Land by postcode · SM area · Sutton
Sutton covers three postcode districts, SM1, SM2 and SM3, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Sutton planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Sutton.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all three of Sutton'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
2,086
Median sale price
£452,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,917
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-0.2%
£452,250 → £451,250
Mix of sales: 10% detached, 24% semi-detached, 25% terraced, 42% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 9 of 2,217 (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 1,813 live postcodes in Sutton's three districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
7 of 1,813 postcodes
Mostly in SM2: 7 of SM2's 591 postcodes.
86 of 1,813 postcodes
COA00000309 · COA00000239 · COA00000307 · COA00000306 · COA00000204
No postcodes in Sutton's three districts 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.
None of these designations covers more than a small share of postcodes in Sutton. 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 Sutton 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. 125 decided since 2021, 60 refused.
52 of 125
approved, 42%
48% across London
140 homes approved of 308 applied for
Approved examples
Land Between 53 And 61 Malden Road Cheam SM3 8QW (8 new homes)
Outline application to determine access, appearance, layout and scale for the erection of two detached two storey buildings with accommodati...
Approved 2024-12-17, Sutton ref DM2022/00580
59-61 Mulgrave Road Sutton SM2 6LR (9 new homes)
Demolition of 2 semi-detached 2 storey dwellinghouses and erection of a detached 3 storey building with accommodation in both the roof space...
Approved 2024-02-29, Sutton ref DM2022/00107
22 - 34 High Street Cheam Sutton SM3 8RL (2 new homes)
Erection of 2 two storey semi-detached dwellings with accommodation in roofspace, refuse and cycle storage and parking.
Approved 2023-09-08, Sutton ref DM2022/02223
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
3 decided since 2021, 2 refused
1 of 3
approved
36% across London
Approved examples
23 William Road Sutton SM1 4QT
Erection of a two-storey dwelling in land to the rear of 23 William Road with altered pedestrian access from Palmerston Road, cycle and refu...
Approved 2023-07-05, Sutton ref DM2022/02127
56 decided since 2021, 32 refused
20 of 56
approved, 36%
45% across London
Approved examples
22 - 34 High Street Cheam Sutton SM3 8RL
Erection of 2 two storey semi-detached dwellings with accommodation in roofspace, refuse and cycle storage and parking.
Approved 2023-09-08, Sutton ref DM2022/02223
17 decided since 2021, 5 refused
11 of 17
approved, 65%
51% across London
Approved examples
17 The Causeway Sutton SM2 5RS
Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a two storey detached dwelling including accommodation in the roof space and provision of re...
Approved 2023-04-14, Sutton ref DM2023/00288
12 decided since 2021, 6 refused
5 of 12
approved, 42%
46% across London
Approved examples
Hazel House 78 Westmead Road Sutton SM1 4JF
Conversion of fourth floor residential unit (Flat 10) to provide 1 additional self contained residential unit.
Approved 2025-03-14, Sutton ref DM2024/01657
Also decided here: 71 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 62 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 3 of 3 postcode districts in Sutton 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.
Sutton covers 98% of the sampled postcodes in Sutton.
Borough guide: Selling land in Sutton
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 Sutton, under 1% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 5% 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 Sutton, 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 Sutton the median sale is £452,000, from £365,000 in SM2 to £550,000 in SM3, 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 Sutton would be measured against a £452,000 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. Sutton here means the three postcode districts whose most common post town is Sutton. 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.