Land by postcode · W area · W5
What the open records say about the W5 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 Ealing, London.
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
1,065
Median sale price
£615,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£9,167
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
-3.7%
£621,500 → £598,750
Mix of sales: 7% detached, 12% semi-detached, 23% terraced, 58% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 36 of 1,187 (3%). 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 1007 live postcodes in W5 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
441 of 1007 postcodes
Ealing Town Centre · Ealing Green · Hanger Hill, Haymills Estate · Ealing Common · Mount Park and 3 more
10 of 1007 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in W5 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.
44% 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 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 W5 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. 218 decided since 2021, 50 refused, typically 109 days to a decision.
136 of 218
approved, 62%
47% across London
470 homes approved of 711 applied for
Approved examples
48 Inglis Road Ealing W5 3RW (9 new homes)
Construction of a three storey building to accommodate 9 self-contained flats (following demolition of existing building) and associated lan...
Approved 2022-05-13, Ealing ref 211927FUL
31B Hamilton Road Ealing London W5 2EE (4 new homes)
Conversion of existing first and second floor maisonette into 3 self-contained residential units with associated bin storage to the front ga...
Approved 2021-06-29, Ealing ref 211655FUL
Garages Park Place Ealing London W5 5NQ (5 new homes)
Construction of four residential dwellings with associated parking, refuse storage, cycle storage and landscaping (following demolition of e...
Approved 2022-12-05, Ealing ref 212170FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
11 decided since 2021, 2 refused, typically 78 days to a decision
9 of 11
approved, 82%
41% across London
Approved examples
31B Hamilton Road Ealing London W5 2EE
Conversion of existing first and second floor maisonette into 3 self-contained residential units with associated bin storage to the front ga...
Approved 2021-06-29, Ealing ref 211655FUL
54 Mount Park Road Ealing London W5 2RU
Conversion of the existing property into five self-contained residential units (following part demolition of existing outbuilding); provisio...
Approved 2023-08-16, Ealing ref 213300FUL
23 Craven Avenue Ealing Ealing W5 2SY
Conversion of a dwelling into four self-contained flats, together with bins and cycle storage, and associated landscaping and amenity space ...
Approved 2022-02-02, Ealing ref 215068FUL
64 decided since 2021, 22 refused, typically 118 days to a decision
35 of 64
approved, 55%
43% across London
Approved examples
Land Rear Of 7 Montpelier Road Ealing W5 2QP
Construction of single storey two bedroom dwellinghouse; and provision of associated amenity space, refuse and cycle storage (following demo...
Approved 2021-09-14, Ealing ref 210036FUL
48 Inglis Road Ealing W5 3RW
Construction of a three storey building to accommodate 9 self-contained flats (following demolition of existing building) and associated lan...
Approved 2022-05-13, Ealing ref 211927FUL
Frobisher House Western Avenue Ealing W5 1HE
Construction of fourth floor level with mansard roof to accommodate two additional self-contained residential units
Approved 2021-05-07, Ealing ref 212320FUL
12 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 95 days to a decision
8 of 12
approved, 67%
45% across London
Approved examples
2 Coningsby Road Ealing London W5 4HR
Change of use of first floor from an office (Use Class B1) to a one bedroom self contained residential flat (Use Class C3)
Approved 2022-02-10, Ealing ref 215792FUL
18-19 The Mall Ealing Ealing W5 2PJ
Change of use of part ground floor and part first floor from commercial use (Mixed Class E(g)/E(b)/E(a)/E(e)) to residential (Use Class C3) ...
Approved 2023-01-11, Ealing ref 220754FUL
3 Boileau Parade Boileau Road Ealing London W5 3AQ
Change of use of part rear ground floor shop (Use Class E) to one self-contained unit (Use Class C3) with installation of two additional roo...
Approved 2022-08-19, Ealing ref 222212FUL
Also decided here: 20 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 14 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 99% of the sampled postcodes in W5.
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 W5, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 44% 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. 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. 1% of postcodes in W5 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 W5 the median sale is £615,000, and only 3% 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 W5 would be measured against a £615,000 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.
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.