Land by postcode · SG area · Shefford
Shefford covers the SG17 postcode district, in Central Bedfordshire. Planning applications here are decided by the Central Bedfordshire planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Shefford.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the SG17 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
492
Median sale price
£390,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,075
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+2.3%
£385,000 → £393,750
Mix of sales: 38% detached, 26% semi-detached, 25% terraced, 11% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 153 of 530 (29%). 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 403 live postcodes in SG17 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
30 of 403 postcodes
Shefford Conservation Area · Clifton Conservation Area
No postcodes in SG17 fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Shefford. What can be built on a given plot is decided by the local plan, settlement boundaries and site-specific matters such as access, flood risk and neighbours, none of which this page measures.
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.
Central Bedfordshire covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in Shefford.
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 Shefford, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 7% 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 Shefford, 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 Shefford the median sale is £390,000, and 29% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders are active 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 Shefford would be measured against a £390,000 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. Shefford here means the postcode district whose most common post town is Shefford. 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.