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Land in Aylesbury

Aylesbury covers six postcode districts, HP17, HP18, HP19, HP20, HP21 and HP22, in Buckinghamshire. Planning applications here are decided by the Buckinghamshire planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Aylesbury.

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What homes sold for in Aylesbury

Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all six of Aylesbury's postcode districts. This is market context for the town, 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

3,850

Median sale price

£382,750

Median £ per m² of floor area

£4,200

Median, last 12m vs prior 12m

+1.3%

£380,000 → £385,000

Mix of sales: 27% detached, 32% semi-detached, 26% terraced, 16% flats.

New-build sales 2023–2024: 762 of 4,005 (19%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.

By postcode district

DistrictSales, 24mMedianMainly decided by
HP17378£535,000Buckinghamshire
HP18546£400,000Buckinghamshire
HP19682£310,000Buckinghamshire
HP20358£295,000Buckinghamshire
HP21753£325,000Buckinghamshire
HP221,133£470,000Buckinghamshire

Planning designations and controls in Aylesbury

For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 3,892 live postcodes in Aylesbury's six districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.

Green Belt

2%

90 of 3,892 postcodes

Mostly in HP22 and HP17: 53 of HP22's 976 postcodes and 34 of HP17's 373 postcodes.

National Landscape (AONB)

2%

72 of 3,892 postcodes

Chilterns

Conservation Area

9%

356 of 3,892 postcodes

Aylesbury Town · Haddenham · Whitchurch · Wendover · Waddesdon and 22 more

Article 4 Direction area

21%

799 of 3,892 postcodes

8 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production.

No postcodes in Aylesbury's six districts fall inside: 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.

What the figures mean for land in Aylesbury

2% of postcodes in Aylesbury are inside the Green Belt, so Aylesbury has land both inside and outside it. The Green Belt postcodes sit mostly in HP22 and HP17. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.

21% of postcodes are covered by an Article 4 direction, which removes specific permitted development rights in that area, so changes that are automatic elsewhere need a planning application there.

These are town-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.

Who decides planning here

Buckinghamshire covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Aylesbury.

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Questions landowners ask about Aylesbury

Can I build on land I own in Aylesbury?

It depends on where the plot sits, not on the town average. Across Aylesbury, 2% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 2% in a National Landscape and 9% in a conservation area. Green Belt land is concentrated in HP22 and HP17; on Green Belt or National Landscape plots a new home is the exception and needs a specific case, and a replacement dwelling, a conversion or a modest extension is usually the realistic route. 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.

Do I need planning permission for an outbuilding, extension or change of use in Aylesbury?

Often, yes. 21% of postcodes in Aylesbury are under an Article 4 direction (8 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.

Will a developer be interested in a plot in Aylesbury?

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 Aylesbury the median sale is £382,750, from £295,000 in HP20 to £535,000 in HP17, and only 19% 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.

What is a plot of land worth in Aylesbury?

There is no town 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 Aylesbury would be measured against a £382,750 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.

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Computed from open-data records; town-level, not plot-level measurements. Aylesbury here means the six postcode districts whose most common post town is Aylesbury. 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); conservation areas and Article 4 directions are made locally and published on that national register. Postcode centroids: OS Code-Point Open, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Figures computed 2026-10-19.