Land by postcode · BR area · Beckenham
Beckenham covers the BR3 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Bromley planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Beckenham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the BR3 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
1,426
Median sale price
£540,265
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,222
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.9%
£540,000 → £550,000
Mix of sales: 11% detached, 18% semi-detached, 27% terraced, 44% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 95 of 1,492 (6%). 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 1,125 live postcodes in BR3 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
61 of 1,125 postcodes
Park Langley, Beckenham · Downs Hill, Beckenham · COA00000028 · Elm Road · Barnmead Road, Beckenham and 3 more
5 of 1,125 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in BR3 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Beckenham. What can be built on a given plot is decided by the local plan, settlement boundaries and site-specific matters such as access, flood risk and neighbours, none of which this page measures.
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 Beckenham 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. 35 decided since 2021, 16 refused.
17 of 35
approved, 49%
48% across London
50 homes approved of 105 applied for
Approved examples
Flat, 22 High Street (3 new homes)
Change of use from single dwellinghouse into 3no. one bedroom apartments with refuse and cycle provision.
Approved 2024-05-29, Bromley ref 24/00470/FULL1
Top Flat, 4 Westfield Road (1 new home)
Use of second floor as a 1 bedroom, 1 person flat.
Approved 2024-05-13, Bromley ref 24/00640/FULL1
3 Beckenham Road, Beckenham (4 new homes)
Conversion of the existing first floor from office space (Use Class E (g)(i)) into 4 No flats (Use Class C3) with associated external altera...
Approved 2024-05-09, Bromley ref 24/00897/FULL1
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
5 decided since 2021, 1 refused
3 of 5
approved, 60%
45% across London
Approved examples
Woodhayes, 76A The Avenue
Demolition of existing houses and the construction of 6 homes together with the construction of a new access road, car parking spaces, bin a...
Approved 2025-02-27, Bromley ref 24/03645/FULL1
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused
1 of 4
approved
51% across London
Approved examples
4A Blakeney Road, Beckenham
Demolition of existing dwelling. Erection of 2x three storey blocks containing total of 9 apartments incorporating habitable roof space with...
Approved 2025-06-17, Bromley ref 24/01018/FULL1
8 decided since 2021, 5 refused
3 of 8
approved, 38%
46% across London
Approved examples
Burnhill House, 50 Burnhill Road
Change of use of part of first floor from ancillary office / storage and facilities to provide 2 no. residential flats (1 no. 1 bedroom flat...
Approved 2024-12-16, Bromley ref 24/03881/FULL1
Also decided here: 6 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 4 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Beckenham 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.
Bromley covers 99% of the sampled postcodes in Beckenham.
Borough guide: Selling land in Bromley
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 Beckenham, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 5% 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for Beckenham, 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 Beckenham the median sale is £540,265, and only 6% 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 Beckenham would be measured against a £540,265 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. Beckenham here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Beckenham. 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.