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On The Greenway, in Orpington West
What it's like at BR5 2AY: every home that has sold on The Greenway 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Greenway; 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 26 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jun 2001 | £143,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, The GreenwayTerraced | Feb 2021 | £400,000 | 102 m² | £3,922/m² | 2 |
| 4, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Oct 2003 | £209,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, The GreenwayTerraced | Sept 2019 | £371,500 | 77 m² | £4,825/m² | 3 |
| 6, The GreenwaySemi-detached | May 2016 | £290,000 | 96 m² | £3,021/m² | 3 |
| 7, The GreenwayTerraced | Apr 2008 | £215,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Feb 2003 | £173,000 | 56 m² | £3,089/m² | 2 |
| 9, The GreenwayTerraced | Jul 2009 | £185,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £500,000 | 90 m² | £5,556/m² | 1 |
| 11, The GreenwayTerraced | Oct 2019 | £400,000 | 98 m² | £4,082/m² | 1 |
| 13, The GreenwayTerraced | Jun 2014 | £285,000 | 95 m² | £3,000/m² | 1 |
| 14, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Nov 1996 | £73,000 | 94 m² | £777/m² | 1 |
| 15, The GreenwayTerraced | Sept 2023 | £455,000 | 81 m² | £5,617/m² | 4 |
| 16, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £815,000 | 176 m² | £4,631/m² | 2 |
| 18, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £507,000 | 119 m² | £4,261/m² | 3 |
| 19, The GreenwayTerraced | Mar 2013 | £237,500 | 77 m² | £3,084/m² | 2 |
| 23, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £370,000 | 96 m² | £3,854/m² | 2 |
| 25, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £159,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Mar 2001 | £133,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £220,000 | 93 m² | £2,366/m² | 1 |
| 31, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £265,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £239,000 | 93 m² | £2,570/m² | 1 |
| 37, The GreenwaySemi-detached | May 2024 | £480,000 | 92 m² | £5,217/m² | 3 |
| 39, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £230,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 41, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £545,000 | 94 m² | £5,798/m² | 3 |
| 43, The GreenwaySemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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 St Mary Cray, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Orpington / Perry Hall Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 208, 477, 3); 132 departures an hour from the 9 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 Perry Hall Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 90% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Harris Academy Orpington, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 6.4% 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 Co-op, 200 m away, with T K Maxx closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St Mary Cray Practice (600 m), with Priory Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, No. Seven is 150 m 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.
The Taj is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Beech Tree the nearest pub (350 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.
It's growing: about 160 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Riverside gardens, 300 m away; for exercise, Lift Each Other (LEO) (550 m).
46 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%.
18 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 2AY →
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.
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 17 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 | 0.9% | 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.
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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 26 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.