Land by postcode · RM area · Dagenham
Dagenham covers three postcode districts, RM8, RM9 and RM10, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Barking and Dagenham planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Dagenham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all three of Dagenham'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
1,424
Median sale price
£380,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,984
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+2.7%
£375,000 → £385,000
Mix of sales: 0% detached, 11% semi-detached, 73% terraced, 16% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 29 of 1,365 (2%). 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 1,739 live postcodes in Dagenham's three districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
8 of 1,739 postcodes
Mostly in RM10 and RM8: 6 of RM10's 583 postcodes and 2 of RM8's 587 postcodes.
3 of 1,739 postcodes
Dagenham Village Conservation Area
1,718 of 1,739 postcodes
3 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the HMO Article 4.
No postcodes in Dagenham's three 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.
99% 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 Dagenham 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. 142 decided since 2021, 84 refused.
52 of 142
approved, 37%
48% across London
88 homes approved of 233 applied for
Approved examples
33 Rowdowns Road, Dagenham (1 new home)
Subdivision of the existing 4-bedroom dwelling to 1x 1-bedroom dwelling and 1x 3-bedroom dwelling at No 33 Rowdowns Road.
Approved 2022-11-11, Barking and Dagenham ref 22/00994/FULL
58 Burdetts Road, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a new two storey 1x bedroom dwellinghouse to the side elevation of 58 Burdetts Road RM9 6XY
Approved 2022-04-06, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/02060/FULL
275 Sheppey Road, Dagenham (1 new home)
Construction of a new two storey 3x bedroom dwelling house including the conversion of the existing garage adjacent to 275 Sheppey Road into...
Approved 2022-02-28, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/02332/FULL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
27 decided since 2021, 20 refused
6 of 27
approved, 22%
36% across London
Approved examples
221 Stamford Road, Dagenham
Construction of a new 2x bed two-storey dwelling with associated external amenity area, parking, cycle storage and refuse storage at land ad...
Approved 2026-02-13, Barking and Dagenham ref 25/01785/FULL
18 decided since 2021, 12 refused
5 of 18
approved, 28%
42% across London
Approved examples
307a Wood Lane, Dagenham
Conversion of existing dwelling into two flats (2x1 bed) and associated works
Approved 2026-04-14, Barking and Dagenham ref 26/00193/FULL
97 decided since 2021, 53 refused
42 of 97
approved, 43%
45% across London
Approved examples
Former Dagenham Stamping And Tooling Operations Site, Chequers Lane
Formal Application Description: Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for the demolition of existing buildings and structures,...
Approved 2022-10-10, Barking and Dagenham ref 21/01808/OUTALL
5 decided since 2021, 5 refused
0 of 5
approved, 0%
46% across London
Also decided here: 130 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 96 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 3 of 3 postcode districts in Dagenham 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.
Barking and Dagenham covers 99% of the sampled postcodes in Dagenham.
Borough guide: Selling land in Barking and Dagenham
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 Dagenham, under 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt. 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. 99% of postcodes in Dagenham are under an Article 4 direction (3 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 Dagenham the median sale is £380,000, from £376,000 in RM9 to £380,000 in RM8, and only 2% 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 Dagenham would be measured against a £380,000 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. Dagenham here means the three postcode districts whose most common post town is Dagenham. 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.