Land by postcode · IG area · Barking
Barking covers the IG11 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Barking and Dagenham planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Barking.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the IG11 district. 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
684
Median sale price
£350,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,200
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-0.3%
£351,000 → £350,000
Mix of sales: 6% semi-detached, 40% terraced, 53% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 298 of 868 (34%). 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 1,023 live postcodes in IG11 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
31 of 1,023 postcodes
Abbey and Barking Town Centre Conservation Area · Abbey Road and Riverside Conservation Area
1,006 of 1,023 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in IG11 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.
98% 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.
Decided planning applications in Barking 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. 64 decided since 2021, 36 refused.
27 of 64
approved, 42%
48% across London
51 homes approved of 145 applied for
Approved examples
Land Opposite 1 King Edwards Road, Barking (4 new homes)
The scheme proposes 4 high quality residential Units on the carpark of former site of a public house, which is now a vacant site. The reside...
Approved 2022-10-31, Barking and Dagenham ref 22/00713/FULL
10 Ben Tillet Close, Barking (3 new homes)
Conversion of Existing 3bed property into 1x3bed and 1x1 person studio home by means of internal changes
Approved 2022-06-14, Barking and Dagenham ref 22/00555/FULL
219 Morley Road, Barking (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing part two storey building (Use Class E) and construction of a part three storey residential building (Use Class C3) to...
Approved 2022-05-09, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01776/FULL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
8 decided since 2021, 8 refused
0 of 8
approved, 0%
36% across London
6 decided since 2021, 3 refused
3 of 6
approved, 50%
42% across London
Approved examples
31 Alfreds Gardens, Barking
Conversion of the dwelling into two flats (1x 4bed and 1x 2bed)
Approved 2026-05-13, Barking and Dagenham ref 26/00359/FULL
25 decided since 2021, 13 refused
10 of 25
approved, 40%
45% across London
Approved examples
13 Cornwall Close, Barking
Demolition of existing garage and partial demolition of existing kitchen to facilitate the construction of a new two storey 3 x bedroom dwel...
Approved 2022-11-07, Barking and Dagenham ref 22/01501/FULL
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused
1 of 4
approved
46% across London
Approved examples
80 Faircross Avenue, Barking
Proposed use of the existing outbuilding as a granny annexe ancillary to the dwelling
Approved 2023-05-22, Barking and Dagenham ref 23/00526/HSE
Also decided here: 60 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 42 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Barking that carry them, classified by the wording of each proposal. Counts, not estimates; within a district, a class with fewer than three applications is not counted.
Barking and Dagenham covers 98% of the sampled postcodes in Barking.
Borough guide: Selling land in Barking and Dagenham
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 town average. Across Barking, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 3% 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.
Often, yes. 98% of postcodes in Barking are under an Article 4 direction (1 separate direction), 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 Barking the median sale is £350,000, and 34% 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 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 Barking would be measured against a £350,000 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.
Computed from open-data records; town-level, not plot-level measurements. Barking here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Barking. 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.