Land by postcode · SW area · SW19
What the open records say about the SW19 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 Merton, 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
1,986
Median sale price
£616,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£9,000
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-7.2%
£625,000 → £580,000
Mix of sales: 4% detached, 10% semi-detached, 32% terraced, 54% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 39 of 2,076 (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 1659 live postcodes in SW19 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
377 of 1659 postcodes
Wimbledon West · Wimbledon North · John Innes (Merton Park) · Wimbledon Village · Wimbledon Hill Road and 3 more
No postcodes in SW19 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.
23% 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 SW19 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. 116 decided since 2021, 28 refused, typically 113 days to a decision.
88 of 116
approved, 76%
47% across London
178 homes approved of 235 applied for
Approved examples
8 Clement Road, Wimbledon (1 new home)
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, AND INSTALLATION OF A BIN STORE AND CYCLE PARKING.
Approved 2021-07-16, Merton ref 21/P1278
1 Lucien Road, Wimbledon Park (1 new home)
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE
Approved 2022-03-03, Merton ref 21/P1178
Flat 1, DURNSFORD HOUSE (9 new homes)
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLINGS AND ERECTION OF A BLOCK OF 9 X SELF-CONTAINED FLATS.
Approved 2021-07-26, Merton ref 21/P1697
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 136 days to a decision
1 of 4
approved
41% across London
Approved examples
5 Walpole Road, Colliers Wood
CONVERSION OF SINGLE DWELLINGHOUSE INTO 2 X SELF-CONTAINED FLATS WITH FIRST FLOOR REAR AMENITY AREA.
Approved 2024-06-20, Merton ref 21/P4456
48 decided since 2021, 11 refused, typically 95 days to a decision
36 of 48
approved, 75%
43% across London
Approved examples
1 Lucien Road, Wimbledon Park
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE
Approved 2022-03-03, Merton ref 21/P1178
Flat 1, DURNSFORD HOUSE
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLINGS AND ERECTION OF A BLOCK OF 9 X SELF-CONTAINED FLATS.
Approved 2021-07-26, Merton ref 21/P1697
14 The Grange, Wimbledon
DEMOLITION OF SINGLE STOREY LOCK UP GARAGES (THREE BUILDINGS) AND THE ERECTION OF 1 X TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE.
Approved 2021-09-02, Merton ref 21/P2168
34 decided since 2021, 7 refused, typically 123 days to a decision
27 of 34
approved, 79%
49% across London
Approved examples
12 Beltane Drive, Wimbledon
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING.
Approved 2021-05-04, Merton ref 21/P0706
8 Clement Road, Wimbledon
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, AND INSTALLATION OF A BIN STORE AND CYCLE PARKING.
Approved 2021-07-16, Merton ref 21/P1278
85 Home Park Road, Wimbledon
DEMOLITION OF THE PROPERTY AND REPLACEMENT WITH A TWO STOREY SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING WITH BASEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION WITHIN THE ROOFSPACE, TO...
Approved 2021-07-28, Merton ref 21/P0975
5 decided since 2021, typically 161 days to a decision
5 of 5
approved, 100%
45% across London
Approved examples
Flat 5, 92A High Street Collier's Wood
PARTIAL CHANGE OF USE OF GROUND FLOOR RETAIL UNIT (CLASS A1 TO FORM A SELF-CONTAINED STUDIO FLAT AT REAR (CLASS C3)
Approved 2021-09-27, Merton ref 21/P1562
Rush Hair, 64 The Broadway
CHANGE OF USE OF GROUND FLOOR REAR AREA OF EXISTING RETAIL UNIT TO CREATE 1 x STUDIO FLAT AND ALTERATIONS
Approved 2024-01-12, Merton ref 22/P1513
9A The Grange, Wimbledon
CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING BUILDING CURRENTLY IN USE AS 4 FLATS BACK INTO A SINGLE DETACHED FAMILY DWELLING.
Approved 2023-04-28, Merton ref 23/P0280
Also decided here: 75 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 64 approved, typically 69 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.
SW19 is split between planning authorities: Merton (85% of sampled postcodes), Wandsworth (15% 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 SW19, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 23% 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 SW19, 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 SW19 the median sale is £616,000, 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 SW19 would be measured against a £616,000 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: 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.