Land by postcode · SW area · SW16
What the open records say about the SW16 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 Lambeth, 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
1,749
Median sale price
£477,500
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,083
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-2.7%
£483,000 → £470,000
Mix of sales: 2% detached, 11% semi-detached, 30% terraced, 57% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 17 of 1,730 (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 1353 live postcodes in SW16 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
268 of 1353 postcodes
Streatham High Road & Streatham Hill · Streatham Common · Streatham Park & Garrads Road · Norbury Estate · Streatham Lodge and 3 more
98 of 1353 postcodes
3 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in SW16 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.
20% 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 SW16 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. 99 decided since 2021, 58 refused, typically 103 days to a decision.
34 of 99
approved, 34%
47% across London
104 homes approved of 267 applied for
Approved examples
64 Dalmeny Avenue Norbury London SW16 4RP (2 new homes)
Conversion of single family dwellinghouse into two self-contained flats
Approved 2021-04-23, Croydon ref 21/00286/FUL
Land To The Rear Of 1 To 7 Acacia Road Norbury London SW16 5PP (7 new homes)
The demolition of existing commercial units and the construction of a three-storey residential development providing seven residential units...
Approved 2022-02-24, Croydon ref 21/03202/FUL
66 Pollards Hill North Norbury London SW16 4NY (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse building and provision of residential accommodation (Class C3) comprising the erection of 9 two storey ...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/03908/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
9 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 93 days to a decision
3 of 9
approved, 33%
36% across London
Approved examples
Land Rear Of 55-55A Norbury Hill Norbury London SW16 3LA
Erection of detached two-storey house with associated off-street car parking space and private garden at land rear of no.55/55a Norbury Hill...
Approved 2023-10-11, Croydon ref 23/02682/FUL
23 Leigham Vale London SW16 2JH
Demolition of existing outbuilding with the erection of a single storey dwelling to the rear of the property. Including the use of the exist...
Approved 2023-06-19, Lambeth ref 22/03362/FUL
Land To The Rear Of 60-62 Streatham High Road London SW16 1DA
Permission in Principle for the erection of 4-6 no. dwellings (Land to the Rear of 60-62 Streatham High Road)
Approved 2023-08-04, Lambeth ref 23/02074/PIP
13 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 92 days to a decision
3 of 13
approved, 23%
41% across London
Approved examples
64 Dalmeny Avenue Norbury London SW16 4RP
Conversion of single family dwellinghouse into two self-contained flats
Approved 2021-04-23, Croydon ref 21/00286/FUL
47 Tankerville Road London SW16 5LW
Conversion of existing dwelling into two self contained residential units (1 x 3 bedroom and 1 x 2 bedroom)
Approved 2022-04-11, Lambeth ref 21/02501/FUL
47 Tankerville Road London SW16 5LW
Conversion of the dwelling into two residential units.
Approved 2024-04-18, Lambeth ref 23/03748/FUL
61 decided since 2021, 32 refused, typically 118 days to a decision
24 of 61
approved, 39%
43% across London
Approved examples
Land To The Rear Of 1 To 7 Acacia Road Norbury London SW16 5PP
The demolition of existing commercial units and the construction of a three-storey residential development providing seven residential units...
Approved 2022-02-24, Croydon ref 21/03202/FUL
11 Forrest Gardens Norbury London SW16 4LP
Demolition of part of the existing bungalow and erection of a two-storey detached dwellinghouse. Provision of associated landscaping and car...
Approved 2026-02-24, Croydon ref 25/02172/FUL
49B And Land Rear Of 47, 49 And 49A And 49B Leigham Court Road London SW16 2NF
Demolition of 49B Leigham Court Road and redevelopment of the site to provide affordable residential homes within a new building with associ...
Approved 2023-02-09, Lambeth ref 21/03028/FUL
11 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 184 days to a decision
4 of 11
approved, 36%
49% across London
Approved examples
66 Pollards Hill North Norbury London SW16 4NY
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse building and provision of residential accommodation (Class C3) comprising the erection of 9 two storey ...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/03908/FUL
124 Sunnyhill Road London Lambeth SW16 2UN
Demolition of existing property and erection of 2 storey property with roof and basement accommodation consisting of 7 (3x 3-bed, 2x 2-bed, ...
Approved 2025-05-02, Lambeth ref 24/01901/FUL
29 Woodfield Avenue London SW16 1LQ
Demolition of existing house and erection of 3-storey dwelling with basement.
Approved 2026-05-22, Lambeth ref 25/01245/FUL
14 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 97 days to a decision
6 of 14
approved, 43%
45% across London
Approved examples
Eastern House 2A Norbury Crescent Norbury London SW16 4JU
Erection of cycle storage and bin stores to the front of building, and external changes to existing elevations (in association with Prior Ap...
Approved 2021-09-23, Croydon ref 21/03808/FUL
186 Green Lane Norbury London SW16 3NE
Conversion of part of an existing rear outbuilding into additional bedroom for main house with en-suite
Approved 2021-10-26, Croydon ref 21/04540/HSE
63 Fairview Road Norbury London SW16 5PX
Conversion of garage / store into 1 no studio flat with external alterations
Approved 2023-11-23, Croydon ref 22/03708/FUL
Also decided here: 85 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 68 approved, typically 63 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.
SW16 is split between planning authorities: Lambeth (57% of sampled postcodes), Croydon (22% of sampled postcodes), Wandsworth (13% of sampled postcodes). The remaining 8% 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 SW16, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 20% 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. 7% of postcodes in SW16 are under an Article 4 direction (3 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 SW16 the median sale is £477,500, 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 SW16 would be measured against a £477,500 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.