Land by postcode · EN area · Enfield
Enfield covers three postcode districts, EN1, EN2 and EN3, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Enfield planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Enfield.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all three of Enfield'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
2,068
Median sale price
£460,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,067
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-1.1%
£465,000 → £460,000
Mix of sales: 5% detached, 21% semi-detached, 45% terraced, 29% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 17 of 2,052 (1%). 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 2,795 live postcodes in Enfield's three districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
96 of 2,795 postcodes
Mostly in EN2 and EN1: 82 of EN2's 834 postcodes and 9 of EN1's 958 postcodes.
188 of 2,795 postcodes
ENFIELD TOWN · BUSH HILL PARK · FORTY HILL · CLAY HILL · ENFIELD LOCK and 2 more
2,793 of 2,795 postcodes
13 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Borough wide.
No postcodes in Enfield'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.
3% of postcodes in Enfield are inside the Green Belt, so Enfield has land both inside and outside it. The Green Belt postcodes sit mostly in EN2 and EN1. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.
100% 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 Enfield 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. 264 decided since 2021, 71 refused.
168 of 264
approved, 64%
48% across London
305 homes approved of 525 applied for
Approved examples
106 Pembroke Avenue Enfield EN1 4EY (2 new homes)
Conversion of single family dwellinghouse into 2 x self contained units.
Approved 2023-06-22, Enfield ref 22/00991/FUL
16A Leighton Road Enfield EN1 1XJ (9 new homes)
Redevelopment of site, involving demolition of existing building and erection of a 4-storey block of 9 self-contained flats.
Approved 2022-09-23, Enfield ref 22/00974/FUL
11 Sharon Road Enfield EN3 5DQ (1 new home)
Sub-division of site and erection of an end-of-terraced 2-storey dwelling house involving vehicular access, refuse and recycling.
Approved 2022-08-16, Enfield ref 21/00433/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
117 decided since 2021, 51 refused
57 of 117
approved, 49%
42% across London
Approved examples
Bush Hill Park Bowls Tennis And Social Club Abbey Road Enfield EN1 2QP
Redevelopment of site involving removal of 2 disused tennis courts and subdivision of site to provide 4 single family dwellings together wit...
Approved 2023-06-09, Enfield ref 21/03370/FUL
113 decided since 2021, 39 refused
58 of 113
approved, 51%
45% across London
Approved examples
Land Adjacent 251 Ladysmith Road Enfield EN1 3AQ
Replacement of existing commercial storage outbuilding with construction of a single dwelling house at rear.
Approved 2022-11-11, Enfield ref 22/02975/FUL
3 decided since 2021
2 of 3
approved
51% across London
Approved examples
4 Dryden Road Enfield EN1 2PP
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two storey dwelling.
Approved 2026-04-30, Enfield ref 25/02512/FUL
17 decided since 2021, 6 refused
10 of 17
approved, 59%
46% across London
Approved examples
97 Lincoln Crescent Enfield EN1 1JZ
Use of existing outbuilding to rear as annexe ancillary to main dwelling.
Approved 2025-11-14, Enfield ref 25/02538/CEU
Also decided here: 30 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 20 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 3 of 3 postcode districts in Enfield 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.
Enfield covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Enfield.
Borough guide: Selling land in Enfield
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 Enfield, 3% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 7% in a conservation area. Green Belt land is concentrated in EN2 and EN1; 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. 100% of postcodes in Enfield are under an Article 4 direction (13 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 Enfield the median sale is £460,000, from £415,000 in EN3 to £540,000 in EN2, and only 1% 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 Enfield would be measured against a £460,000 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. Enfield here means the three postcode districts whose most common post town is Enfield. 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.