Land by postcode · CR area · Mitcham
Mitcham covers the CR4 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Merton planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Mitcham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the CR4 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
737
Median sale price
£435,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,933
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-2.8%
£440,000 → £427,500
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 8% semi-detached, 55% terraced, 36% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 779 (0%). 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 911 live postcodes in CR4 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
64 of 911 postcodes
Mitcham Cricket Green · Wandle Valley
No postcodes in CR4 fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Mitcham. 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.
Decided planning applications in Mitcham 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. 82 decided since 2021, 35 refused.
46 of 82
approved, 56%
48% across London
94 homes approved of 165 applied for
Approved examples
The London Car Wash Company, 370 - 374 London Road (9 new homes)
CHANGE OF USE FROM HAND CAR WASH TO RESIDENTIAL USE INVOLVING THE ERECTION OF A NEW 4 STOREY BUILDING COMPRISING 2 X COMMERCIAL UNITS AT GRO...
Approved 2025-01-31, Merton ref 21/P4129
2A Downe Road, Mitcham (1 new home)
ERECTION OF A DWELLINGHOUSE WITHIN THE REAR GARDEN OF 2 DOWNE ROAD, PROPOSAL INCLUDES THE PROVISION OF REFUSE AND CYCLE STORAGE, LANDCAPING,...
Approved 2022-02-25, Merton ref 21/P4010
108 Gorringe Park Avenue, Mitcham (1 new home)
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLINGHOUSE
Approved 2021-08-17, Merton ref 21/P1714
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 2 refused
2 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
21 Bourne Drive, Mitcham
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY HOUSE ON THE LAND ADJACENT TO 21 BOURNE DRIVE.
Approved 2023-11-30, Merton ref 23/P2515
10 decided since 2021, 6 refused
3 of 10
approved, 30%
42% across London
Approved examples
28 Beech Grove, Mitcham
CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING INTO TWO SELF-CONTAINED FLATS, INCLUDING FAMILY UNIT AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBU...
Approved 2026-06-03, Merton ref 26/P0044
49 decided since 2021, 22 refused
27 of 49
approved, 55%
45% across London
Approved examples
93 Eastfields Road, Mitcham
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE (1B X 1P) TO THE SIDE OF 93 EASTFIELDS ROAD
Approved 2022-04-12, Merton ref 21/P2851
5 decided since 2021, 2 refused
3 of 5
approved, 60%
46% across London
Approved examples
37 Vale Road, Mitcham
USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AS ANCILLARY ANNEXE TO DWELLINGHOUSE
Approved 2026-04-24, Merton ref 25/P1129
Also decided here: 44 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 37 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Mitcham 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.
Merton covers 95% of the sampled postcodes in Mitcham.
Borough guide: Selling land in Merton
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 Mitcham, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 7% 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for Mitcham, 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 Mitcham the median sale is £435,000, and only 0% 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 Mitcham would be measured against a £435,000 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. Mitcham here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Mitcham. 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.