Which postcode districts around Newham do we cover for conservation area application work?
The Newham postcode districts we draw in, the housing that dominates each, and the office that receives a conservation area application from that address. Every money figure shown below is a statutory England planning fee for 2026 — no design cost and no build cost appears in this table.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a conservation area application |
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| E6 | East Ham / Beckton | Victorian terraces | E6 covers East Ham and Beckton, all of it inside Newham. One office validates the application and one set of appraisals applies. |
| E7 | Forest Gate | Victorian terraces | Forest Gate is contained entirely in E7. Newham takes the application, and a good deal of the district's Victorian terracing lies inside the designated area. |
| E12 | Manor Park | Victorian terraces | E12 straddles the Redbridge boundary at Manor Park. Either council may determine the application, so the plot rather than the postcode decides which appraisal document governs the design. |
| E13 | Plaistow | Victorian terraces, post-war flats | Plaistow occupies E13 on its own. Applications go to Newham, and the designated boundary runs close enough to ordinary terraces that it is worth checking before assuming a property is outside it. |
| E15 | Stratford / West Ham | New-build, post-war estates | Stratford and West Ham sit in E15 and are decided by Newham. West Ham is one of the ten designated areas, so the route turns on which side of its boundary a property falls. |
| E16 | Canning Town / Royal Docks | Post-war estates, new-build | Canning Town and the Royal Docks lie wholly within E16, and every application from that district is validated by Newham. |
| E20 | Olympic Park / East Village | Victorian terraces across West Ham | E20 is Olympic Park and East Village, determined by Newham under its own Local Plan. The stock is recent enough that designation questions seldom arise. |
How does a conservation area application differ street by street across Newham?
Roof pitch, wall construction and plot depth vary street by street here, and inside a designated area they also set the terms of the argument a design has to win.
- Royal Docks (E16) — modern dockside towers, regen defines Royal Docks, where modern apartments, post-war estates set what a conservation area application can do. Post-war stock here frequently sits inside an estate layout across E16. Any Royal Docks conservation area application is validated by Newham Council, with ExCeL the usual Royal Docks reference point on the site plan.
- Manor Park (E12) — a conservation area application in Manor Park starts from victorian terraces, and Manor Park reads as Victorian terraces. Most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans in E12. Newham Council assesses Manor Park conservation area applications against its own Manor Park character guidance, and the location plan we draw for Manor Park references Manor Park station.
- Beckton (E6, E16) — conservation area application work in Beckton means 1980s estates, new-build. Beckton is 1980s estates, new-build. Post-war stock here frequently sits inside an estate layout throughout E6. Newham Council decides the Beckton application, and Beckton DLR anchors the Beckton location plan.
- Stratford (E15) — Olympic-era new-build, regen defines Stratford, where new-build, post-war estates set what a conservation area application can do. Post-war stock here frequently sits inside an estate layout across E15. Any Stratford conservation area application is validated by Newham Council, with Olympic Park the usual Stratford reference point on the site plan.
- Forest Gate (E7) — a conservation area application in Forest Gate starts from victorian terraces, and Forest Gate reads as Victorian terraces. Most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans in E7. Newham Council assesses Forest Gate conservation area applications against its own Forest Gate character guidance, and the location plan we draw for Forest Gate references Forest Gate station.
- Plaistow (E13) — conservation area application work in Plaistow means victorian terraces, post-war flats. Plaistow is Victorian terraces, post-war flats. Most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans throughout E13. Newham Council decides the Plaistow application, and Plaistow Tube anchors the Plaistow location plan.
- East Ham (E6) — conservation area application work in East Ham means victorian terraces. East Ham is Victorian terraces. Most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans throughout E6. Newham Council decides the East Ham application, and East Ham High Street anchors the East Ham location plan.
What does designation change, on the few streets it covers?
It moves the whole job from notification to application. Eight areas are registered for Newham: Woodgrange Estate at Forest Gate (30 hectares), Forest Gate Town Centre and Stratford St John's (8.3 each), Durham Road at Manor Park, East Ham Town Centre, the University Area, Sugar House Lane and Romford Road. Inside any of them a side extension and a roof alteration stop being permitted development, so the route becomes a £548 householder application over eight weeks rather than a £249 notification over six, and the £274 certificate ceases to be available as a shortcut. The Woodgrange Estate is the one most Newham owners actually meet, because it is the only designation large enough to take in a residential grid rather than a town centre.
Small coverage is not the same as light-touch. Newham issued 209 enforcement notices in the twelve quarters to March 2026, the fifth highest count of any borough and more than Bromley, a borough with sixty-nine designated areas and four times the land. The borough also operates Article 4 directions, though the national register holds no area record for Newham at all and so says nothing about which rights they withdraw; the council's own maps are the only source. Do not assume they touch a rear dormer. Across London the register shows Article 4 aimed overwhelmingly at commercial-to-residential conversion, with 932 areas withdrawing that right and 85 withdrawing the householder extension right, none of the 85 in Newham.
The stock outside the designations is unusually polarised. Of Newham's 132,600 dwellings at 31 March 2025, 27.9% predate 1900 and 21.4% were built between 2010 and 2025 — a share beaten only by Tower Hamlets, against 11.8% for the capital. Barely 2.0% dates from the 1930s. In practice that means two conversations: a Victorian terrace where the party wall and the back addition set the limits, or a post-2010 flat where Part 1 rights do not apply at all and the lease matters more than the planning.
How do the neighbouring boroughs compare?
- Waltham Forest, north across E11 and E17 — the sharpest contrast on this boundary. It refused 38.0% of the 736 larger rear extensions it determined under prior approval, against Newham's 22.5%, and grants 77.1% of householder applications where Newham grants 85.8%.
- Redbridge, north-east across E12 — 20.9% of 1,543 refused, close to Newham on that measure, but far faster: 95.9% of its householder decisions land inside eight weeks against Newham's 83.3%.
- Tower Hamlets, west across E3 and E14 — determined only 38 larger rear extensions in three years, a base so thin that its 13.2% refusal share carries little weight, and it has the lowest householder appeal success rate in London at 26.0%. A different planning world half a mile from Stratford.
- Barking and Dagenham, east across E6 and IG11 — refuses just 12.7% of larger extensions but only 69.7% of householder applications, the lowest grant rate in London. The route you choose there matters more than it does here.
Sources for this Newham conservation area application page: borough policies maps and
conservation-area registers (2025–26), Royal Mail postcode district boundaries,
the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) Regulations, the Town
and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended,
and the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
