Land by postcode · London
London covers 138 postcode districts in Greater London, all listed below. Planning applications here are split between 25 planning authorities, the largest being City of Westminster, Barnet and Southwark. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in London.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all 138 of London'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
91,357
Median sale price
£575,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£8,700
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-3.4%
£579,450 → £560,000
Mix of sales: 2% detached, 7% semi-detached, 26% terraced, 65% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 9,277 of 98,688 (9%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.
| District | Sales, 24m | Median | Mainly decided by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SW11 | 2,221 | £775,000 | Wandsworth |
| E17 | 2,205 | £543,000 | Waltham Forest |
| SW18 | 2,128 | £625,000 | Wandsworth |
| SW19 | 1,986 | £616,000 | Merton |
| E14 | 1,899 | £506,000 | Tower Hamlets |
| SW17 | 1,757 | £587,000 | Wandsworth |
| N1 | 1,751 | £660,000 | Islington |
| SW16 | 1,749 | £477,500 | Lambeth |
| SW6 | 1,670 | £809,375 | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| SW15 | 1,450 | £610,000 | Wandsworth |
| NW6 | 1,385 | £692,000 | Camden |
| E16 | 1,378 | £455,000 | Newham |
| SE1 | 1,318 | £575,000 | Southwark |
| SW2 | 1,232 | £525,000 | Lambeth |
| E4 | 1,200 | £540,000 | Waltham Forest |
For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 105,301 live postcodes in London's 138 districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
182 of 105,301 postcodes
Mostly in NW7 and E4: 104 of NW7's 800 postcodes and 31 of E4's 970 postcodes.
33,714 of 105,301 postcodes
Mayfair · Harley Street · Portman Estate · Bloomsbury · Bayswater and 561 more
46,815 of 105,301 postcodes
292 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed.
No postcodes in London's 138 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.
32% 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.
44% 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 London 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. 4837 decided since 2021, 1822 refused.
2489 of 4837
approved, 51%
48% across London
6091 homes approved of 11953 applied for
Approved examples
39 Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow (1 new home)
Amalgamation of two existing flats into one dwellinghouse (1x4-bed) (Use Class C3).
Approved 2026-05-26, Waltham Forest ref 260841
95 Avenue Road London NW8 6HY (2 new homes)
Demolition of 7 x existing garages and related structures and replacement with 2 x new two storey semi-detached houses, creation of new ligh...
Approved 2026-05-13, Camden ref 2024/2785/P
101 Lillie Road London SW6 7SX (3 new homes)
Demolition of the existing building (Class E Use) and erection of replacement part three storey, part four-storey mixed-use building compris...
Approved 2026-04-30, Hammersmith and Fulham ref 2025/03016/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
181 decided since 2021, 84 refused
77 of 181
approved, 43%
36% across London
Approved examples
Piano House 9 Brighton Terrace London Lambeth SW9 8DJ
Erection of an amenity terrace to the rear of Piano House.
Approved 2026-03-19, Lambeth ref 25/03958/FUL
330 decided since 2021, 165 refused
130 of 330
approved, 39%
42% across London
Approved examples
13 COURT YARD, LONDON
Conversion of existing two-bedroom maisonette into two (2) self-contained residential units
Approved 2026-05-15, Greenwich ref 26/0851/F
1965 decided since 2021, 769 refused
968 of 1965
approved, 49%
45% across London
Approved examples
LEMNA COURT, 30 Lemna Road
Construction of a new floor over the existing 3rd floor to provide 3 self-contained flats, provision of communal roof terrace, refuse storag...
Approved 2026-04-14, Waltham Forest ref 232916
284 decided since 2021, 79 refused
181 of 284
approved, 64%
51% across London
Approved examples
29 Woodfield Avenue London SW16 1LQ
Demolition of existing house and erection of 3-storey dwelling with basement.
Approved 2026-05-22, Lambeth ref 25/01245/FUL
327 decided since 2021, 124 refused
162 of 327
approved, 50%
46% across London
Approved examples
2 Miles Place London NW8 8AZ
Conversion of existing garage into residential flat (Class C3) with associated external alterations
Approved 2026-05-19, Westminster ref 25/09140/FULL
Also decided here: 2257 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 1815 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 138 of 138 postcode districts in London 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.
London's 138 districts are split between planning authorities: City of Westminster (9% of sampled postcodes), Barnet (6%), Southwark (6%), Wandsworth (6%), Camden (6%), Lambeth (6%), Tower Hamlets (6%), Greenwich (5%), Islington (5%), Lewisham (4%), Haringey (4%), Hackney (4%), Newham (4%), Kensington and Chelsea (4%), Ealing (3%), Waltham Forest (3%), Brent (3%), Hammersmith and Fulham (3%), Enfield (3%), Merton (2%), Croydon (1%), Bromley (1%), Hounslow (1%), Richmond upon Thames (1%), Redbridge (1%).
Borough guides: Selling land in Barnet · Selling land in Southwark · Selling land in Wandsworth · Selling land in Camden · Selling land in Lambeth · Selling land in Tower Hamlets · Selling land in Greenwich · Selling land in Islington · Selling land in Lewisham · Selling land in Haringey · Selling land in Hackney · Selling land in Newham · Selling land in Kensington and Chelsea · Selling land in Ealing · Selling land in Waltham Forest · Selling land in Brent · Selling land in Hammersmith and Fulham · Selling land in Enfield · Selling land in Merton · Selling land in Croydon · Selling land in Bromley · Selling land in Hounslow · Selling land in Richmond upon Thames · 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 London, under 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 32% 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. 44% of postcodes in London are under an Article 4 direction (292 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 London the median sale is £575,000, from £360,000 in SE28 to £4,292,500 in W1K, and only 9% 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 London would be measured against a £575,000 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. London here means the 138 postcode districts whose most common post town is London. 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.