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On Cold Blow Crescent, in Bexley Village
What it's like at DA5 2DS: every home that has sold on Cold Blow Crescent 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 Cold Blow Crescent; 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 61 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £490,000 | 114 m² | £4,298/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | May 1996 | £103,250 | 132 m² | £782/m² | 1 |
| 2b, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Apr 2010 | £392,500 | 192 m² | £2,044/m² | 2 |
| 4, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £330,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Cold Blow CrescentTerraced | Sept 2021 | £545,000 | 115 m² | £4,739/m² | 1 |
| 10, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £510,000 | 113 m² | £4,513/m² | 3 |
| 12, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £650,000 | 170 m² | £3,824/m² | 2 |
| 16, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2002 | £212,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £608,000 | 121 m² | £5,025/m² | 2 |
| 20, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £250,000 | 138 m² | £1,812/m² | 1 |
| 22, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Feb 2017 | £650,000 | 143 m² | £4,545/m² | 2 |
| 26, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £770,000 | 143 m² | £5,385/m² | 2 |
| 28, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £305,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £400,000 | 129 m² | £3,101/m² | 2 |
| 32, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £625,000 | 93 m² | £6,720/m² | 2 |
| 34, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | May 2011 | £355,000 | 107 m² | £3,318/m² | 1 |
| 36, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £375,000 | 119 m² | £3,151/m² | 1 |
| 42, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Aug 1996 | £96,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Dec 1997 | £135,750 | 74 m² | £1,834/m² | 1 |
| 50, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Jan 2022 | £720,000 | 126 m² | £5,714/m² | 2 |
| 52, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Jun 2014 | £340,000 | 102 m² | £3,333/m² | 1 |
| 54, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Sept 2016 | £520,000 | 106 m² | £4,906/m² | 1 |
| 56, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Jun 2014 | £320,000 | 83 m² | £3,855/m² | 1 |
| 58, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Dec 2022 | £570,000 | 69 m² | £8,261/m² | 1 |
| 60, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Jul 2011 | £360,000 | 84 m² | £4,286/m² | 3 |
| 62, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Apr 2021 | £499,995 | 76 m² | £6,579/m² | 2 |
| 64, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Jun 2017 | £575,000 | 159 m² | £3,616/m² | 2 |
| 66, Cold Blow CrescentDetached | Oct 2020 | £685,000 | 147 m² | £4,660/m² | 2 |
| 74, Cold Blow CrescentSemi-detached | Oct 2013 | £355,000 | 109 m² | £3,257/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bexley, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 1.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is St Mary's Road Bexley, 300 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes B12, 601); 29 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 21 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Maypole Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (950 m); 80% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Upton Primary School (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is Beths Grammar School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 71.6 · 36.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Leigh Academy Wilmington (3.3 km) and Dartford Grammar School for Girls (3.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Beths Grammar School (0.4 km) and Townley Grammar School (1.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Londis, 900 m away, with Bexley Wines closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Plas Meddyg Surgery (1.6 km), with Mcqueen'S Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Suave Hair & Beauty is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Darent Valley Hospital, 7.6 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 74% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
Bexley Park Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and New Dartford Sports Bar the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 22 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 21% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Shenstone Park, 1.7 km away; for exercise, Pilates Body Studio (1.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 9.8 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 40 km.
13 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%.
19 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 DA5 2DS →
On this street: 0 of 49 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 | 1.0% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.1% | 88.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 8.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.6% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 36 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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 Bexley 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 61 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.