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On Albany Road, in Burgess Park
What it's like at SE5 0DS: every home that has sold on Albany 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Albany 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.
1 of the 147 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.
The nearest station is Bermondsey Underground station, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km). The nearest rail station is South Bermondsey, 1.6 km away, with 633k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Burgess Park / Dunton Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 53, 453, 21, 172); 230 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 4 km away as the crow flies.
64% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Oasis Academy Surrey Square, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 72% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Ark Walworth Academy, 150 m away; Attainment 8: 43.3 · 8.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Ark Globe Academy (1.1 km) and City of London Academy (Southwark) (1.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (12.8 km) and Bexley Grammar School (13.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is Ali's halal butchers ltd t/a tariq halal, 150 m away; Old kent newsagents (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Dun Cow Surgery (150 m), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, New Face is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Guy's Hospital, 1.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 61% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 19 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Viet quan is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The lord nelson the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 130 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 33 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (88%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 146 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Surrey Square Park, 350 m away; for exercise, The Gym (200 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 6.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
58 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Former Fire Station | II | 80 m |
| 29 and 31, Cobourg Road | II | 160 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.
Peckham constituency: Miatta Fahnbulleh MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,228 (39.3%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 59%, Green Party 20%, Liberal Democrat 7%, Conservative 6%.
85 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 SE5 0DS →
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 23.2 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 9.3 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 26 km.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's young: 24% of residents are aged 15–29.
The nearest university is London South Bank University, 2.1 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Southwark 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 147 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 115 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 100 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 60.0% | 57.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.7% | 18.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 23.2% | 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.
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