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On Downs Avenue, in Chislehurst West & Elmstead
What it's like at BR7 6HQ: every home that has sold on Downs 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Downs 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 43 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 31, Downs AvenueDetached | Dec 2013 | £488,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | May 2005 | £340,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £520,000 | 114 m² | £4,561/m² | 1 |
| 35, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £485,000 | 76 m² | £6,382/m² | 1 |
| 36, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £480,000 | 75 m² | £6,400/m² | 1 |
| 37, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £270,000 | 60 m² | £4,500/m² | 1 |
| 38, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £299,995 | 58 m² | £5,172/m² | 1 |
| 39, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2009 | £240,000 | 72 m² | £3,333/m² | 1 |
| 40, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2018 | £460,000 | 59 m² | £7,797/m² | 1 |
| 41, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | May 2024 | £550,000 | 68 m² | £8,088/m² | 3 |
| 42, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £690,000 | 127 m² | £5,433/m² | 3 |
| 43, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £615,000 | 77 m² | £7,987/m² | 2 |
| 45, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2011 | £318,000 | 68 m² | £4,676/m² | 3 |
| 46, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £400,000 | 72 m² | £5,556/m² | 2 |
| 47, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £480,000 | 61 m² | £7,869/m² | 3 |
| 48, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £279,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 49, Downs AvenueDetached | Oct 2025 | £560,000 | 77 m² | £7,273/m² | 1 |
| 50, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2024 | £515,000 | 65 m² | £7,923/m² | 1 |
| 51, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £1,045,000 | 197 m² | £5,305/m² | 2 |
| 52, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £305,000 | 60 m² | £5,083/m² | 1 |
| 53, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £535,000 | 59 m² | £9,068/m² | 2 |
| 54, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | May 2017 | £565,000 | 61 m² | £9,262/m² | 2 |
| 55, Downs AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £445,000 | 66 m² | £6,742/m² | 2 |
| 56, Downs AvenueDetached | Nov 2022 | £850,000 | 134 m² | £6,343/m² | 2 |
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, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 927k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is St Keverne Road, 250 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, 1.4 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, 650 m away, with Sans Minimart closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is White Horse Hill (650 m), with The Mound Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Enver's Barbers is 750 m 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 (250 m), and Farmhouse Public House the nearest pub (850 m).
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, 500 m away; for exercise, Bone's Gym (1.1 km).
14 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%.
16 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 6HQ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
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 43 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 1 of 34 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 43 min
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