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On Park Hill Road, in Shortlands Bromley Road
What it's like at BR2 0XG: every home that has sold on Park Hill 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). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Park Hill 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.
4 of the 136 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 8, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | May 1998 | £60,000 | 53 m² | £1,132/m² | 1 |
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| Flat 9, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £165,000 | 70 m² | £2,357/m² | 2 |
| Flat 14, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | May 2016 | £385,000 | 71 m² | £5,423/m² | 2 |
| Flat 5, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Jun 2013 | £198,750 | 70 m² | £2,839/m² | 3 |
| Flat 12, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Feb 2000 | £85,000 | 53 m² | £1,604/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Jun 2011 | £197,500 | 70 m² | £2,821/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Jul 2000 | £85,000 | 54 m² | £1,574/m² | 1 |
| Flat 10, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Oct 2012 | £151,000 | 51 m² | £2,961/m² | 1 |
| Flat 7, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadOther | Nov 2017 | £266,000 | 54 m² | £4,926/m² | 1 |
| Flat 13, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Apr 2021 | £515,000 | 136 m² | £3,787/m² | 1 |
| Flat 11, Maplehurst, 45, Park Hill RoadFlat | Nov 2019 | £245,000 | 54 m² | £4,537/m² | 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: 52% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Shortlands, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 1.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Bromley Road / Shortlands Stn, 100 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (route 227); 124 departures an hour from the 14 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 Harris Primary Academy Shortlands, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 78% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Harris Academy Beckenham, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 51.6 · 12.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bonus Pastor Catholic College (2.3 km) and Harris Girls Academy Bromley (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 Bromley International Food Centre, 900 m away, with Shortlands Supermarket closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highland Road Surgery (650 m), with Akasi Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Metal Heads 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.
The Poet's Corner is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Shortlands Tavern the nearest pub (200 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 Church House Gardens, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Gym Bromley (1.1 km).
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.
22 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| the Old Cottage | II | 120 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Beckenham and Penge constituency: Liam Conlon MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,905 (24.7%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Labour 49%, Conservative 25%, Reform UK 10%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
29 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 0XG →
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.
On this street: 0 of 116 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 8 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.
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 136 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 46 min
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