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On Ravensmead Road, in Shortlands Bromley Road
What it's like at BR2 0BT: every home that has sold on Ravensmead 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Ravensmead 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.
None of the 34 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £420,000 | 101 m² | £4,158/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2010 | £345,000 | 101 m² | £3,416/m² | 2 |
| 6, Ravensmead RoadTerraced | Aug 2025 | £750,000 | 109 m² | £6,881/m² | 4 |
| 8, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £365,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £695,000 | 98 m² | £7,092/m² | 3 |
| 14, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £370,000 | 102 m² | £3,627/m² | 2 |
| 16, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £613,000 | 101 m² | £6,069/m² | 1 |
| 18, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £625,000 | 124 m² | £5,040/m² | 4 |
| 20, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2011 | £305,000 | 122 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 22, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | May 2017 | £595,000 | 108 m² | £5,509/m² | 4 |
| 24, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £625,000 | 113 m² | £5,531/m² | 2 |
| 26, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2021 | £680,000 | 109 m² | £6,239/m² | 3 |
| 28, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | May 2007 | £376,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £615,000 | 83 m² | £7,410/m² | 3 |
| 32, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £380,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 34, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2024 | £696,150 | 98 m² | £7,104/m² | 2 |
| 36, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2016 | £550,000 | 102 m² | £5,392/m² | 4 |
| 38, Ravensmead RoadFlat | Jun 2007 | £225,750 | – | – | 3 |
| 42, Ravensmead RoadTerraced | Mar 2025 | £550,000 | 90 m² | £6,111/m² | 2 |
| 44, Ravensmead RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2004 | £204,000 | 98 m² | £2,082/m² | 3 |
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: 52% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ravensbourne, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 235k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Blackfriars.
The nearest bus stop is Ravensbourne Station, 100 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route 354); 24 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 14 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Mary's Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 82% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Harris Primary Academy Shortlands (0.7 km), with 6 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Sedgehill Academy, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 43.9 · 9.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Beckenham (1.8 km) and Bonus Pastor Catholic College (2.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (7.1 km) and Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (8.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 1.1 km away, with Shell Hillbrew closer still (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highland Road Surgery (850 m), with Duncans Chemist the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Alessandro is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital Lewisham, 5.2 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 44% 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 4 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Raven Expresso is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Shortlands Golf Club the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Homes are mostly flats (52%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Beckenham Place Park, 850 m away; for exercise, Ten-Em-Bee Sports Development Centre (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 11 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 31 km.
2 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%.
35 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 BR2 0BT →
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 51% 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 34 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 46 min
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On this street: 0 of 28 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% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.6% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.1% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 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.