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On Tubbenden Drive, in Orpington South
What it's like at BR6 9PA: every home that has sold on Tubbenden Drive 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Tubbenden Drive; 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.
| 3, Tubbenden DriveTerraced | Mar 2006 | £273,500 | 105 m² | £2,605/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £400,000 | 170 m² | £2,353/m² | 3 |
| 7, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £204,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £610,000 | 106 m² | £5,755/m² | 1 |
| 9, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Mar 1995 | £128,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Nov 1997 | £148,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £490,000 | 83 m² | £5,904/m² | 1 |
| 15, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £701,000 | 126 m² | £5,563/m² | 2 |
| 16, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £165,000 | 124 m² | £1,331/m² | 1 |
| 17, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £775,000 | 128 m² | £6,055/m² | 3 |
| 19, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2026 | £677,500 | 112 m² | £6,049/m² | 2 |
| 20, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £520,000 | 95 m² | £5,474/m² | 1 |
| 21, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £499,999 | 84 m² | £5,952/m² | 3 |
| 22, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2004 | £249,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, Tubbenden DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £700,000 | 102 m² | £6,863/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: 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 Tubbenden Drive, 50 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route R4); 57 departures an hour from the 19 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 Tubbenden Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 78% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Warren Road Primary School (0.4 km).
The nearest secondary is Newstead Wood School, 550 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 Aldi, 550 m away, with Tile Farm Foods & Wines - Post Office closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bank House Surgery (900 m), with Crescent Way Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, The Hairport is 400 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.
Hooked Cafe & Grill is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Bromley Tennis Centre the nearest pub (550 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 Tugmutton Common, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Bromley Tennis Centre (600 m).
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.
30 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%.
10 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 9PA →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 42 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 11 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.
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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 15 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.