Land by postcode · IG area · Ilford
Ilford covers six postcode districts, IG1, IG2, IG3, IG4, IG5 and IG6, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Redbridge planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Ilford.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all six of Ilford'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
1,851
Median sale price
£500,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£6,400
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1%
£500,000 → £505,000
Mix of sales: 3% detached, 20% semi-detached, 53% terraced, 24% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 32 of 1,746 (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 2,760 live postcodes in Ilford's six districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
19 of 2,760 postcodes
Mostly in IG6 and IG2: 11 of IG6's 568 postcodes and 4 of IG2's 412 postcodes.
68 of 2,760 postcodes
Mayfield · Barnardo's Village Homes · Claybury · Little Heath
No postcodes in Ilford's six districts 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 Ilford are inside the Green Belt, so Ilford has land both inside and outside it. The Green Belt postcodes sit mostly in IG6 and IG2. 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 Ilford 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. 173 decided since 2021, 65 refused.
102 of 173
approved, 59%
48% across London
207 homes approved of 324 applied for
Approved examples
DEVELOPMENT AT 140, BAWDSEY AVENUE (3 new homes)
Demolition of garage. Erection of three x 2-bedroom houses with associated landscaping, amenity space, car parking, cycle and refuse storage...
Approved 2025-04-04, Redbridge ref 3278/24
Development Rear Of 68 And 70 Quebec Road West Of 1, Cranley Drive (1 new home)
Erection of one x 1-bedroom single dwelling with associated waste/refuse, car parking, cycle store and amenity space (summary)
Approved 2022-10-21, Redbridge ref 2183/22
Development At 19 To 21, Castleton Road (3 new homes)
Change of use from Doctors Surgery into three self-contained flats (3 x 2 bedroom) with associated car parking, cycle storage, waste / refus...
Approved 2022-10-20, Redbridge ref 1704/21
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused
2 of 3
approved
42% across London
Approved examples
Development At 22, Bathurst Road
Subdivision of the existing dwelling house in to 2 flats (2x3 bedroom) with associated waste/refuse, cycle store and car parking (summary) (...
Approved 2024-08-02, Redbridge ref 1143/24
30 decided since 2021, 5 refused
24 of 30
approved, 80%
45% across London
Approved examples
DEVELOPMENT AT 140, BAWDSEY AVENUE
Demolition of garage. Erection of three x 2-bedroom houses with associated landscaping, amenity space, car parking, cycle and refuse storage...
Approved 2025-04-04, Redbridge ref 3278/24
6 decided since 2021, 3 refused
3 of 6
approved, 50%
46% across London
Approved examples
110, Auckland Road
Conversion of detached outbuilding for use as a granny annexe for incidental use to the main dwelling house (Summary)
Approved 2024-11-29, Redbridge ref 2563/24
Also decided here: 4 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 3 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 6 of 6 postcode districts in Ilford 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.
Redbridge covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Ilford.
Borough guide: Selling land in Redbridge
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 Ilford, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 2% in a conservation area. Green Belt land is concentrated in IG6 and IG2; 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 Ilford, 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 Ilford the median sale is £500,000, from £450,000 in IG1 to £595,000 in IG4, 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 Ilford would be measured against a £500,000 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. Ilford here means the six postcode districts whose most common post town is Ilford. 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.