38 Colby Road is a semi-detached house in Southwark, London, London (SE19 1HA). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump.
3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £844,000 is 20.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£723/sq ft) was about 188.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £700,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
38 Colby Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A recent planning application at 38 Colby Road was refused — worth checking the council file.
Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) for the erection of a rear roof dormer and the addition of three roof lights to the existing front roof slope
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£844,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£700,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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38 Colby Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£7,778
Street avg £5,613
Floor Area
90 m²
Street avg 118 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Gipsy Hill Station — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
56.4dB

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Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Prior approval notification for a single storey large rear extension (depth: 6m, width 4m, eaves height: 3m, max height 3.9m)
Full planning data for 38 Colby Road, Southwark, London, SE19 1HA
1 more on this property, plus every nearby application and full decision details, in the report.
12 March 2021Most recent
£700,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SE19 1HA: £765,000 (2025–2024).
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CO₂ Emissions
6.6 t/year
Street avg 3.9 t/year
SE19 1AL
Closest school
0.3 km
Paxton Primary School. 62 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
46.1dB