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On Sandy Lane, in Orpington West
What it's like at BR6 0DY: every home that has sold on Sandy 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Sandy 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.
1 of the 22 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Sandy LaneDetached | Jan 2008 | £350,000 | 181 m² | £1,934/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2013 | £268,000 | 66 m² | £4,061/m² | 3 |
| Lower Flat, 4, Sandy LaneFlat | Sept 2003 | £113,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Upper Flat, 4, Sandy LaneFlat | May 2014 | £199,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £430,000 | 68 m² | £6,324/m² | 2 |
| 6, Sandy LaneDetached | Mar 2015 | £485,000 | 83 m² | £5,843/m² | 3 |
| 7, Sandy LaneTerraced | Jan 2018 | £455,000 | 98 m² | £4,643/m² | 3 |
| 8, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £470,000 | 66 m² | £7,121/m² | 1 |
| 9, Sandy LaneDetached · company-owned | Apr 2022 | £676,000 | 77 m² | £8,779/m² | 1 |
| 9a, Sandy LaneDetached | Mar 2016 | £570,000 | 129 m² | £4,419/m² | 2 |
| 10, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £468,000 | 55 m² | £8,509/m² | 2 |
| 11, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £565,000 | 106 m² | £5,330/m² | 2 |
| 14, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2013 | £287,500 | 52 m² | £5,529/m² | 2 |
| 15, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Nov 1995 | £87,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2004 | £295,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 20, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2002 | £177,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £595,000 | 108 m² | £5,509/m² | 2 |
| 22, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | May 2025 | £650,000 | 120 m² | £5,417/m² | 3 |
| 23, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £585,000 | 86 m² | £6,802/m² | 4 |
| 24, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £585,000 | 81 m² | £7,222/m² | 4 |
| 25, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2013 | £325,000 | 90 m² | £3,611/m² | 2 |
| 27, Sandy LaneDetached | May 2014 | £410,000 | 142 m² | £2,887/m² | 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 Orpington, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Mountview Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route 61); 50 departures an hour from the 5 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, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 90% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Harris Academy Orpington, 1.5 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 SS Food & Wine, 450 m away; Convenience First (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ballater Surgery (200 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Jon's is 400 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.
Triumphant Church International is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Cricketers the nearest pub (150 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 Broomhill Common, 150 m away; for exercise, Lift Each Other (LEO) (450 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Perry Hall Farmhouse | II | 110 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
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 BR6 0DY →
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 22 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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% | 1.0% |
| 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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 44 min
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