Land by postcode · RM area · Rainham
Rainham covers the RM13 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Havering planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Rainham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the RM13 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
660
Median sale price
£425,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,167
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+2.4%
£420,000 → £430,000
Mix of sales: 10% detached, 33% semi-detached, 42% terraced, 15% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 89 of 755 (12%). 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 659 live postcodes in RM13 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
33 of 659 postcodes
12 of 659 postcodes
Rainham
No postcodes in RM13 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.
5% of postcodes in Rainham are inside the Green Belt, so Rainham 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 Rainham 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. 28 decided since 2021, 18 refused.
8 of 28
approved, 29%
48% across London
13 homes approved of 44 applied for
Approved examples
Land At Maytree Close Rainham RM13 8EP (4 new homes)
4 no. residential dwellings (Use Class C3), car parking and cycle parking, landscaping, childrens play space, and associated works
Approved 2025-05-09, Havering ref P0145.24
The Bungalow, 15 Berwick Pond Close Rainham RM13 9QP (2 new homes)
Demolition of the existing bungalow and erection of 2 x 2 storey, 3B4P, semi-detached dwellings with associated parking and amenity space (p...
Approved 2024-07-03, Havering ref P0444.24
Land north of 72-74 Queens Gardens Rainham RM13 8EB (1 new home)
Demolish existing garage and erect new detached 2-bedroom dwelling.
Approved 2024-06-27, Havering ref P0618.24
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
5 decided since 2021, 5 refused
0 of 5
approved, 0%
36% across London
7 decided since 2021, 3 refused
3 of 7
approved, 43%
42% across London
Approved examples
48 Betterton Road Rainham RM13 8NB
Subdivision of the land and erection of 2x 3-bed detached dwellinghouses
Approved 2025-12-19, Havering ref P0509.25
53 decided since 2021, 31 refused
18 of 53
approved, 34%
45% across London
Approved examples
161 Cherry Tree Lane Rainham RM13 8TU
Demolition of existing 3B6P dwelling and the erection of 2 x 2 storey, 4B5P semi-detached dwellings with habitable roof space, together with...
Approved 2022-06-01, Havering ref P0425.22
5 decided since 2021, 1 refused
4 of 5
approved, 80%
51% across London
Approved examples
28 Stanley Road North Rainham RM13 8AX
Demolition of the existing bungalow and erection of a new dwelling of detached 3 bedroom house.
Approved 2024-03-26, Havering ref P1882.23
4 decided since 2021, 4 refused
0 of 4
approved
46% across London
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused
2 of 3
approved
29% across London
Approved examples
Stokevale Ltd, 10 Salamons Way Rainham RM13 9UL
Change of Use of land to storage of waste glass and UPVC and treatment of glass to produce cullet
Approved 2024-06-26, Havering ref P0432.24
Also decided here: 16 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 13 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in Rainham 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.
Havering covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Rainham.
Borough guide: Selling land in Havering
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 Rainham, 5% 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 Rainham, 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 Rainham the median sale is £425,000, and only 12% 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 Rainham would be measured against a £425,000 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. Rainham here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Rainham. 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.