Land by postcode · KT area · Chessington
Chessington covers the KT9 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Kingston upon Thames planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Chessington.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the KT9 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
513
Median sale price
£475,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,800
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-4.7%
£482,500 → £460,000
Mix of sales: 8% detached, 31% semi-detached, 42% terraced, 19% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 482 (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 392 live postcodes in KT9 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
25 of 392 postcodes
23 of 392 postcodes
6 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Hook Parade.
No postcodes in KT9 fall inside: National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Conservation Area.
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 Chessington are inside the Green Belt, so Chessington 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 Chessington 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. 19 decided since 2021, 16 refused.
3 of 19
approved, 16%
48% across London
5 homes approved of 43 applied for
Approved examples
1 King Edward Drive Chessington KT9 1DW (2 new homes)
Erection of 2 new dwellings, with associated driveway and landscaping
Approved 2026-03-02, Kingston upon Thames ref 25/01786/FUL
7 Rhodrons Avenue Chessington KT9 1BB (1 new home)
Erection of a two storey, two bedroom detached dwelling with off street parking and a new parking space to the existing dwelling
Approved 2022-02-15, Kingston upon Thames ref 21/02564/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
21 decided since 2021, 10 refused
9 of 21
approved, 43%
45% across London
Approved examples
Land To Rear Of Heather Court Hunters Road Chessington KT9 1RZ
Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 6 x terrace houses with associated parking, amenity space, individual sheds, cycle stores a...
Approved 2022-09-30, Kingston upon Thames ref 22/01233/FUL
5 decided since 2021, 3 refused
2 of 5
approved, 40%
51% across London
Approved examples
27 Orchard Road Chessington KT9 1AJ
Demolition of dwelling and erection of 1no. 3 bed replacement dwelling, and erection of 3no. 4 bed dwellings to rear with new access road
Approved 2023-11-24, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01059/FUL
Also decided here: 22 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 19 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Chessington 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.
Kingston upon Thames covers 99% of the sampled postcodes in Chessington.
Borough guide: Selling land in Kingston upon Thames
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 Chessington, 6% of postcodes are in the Green Belt. 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. 6% of postcodes in Chessington are under an Article 4 direction (6 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 Chessington the median sale is £475,000, 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 Chessington would be measured against a £475,000 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. Chessington here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Chessington. 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.