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On Olney Road, in Burgess Park West & John Ruskin Street
What it's like at SE17 3HT: every home that has sold on Olney 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.
Sales and extensions on Olney 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.
3 of the 64 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 105, Olney RoadTerraced | Sept 2002 | £132,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 111, Olney RoadTerraced | Sept 2025 | £687,500 | 102 m² | £6,740/m² | 4 |
| 121, Olney RoadTerraced | Sept 2017 | £537,000 | 106 m² | £5,066/m² | 2 |
| 123, Olney RoadTerraced | Jun 2013 | £290,000 | 75 m² | £3,867/m² | 1 |
| 131, Olney RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2024 | £510,000 | 88 m² | £5,795/m² | 2 |
| 159, Olney RoadFlat | Feb 2001 | £89,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 171, Olney RoadFlat | Mar 2026 | £370,000 | 65 m² | £5,692/m² | 4 |
| 181, Olney RoadFlat | Nov 2005 | £174,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 203, Olney RoadFlat | Mar 2021 | £350,000 | 62 m² | £5,645/m² | 2 |
| 207, Olney RoadFlat | Jun 2013 | £192,500 | 50 m² | £3,850/m² | 2 |
| 213, Olney RoadFlat | Jul 2022 | £432,000 | 61 m² | £7,082/m² | 4 |
| 215, Olney RoadFlat | Feb 2014 | £210,000 | 46 m² | £4,565/m² | 2 |
| 217, Olney RoadFlat | Nov 2022 | £390,000 | 63 m² | £6,190/m² | 3 |
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 Kennington Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (700 m). The nearest rail station is Elephant & Castle, 1.1 km away, with 2.2m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Chapter Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route P5); 195 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 14 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 3 km away as the crow flies.
65% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is John Ruskin Primary School and Language Classes, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Ark All Saints Academy, 650 m away; Attainment 8: 45.2 · 9.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Sacred Heart Catholic School (0.8 km) and Ark Globe Academy (1.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (12.6 km) and Wallington County Grammar School (13.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys, 300 m away, with Uncle reg closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Penrose Maddock Way (300 m), with Osbon Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Lugie’s Salon is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is King's College Hospital, 1.7 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: 22 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Eat pnk is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The charlie chaplin the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 117 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 37% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Walworth Road, Sutherland Square).
69 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 48-74, Lorrimore Road | II | 110 m |
| Bollard at Junction with Heiron Street | II | 190 m |
| Church of St Paul | 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green constituency: Florence Eshalomi MP (Labour (Co-op)), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,112 (40.3%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 57%, Green Party 17%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Conservative 8%.
73 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 SE17 3HT →
On this street: 0 of 47 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 | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 1.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 64.3% | 57.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.6% | 18.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 26.7% | 22.3% | 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.
There are 36 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (84%).
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Pelier Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Lost in Yoga (250 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 5.6 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 22.9 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 10 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 25 km.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's young: 27% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is London South Bank University, 1.7 km away (TEF Silver).
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.
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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 64 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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