Land by postcode · RG area · Newbury
Newbury covers two postcode districts, RG14 and RG20, in West Berkshire. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the West Berkshire planning authority, with Basingstoke and Deane covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Newbury.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Newbury'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
1,758
Median sale price
£396,750
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,300
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-6.6%
£409,000 → £382,000
Mix of sales: 31% detached, 24% semi-detached, 21% terraced, 25% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 186 of 1,711 (11%). 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 2,233 live postcodes in Newbury's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
643 of 2,233 postcodes
North Wessex Downs
391 of 2,233 postcodes
Newbury Town Centre · Kingsclere · Donnington Village · West Ilsley · East Ilsley and 10 more
1 of 2,233 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in Newbury's two districts fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
29% of postcodes are inside a National Landscape (AONB). In those areas national policy gives great weight to conserving landscape and scenic beauty, and major development is expected only in exceptional circumstances.
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.
Newbury's two districts are split between planning authorities: West Berkshire (79% of sampled postcodes), Basingstoke and Deane (21%).
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 Newbury, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 29% in a National Landscape and 18% in a conservation area. 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 Newbury, 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 Newbury the median sale is £396,750, from £361,000 in RG14 to £570,000 in RG20, and only 11% 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 Newbury would be measured against a £396,750 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. Newbury here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Newbury. 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.