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On Starts Hill Avenue, in Farnborough
What it's like at BR6 7AU: every home that has sold on Starts Hill Avenue 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Starts Hill Avenue; 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 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £665,000 | 150 m² | £4,433/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Starts Hill AvenueDetached | May 2022 | £690,000 | 108 m² | £6,389/m² | 1 |
| 2, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2001 | £167,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2007 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £164,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | May 2012 | £250,000 | 93 m² | £2,688/m² | 2 |
| 6, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £425,000 | 171 m² | £2,485/m² | 2 |
| 8, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2011 | £299,995 | 129 m² | £2,326/m² | 1 |
| 9, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1999 | £132,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £522,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2003 | £217,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Starts Hill AvenueDetached | Dec 2016 | £600,000 | 131 m² | £4,580/m² | 2 |
| 15, Starts Hill AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £680,000 | 161 m² | £4,224/m² | 3 |
| 49, Starts Hill AvenueOther | Apr 2019 | £389,500 | 59 m² | £6,602/m² | 1 |
| 61, Starts Hill AvenueTerraced | Dec 2017 | £415,000 | 78 m² | £5,321/m² | 3 |
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: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Orpington, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Hill Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route R4); 39 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m).
The nearest secondary is Darrick Wood School, 550 m away; Attainment 8: 51.5 · 12.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Newstead Wood School (1.4 km) and St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (2.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 450 m away; Nanny Smiths Deli (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bank House Surgery (350 m), with Village Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Trendy Beauty is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 1.3 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 5 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Brookes is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Change Of Horses the nearest pub (250 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 94 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 31 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Tugmutton Common, 750 m away; for exercise, Darrick Wood Swimming Pool (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 17 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 29 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% 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.
28 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%.
12 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 7AU →
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 15 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 9 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 | 0.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.0% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.4% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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 49 min
Nearest: Charlton Lido And Lifestyle Club · about 31 min
Nearest: Gravesend town pier · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.