Land by postcode · UB area · West Drayton
West Drayton covers the UB7 postcode district, in Greater London. Planning applications here are decided by the Hillingdon planning authority. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in West Drayton.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across the UB7 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
446
Median sale price
£419,975
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,313
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+6.2%
£400,000 → £425,000
Mix of sales: 6% detached, 27% semi-detached, 24% terraced, 42% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 3 of 495 (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 632 live postcodes in UB7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
29 of 632 postcodes
84 of 632 postcodes
West Drayton Green · Harmondsworth Village · Longford Village
632 of 632 postcodes
4 separate directions recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area. The largest named one is the Residential extensions.
No postcodes in UB7 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.
5% of postcodes in West Drayton are inside the Green Belt, so West Drayton has land both inside and outside it. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.
100% of postcodes are covered by an Article 4 direction, which removes specific permitted development rights in that area, so changes that are automatic elsewhere need a planning application there.
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 West Drayton 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. 18 decided since 2021, 8 refused.
9 of 18
approved, 50%
48% across London
32 homes approved of 47 applied for
Approved examples
13 OAK AVENUE WEST DRAYTON UB7 9EP (1 new home)
Erection of a two storey, 2-bed attached dwelling with associated cycle storage and amenity space
Approved 2025-07-08, Hillingdon ref 77097/APP/2024/2693
36 COLERIDGE WAY WEST DRAYTON UB7 9HR (1 new home)
Erection of a three storey 2-bedroom end-of-terrace dwelling with associated parking and amenity space.
Approved 2023-08-21, Hillingdon ref 75146/APP/2023/1243
67 HORTON ROAD YIEWSLEY UB7 8ET (6 new homes)
Demolition of existing building and erection of a three-storey residential building, comprising of 3 x one-bed and 3 x two-bed self-containe...
Approved 2023-02-09, Hillingdon ref 6800/APP/2021/3573
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
8 decided since 2021, 5 refused
2 of 8
approved, 25%
45% across London
Approved examples
13 OAK AVENUE WEST DRAYTON UB7 9EP
Erection of a two storey, 2-bed attached dwelling with associated cycle storage and amenity space
Approved 2025-07-08, Hillingdon ref 77097/APP/2024/2693
Also decided here: 25 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 22 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 1 postcode districts in West Drayton 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.
Hillingdon covers 100% of the sampled postcodes in West Drayton.
Borough guide: Selling land in Hillingdon
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 West Drayton, 5% of postcodes are in the Green Belt and 13% in a conservation area. 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. 100% of postcodes in West Drayton are under an Article 4 direction (4 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 West Drayton the median sale is £419,975, 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 West Drayton would be measured against a £419,975 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. West Drayton here means the postcode district whose most common post town is West Drayton. 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.