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On Wood Drive, in Chislehurst West & Elmstead
What it's like at BR7 5EU: every home that has sold on Wood 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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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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Wood 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 23 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1a, Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2023 | £1,210,000 | 199 m² | £6,080/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2024 | £1,200,000 | 192 m² | £6,250/m² | 2 |
| 5, Wood DriveDetached | Jun 2006 | £1,200,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Wood DriveDetached | Feb 2026 | £1,740,000 | 260 m² | £6,692/m² | 3 |
| 7, Wood DriveDetached | Jun 2021 | £1,160,000 | 215 m² | £5,395/m² | 4 |
| 7a, Wood DriveDetached | May 2025 | £1,300,000 | 205 m² | £6,341/m² | 2 |
| 8, Wood DriveDetached | Aug 2012 | £1,325,000 | 268 m² | £4,944/m² | 1 |
| 11, Wood DriveDetached | Mar 2016 | £1,450,000 | 282 m² | £5,142/m² | 1 |
| 14, Wood DriveDetached | Aug 2016 | £1,185,000 | 184 m² | £6,440/m² | 1 |
| 15, Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2008 | £872,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 15a, Wood DriveDetached | Jun 2018 | £1,260,000 | 230 m² | £5,478/m² | 1 |
| 16, Wood DriveDetached | Mar 2011 | £1,250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2019 | £905,000 | 161 m² | £5,621/m² | 2 |
| 18a, Wood DriveDetached | Jul 2023 | £1,070,000 | 162 m² | £6,605/m² | 1 |
| 20, Wood DriveDetached | Apr 1998 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Wood DriveDetached | Apr 2015 | £650,000 | 104 m² | £6,250/m² | 1 |
| 22, Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2013 | £710,000 | 103 m² | £6,893/m² | 2 |
| 25, Wood DriveSemi-detached | Apr 1996 | £148,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 3, 28, Wood DriveFlat | Sept 2007 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 4, 28, Wood DriveFlat | Sept 2025 | £225,000 | 67 m² | £3,358/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 28, Wood DriveFlat | Nov 2021 | £231,000 | 65 m² | £3,554/m² | 4 |
| Flat 2, 28, Wood DriveFlat | May 2011 | £172,500 | 63 m² | £2,738/m² | 1 |
| 31, Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2008 | £578,600 | – | – | 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: 60% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Elmstead Woods, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 927k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Walden Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 314); 20 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 10% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 17 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Elmstead Wood Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St George's, Bickley, Church of England Primary School (1.7 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Bullers Wood School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 56.3 · 17.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bonus Pastor Catholic College (4.5 km) and Harris Academy Greenwich (4.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (4.5 km) and Newstead Wood School (4.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 900 m away, with Sans Minimart closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Doctor's Surgery (1.0 km), with Williams Lm (Chislehurst) the closest pharmacy (1.5 km).
For a haircut, Enver's Barbers is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 4.9 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: 9 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Coffee Haven is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Fit 4 Future Foundation the nearest pub (1.1 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 50% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Chislehurst, Bickley Park).
There are 36 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 51% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Wayside Green Open Space, 900 m away; for exercise, Bone's Gym (1.5 km).
8 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%.
15 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 5EU →
On this street: 0 of 16 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 | 0.6% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.7% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.8% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 11 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 33 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 53% 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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 43 min
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