Land by postcode · KT area · Surbiton
Surbiton covers two postcode districts, KT5 and KT6, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Kingston upon Thames planning authority, with Elmbridge covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Surbiton.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Surbiton'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
1,327
Median sale price
£518,500
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,333
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+1.4%
£518,000 → £525,000
Mix of sales: 8% detached, 24% semi-detached, 17% terraced, 50% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 15 of 1,367 (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 1,121 live postcodes in Surbiton's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
3 of 1,121 postcodes
203 of 1,121 postcodes
OAKHILL CONSERVATION AREA (A) · SOUTHBOROUGH CONSERVATION AREA · SURBITON TOWN CENTRE CONSERV AREA · CADOGAN ROAD CONSERVATION AREA · CLAREMONT ROAD CONSERVATION AREA and 6 more
77 of 1,121 postcodes
9 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Surbiton.
No postcodes in Surbiton's two 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Surbiton. 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.
Decided planning applications in Surbiton 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. 87 decided since 2021, 47 refused.
34 of 87
approved, 39%
48% across London
67 homes approved of 223 applied for
Approved examples
3 Cranes Park Avenue Surbiton KT5 8BX (1 new home)
Demolition of existing garage and outbuildings and erection of 1no. detached dwelling house
Approved 2024-04-05, Kingston upon Thames ref 24/00204/FUL
School Cottage Hollyfield Road Surbiton KT5 9AL (7 new homes)
Demolition of existing building and outbuilding, and erection of a new four storey building housing a mix of 7 dwellings with associated ref...
Approved 2023-10-25, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01707/FUL
60 Brighton Road Surbiton KT6 5PP (1 new home)
Removal of existing pitched roof and erection of new additional storey on second floor to provide a one-bedroom self-contained flat
Approved 2022-11-18, Kingston upon Thames ref 21/02716/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused
3 of 4
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
391 Ewell Road Surbiton KT6 7DG
Erection of a two-storey dwelling on land located at the rear of the site, including associated modifications to the existing dwelling, alon...
Approved 2026-01-30, Kingston upon Thames ref 25/02026/FUL
4 decided since 2021, 1 refused
3 of 4
approved
42% across London
Approved examples
65 Kingsmead Avenue Tolworth KT6 7PP
Conversion of single dwellinghouse into two self-contained flats, including subdivision of the rear garden to provide private amenity space,...
Approved 2026-03-06, Kingston upon Thames ref 25/03219/FUL
67 decided since 2021, 34 refused
22 of 67
approved, 33%
45% across London
Approved examples
School Cottage Hollyfield Road Surbiton KT5 9AL
Demolition of existing building and outbuilding, and erection of a new four storey building housing a mix of 7 dwellings with associated ref...
Approved 2023-10-25, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/01707/FUL
21 decided since 2021, 11 refused
9 of 21
approved, 43%
51% across London
Approved examples
42 Lyndhurst Avenue Tolworth KT5 9LL
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of replacement dwelling
Approved 2024-03-13, Kingston upon Thames ref 23/03439/FUL
15 decided since 2021, 10 refused
3 of 15
approved, 20%
46% across London
Approved examples
78-80 Portsmouth Road Surbiton KT6 5PT
Conversion of Offices Class B1(a) on first floor to 3no. one-bedroom flats with associated parking facilities
Approved 2021-06-02, Kingston upon Thames ref 21/01059/PAO2R
Also decided here: 56 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 45 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Surbiton 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.
Surbiton's two districts are split between planning authorities: Kingston upon Thames (92% of sampled postcodes), Elmbridge (8%).
Borough guide: Selling land in Kingston 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 Surbiton, under 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 18% 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.
Often, yes. 7% of postcodes in Surbiton are under an Article 4 direction (9 separate directions), 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 Surbiton the median sale is £518,500, from £488,000 in KT6 to £610,000 in KT5, 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 Surbiton would be measured against a £518,500 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. Surbiton here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Surbiton. 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.