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West Wickham
What it's like at BR3 3FG: every home that has sold on the street 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.
Sales and extensions on the street; 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.
No sales recorded at this postcode since 1995.
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 West Wickham, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 793k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is South Eden Park Road, 400 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 194).
Central London is 17 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Langley Park Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 71% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Pickhurst Infant Academy (1.6 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Langley Park School for Girls, 100 m away; Attainment 8: 55.8 · 20.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (2.3 km) and Harris Academy Beckenham (2.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (6.4 km) and Wilson's School (8.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's Local, 850 m away, with Esso closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Station Road Surgery (1.2 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, Jacs is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 5.2 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 35 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Lawnmower Shed Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Old Dunstonian Sports Club the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 17% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 72% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Blake Park Recreation Ground, 700 m away; for exercise, David Lloyd Beckenham (1.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 15 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 27 km.
21 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.
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%.
10 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 BR3 3FG →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 49 min
Nearest: Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation · about 32 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.7% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.9% | 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.