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On Bickersteth Road, in Tooting East
What it's like at SW17 9SE: every home that has sold on Bickersteth 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.
17 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Bickersteth 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 85 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1a, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Jul 2022 | £570,000 | 90 m² | £6,333/m² | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Jun 2021 | £586,250 | 87 m² | £6,739/m² | 8 |
| 3a, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Sept 2001 | £96,250 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | May 2024 | £785,000 | 97 m² | £8,093/m² | 4 |
| 11, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | May 2016 | £751,500 | 106 m² | £7,090/m² | 6 |
| 15, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | Sept 2015 | £480,000 | 104 m² | £4,615/m² | 4 |
| 17, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | Jan 2018 | £744,000 | 98 m² | £7,592/m² | 3 |
| 19, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | Oct 2010 | £286,000 | 67 m² | £4,269/m² | 4 |
| 21, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | Sept 2018 | £550,000 | 84 m² | £6,548/m² | 5 |
| 23, Bickersteth RoadTerraced | Apr 2008 | £347,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Bickersteth RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £1,190,000 | 143 m² | £8,322/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor Maisonette, 29, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Nov 2004 | £195,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 35, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Sept 2015 | £431,000 | 67 m² | £6,433/m² | 2 |
| 37, Bickersteth RoadFlat | Jul 2025 | £475,000 | 60 m² | £7,917/m² | 3 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 51% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Tooting, a few minutes' walk (300 m), with 804k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Wimbledon.
The nearest bus stop is Mitcham Road / Tooting Station, 250 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 77, 44, 270, 280); 210 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 16% 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 10 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 10 km away as the crow flies.
53% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Sellincourt Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 72% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Boniface RC Primary School (0.3 km), with 7 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Graveney School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 63.9 · 35.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Wimbledon (2.2 km) and St Mark's Church of England Academy (2.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wallington County Grammar School (6.3 km) and Sutton Grammar School (6.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 200 m away; Coppin's Tooting (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tooting South Medical Centre (200 m), with Cospharm Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Chantal Beauty Clinic is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is St George's Hospital (Tooting), 800 m away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 71% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 101 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Joanna's Bistro is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Tooting Progressive Working Men's Club & Institute the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 172 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 13 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (67%).
59 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.
Tooting constituency: Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP (Labour), since June 2016. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 19,487 (36.8%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Labour 55%, Conservative 18%, Green Party 11%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
120 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 SW17 9SE →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 70% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Graveney Pocket Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Ivengar Yoga Studio (250 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 8.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 17 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 21 km.
Many neighbours rent: 44% of households rent privately and 15% socially.
It's young: 27% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 58% of adults have a degree.
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 51 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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 | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.9% | 69.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 5.2% | 19.0% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 85 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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