Use Class E and 7 x reside...
Approved 2023-08-08, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/2360/FUL
Ground And First Floor Flat 14 Palewell Park East Sheen London SW14 8JG
Alteration to front boundary treatment, creation of off street parking space for one car and the installation of a bin store for use by both...
Approved 2025-02-26, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/3179/FUL
3 decided since 2021, typically 223 days to a decision
3 of 3
approved
49% across London
Approved examples
62 Derby Road East Sheen London SW14 7DP
Demolition of existing dwelling and replacement within a pair of semi-detached dwellings.
Approved 2022-07-12, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/1369/FUL
2 Fife Road East Sheen London SW14 7EP
Demolition of existing house and construction of detached 2-storey dwelling hous
Approved 2021-11-24, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/3152/FUL
2 West Temple Sheen East Sheen London SW14 7RT
Demolition of existing dwelling, construction of single dwelling with associated refuse and cycle store. ASHP and EV charging point.
Approved 2024-11-06, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/0811/FUL
3 decided since 2021, typically 58 days to a decision
2 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
256 Upper Richmond Road West East Sheen London SW14 7JF
Change of use of first floor from former financial services floorspace to 2 x one bedroom flats. Alterations to rear elevation and reinstate...
Approved 2023-11-14, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/3049/FUL
Woodbine Cottage Rosemary Lane Mortlake London SW14 7HG
Revert use of studio in garden from office (Class E) to ancillary to residential use (Class C3).
Approved 2024-03-05, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/0161/FUL
Also decided here: 13 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 11 approved, typically 55 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.
Richmond upon Thames covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in SW14.
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 SW14, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 26% 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 SW14, 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 SW14 the median sale is £949,000, and only 0% 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 SW14 would be measured against a £949,000 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: Richmond upon Thames'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.