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On Towncourt Lane, in Petts Wood
What it's like at BR5 1EL: every home that has sold on Towncourt Lane 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.
8 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Towncourt Lane; 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 69 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 93, Towncourt LaneDetached | Aug 2018 | £690,000 | 100 m² | £6,900/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95, Towncourt LaneDetached | Jul 2024 | £832,000 | 166 m² | £5,012/m² | 2 |
| 97, Towncourt LaneDetached | Aug 2007 | £385,000 | 93 m² | £4,140/m² | 1 |
| 99, Towncourt LaneDetached | Oct 2015 | £642,500 | – | – | 4 |
| 101, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2024 | £660,000 | 101 m² | £6,535/m² | 3 |
| 103, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | May 2026 | £637,000 | 94 m² | £6,777/m² | 4 |
| 109, Towncourt LaneTerraced | Oct 2023 | £612,500 | 93 m² | £6,586/m² | 1 |
| 111, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £420,000 | 56 m² | £7,500/m² | 1 |
| 113, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2000 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 115, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £630,000 | 161 m² | £3,913/m² | 3 |
| 117, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2000 | £198,000 | 135 m² | £1,467/m² | 2 |
| 121, Towncourt LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £750,000 | 122 m² | £6,148/m² | 2 |
| 123a, Towncourt LaneDetached | Jan 1999 | £215,000 | 34 m² | £6,324/m² | 1 |
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, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Jersey Drive, 50 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 208); 38 departures an hour from the 11 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 (under 50 m); 91% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Newstead Wood School, 1.8 km away; Attainment 8: 82.8 · 73.3% 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, 500 m away, with Shell / Little Waitrose - Petts Wood closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Whitehouse Surgery (under 50 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Petts Wood Spa is 500 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.
Crofton Baptist Church is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Royal British Legion Club - Bar the nearest pub (500 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 Broxbourne Gardens, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Oakley Fitness (650 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.
44 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%.
15 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 1EL →
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.
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 69 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
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 48 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 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% | 1.0% |
| 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.