Land by postcode · EN area · Barnet
Barnet covers two postcode districts, EN4 and EN5, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Barnet planning authority, with Enfield covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Barnet.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Barnet'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
1,347
Median sale price
£610,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,400
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-1.4%
£611,000 → £602,500
Mix of sales: 13% detached, 32% semi-detached, 20% terraced, 35% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 114 of 1,334 (9%). 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 1,611 live postcodes in Barnet's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
98 of 1,611 postcodes
128 of 1,611 postcodes
Monken Hadley · Wood Street · TRENT PARK · HADLEY WOOD
1,581 of 1,611 postcodes
14 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Article 4 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1.
No postcodes in Barnet's two districts fall inside: 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.
6% of postcodes in Barnet are inside the Green Belt, so Barnet has land both inside and outside it. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.
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 Barnet 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. 88 decided since 2021, 43 refused.
38 of 88
approved, 43%
48% across London
83 homes approved of 247 applied for
Approved examples
112D Park Road Barnet EN4 9QS (2 new homes)
Demolition of the existing dwelling and erection of 2no. two storey dwellings with rooms in the roofspace. Associated amenity space and off-...
Approved 2025-01-29, Barnet ref 24/3289/FUL
Land Adj To 1 Brookhill Road Barnet EN4 8SE (1 new home)
Erection of a two storey dwelling house. Associated off-street parking, amenity space and refuse and recycling storage
Approved 2024-10-23, Barnet ref 24/1693/FUL
112D Park Road Barnet EN4 9QS (1 new home)
Demolition of existing property and outbuildings and erection of two storey dwelling including rooms in roofspace. Associated amenity space ...
Approved 2024-08-01, Barnet ref 24/2179/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused
3 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
1 Raydean Road Barnet EN5 1AN
Erection of a two storey dwelling plus basement level in the side garden of No. 1 Raydean Road with associated amenity space, landscaping, o...
Approved 2023-03-21, Barnet ref 22/5871/FUL
107 decided since 2021, 50 refused
48 of 107
approved, 45%
45% across London
Approved examples
17 Meadway Close Barnet EN5 5LA
Erection of a log cabin in the rear garden for use as office space ancillary to main dwelling following removal of the existing shed
Approved 2021-11-22, Barnet ref 21/4844/FUL
55 decided since 2021, 22 refused
30 of 55
approved, 55%
51% across London
Approved examples
112D Park Road Barnet EN4 9QS
Demolition of existing property and outbuildings and erection of two storey dwelling including rooms in roofspace. Associated amenity space ...
Approved 2024-08-01, Barnet ref 24/2179/FUL
4 decided since 2021
2 of 4
approved
46% across London
Approved examples
First Floor 17 Park Road Barnet EN5 5RY
Change of use of the first floor from commercial to 3no dwellinghouses (Class C3). Associated refuse and recycling cycle storage and accessi...
Approved 2024-12-17, Barnet ref 24/3239/FUL
Also decided here: 86 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 64 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Barnet 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.
Barnet's two districts are split between planning authorities: Barnet (87% of sampled postcodes), Enfield (11%).
Borough guides: Selling land in Barnet · Selling land in Enfield
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 Barnet, 6% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 8% in a conservation area. 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.
Often, yes. 98% of postcodes in Barnet are under an Article 4 direction (14 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 Barnet the median sale is £610,000, from £585,000 in EN5 to £621,500 in EN4, and only 9% 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 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 Barnet would be measured against a £610,000 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. Barnet here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Barnet. 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.