Land by postcode · SW area · SW6
What the open records say about the SW6 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 Hammersmith and Fulham, 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
1,670
Median sale price
£809,375
Median £ per m² of floor area
£13,067
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-4.6%
£825,750 → £787,500
Mix of sales: 0% detached, 2% semi-detached, 31% terraced, 67% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 473 of 2,313 (20%). 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 1506 live postcodes in SW6 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
780 of 1506 postcodes
Walham Green · Central Fulham · Sands End · Moore Park · Hurlingham and 2 more
No postcodes in SW6 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.
52% 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 SW6 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. 23 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 128 days to a decision.
19 of 23
approved, 83%
47% across London
30 homes approved of 42 applied for
Approved examples
19A Grimston Road London SW6 3QR (2 new homes)
Demolition of existing MOT workshop (Class Sui Generis) and erection of a replacement part one, part two storey plus-basement building to pr...
Approved 2023-09-27, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2023/00264/FUL
Flats 1 And 3 125 Moore Park Road London SW6 4PS (1 new home)
Amalgamation of 2no. self-contained two bedroom flats at basement, ground and part first floor level to a single self-contained three bedroo...
Approved 2025-05-09, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2025/00365/FUL
101 Lillie Road London SW6 7SX (3 new homes)
Demolition of the existing building (Class E Use) and erection of replacement part three storey, part four-storey mixed-use building compris...
Approved 2026-04-30, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2025/03016/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
40 decided since 2021, 6 refused, typically 99 days to a decision
34 of 40
approved, 85%
43% across London
Approved examples
West London Studios 402 Fulham Road London SW6 1HR
Erection of safety handrail around the main flat roof of building.
Approved 2021-04-28, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2021/00604/FUL
118 Bronsart Road London SW6 6AB
Erection of steel railings to the rear and an obscured glazed screen to the side of the flat roof of the existing two storey back addition a...
Approved 2021-06-16, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2021/00613/FUL
Flat A First Floor 656 Fulham Road London SW6 5RX
Erection of a 1.7m high obscured glass screen at first floor level around part of the flat roof of the existing back addition, in connection...
Approved 2021-04-08, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2021/00490/FUL
3 decided since 2021, typically 154 days to a decision
3 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
Basement Flat 2 Effie Road London SW6 1TB
Change of use of the basement from ancillary office into a one bedroom self-contained flat (Class C3).
Approved 2021-07-16, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2021/00457/FUL
Unit 9 The Piper Building Peterborough Road London SW6 3EF
Change of Use of Unit 9 from Use Class B8 to Auction House (Use Class E) together with internal alterations at Pipers Centre.
Approved 2024-09-25, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2024/00860/FUL
1 Lalor Street London SW6 5SR
Deconversion of the existing building from 2no self-contained flats into a single family dwellinghouse.
Approved 2025-04-25, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2025/00030/FUL
Also decided here: 19 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 19 approved, typically 77 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.
Hammersmith and Fulham covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in SW6.
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 SW6, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 52% 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 SW6, 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 SW6 the median sale is £809,375, and 20% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders are active 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 SW6 would be measured against a £809,375 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: Hammersmith and Fulham'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.