Land by postcode · TW area · Twickenham
Twickenham covers two postcode districts, TW1 and TW2, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Richmond upon Thames planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Twickenham.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across both of Twickenham'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
1,472
Median sale price
£655,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£8,755
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+2.3%
£650,000 → £665,000
Mix of sales: 4% detached, 24% semi-detached, 34% terraced, 37% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 0 of 1,532 (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 1,223 live postcodes in Twickenham's two districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
279 of 1,223 postcodes
Twickenham Riverside · St Margaret's Estate · Cambridge Park · Queen's Road (Twickenham) · Pope's Avenue and 10 more
42 of 1,223 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in Twickenham's two districts fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
23% 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 Twickenham 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. 49 decided since 2021, 19 refused.
25 of 49
approved, 51%
48% across London
51 homes approved of 99 applied for
Approved examples
116A Amyand Park Road Twickenham TW1 3HP (2 new homes)
Demolition of existing building. Erection of 2 semi-detached houses with associated landscaping, parking, and refuse/cycle storage.
Approved 2023-04-20, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/1711/FUL
88 Richmond Road Twickenham TW1 3BB (4 new homes)
Demolition of existing dwelling and associated outbuildings, and erection of 4no. new 1bed and 2bed affordable flats, with associated landsc...
Approved 2022-11-04, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/1825/FUL
286 Staines Road Twickenham TW2 5AS (1 new home)
Change of use of single dwelling house to provide one x 4 bedroom dwelling and one x 2 bedroom dwelling
Approved 2022-11-04, Richmond upon Thames ref 21/3800/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
20 decided since 2021, 7 refused
12 of 20
approved, 60%
45% across London
Approved examples
214 Hampton Road Twickenham TW2 5NJ
Erection of a 1 bedroom chalet/bungalow with the provision of amenity space and parking at rear of property.
Approved 2024-09-09, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/2662/FUL
3 decided since 2021, 2 refused
1 of 3
approved
51% across London
Approved examples
88 Richmond Road Twickenham TW1 3BB
Demolition of existing dwelling and associated outbuildings, and erection of 4no. new 1bed and 2bed affordable flats, with associated landsc...
Approved 2022-11-04, Richmond upon Thames ref 22/1825/FUL
Also decided here: 41 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 34 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 2 of 2 postcode districts in Twickenham 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 upon Thames covers 96% of the sampled postcodes in Twickenham.
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 Twickenham, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 23% 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. 3% of postcodes in Twickenham 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 Twickenham the median sale is £655,000, from £630,000 in TW2 to £733,500 in TW1, 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 Twickenham would be measured against a £655,000 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. Twickenham here means the two postcode districts whose most common post town is Twickenham. 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.