Land by postcode · GU area · Petersfield
Petersfield covers two postcode districts, GU31 and GU32, in Hampshire. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the East Hampshire planning authority, with Chichester covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Petersfield.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Petersfield'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
587
Median sale price
£475,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,867
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+6.8%
£454,000 → £485,000
Mix of sales: 35% detached, 22% semi-detached, 25% terraced, 18% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 24 of 591 (4%). 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 988 live postcodes in Petersfield's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
988 of 988 postcodes
South Downs
189 of 988 postcodes
Petersfield · Petersfield Ext91 · South Harting · East Meon · West Meon and 6 more
11 of 988 postcodes
3 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Enforcement Action.
No postcodes in Petersfield's two districts fall inside: Green Belt, National Landscape (AONB).
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.
100% of postcodes are inside a National Park. 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.
Petersfield's two districts are split between planning authorities: East Hampshire (79% of sampled postcodes), Chichester (17%).
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 Petersfield, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 19% 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. 1% of postcodes in Petersfield are under an Article 4 direction (3 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 Petersfield the median sale is £475,000, from £440,000 in GU32 to £521,500 in GU31, and only 4% 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 Petersfield would be measured against a £475,000 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. Petersfield here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Petersfield. 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.