Land by postcode · RM area · Romford
Romford covers seven postcode districts, RM1, RM2, RM3, RM4, RM5, RM6 and RM7, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Havering planning authority, with Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Epping Forest covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Romford.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all seven of Romford'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
3,439
Median sale price
£432,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,333
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.2%
£430,000 → £435,000
Mix of sales: 8% detached, 32% semi-detached, 38% terraced, 22% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 13 of 3,420 (0%). 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 3,352 live postcodes in Romford's seven districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
195 of 3,352 postcodes
Mostly in RM4 and RM3: 115 of RM4's 160 postcodes and 37 of RM3's 923 postcodes.
82 of 3,352 postcodes
Gidea Park · Havering-atte-Bower · Abridge · Romford · Little Heath
345 of 3,352 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in Romford's seven districts fall inside: National Landscape (AONB), National Park.
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.
6% of postcodes in Romford are inside the Green Belt, so Romford has land both inside and outside it. The Green Belt postcodes sit mostly in RM4 and RM3. 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 Romford 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. 130 decided since 2021, 82 refused.
42 of 130
approved, 32%
48% across London
76 homes approved of 271 applied for
Approved examples
22 Heath Park Road Romford RM2 5UB (2 new homes)
Proposed improvements and widening of the existing vehicular access to create a 4.5m wide road and the construction of 2 No. x 3- bed single...
Approved 2025-03-28, Havering ref P1381.24
Land Adjacent to 42 Homeway Romford RM3 0HD (2 new homes)
Demolition of existing garage on land adjacent to 42 Homeway and subdivision of plot to facilitate the erection of 2 x 3 Bedroom Semi-Detach...
Approved 2025-02-11, Havering ref P0615.24
4 Pettits Lane Romford RM1 4HL (1 new home)
Demolition of the existing building and construction of a two storey 5xbed detached dwelling with off street parking and bin/cycle storage.
Approved 2024-12-12, Havering ref P1241.24
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
10 decided since 2021, 8 refused
2 of 10
approved, 20%
36% across London
Approved examples
44 Whalebone Grove, Chadwell Heath
Construction of a two storey 1xbed dwelling at the rear of 44 Whalebone Grove, RM6 6BT
Approved 2026-04-02, Barking and Dagenham ref 25/01734/FULL
18 decided since 2021, 15 refused
3 of 18
approved, 17%
42% across London
Approved examples
29 Farrance Road, Chadwell Heath
Conversion of the existing dwellinghouse into 2 flats (1 x 3 bedroom and 1 x 2 bedroom) with associated cycle pods, refuse and recycling bin...
Approved 2025-01-29, Barking and Dagenham ref 24/01728/FULL
160 decided since 2021, 93 refused
57 of 160
approved, 36%
45% across London
Approved examples
6 Homeway, Harold Wood Romford RM3 0HD
Erection of a 5-bed detached dwelling following demolition of existing bungalow
Approved 2025-06-27, Havering ref P0008.25
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused
1 of 3
approved
51% across London
Approved examples
6 Witham Road Romford RM2 5XB
Demolition of the existing bungalow and the erection of 3 x 3-bed dwellings within a 2 storey terrace block together with the installation o...
Approved 2022-02-07, Havering ref P1328.21
17 decided since 2021, 9 refused
7 of 17
approved, 41%
46% across London
Approved examples
59 Laurel Crescent, Rush Green
Conversion of existing garage into a gym and habitable accommodation ancillary to the main dwellinghouse.
Approved 2023-06-12, Barking and Dagenham ref 23/00634/HSE
7 decided since 2021, 4 refused
2 of 7
approved, 29%
29% across London
Approved examples
Plots 2-6 Gravel Pit Coppice Benskins Lane Noak Hill Romford RM4 1LB
Part retrospective Change of Use of land to a private Gypsy and Traveller caravan site comprising of Plots 2 - 6, including the siting of 12...
Approved 2024-04-26, Havering ref P0543.22
Also decided here: 97 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 83 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 7 of 7 postcode districts in Romford 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.
Romford's seven districts are split between planning authorities: Havering (78% of sampled postcodes), Barking and Dagenham (10%), Redbridge (8%), Epping Forest (4%).
Borough guides: Selling land in Havering · Selling land in Barking and Dagenham · Selling land in Redbridge
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It depends on where the plot sits, not on the town average. Across Romford, 6% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 2% in a conservation area. Green Belt land is concentrated in RM4 and RM3; 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.
Often, yes. 10% of postcodes in Romford are under an Article 4 direction (1 separate direction), 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 Romford the median sale is £432,000, from £410,000 in RM3 to £612,500 in RM4, and only 0% 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 Romford would be measured against a £432,000 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. Romford here means the seven postcode districts whose most common post town is Romford. 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.