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On Main Road, in Sidcup West
What it's like at DA14 6QS: every home that has sold on Main 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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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 Main 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.
37 of the 297 homes on the street are owned by companies (2 overseas).
| 235, Main RoadDetached · company-owned | Jun 2021 | £450,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 237, Main RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2003 | £226,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 239, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £269,995 | 124 m² | £2,177/m² | 4 |
| 241, Main RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | May 2018 | £800,000 | 61 m² | £13,115/m² | 2 |
| Flat 4, 241, Main RoadFlat | Mar 2024 | £302,000 | 64 m² | £4,719/m² | 1 |
| Flat 3, 241, Main RoadFlat | Apr 2024 | £335,000 | 65 m² | £5,154/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 241, Main RoadFlat | Feb 2024 | £237,500 | 54 m² | £4,398/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, 241, Main RoadFlat | Sept 2024 | £242,000 | 46 m² | £5,261/m² | 1 |
| Flat 5, 241, Main RoadFlat | Feb 2025 | £250,000 | 48 m² | £5,208/m² | 1 |
| Flat 6, 241, Main RoadFlat | Mar 2025 | £245,000 | 49 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 245, Main RoadDetached | Apr 2007 | £500,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 249, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £717,000 | 128 m² | £5,602/m² | 2 |
| 257, Main RoadTerraced | Feb 2025 | £625,000 | 129 m² | £4,845/m² | 2 |
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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Sidcup, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 2.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Northcote Road (DA14), 50 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 321); 42 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 14% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 18 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Longlands Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 74% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Burnt Oak Junior School (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Chislehurst School for Girls, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 50.3 · 12.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Greenwich (4.7 km) and Ark Greenwich Free School (5.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (0.9 km) and Bexley Grammar School (3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.1 km away, with Woodside Express closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Station Road Surgery (1.0 km), with Southcott Chemist the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Gold Barber Irina is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 6.3 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 44 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Greek Meze 2 is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Sidcup Working Men's Social Club And Institute the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 98 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 48% flats and 9% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 201 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Old Farm Park, 750 m away; for exercise, The Pilates Space (350 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 8.9 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 36 km.
34 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.
Old Bexley and Sidcup constituency: Mr Louie French MP (Conservative), since December 2021. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,548 (7.4%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 30%, Reform UK 22%, Green Party 6%.
24 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 DA14 6QS →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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 195 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 54 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.5% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 75.1% | 88.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 19.5% | 8.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.8% | 2.4% | 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 40 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 297 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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