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On Northlands Avenue, in Orpington South
What it's like at BR6 9LZ: every home that has sold on Northlands 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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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 Northlands 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 67 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 50, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2010 | £300,000 | 75 m² | £4,000/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £518,000 | 79 m² | £6,557/m² | 3 |
| 56, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £321,950 | 75 m² | £4,293/m² | 2 |
| 62, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | May 2007 | £284,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 66, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 1999 | £148,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 68, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £650,000 | 172 m² | £3,779/m² | 2 |
| 70, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £620,000 | 92 m² | £6,739/m² | 2 |
| 72, Northlands AvenueTerraced | Jun 2021 | £446,500 | 83 m² | £5,380/m² | 3 |
| 74, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2024 | £400,000 | 92 m² | £4,348/m² | 3 |
| 78, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £402,500 | 58 m² | £6,940/m² | 3 |
| 80, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 1996 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 82, Northlands AvenueTerraced | Oct 2010 | £280,000 | 73 m² | £3,836/m² | 2 |
| 86, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £282,500 | 61 m² | £4,631/m² | 1 |
| 88, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2010 | £225,000 | 63 m² | £3,571/m² | 1 |
| 90, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £447,000 | 66 m² | £6,773/m² | 3 |
| 92, Northlands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £405,000 | 75 m² | £5,400/m² | 4 |
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: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Orpington, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 5.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Oakleigh Gardens Orpington, 100 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route R4); 88 departures an hour from the 20 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 10% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Warren Road Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 76% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Newstead Wood School, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 82.8 · 73.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hayes School (5.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School (0.9 km) and Newstead Wood School (1.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 200 m away; Brothers Bakery (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Family Surgery (900 m), with Crescent Way Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Mad Hatters is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 2.3 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 4 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Crescent Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Buff the nearest pub (250 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 25% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is The Green, 1.5 km away; for exercise, Bromley Tennis Centre (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 16 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 30 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
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%.
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 9LZ →
It's highly educated: 43% 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 67 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 48 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 | 95.2% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.4% | 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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 42 min
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