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On Southborough Road, in Bickley East
What it's like at BR1 2EP: every home that has sold on Southborough Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
8 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Southborough Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 76 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 81, Southborough RoadDetached | Nov 2020 | £1,085,000 | 310 m² | £3,500/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85, Southborough RoadDetached | Jul 2014 | £1,150,000 | 247 m² | £4,656/m² | 1 |
| 87, Southborough RoadDetached | Sept 2011 | £725,000 | 191 m² | £3,796/m² | 1 |
| 89, Southborough RoadDetached | Oct 2005 | £545,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 91, Southborough RoadDetached | Jul 2005 | £530,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 93, Southborough RoadDetached | Jul 2003 | £1,087,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 97, Southborough RoadDetached | Apr 2021 | £985,000 | 137 m² | £7,190/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, Stoke Court, 77, Southborough RoadOther | Aug 2019 | £319,000 | 77 m² | £4,143/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, Stoke Court, 77, Southborough RoadFlat | Jun 2021 | £526,500 | 124 m² | £4,246/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, Stoke Court, 77, Southborough RoadFlat | Mar 2025 | £525,000 | 124 m² | £4,234/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 53% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bickley, about a 10-minute walk (900 m), with 738k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Woodside Road Southborough, 50 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (route 336); 35 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 18 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Southborough Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (850 m).
The closest top-rated primary is St James' Roman Catholic Primary School (0.6 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Bishop Justus CofE School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 37.8 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (3.5 km) and Bonus Pastor Catholic College (5.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (3 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (4.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 800 m away, with Carnivore Bromley closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dr Vas (700 m), with Gordon Davie Chemist the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Pink & Blue is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 2.9 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 25 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Tony's Cafe & Grill is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The Chequers the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 28% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 52% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Havelock Recreation Ground, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Virgin Active (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.5 µg/m³).
27 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Bromley and Biggin Hill constituency: Peter Fortune MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 302 (0.6%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Conservative 34%, Labour 33%, Reform UK 18%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
11 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BR1 2EP →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
For holidays, London City is 13 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 31 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 2 of 52 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.2% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.0% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 2.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 48 min
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 76 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.