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On Elmstead Lane, in Mottingham
What it's like at BR7 5EN: every home that has sold on Elmstead Lane 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Elmstead Lane; 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.
4 of the 111 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 164, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached · company-owned | Oct 2020 | £451,500 | 95 m² | £4,753/m² | 2 |
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| 168, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £96,750 | – | – | 2 |
| 172, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £320,000 | 93 m² | £3,441/m² | 3 |
| 174, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £515,000 | 102 m² | £5,049/m² | 2 |
| 176, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £99,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 178, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £492,000 | 104 m² | £4,731/m² | 2 |
| 180, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £630,000 | 127 m² | £4,961/m² | 5 |
| 182, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | May 2023 | £500,000 | 88 m² | £5,682/m² | 1 |
| 188, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £515,000 | 85 m² | £6,059/m² | 1 |
| 190, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Mar 2024 | £450,000 | 85 m² | £5,294/m² | 1 |
| 192, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £600,000 | 161 m² | £3,727/m² | 4 |
| 194, Elmstead LaneSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
The nearest station is Elmstead Woods, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 927k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Mottingham Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 314); 89 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 14% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Orion Ravensworth, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 41% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bullers Wood School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 56.3 · 17.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Greenwich (2.3 km) and Bonus Pastor Catholic College (3.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (4.4 km) and Bexley Grammar School (5.3 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 450 m away; Marlborough Bakeries 1942 (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hill Surgery (250 m), with The Mound Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Enver's Barbers is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital Lewisham, 5.0 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 44% 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: 9 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
St Edward's Church Lunch Club and Food Bank is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Farmhouse Public House the nearest pub (450 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 131 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 25% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 59% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Wayside Green Open Space, 50 m away; for exercise, Bone's Gym (600 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 8.2 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 35 km.
32 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.
Eltham and Chislehurst constituency: Clive Efford MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 8,429 (18.5%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 16%, Green Party 7%.
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 BR7 5EN →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 17% rent privately.
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.
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 111 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 88 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 15 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% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.9% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 44 min
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