Land by postcode · Richmond
Richmond covers four postcode districts, DL10, DL11, TW9 and TW10, in North Yorkshire. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the North Yorkshire planning authority, with Richmond upon Thames covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Richmond.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all four of Richmond'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
1,728
Median sale price
£550,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£8,962
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-3.6%
£557,500 → £537,500
Mix of sales: 16% detached, 20% semi-detached, 28% terraced, 36% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 11 of 1,757 (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 2,407 live postcodes in Richmond's four districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
1 of 2,407 postcodes
North Pennines
205 of 2,407 postcodes
Yorkshire Dales
1,069 of 2,407 postcodes
Richmond · Swaledale and Arkengarthdale barns and walls · St Matthias · Richmond Hill · Central Richmond and 25 more
No postcodes in Richmond's four districts fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
44% of postcodes fall within a conservation area. Inside one, demolition needs consent, some permitted development rights are reduced, and new work is assessed against the character and appearance of the area.
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 Richmond 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. 37 decided since 2021, 16 refused.
19 of 37
approved, 51%
48% across London
41 homes approved of 85 applied for
Approved examples
Rear Of 19-23 Friars Stile Road Richmond (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing garages, erection of a residential dwelling (Use Class C3), parking, landscaping, store, alterations and improvem...
Approved 2024-07-09, Richmond upon Thames ref 23/2478/FUL
Westminster House Kew Road Richmond TW9 2ND (7 new homes)
Creation of two additional levels of Class C3 accommodation comprising 7no.units, conversion and excavation of the existing Class E basement...
Approved 2024-06-11, Richmond upon Thames ref 23/3371/FUL
28 Hill Street Richmond TW9 1TW (1 new home)
Subdivision of two bed flat to two 1 bed flats with associated refuse storage and cycle parking.
Approved 2023-12-14, Richmond upon Thames ref 23/2673/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
10 decided since 2021, 7 refused
3 of 10
approved, 30%
45% across London
Approved examples
Land To Front Of Fairlawn And Garage Plot Ormond Avenue Richmond
Erection of detached dwelling with basement, associated cycle and refuse stores and ASHP.
Approved 2025-10-03, Richmond upon Thames ref 24/2717/FUL
13 decided since 2021, 6 refused
5 of 13
approved, 38%
51% across London
Approved examples
Little Orchard Sudbrook Lane Petersham Richmond TW10 7AT
Demolition of the existing dwelling at Little Orchard and the erection of a new dwelling maintaining the existing access off Bute Avenue and...
Approved 2024-03-26, Richmond upon Thames ref 23/2146/FUL
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused
3 of 4
approved
46% across London
Approved examples
Westminster House Kew Road Richmond TW9 2ND
Creation of two additional levels of Class C3 accommodation comprising 7no.units, conversion and excavation of the existing Class E basement...
Approved 2024-06-11, Richmond upon Thames ref 23/3371/FUL
Also decided here: 24 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 22 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 4 postcode districts in Richmond 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.
Richmond's four districts are split between planning authorities: North Yorkshire (52% of sampled postcodes), Richmond upon Thames (46%).
Borough guide: Selling land in Richmond upon Thames
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 Richmond, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 44% 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for Richmond, 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 Richmond the median sale is £550,000, from £255,000 in DL10 to £805,000 in TW10, 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 Richmond would be measured against a £550,000 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. Richmond here means the four postcode districts whose most common post town is Richmond. 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.