Land by postcode · CR area · Purley
Purley covers the CR8 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Croydon planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Purley.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the CR8 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
796
Median sale price
£500,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,667
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-8.2%
£525,000 → £482,000
Mix of sales: 31% detached, 25% semi-detached, 13% terraced, 31% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 89 of 895 (10%). 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 803 live postcodes in CR8 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
11 of 803 postcodes
20 of 803 postcodes
The Webb Estate · Upper Woodcote Village
No postcodes in CR8 fall inside: 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.
1% of postcodes in Purley are inside the Green Belt, so Purley 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 Purley 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. 107 decided since 2021, 70 refused.
24 of 107
approved, 22%
48% across London
82 homes approved of 484 applied for
Approved examples
40A Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3EE (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing detached bungalow and erection of three storey building with accommodation within the roof space comprising 7 apartme...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02022/FUL
1 Kearton Close Kenley CR8 5EN (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of 9 x 3 bedroom dwellings of 2 storeys plus accommodation in the roof with associated access, ...
Approved 2022-02-23, Croydon ref 21/00339/FUL
58 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4DF (9 new homes)
Demolition of existing detached house and replacement with a new development of 9 flats over 3 floors with 8 parking spaces.
Approved 2021-12-03, Croydon ref 21/00954/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
13 decided since 2021, 7 refused
3 of 13
approved, 23%
36% across London
Approved examples
24 Smitham Bottom Lane Purley CR8 3DA
Demolition of the existing garage and the subdivision of the existing garden of 24 Smitham Bottom Lane; erection of 4 dwellings with associa...
Approved 2025-07-29, Croydon ref 24/01099/OUT
7 decided since 2021, 5 refused
0 of 7
approved, 0%
42% across London
100 decided since 2021, 42 refused
42 of 100
approved, 42%
45% across London
Approved examples
40A Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3EE
Demolition of existing detached bungalow and erection of three storey building with accommodation within the roof space comprising 7 apartme...
Approved 2022-07-22, Croydon ref 21/02022/FUL
77 decided since 2021, 54 refused
11 of 77
approved, 14%
51% across London
Approved examples
314 & 316 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4AQ
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of 5 dwellings with associated access, amenity and cycle/refuse provision.
Approved 2022-12-12, Croydon ref 21/04007/OUT
Also decided here: 29 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 16 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Purley 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.
Croydon covers 95% of the sampled postcodes in Purley.
Borough guide: Selling land in Croydon
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 Purley, 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 2% 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 Purley, 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 Purley the median sale is £500,000, and only 10% 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 Purley would be measured against a £500,000 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. Purley here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Purley. 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.