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On Ashfield Lane, in Chislehurst East & Hoblingwell Wood
What it's like at BR7 6TL: every home that has sold on Ashfield 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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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 Ashfield 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.
1 of the 49 homes on the street are owned by companies.
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: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Chislehurst, a short drive or bike ride (1.8 km), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Bromley Lane / Chislehurst War Memorial, 150 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes SL3, 269, 160, 638); 79 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 19 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Nicholas Church of England Primary, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 81% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Midfield Primary School (1.1 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Orion Coopers, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 10.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (3.4 km) and Newstead Wood School (4.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 950 m away, with The Green Batch closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Chislehurst Partnership (1.0 km), with Pond Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Tribe is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Princess Royal University Hospital, 5.0 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, 4 pubs and bars.
Due Amici Nos 10 & 11 Royal Par is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Cockpit the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 104 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 46% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Chislehurst).
There are 26 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 34% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Scadbury Park, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Red 1 Airsoft Chislehurst (500 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 11 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 34 km.
27 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnymead | II | 110 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
9 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 6TL →
Most households own their home, 9% 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.
On this street: 0 of 44 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 29 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 86.4% | 90.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.8% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.4% | 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 43 min
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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 49 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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