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On Clifford Drive, in Poets' Corner & Brockwell Park
What it's like at SW9 8QF: every home that has sold on Clifford Drive 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Clifford Drive; 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 12 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Clifford DriveFlat | Sept 2024 | £360,000 | 49 m² | £7,347/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Clifford DriveFlat | Aug 2001 | £85,000 | 48 m² | £1,771/m² | 1 |
| 28, Clifford DriveFlat | Apr 2026 | £300,000 | 46 m² | £6,522/m² | 3 |
| 35, Clifford DriveFlat | Apr 2012 | £135,000 | 47 m² | £2,872/m² | 2 |
| 47, Clifford DriveTerraced · company-owned | Feb 1996 | £54,500 | 98 m² | £556/m² | 1 |
| 48, Clifford DriveTerraced | Nov 2011 | £220,000 | 82 m² | £2,683/m² | 1 |
| 50, Clifford DriveTerraced | May 2023 | £560,000 | 89 m² | £6,292/m² | 1 |
| 53, Clifford DriveTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £510,000 | 96 m² | £5,313/m² | 1 |
| 55, Clifford DriveTerraced · company-owned | May 1996 | £35,000 | 111 m² | £315/m² | 1 |
| 58, Clifford DriveTerraced | Jul 2001 | £62,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 60, Clifford DriveTerraced | Dec 2022 | £545,000 | 83 m² | £6,566/m² | 1 |
| 69, Clifford DriveTerraced | Dec 2004 | £210,000 | 89 m² | £2,360/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: 56% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Brixton, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 804k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Bromley South.
The nearest bus stop is Moorland Road / Loughborough Park, 150 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route P5); 100 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 15% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 6 km away as the crow flies.
60% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Hill Mead Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 69% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Jessop Primary School (0.4 km), with 7 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Ark Evelyn Grace Academy, 150 m away; Attainment 8: 39.9 · 5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Charter School North Dulwich (1.2 km) and Sacred Heart Catholic School (2.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wallington County Grammar School (10.3 km) and Wilson's School (11.1 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 350 m away; Payless Food & Wine (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Herne Hill Road Medical Practice (650 m), with Junction Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Diako & Rahe Barber Shop is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is King's College Hospital, 1.4 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, 7 pubs and bars.
Banh Banh Vietnamese Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Brixton Immortals Domino Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (17 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 146 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 23 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (71%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 52% were built before 1919.
65 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5-23, Moorland Road Sw9 | II | 130 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.
Dulwich and West Norwood constituency: Helen Hayes MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 18,789 (41.4%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 60%, Green Party 19%, Conservative 9%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
49 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 8QF →
The nearest park is Loughborough Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Brixton Street Gym (250 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 6.8 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 19.5 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 12 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 24 km.
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
It's young: 28% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 63% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is London South Bank University, 4.2 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 10 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 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 72.0% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.4% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 16.7% | 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 12 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.