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On Crescent Drive, in Petts Wood
What it's like at BR5 1BD: every home that has sold on Crescent Drive 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.
11 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Crescent Drive; 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 189 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 10, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | May 2016 | £546,000 | 83 m² | £6,578/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | May 2013 | £360,000 | 81 m² | £4,444/m² | 1 |
| 16, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £642,500 | 88 m² | £7,301/m² | 2 |
| 18, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jan 1998 | £149,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £530,000 | 110 m² | £4,818/m² | 2 |
| 22, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2006 | £280,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Aug 1996 | £98,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £545,000 | 107 m² | £5,093/m² | 1 |
| 28, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £530,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £370,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 34, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2017 | £520,000 | 123 m² | £4,228/m² | 1 |
| 38, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £475,000 | 74 m² | £6,419/m² | 1 |
| 42, Crescent DriveTerraced | May 2004 | £215,000 | 102 m² | £2,108/m² | 1 |
| 44, Crescent DriveDetached | Apr 2006 | £272,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 46, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £670,000 | 109 m² | £6,147/m² | 1 |
| 48, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £680,000 | 79 m² | £8,608/m² | 2 |
| 54, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £540,000 | 77 m² | £7,013/m² | 2 |
| 60, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Feb 1999 | £127,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 64, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £552,000 | 140 m² | £3,943/m² | 3 |
| 66, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2019 | £605,000 | 118 m² | £5,127/m² | 4 |
| 68, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £685,000 | 104 m² | £6,587/m² | 2 |
| 70, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2015 | £425,000 | 84 m² | £5,060/m² | 3 |
| 72, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Sept 1996 | £97,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 74, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2019 | £600,000 | 67 m² | £8,955/m² | 3 |
| 76, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £665,000 | 67 m² | £9,925/m² | 3 |
| 78, Crescent DriveTerraced | Dec 2016 | £580,000 | 114 m² | £5,088/m² | 4 |
| 80, Crescent DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £800,000 | 158 m² | £5,063/m² | 3 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 57% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Petts Wood, a few minutes' walk (300 m), with 1.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Chesham Avenue / Woodhurst Avenue, 300 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route R3); 67 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 20 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Crofton Junior School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 91% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Bishop Justus CofE School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 37.8 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (4.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (2.1 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (2.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons, 250 m away; Shell / Little Waitrose - Petts Wood (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Emma Coleman Skin (400 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Petts Wood Spa is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 2.7 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Costa is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Royal British Legion Club - Bar the nearest pub (250 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 28% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 72% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Jubilee Country Park, 850 m away; for exercise, Oakley Fitness (350 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 13 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 32 km.
50 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.
Orpington constituency: Gareth Bacon MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,118 (11.1%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 19%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
7 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 BR5 1BD →
On this street: 2 of 140 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 | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 98.2% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.3% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 45% 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.
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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 189 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 46 min
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