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On Cancell Road, in Oval
What it's like at SW9 6HP: every home that has sold on Cancell 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 Cancell 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.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 17, Cancell RoadTerraced | Sept 2022 | £910,000 | 110 m² | £8,273/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23, Cancell RoadTerraced | Jul 2026 | £860,000 | 100 m² | £8,600/m² | 2 |
| 25, Cancell RoadTerraced | Dec 2020 | £925,000 | 106 m² | £8,726/m² | 5 |
| 27, Cancell RoadTerraced | Jan 2025 | £980,000 | 121 m² | £8,099/m² | 4 |
| 37, Cancell RoadTerraced | Apr 1997 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Cancell RoadTerraced | Jun 2021 | £1,040,000 | 126 m² | £8,254/m² | 3 |
| 47, Cancell RoadDetached | May 2022 | £520,000 | 82 m² | £6,341/m² | 1 |
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: 53% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Oval Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (650 m). The nearest rail station is Loughborough Junction, 1.2 km away, with 1.2m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Christchurch Road / Hillside Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 19 minutes on weekdays (route P13); 191 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 14% 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.
64% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Christ Church Primary SW9, a few minutes' walk (50 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Ashmole Primary School (0.4 km), with 5 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Saint Gabriel's College, 400 m away; Attainment 8: 47.9 · 13.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Sacred Heart Catholic School (0.8 km) and Lilian Baylis Technology School (1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wallington County Grammar School (12.6 km) and The Henrietta Barnett School (12.6 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 350 m away, with Sun Store closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Vassall Medical Centre (100 m), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Loren's Sthetic is 350 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: 27 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
TGS Arada Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Kennington the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 128 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
76 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 64-80, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 60 m |
| 82, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 90 m |
| 6-12, Russell Grove Sw9 | II | 90 m |
| 91, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 100 m |
| 93, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 110 m |
| 6, 8 and 10, Cancell Road Sw9 | II | 110 m |
| 95-103, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 120 m |
| Church of St John the Divine | I | 150 m |
| 9-21, Cowley Road Sw9 | II | 150 m |
| 23 and 25, Cowley Road Sw9 | II | 160 m |
| 27, Cowley Road Sw9 | II | 160 m |
| 105-123, Vassall Road Sw9 | II | 180 m |
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
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%.
86 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 SW9 6HP →
Much of it is protected: 36% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (St Marks, Vassall Road).
There are 56 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (77%).
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Dan Leno Gardens, 100 m away; for exercise, PureGym (400 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 5.0 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 22.6 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 11 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 24 km.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
It's young: 32% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 60% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is London South Bank University, 2.5 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 14 homes with certificates have solar panels, 7 a heat pump, and 7 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.0% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.4% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.5% | 14.7% | 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 15 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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