Land by postcode · KT area · Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames covers two postcode districts, KT1 and KT2, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Kingston upon Thames planning authority, with Richmond upon Thames covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Kingston upon Thames.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Kingston upon Thames'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
1,151
Median sale price
£640,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,944
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.9%
£635,000 → £647,000
Mix of sales: 11% detached, 26% semi-detached, 19% terraced, 44% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 208 of 1,382 (15%). 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 1,372 live postcodes in Kingston upon Thames's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
268 of 1,372 postcodes
KINGSTON OLD TOWN CONSERVATION AREA · Hampton Wick · FAIRFIELD/KNIGHTS PARK CONSERV AREA · LIVERPOOL ROAD CONSERVATION AREA · GROVE CRESCENT CONSERVATION AREA and 11 more
187 of 1,372 postcodes
14 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Kingston.
No postcodes in Kingston upon Thames's two districts fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
20% of postcodes fall within a conservation area. Inside one, demolition needs consent, some permitted development rights are reduced, and new work is assessed against the character and appearance of the area.
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 Kingston upon Thames 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. 78 decided since 2021, 38 refused.
33 of 78
approved, 42%
48% across London
63 homes approved of 178 applied for
Approved examples
33 Fleetwood Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 3QD (2 new homes)
Conversion of a single dwellinghouse to 2nos flats 1no 3 bedroom and 1no 1 bedroom flat.
Approved 2024-12-04, Kingston upon Thames ref 24/02233/FUL
Former Builders Yard Off Littlefield Close Land Rear Of 6 To 9A Fairfield West Littlefield Close Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2UG (2 new homes)
Erection of 2nos semi-detached dwelling with associated bins, cycle provision and removal of existing drop kerb.
Approved 2023-11-10, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01755/FUL
34 Portsmouth Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BF (6 new homes)
Demolition of existing buildings on site and erection of six residential units (Class C3) and two office units (Class E(g)), measuring 140 s...
Approved 2023-02-28, Kingston upon Thames ref 22/01923/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
56 decided since 2021, 23 refused
28 of 56
approved, 50%
45% across London
Approved examples
Former Builders Yard Off Littlefield Close Land Rear Of 6 To 9A Fairfield West Littlefield Close Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2UG
Erection of 2nos semi-detached dwelling with associated bins, cycle provision and removal of existing drop kerb.
Approved 2023-11-10, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01755/FUL
33 decided since 2021, 9 refused
23 of 33
approved, 70%
51% across London
Approved examples
Coombe Grange 86 Coombe Lane West Kingston Upon Thames KT2 7DB
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of new replacement single dwelling
Approved 2022-03-23, Kingston upon Thames ref 21/02083/FUL
10 decided since 2021, 5 refused
4 of 10
approved, 40%
46% across London
Approved examples
Ground Floor, Oak Mews Previously 14A Park Road Kingston Upon Thames KT2 6FL
Change of use of part of ground floor office to create 2nos residential units with external alterations at ground floor
Approved 2026-02-25, Kingston upon Thames ref 25/02901/FUL
Also decided here: 57 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 51 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Kingston upon Thames 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.
Kingston upon Thames's two districts are split between planning authorities: Kingston upon Thames (93% of sampled postcodes), Richmond upon Thames (6%).
Borough guides: Selling land in Kingston upon Thames · Selling land in Richmond upon Thames
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 Kingston upon Thames, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 20% 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.
Often, yes. 14% of postcodes in Kingston upon Thames are under an Article 4 direction (14 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 Kingston upon Thames the median sale is £640,000, from £535,000 in KT1 to £725,500 in KT2, and only 15% 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 Kingston upon Thames would be measured against a £640,000 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. Kingston upon Thames here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Kingston upon Thames. 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.