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On The Alders, in West Wickham
What it's like at BR4 9PG: every home that has sold on The Alders 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Alders; 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.
2 of the 108 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 15, The AldersSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £560,000 | 90 m² | £6,222/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17, The AldersTerraced | Jul 2000 | £207,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, The AldersSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £127,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, The AldersSemi-detached | Aug 2010 | £372,000 | 100 m² | £3,720/m² | 2 |
| 23, The AldersFlat | Sept 2005 | £150,000 | 55 m² | £2,727/m² | 1 |
| 25, The AldersFlat | Mar 1999 | £86,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, The AldersFlat | Nov 2021 | £339,000 | 49 m² | £6,918/m² | 3 |
| 31, The AldersOther | Oct 2019 | £397,000 | 80 m² | £4,963/m² | 1 |
| 33, The AldersFlat | Nov 2013 | £210,000 | 58 m² | £3,621/m² | 2 |
| 35, The AldersFlat | Oct 2007 | £170,000 | 52 m² | £3,269/m² | 2 |
| 37, The AldersFlat | Aug 2006 | £166,000 | 64 m² | £2,594/m² | 3 |
| 39, The AldersFlat | Sept 2003 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, The AldersFlat | Feb 2014 | £240,000 | 77 m² | £3,117/m² | 3 |
| 60, The AldersSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £764,000 | 182 m² | £4,198/m² | 1 |
| 60a, The AldersSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £775,000 | 182 m² | £4,258/m² | 1 |
| 62, The AldersDetached | Dec 2020 | £615,000 | 158 m² | £3,892/m² | 2 |
| 76, The AldersDetached | May 2025 | £538,000 | 55 m² | £9,782/m² | 3 |
| Flat 15, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | May 2015 | £190,000 | 42 m² | £4,524/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Nov 2019 | £200,000 | 58 m² | £3,448/m² | 2 |
| Flat 17, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Jul 2017 | £230,000 | 48 m² | £4,792/m² | 2 |
| Flat 14, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Aug 2022 | £275,000 | 70 m² | £3,929/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Jun 2024 | £199,000 | 46 m² | £4,326/m² | 3 |
| Flat 13, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Sept 2017 | £265,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 5, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Aug 2004 | £190,000 | 83 m² | £2,289/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Jul 2018 | £205,000 | 46 m² | £4,457/m² | 2 |
| Flat 12, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Nov 2015 | £215,000 | 47 m² | £4,574/m² | 4 |
| Flat 10, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Jul 2009 | £135,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 9, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Dec 2015 | £230,000 | 44 m² | £5,227/m² | 2 |
| Flat 4, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Aug 2010 | £172,500 | 58 m² | £2,974/m² | 1 |
| Flat 7, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Nov 2015 | £200,000 | 42 m² | £4,762/m² | 2 |
| Flat 8, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Apr 2021 | £252,000 | 59 m² | £4,271/m² | 4 |
| Flat 11, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Mar 2015 | £232,500 | 71 m² | £3,275/m² | 1 |
| Flat 16, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Apr 2020 | £195,000 | 58 m² | £3,362/m² | 1 |
| Flat 6, Alderbrook Court, 58, The AldersFlat | Jun 2024 | £240,000 | 59 m² | £4,068/m² | 1 |
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 (950 m), with 793k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is High Street / Manor Road, 250 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 194, 119); 92 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 17 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Forest Academy, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 73% 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 Orchard Park High School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 44.8 · 4.6% 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, 250 m away; Bonds Of Shirley (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wickham Park Surgery (100 m), with Lakewood Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Darren Jonathan is 250 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.
Fairy Floss Party is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Wheatsheaf 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 (2.2 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.
38 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%.
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 BR4 9PG →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
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 108 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 88 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 72 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 91.7% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.8% | 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: 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.