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On Addington Road, in Sanderstead
What it's like at CR2 8RE: every home that has sold on Addington Road 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.
2 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 Addington Road; 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.
49 of the 395 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: 55% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Riddlesdown, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 287k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Sanderstead / All Saints Church, 50 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (routes 412, 359, 612, 685); 54 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 19 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Gresham Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 86% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Riddlesdown Collegiate, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 50.7 · 11.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Invictus Academy Croydon (4.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wilson's School (3.7 km) and Wallington High School for Girls (4.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 500 m away, with VRM News Agent closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Selsdon Park Medical Practice (1.1 km), with Medipharm the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, X Nails is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Croydon University Hospital, 5.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Med Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Sir Julian Huxley the nearest pub (1.3 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 55% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 120 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Sanderstead Recreation Ground, 500 m away; for exercise, Project365. (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 21 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanderstead War Memorial | II | 80 m |
| Church of All Saints | I | 90 m |
| 9-12 Doble Court | II | 200 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.
Croydon South constituency: Chris Philp MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,313 (4.7%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 35%, Liberal Democrat 9%, Reform UK 8%.
23 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 CR2 8RE →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 50% 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 Croydon 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 395 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 45 min
Nearest: Chelsea Harbour Pier · about 35 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 303 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 117 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.2% | 86.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.8% | 8.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.3% | 4.7% | 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.