Land by postcode · BR area · Orpington
Orpington covers two postcode districts, BR5 and BR6, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Bromley planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Orpington.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Orpington'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
2,133
Median sale price
£525,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,800
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-1%
£525,000 → £520,000
Mix of sales: 22% detached, 44% semi-detached, 23% terraced, 12% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 14 of 2,099 (1%). 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 2,068 live postcodes in Orpington's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
136 of 2,068 postcodes
19 of 2,068 postcodes
Kent Downs
95 of 2,068 postcodes
St Mary Cray · Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood · The Priory, Orpington · Chelsfield · Farnborough Park and 8 more
No postcodes in Orpington's two districts fall inside: 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.
7% of postcodes in Orpington are inside the Green Belt, so Orpington has land both inside and outside it. 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 Orpington 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. 45 decided since 2021, 25 refused.
18 of 45
approved, 40%
48% across London
33 homes approved of 93 applied for
Approved examples
Cookham Hill Farm, Skeet Hill Lane (4 new homes)
Conversion of existing stables and barn to provide 4 dwellings (1 four bedroom, 2 two bedroom and 1 one bedroom) with elevational alteration...
Approved 2025-02-12, Bromley ref 24/01558/FULL1
266 High Street, Orpington (2 new homes)
Proposed additional storey to provide 2 No self contained flats and alterations to elevations to provide access staircase and balconies subs...
Approved 2024-07-15, Bromley ref 24/01633/FULL1
11 Wyvern Close, Orpington (2 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a pair of two storey 3 bedroom semi-detached dwellings, with new vehicular access and associ...
Approved 2024-06-28, Bromley ref 24/01274/FULL1
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 3 refused
1 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
43 Oregon Square, Orpington
Erection of two-storey detached dwelling to the rear of 43 Oregon Square, with associated car parking and landscaping.
Approved 2025-03-27, Bromley ref 24/01005/FULL1
10 decided since 2021, 6 refused
3 of 10
approved, 30%
45% across London
Approved examples
1 Grays Farm Cottages, Sevenoaks Way
Erection of two 2-storey detached dwellings with car parking, associated landscaping, refuse and cycle storage.
Approved 2025-07-31, Bromley ref 24/04383/FULL1
8 decided since 2021, 2 refused
5 of 8
approved, 63%
51% across London
Approved examples
Courtways, Holwood Park Avenue
Demolition of existing dwelling. Erection of two storey detached dwellinghouse (self-build and custom build) with accommodation in the roof ...
Approved 2024-10-31, Bromley ref 24/02197/FULL1
Also decided here: 14 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 9 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Orpington 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.
Bromley covers 99% of the sampled postcodes in Orpington.
Borough guide: Selling land in Bromley
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 Orpington, 7% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 1% in a National Landscape and 5% 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 Orpington, 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 Orpington the median sale is £525,000, from £450,000 in BR5 to £580,000 in BR6, and only 1% 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 Orpington would be measured against a £525,000 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. Orpington here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Orpington. 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.