Land by postcode · W area · W7
What the open records say about the W7 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
453
Median sale price
£545,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£7,789
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
+8.3%
£535,000 → £579,250
Mix of sales: 1% detached, 17% semi-detached, 40% terraced, 42% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 144 of 589 (24%). 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 510 live postcodes in W7 whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
132 of 510 postcodes
Cuckoo Estate · St Mark's Church and Canal · Hanwell Village Green · Hanwell Clock Tower · Churchfields and 1 more
No postcodes in W7 fall inside: Green Belt, 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.
26% 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 W7 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. 102 decided since 2021, 33 refused, typically 82 days to a decision.
55 of 102
approved, 54%
47% across London
143 homes approved of 277 applied for
Approved examples
323A Greenford Avenue Hanwell London W7 1JH (3 new homes)
Conversion of first floor, second floor and third floor into 3no. self-contained residential units.
Approved 2021-07-22, Ealing ref 212055FUL
64 Greenford Avenue Hanwell London W7 3QP (3 new homes)
Conversion of dwellinghouse into three self-contained residential units; and provision of associated cycle storage, refuse storage and ameni...
Approved 2021-08-18, Ealing ref 211689FUL
78 Cuckoo Dene Hanwell London W7 3DR (2 new homes)
Conversion of existing single dwelling house to two self-contained units, with associated bin storage, bicycle parking, parking and private ...
Approved 2022-01-17, Ealing ref 212658FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
13 decided since 2021, 3 refused, typically 66 days to a decision
8 of 13
approved, 62%
41% across London
Approved examples
64 Greenford Avenue Hanwell London W7 3QP
Conversion of dwellinghouse into three self-contained residential units; and provision of associated cycle storage, refuse storage and ameni...
Approved 2021-08-18, Ealing ref 211689FUL
42 Beresford Avenue Hanwell W7 3AL
Conversion of dwellinghouse into two self-contained residential units; provision of associated amenity spaces; and cycle space and refuse st...
Approved 2021-04-30, Ealing ref 212305FUL
78 Cuckoo Dene Hanwell London W7 3DR
Conversion of existing single dwelling house to two self-contained units, with associated bin storage, bicycle parking, parking and private ...
Approved 2022-01-17, Ealing ref 212658FUL
27 decided since 2021, 16 refused, typically 67 days to a decision
5 of 27
approved, 19%
43% across London
Approved examples
Rear Of Brent & Glebe Court Church Road Hanwell London W7 3BZ
Construction of a three-storey building comprising 5 flats and associated amenity space, refuse and cycle storage (following demolition of e...
Approved 2023-06-22, Ealing ref 216308FUL
Land To The Rear Of 43-45 Rosebank Road (Bostonthorpe Road) London W7 2EW
Construction of a 2 storey dwelling house with provision of bin store, cycle storage and private amenity space
Approved 2022-04-29, Ealing ref 220720FUL
Rosebank Yard Rosebank Road Hanwell W7 2EW
Construction of two dwellinghouses with provision of cycle storage, bin storage, amenity space, and hard and soft landscaping.
Approved 2025-05-19, Ealing ref 242710FUL
Also decided here: 5 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 5 approved, typically 64 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 100% of the sampled postcodes in W7.
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 W7, 0% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 26% 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.
No Article 4 direction is recorded for W7, 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 W7 the median sale is £545,000, and 24% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders are active 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 W7 would be measured against a £545,000 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.