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On Hillview Road, in Orpington West
What it's like at BR6 0SE: every home that has sold on Hillview 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hillview 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 38 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £334,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £475,000 | 152 m² | £3,125/m² | 2 |
| 11, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2005 | £355,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Hillview RoadDetached | May 2015 | £595,000 | 122 m² | £4,877/m² | 2 |
| 19, Hillview RoadDetached | Jul 2005 | £403,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Hillview RoadDetached | Aug 2013 | £565,000 | 123 m² | £4,593/m² | 1 |
| 23, Hillview RoadDetached | Sept 2005 | £425,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Hillview RoadDetached | Nov 2013 | £574,500 | 137 m² | £4,193/m² | 1 |
| 31, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £675,000 | 184 m² | £3,668/m² | 1 |
| 33, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £560,000 | 114 m² | £4,912/m² | 1 |
| 33a, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2001 | £250,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 35, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | May 1995 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2014 | £490,000 | 104 m² | £4,712/m² | 2 |
| 39, Hillview RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £550,000 | 120 m² | £4,583/m² | 1 |
| 41, Hillview RoadDetached | Jul 2022 | £1,000,000 | 171 m² | £5,848/m² | 2 |
| 43, Hillview RoadDetached | Apr 2018 | £712,500 | 177 m² | £4,025/m² | 1 |
| 47, Hillview RoadDetached | Mar 1997 | £107,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, Hillview RoadDetached | Jul 2006 | £250,000 | – | – | 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 Orpington, a few minutes' walk (100 m), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Orpington Bus Station, 100 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes R9, R3, R4, R1); 191 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 Holy Innocents Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 67% 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 Newstead Wood School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 82.8 · 73.3% 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 Tesco Extra, 450 m away, with Orpington Express closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tubbenden Lane Branch (400 m), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, McQueen Hair & Beauty is 450 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.
Puccino's Cafe And Kiosk is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Maxwell the nearest pub (200 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.
42 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%.
17 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 0SE →
It's growing: about 160 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Broxbourne Gardens, 650 m away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (500 m).
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Hillview Road in the last 12 months.
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 21 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.