Land by postcode · BR area · Bromley
Bromley covers two postcode districts, BR1 and BR2, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Bromley planning authority, with Lewisham covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Bromley.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Bromley'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
2,362
Median sale price
£506,950
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,250
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.1%
£504,250 → £510,000
Mix of sales: 15% detached, 26% semi-detached, 28% terraced, 31% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 9 of 2,297 (0%). 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 2,267 live postcodes in Bromley's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
69 of 2,267 postcodes
158 of 2,267 postcodes
Bromley Town Centre · Bromley, Hayes and Keston Commons · Bickley Park · Shortlands · Keston Village and 8 more
262 of 2,267 postcodes
4 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Small Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4.
No postcodes in Bromley'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.
3% of postcodes in Bromley are inside the Green Belt, so Bromley 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.
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 Bromley 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. 52 decided since 2021, 23 refused.
26 of 52
approved, 50%
48% across London
72 homes approved of 122 applied for
Approved examples
Mapaulin, Westbury Road (1 new home)
Demolition of existing buildings and construction of new two storey detached dwelling with basement and detached garage building.
Approved 2024-12-17, Bromley ref 24/01043/FULL1
11 Forest Ridge, Keston (1 new home)
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of replacement part one/two storey dwelling with accommodation at roof level, with associated l...
Approved 2024-07-23, Bromley ref 24/01235/FULL1
1 Draven Close, Hayes (2 new homes)
Demolition of Nos. 1 and 3 Draven Close and erection of 2 no. detached two storey 4 bedroom dwellings with accommodation in roof space with ...
Approved 2024-05-15, Bromley ref 24/00308/FULL1
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused
2 of 3
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
LAND TO THE REAR OF 13 CALMONT ROAD, BROMLEY
Construction of a single-storey, 3 bedroom, 6 person dwellinghouse with cycle and bin storage and associated landscaping on land to the rear...
Approved 2024-11-19, Lewisham ref DC/24/137488
25 decided since 2021, 12 refused
13 of 25
approved, 52%
45% across London
Approved examples
5 Elvington Green, Bromley
Demolition of existing residential property and construction of 2 storey 5-bedroom dwelling
Approved 2025-03-26, Bromley ref 24/01806/FULL1
7 decided since 2021, 2 refused
5 of 7
approved, 71%
51% across London
Approved examples
1 Romanhurst Gardens, Shortlands
Demolition of existing dwelling for the erection of new build detached two storey dwelling
Approved 2024-05-30, Bromley ref 24/00355/FULL1
4 decided since 2021, 4 refused
0 of 4
approved
29% across London
Also decided here: 22 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 18 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Bromley 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's two districts are split between planning authorities: Bromley (88% of sampled postcodes), Lewisham (12%).
Borough guides: Selling land in Bromley · Selling land in Lewisham
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 Bromley, 3% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 7% 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. 12% of postcodes in Bromley are under an Article 4 direction (4 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 Bromley the median sale is £506,950, from £457,000 in BR1 to £555,000 in BR2, and only 0% 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 Bromley would be measured against a £506,950 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. Bromley here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Bromley. 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.