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On Tower Road, in Orpington West
What it's like at BR6 0SQ: every home that has sold on Tower 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Tower 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.
2 of the 41 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £880,000 | 202 m² | £4,356/m² | 1 |
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| 10, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £585,000 | 204 m² | £2,868/m² | 1 |
| 12, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £921,000 | 186 m² | £4,952/m² | 3 |
| 14, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2017 | £705,000 | 209 m² | £3,373/m² | 1 |
| 16, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1998 | £179,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Tower RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £1,090,000 | 212 m² | £5,142/m² | 2 |
| 22, Tower RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 2018 | £770,000 | 60 m² | £12,833/m² | 2 |
| 24, Tower RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Mar 2020 | £650,000 | 260 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 26a, Tower RoadDetached | Jun 2020 | £664,250 | 65 m² | £10,219/m² | 2 |
| 28, Tower RoadDetached | Oct 2014 | £625,000 | 153 m² | £4,085/m² | 2 |
| 30, Tower RoadDetached | Sept 2020 | £965,000 | 194 m² | £4,974/m² | 2 |
| 32, Tower RoadDetached | Mar 1997 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Tower RoadDetached | Oct 2019 | £675,000 | 203 m² | £3,325/m² | 1 |
| 36, Tower RoadDetached | Feb 2001 | £165,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Brayville, Tower RoadDetached | Mar 2021 | £780,000 | 114 m² | £6,842/m² | 2 |
| Foreland, Tower RoadDetached | Feb 2026 | £839,000 | 126 m² | £6,659/m² | 1 |
| Kinellan, Tower RoadDetached | Jul 2014 | £590,000 | 56 m² | £10,536/m² | 2 |
| Millholme, Tower RoadDetached | Aug 2017 | £860,000 | 166 m² | £5,181/m² | 3 |
| Moneypenny, Tower RoadDetached | Nov 1996 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Sherwood, Tower RoadDetached | Jul 2016 | £580,000 | 100 m² | £5,800/m² | 1 |
| St Aubyns, Tower RoadFlat | Jun 2026 | £375,000 | 94 m² | £3,989/m² | 2 |
| Yarralumla, Tower RoadDetached | Nov 2024 | £850,000 | 139 m² | £6,115/m² | 2 |
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 5-minute walk (550 m), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is St Aubyns Gardens, under 50 m away, with a bus about every 19 minutes on weekdays (routes R1, 3); 191 departures an hour from the 12 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, a few minutes' walk (400 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 St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 83.6 · 76.8% 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, 550 m away, with Park N Shop - Park Garage Group closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highland Medical Practice (200 m), with Farncray the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, McQueen Hair & Beauty is 550 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.
Sanctuary Cafe - Orpington Baptist Church is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Maxwell 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.
37 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%.
16 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 0SQ →
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 Broxbourne Gardens, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (550 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" Tower 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 29 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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.