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On Valentine Avenue, in Albany Park
What it's like at DA5 3HE: every home that has sold on Valentine 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Valentine 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 32 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Valentine AvenueDetached | Mar 2024 | £680,000 | 103 m² | £6,602/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £542,500 | 91 m² | £5,962/m² | 2 |
| 6, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £580,000 | 107 m² | £5,421/m² | 1 |
| 10, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2019 | £575,000 | 124 m² | £4,637/m² | 2 |
| 16, Valentine AvenueDetached | Jun 2020 | £420,000 | 79 m² | £5,316/m² | 1 |
| 18, Valentine AvenueDetached | Nov 2010 | £349,395 | 141 m² | £2,478/m² | 1 |
| 20, Valentine AvenueDetached | Aug 2014 | £460,000 | 126 m² | £3,651/m² | 3 |
| 24, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £277,500 | 62 m² | £4,476/m² | 5 |
| 26, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1995 | £70,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £667,000 | 121 m² | £5,512/m² | 2 |
| 34, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £295,000 | 67 m² | £4,403/m² | 3 |
| 36, Valentine AvenueDetached | Jul 2011 | £310,000 | 133 m² | £2,331/m² | 2 |
| 42, Valentine AvenueTerraced | May 2009 | £200,000 | 88 m² | £2,273/m² | 1 |
| 44, Valentine AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £595,000 | 117 m² | £5,085/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 Albany Park, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 775k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Carisbrooke Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 229, 269, 669); 39 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 19 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Hurst Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 72% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Upton Primary School (1.4 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Cleeve Park School, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 39.7 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Leigh Academy Wilmington (4.9 km) and Dartford Grammar School for Girls (5.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School (1.1 km) and Townley Grammar School (1.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Op, 350 m away, with Albany Food Centre closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hurst Place Surgery (450 m), with Osbon Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Louise Lambell is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 6.7 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 6 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Fortune Inn is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Albany Hotel the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 70% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Riverside West, 900 m away; for exercise, Pilates Body Studio (1.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 8.9 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 38 km.
25 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%.
22 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 3HE →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% 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.
On this street: 0 of 27 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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 | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.2% | 88.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.7% | 8.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
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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 32 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 39 min
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