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On Cygnet Close, in St Mary Cray North
What it's like at BR5 2FB: every home that has sold on Cygnet Close 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Cygnet Close; 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.
1 of the 28 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Cygnet CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £320,000 | 93 m² | £3,441/m² | 1 |
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| 3, Cygnet CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £320,000 | 93 m² | £3,441/m² | 1 |
| 5, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Sept 2014 | £294,950 | 95 m² | £3,105/m² | 1 |
| 7, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Sept 2014 | £284,950 | 117 m² | £2,435/m² | 1 |
| 9, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Sept 2014 | £284,950 | 92 m² | £3,097/m² | 1 |
| 11, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Mar 2026 | £580,000 | 134 m² | £4,328/m² | 1 |
| 13, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Dec 2014 | £304,950 | 94 m² | £3,244/m² | 1 |
| 15, Cygnet CloseFlat | Dec 2014 | £304,950 | 92 m² | £3,315/m² | 1 |
| 17, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Dec 2014 | £304,950 | 92 m² | £3,315/m² | 1 |
| 19, Cygnet CloseTerraced | Dec 2014 | £304,950 | 96 m² | £3,177/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 27, Cygnet CloseFlat | May 2017 | £89,250 | 63 m² | £1,417/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 27, Cygnet CloseFlat | Aug 2019 | £91,000 | 64 m² | £1,422/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is St Mary Cray, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Longbury Drive, 100 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes R11, B14); 50 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 20 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Leesons Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 33% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Gray's Farm Primary Academy (0.5 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Kemnal Technology College, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 29.3 · 0.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bexley Grammar School (5.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (3.6 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (4.1 km).
It's a family area: 23% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 500 m away, with Bromley Borough Foodbank – St Mary Cray Centre closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Broomwood Health Centre (450 m), with Cray Hill Pharmacy + Travel Clinic the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Bandido Barbers is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 5.4 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 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Hong's Noodle Bar is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and The Bull Inn the nearest pub (1.0 km).
Takeaways are plentiful (16 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 133 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is St. Paul's Cray Recreation Ground, 800 m away; for exercise, The Gym Group (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.5 µg/m³).
29 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%.
9 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 2FB →
For holidays, London City is 12 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 34 km.
Most households own their home, 10% rent privately.
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 28 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 8 of 27 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 | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.6% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.9% | 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: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 40 min
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