Land by postcode · CR area · Croydon
Croydon covers the CR0 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Croydon planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Croydon.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the CR0 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
2,660
Median sale price
£385,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,088
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+4.2%
£378,000 → £394,000
Mix of sales: 6% detached, 21% semi-detached, 38% terraced, 35% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 81 of 2,582 (3%). 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 2,791 live postcodes in CR0 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
39 of 2,791 postcodes
153 of 2,791 postcodes
East India Estate · Central Croydon · Chatsworth Road · Church Street · COA00000303 and 3 more
No postcodes in CR0 fall inside: National Landscape (AONB), National Park, Article 4 Direction 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.
1% of postcodes in Croydon are inside the Green Belt, so Croydon 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 Croydon 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. 197 decided since 2021, 122 refused.
57 of 197
approved, 29%
48% across London
148 homes approved of 577 applied for
Approved examples
110 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA (5 new homes)
Conversion of 110 Canterbury Road from an office into a dwelling and the demolition of existing storage buildings to rear and erection of 4 ...
Approved 2022-01-14, Croydon ref 21/00871/FUL
88 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA (2 new homes)
Alterations, conversion of single-dwelling to form 1x 3b flat and 1x 2b flat.
Approved 2021-08-25, Croydon ref 21/00533/FUL
57 Castle Hill Avenue Croydon CR0 0TG (1 new home)
Demolition of existing garage and construction of a new 2 storey (3 bed) house with living accommodation in the roof space.
Approved 2021-08-12, Croydon ref 21/02708/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
18 decided since 2021, 13 refused
4 of 18
approved, 22%
36% across London
Approved examples
4 Devonshire Way Croydon CR0 8BR
Erection of a 2-bedroom bungalow within the rear garden of No. 4 Devonshire Way together with new vehicular crossover from Westway.
Approved 2025-10-08, Croydon ref 24/04236/FUL
26 decided since 2021, 19 refused
6 of 26
approved, 23%
42% across London
Approved examples
162 Markfield Court Wood Lane Croydon CR0 9HQ
Subdivision of property and creation of studio flat at first floor level, associated alterations
Approved 2022-05-12, Croydon ref 22/00275/FUL
146 decided since 2021, 93 refused
40 of 146
approved, 27%
45% across London
Approved examples
Rear Of 83 - 87 Edridge Road Croydon CR0 1EJ
Erection of single-storey 2 bedroom detached dwelling.
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/01509/FUL
41 decided since 2021, 21 refused
13 of 41
approved, 32%
51% across London
Approved examples
275 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 7HY
Demolition of the existing house and replacement with a new three storey detached house (C3 use) plus basement, with associated on site car ...
Approved 2022-12-09, Croydon ref 22/03222/FUL
25 decided since 2021, 11 refused
9 of 25
approved, 36%
46% across London
Approved examples
110 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA
Conversion of 110 Canterbury Road from an office into a dwelling and the demolition of existing storage buildings to rear and erection of 4 ...
Approved 2022-01-14, Croydon ref 21/00871/FUL
Also decided here: 83 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 60 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Croydon 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.
Croydon covers 96% of the sampled postcodes in Croydon.
Borough guide: Selling land in Croydon
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 Croydon, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 5% 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for Croydon, 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 Croydon the median sale is £385,000, and only 3% 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 Croydon would be measured against a £385,000 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. Croydon here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Croydon. 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.