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On Walwyn Avenue, in Bickley West
What it's like at BR1 2RD: every home that has sold on Walwyn Avenue 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Walwyn Avenue; 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.
None of the 23 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Feb 2018 | £460,000 | 94 m² | £4,894/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Nov 2025 | £477,000 | 66 m² | £7,227/m² | 3 |
| 4, Walwyn AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £450,000 | 73 m² | £6,164/m² | 5 |
| 5, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Aug 2017 | £429,950 | 56 m² | £7,678/m² | 4 |
| 6, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | May 2016 | £400,000 | 72 m² | £5,556/m² | 1 |
| 7, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Sept 2024 | £560,000 | 88 m² | £6,364/m² | 3 |
| 8, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Nov 2005 | £200,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 2026 | £610,000 | 119 m² | £5,126/m² | 2 |
| 11, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 2013 | £267,000 | 75 m² | £3,560/m² | 1 |
| 15, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | May 2022 | £590,000 | 79 m² | £7,468/m² | 1 |
| 16, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Aug 2020 | £405,000 | 77 m² | £5,260/m² | 1 |
| 18, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Oct 2007 | £265,000 | 81 m² | £3,272/m² | 1 |
| 20, Walwyn AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £495,000 | 79 m² | £6,266/m² | 1 |
| 22, Walwyn AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £530,000 | 141 m² | £3,759/m² | 2 |
| 24, Walwyn AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £565,000 | 117 m² | £4,829/m² | 2 |
| 26, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 2015 | £499,999 | 130 m² | £3,846/m² | 3 |
| 28, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Apr 1997 | £78,200 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Apr 2020 | £485,000 | 61 m² | £7,951/m² | 6 |
| 32, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Oct 1996 | £84,000 | 67 m² | £1,254/m² | 1 |
| 36, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 2005 | £180,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 1996 | £79,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 42, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jan 2021 | £485,000 | 70 m² | £6,929/m² | 2 |
| 46, Walwyn AvenueTerraced | Jul 1997 | £82,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 49% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bickley, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 738k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is The Avenue / Beaconsfield Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (route 336); 29 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 17 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Raglan Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 69% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is La Fontaine Academy (0.9 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Orion Ravensbourne, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 45 · 10.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (2.6 km) and Harris Academy Beckenham (4.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (4.2 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (5.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away; Costcutter (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dr Vas (600 m), with Wallace Pring Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Mahilia is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 3.6 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: 13 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Jubilee Church is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Lord Holmesdale the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 32% flats and 7% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Havelock Recreation Ground, 150 m away; for exercise, Virgin Active (300 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 12 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 31 km.
39 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%.
23 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 2RD →
Most households own their home, 23% rent privately.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bromley since 2011.
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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 18 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 90.4% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.9% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.5% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 47 min
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