Land by postcode · UB area · UB5
What the open records say about the UB5 postcode district in Greater London: recent sales, planning designations and controls, and the council that decides applications. District-level facts to read before you sell or develop a plot in Northolt.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07. This is market context for the district, 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
523
Median sale price
£421,500
Median £ per m² of floor area
£5,500
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-5.9%
£425,000 → £400,000
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 27% semi-detached, 30% terraced, 42% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 4 of 499 (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 840 live postcodes in UB5 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
22 of 840 postcodes
Ealing · Hillingdon
7 of 840 postcodes
Northolt Village Green
20 of 840 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in UB5 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.
3% of postcodes in UB5 are inside the Green Belt, so Northolt 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.
These are district-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 UB5 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. 83 decided since 2021, 25 refused, typically 71 days to a decision.
51 of 83
approved, 61%
47% across London
109 homes approved of 176 applied for
Approved examples
Land Adjacent Beverley Court Ruislip Road Northolt Middlesex UB5 6XJ (9 new homes)
Construction of a part two, part five storey building including roof space accommodation to provide 9 self contained flats with associated c...
Approved 2022-06-29, Ealing ref 212692FUL
24 Islip Gardens Northolt Middlesex UB5 5BX (2 new homes)
Conversion of existing dwellinghouse into 2 self-contained residential units; alteration to ground floor rear elevation; and provision of as...
Approved 2021-06-08, Ealing ref 212712FUL
108-110 Church Road Northolt Middlesex UB5 5AE (5 new homes)
Construction of a two-storey residential building, including partial excavation of the site, to provide 4 self-contained residential units, ...
Approved 2024-07-18, Ealing ref 217102FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
12 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 68 days to a decision
9 of 12
approved, 75%
41% across London
Approved examples
24 Islip Gardens Northolt Middlesex UB5 5BX
Conversion of existing dwellinghouse into 2 self-contained residential units; alteration to ground floor rear elevation; and provision of as...
Approved 2021-06-08, Ealing ref 212712FUL
4 Longhook Gardens Northolt Middlesex UB5 6PE
Conversion of existing dwellinghouse into 2 self-contained flats; with associated cycle and refuse storage.
Approved 2022-01-17, Ealing ref 216055FUL
9 Moat Farm Road Northolt UB5 5DR
Conversion of single dwellinghouse into two self-contained residential units
Approved 2022-01-25, Ealing ref 216934FUL
20 decided since 2021, 12 refused, typically 83 days to a decision
6 of 20
approved, 30%
43% across London
Approved examples
1-12 Grainger Close Northolt Middlesex UB5 4LF
Construction of a three storey building comprising nine flats, with associated access, amenity space and landscaping
Approved 2022-03-16, Ealing ref 213727FUL
Land Adjacent To 50, 52 And 52A Belvue Road Northolt UB5 5HP
Construction of 3, two storey, dwellinghouses.
Approved 2023-10-03, Ealing ref 232039FUL
107 Mandeville Road Northolt UB5 4LX
Construction of two storey attached dwelling house.
Approved 2024-01-19, Ealing ref 234352FUL
3 decided since 2021, 1 refused, typically 83 days to a decision
1 of 3
approved
45% across London
Approved examples
5 Bengarth Road Northolt UB5 5LF
Use of existing single storey detached garden outbuilding as lounge/office accommodation incidental to main dwellinghouse
Approved 2023-05-04, Ealing ref 230550HH
Also decided here: 4 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 4 approved, typically 55 days.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) in this postcode district from the councils' own registers, classified by the wording of each proposal. Counts, not estimates; where a class has fewer than three applications it is not shown.
Ealing covers 96% of the sampled postcodes in UB5.
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 district average. In UB5, 3% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 1% in a conservation area. On Green Belt or National Landscape plots a new home is the exception and needs a specific case; a replacement dwelling, a conversion or a modest extension is usually the realistic route there. 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. A plot on the edge of a village or town with access has the best chance; an open field outside the settlement boundary rarely gets consent for housing whatever the market is doing.
Often, yes. 2% of postcodes in UB5 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 UB5 the median sale is £421,500, 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 district 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 UB5 would be measured against a £421,500 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.
Three places: Ealing's local plan and its policies map for the settlement boundary and allocations, the council's planning register for what has been approved or refused on neighbouring land, and planning.data.gov.uk for the national designations. That is an evening's work if you know what you are looking for. The alternative is to draw your boundary on this site: an architect checks it against the same records and writes back within 48 hours with a plain answer, free and without obligation.
Computed from open-data records; district-level, not plot-level measurements. 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), retrieved 2026-09-05; conservation areas and Article 4 directions are made locally and published on that national register. Postcode centroids: OS Code-Point Open 2026.3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Place name is the most common post town in the sales records. Figures computed 2026-09-06.