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On Chislehurst Road, in Orpington West
What it's like at BR5 1NR: every home that has sold on Chislehurst 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Chislehurst 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.
None of the 68 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 178a, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Sept 2014 | £603,000 | 115 m² | £5,243/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Jul 2010 | £635,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 182, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Feb 2005 | £540,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 184, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Jul 2014 | £880,000 | 298 m² | £2,953/m² | 1 |
| 184a, Chislehurst RoadOther | Apr 2015 | £50,000 | 206 m² | £243/m² | 1 |
| 186, Chislehurst RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £705,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 190, Chislehurst RoadDetached | May 2004 | £440,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 192, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Apr 2024 | £1,087,000 | 185 m² | £5,876/m² | 4 |
| 194, Chislehurst RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2007 | £490,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 196, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Sept 2020 | £1,050,000 | 194 m² | £5,412/m² | 4 |
| 204, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Oct 2004 | £465,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 206, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Sept 2011 | £740,000 | 168 m² | £4,405/m² | 4 |
| 208, Chislehurst RoadDetached | May 2013 | £620,000 | 160 m² | £3,875/m² | 1 |
| 210, Chislehurst RoadDetached | May 2009 | £690,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 214, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Mar 2009 | £440,000 | 140 m² | £3,143/m² | 1 |
| 218, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £1,120,000 | 229 m² | £4,891/m² | 4 |
| 220, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Aug 2000 | £475,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 222, Chislehurst RoadDetached | Jan 2018 | £1,195,000 | 149 m² | £8,020/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Petts Wood, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 1.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Chislehurst Road / Poverest Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route 61); 62 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 12 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 21 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Poverest Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 66% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Perry Hall Primary School (0.5 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Orion Coopers, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 10.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (5.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (1.4 km) and Newstead Wood School (1.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Hub Mart, 1.0 km away, with The BakeHouse closer still (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Poverest Medical Centre (750 m), with Farrants Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Face & Body Clinic is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 3.0 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: 54 restaurants and cafés and 5 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Breakfast & After School Club - Poverest Primary School is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Petts Wood Bowling Club the nearest pub (950 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (19 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 144 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 29% flats and 31% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
12 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 1NR →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's growing: about 160 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Poverest Park, 650 m away; for exercise, Knoll Orpington Lawn Tennis (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 14 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Most households own their home, 20% rent privately.
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 68 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 44 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 42 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 79.8% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.4% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 9.4% | 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.