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Land in Faringdon

Faringdon covers the SN7 postcode district, in Oxfordshire. Planning applications here are decided by the Vale of White Horse planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Faringdon.

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What homes sold for in Faringdon

Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the SN7 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

544

Median sale price

£361,500

Median £ per m² of floor area

£3,667

Median, last 12m vs prior 12m

-0.6%

£362,250 → £360,000

Mix of sales: 41% detached, 26% semi-detached, 21% terraced, 13% flats.

New-build sales 2023–2024: 186 of 561 (33%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.

Planning designations and controls in Faringdon

For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 564 live postcodes in SN7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.

National Landscape (AONB)

<1%

2 of 564 postcodes

North Wessex Downs

Conservation Area

19%

108 of 564 postcodes

Faringdon Conservation Area · Buckland Conservation Area · Stanford in the Vale Conservation Area · Uffington Conservation Area · Little Coxwell Conservation Area and 3 more

No postcodes in SN7 fall inside: Green Belt, 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.

What the figures mean for land in Faringdon

None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Faringdon. What can be built on a given plot is decided by the local plan, settlement boundaries and site-specific matters such as access, flood risk and neighbours, none of which this page measures.

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.

Who decides planning here

Vale of White Horse covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Faringdon.

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Questions landowners ask about Faringdon

Can I build on land I own in Faringdon?

It depends on where the plot sits, not on the town average. Across Faringdon, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 19% in a conservation area. 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.

Do I need planning permission for an outbuilding, extension or change of use in Faringdon?

No Article 4 direction is recorded for Faringdon, 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.

Will a developer be interested in a plot in Faringdon?

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 Faringdon the median sale is £361,500, and 33% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders are active 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.

What is a plot of land worth in Faringdon?

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 Faringdon would be measured against a £361,500 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.

Worth reading before you decide

The district in detail

Nearby towns

Computed from open-data records; town-level, not plot-level measurements. Faringdon here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Faringdon. 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.