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On Dyke Drive, in Orpington East
What it's like at BR5 4LZ: every home that has sold on Dyke 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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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.
3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Dyke 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.
8 of the 93 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 12, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £372,000 | 81 m² | £4,593/m² | 1 |
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| 14, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £360,000 | 89 m² | £4,045/m² | 1 |
| 16, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2007 | £242,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 18, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £315,000 | 90 m² | £3,500/m² | 1 |
| 26, Dyke DriveTerraced | Oct 2009 | £190,000 | 95 m² | £2,000/m² | 2 |
| 28, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £440,000 | 81 m² | £5,432/m² | 2 |
| 30, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2015 | £310,000 | 82 m² | £3,780/m² | 1 |
| 34, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £280,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £452,000 | 81 m² | £5,580/m² | 1 |
| 40, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2025 | £490,000 | 99 m² | £4,949/m² | 2 |
| 42, Dyke DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2000 | £91,000 | 74 m² | £1,230/m² | 1 |
| 44, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jan 2022 | £390,500 | 63 m² | £6,198/m² | 3 |
| 46, Dyke DriveTerraced | Mar 2020 | £287,500 | 68 m² | £4,228/m² | 2 |
| 48, Dyke DriveTerraced | Feb 2024 | £350,000 | 68 m² | £5,147/m² | 4 |
| 52, Dyke DriveTerraced | Aug 2019 | £310,000 | 75 m² | £4,133/m² | 3 |
| 54, Dyke DriveTerraced | Dec 2022 | £366,500 | 62 m² | £5,911/m² | 1 |
| 56, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jan 2020 | £303,000 | 67 m² | £4,522/m² | 1 |
| 58, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jun 2014 | £205,000 | 68 m² | £3,015/m² | 2 |
| 60, Dyke DriveTerraced | Mar 2021 | £312,000 | 68 m² | £4,588/m² | 1 |
| 66, Dyke DriveTerraced | Mar 2020 | £313,000 | 69 m² | £4,536/m² | 3 |
| 70, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jul 2020 | £285,000 | 70 m² | £4,071/m² | 3 |
| 72, Dyke DriveTerraced | Dec 2005 | £168,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 74, Dyke DriveTerraced | Aug 2014 | £225,000 | 70 m² | £3,214/m² | 2 |
| 76, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jan 2018 | £318,000 | 65 m² | £4,892/m² | 3 |
| 78, Dyke DriveTerraced | Dec 2011 | £170,000 | 67 m² | £2,537/m² | 1 |
| 80, Dyke DriveTerraced | Mar 2021 | £315,000 | 63 m² | £5,000/m² | 4 |
| 84, Dyke DriveTerraced | Apr 2017 | £318,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 86, Dyke DriveTerraced | Sept 2024 | £378,000 | 68 m² | £5,559/m² | 6 |
| 88, Dyke DriveTerraced | May 2024 | £370,000 | 130 m² | £2,846/m² | 4 |
| 90, Dyke DriveTerraced | Jul 2024 | £325,000 | 67 m² | £4,851/m² | 2 |
| 92, Dyke DriveTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2024 | £345,000 | 67 m² | £5,149/m² | 1 |
| 96, Dyke DriveTerraced | Dec 2022 | £438,000 | 78 m² | £5,615/m² | 1 |
| 98, Dyke DriveFlat | Feb 2020 | £258,000 | 59 m² | £4,373/m² | 3 |
| 100, Dyke DriveFlat | Aug 2024 | £225,000 | 43 m² | £5,233/m² | 4 |
| 102, Dyke DriveFlat | Oct 2005 | £147,000 | 59 m² | £2,492/m² | 3 |
| 106, Dyke DriveFlat | Sept 2019 | £220,000 | 57 m² | £3,860/m² | 1 |
| 108, Dyke DriveFlat | Feb 2020 | £205,750 | 44 m² | £4,676/m² | 4 |
| 112, Dyke DriveFlat · company-owned | Jan 1998 | £47,000 | 43 m² | £1,093/m² | 1 |
| 116, Dyke DriveFlat | Apr 2005 | £129,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 118, Dyke DriveFlat · company-owned | Jun 2020 | £130,000 | 45 m² | £2,889/m² | 1 |
| 120, Dyke DriveFlat | May 2004 | £124,950 | 50 m² | £2,499/m² | 1 |
| 122, Dyke DriveFlat | Dec 2023 | £126,000 | 42 m² | £3,000/m² | 1 |
| 124, Dyke DriveFlat | Sept 2023 | £218,000 | 43 m² | £5,070/m² | 3 |
| 128, Dyke DriveFlat | Mar 1999 | £51,750 | – | – | 1 |
| 130, Dyke DriveFlat | Feb 2015 | £165,000 | 38 m² | £4,342/m² | 1 |
| 134, Dyke DriveFlat | Jul 2022 | £215,000 | 43 m² | £5,000/m² | 4 |
| 136, Dyke DriveFlat | May 2019 | £245,000 | 58 m² | £4,224/m² | 1 |
| 138, Dyke DriveFlat | Feb 2023 | £215,000 | 42 m² | £5,119/m² | 6 |
| 140, Dyke DriveFlat | Mar 2004 | £130,445 | 52 m² | £2,509/m² | 1 |
| 142, Dyke DriveFlat | Sept 2017 | £152,000 | 43 m² | £3,535/m² | 2 |
| 144, Dyke DriveFlat | Mar 2025 | £272,000 | 59 m² | £4,610/m² | 2 |
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, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Dyke Drive, 300 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 353, R4); 55 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Harris Primary Academy Orpington, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 63% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Perry Hall Primary School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is Harris Academy Orpington, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 6.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (1.5 km) and Newstead Wood School (2.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 500 m away; Londis (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Gillmans Road Surgery (400 m), with Priory Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Red Barber Shop is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 4.0 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Bromley Indoor Bowls Centre is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and The Beech Tree the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 10% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 47% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
Bungalow country: 28% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Grassmeade Recreation Ground, 200 m away; for exercise, Lift Each Other (LEO) (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 15 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
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.
31 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 4LZ →
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 93 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 43 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 62 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 10 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.2% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.4% | 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.