Bennington Close London, Croydon

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (CR7), about 100 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20503283.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £100,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 21).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Croydon costs £2,600 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thornton Heath, about 280 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Trumble Gardens, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Your Family Practice, about 10 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 271 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20253£100,000£82,500£240,000
20232£99,750£87,500£112,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 20254 CR7 7FGFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.
30 May 202512 CR7 7FGFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
11 Feb 20257 CR7 7FGFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
30 Jun 202311 CR7 7FGFlat or maisonette£112,000Leasehold.
14 Apr 20239 CR7 7FGFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: Flat (14); House, mid-terrace (4); Maisonette, detached (3). Built: 2015 (21). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Croydon in 2026-27: Band D £2,600 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,733£2,022£2,311£2,600£3,178£3,755£4,333£5,200

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (56% of about 520 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 12 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 45 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 9 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CR7 7FGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CR7 7JHnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 12 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 45 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CR7 7FG100%100%100%0%
CR7 7JH100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsThornton Heath 2.4 million journeys in 2024–25280 m
Selhurst 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Norwood Junction 4.6 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brook Road (CR7) Thornton Heath60 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Ferry terminalSt Mary’s Wandsworth Pier Clapham Junction9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Car parksParking space on St. Christophers Gardens, CR71 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16.3 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.1 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Your Family Practice10 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brigstock Road Dental Practice240 m
HospitalCroydon University Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationMitcham Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone240 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Trumble Gardens 8,700 m²80 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Trumble Gardens 1,520 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.4 ha370 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Norwood Grove, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.6 km (1.6 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Norwood GroveRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
The RookeryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pollards HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Biggin WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north
South Norwood LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Norwood GroveWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Convent WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Croydon CanalLake or reservoir3 km (1.8 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)16.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
Particles (PM10)13.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
Under 55212222

1 of the street's 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Croydon: see them on the Croydon page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Thornton Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–4590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ecclesbourne Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beulah Infants' SchoolPrimary3–7800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Whitehorse Manor Infant SchoolPrimary3–7810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitehorse Manor Junior SchoolPrimary7–11810 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Winterbourne Junior Girls' SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winterbourne Nursery and Infants' SchoolPrimary3–7820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winterbourne Boys' AcademyPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Beulah Junior SchoolPrimary7–11840 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Paxton Academy Sports And SciencePrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Selhurst Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–51.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Age UK CR7 7JHOther catering premises10 m5 Very good28 Jun 2017
Brigstock House CR7 7JHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house10 m5 Very good11 Oct 2023
Fireaway Pizza CR7 7JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m4 Good1 Nov 2025
Janvi Food & Wine CR7 7JBRetailers - other60 m4 Good13 Jan 2020
Patty Planet CR7 7JHTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m2 Improvement necessary14 May 2026
Jaluice CR7 7JHTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jun 2026
Tropical Fare CR7 7JARetailers - other110 m2 Improvement necessary29 Jul 2026
Lucerne House CR7 7BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good1 Jun 2024
Milma Restaurant CR7 7JJTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good17 Jan 2026
Agrobeso African Cuisine CR7 7JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Railway Telegraph CR7 7JJPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good22 Jan 2019
Smacks Hamburgers CR7 7JJTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good8 Nov 2025
Chixee Chicken CR7 7JJTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2026
Delly's CR7 7JJTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good17 Jan 2026
Upper Norwood Library Trust / Upper Norwood Library Hub CR7 7JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m4 Good29 Jul 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

271 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences105
Anti-social behaviour39
Vehicle crime26
Other theft22
Criminal damage and arson20
Drugs14
Burglary13
Public order11
Robbery6
Theft from the person5
Other crime4
Possession of weapons3
Bicycle theft2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Brigstock Road (62); On or near Seneca Road (58); On or near Brook Road (34); On or near Elliott Road (26); On or near Bennington Close (21).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 369 residents in 140 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3640
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van26%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus32%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Brigstock Road · Lucerne Road · Brook Road · Elliott Road · Brook Road · Geneva Road · Bensham Lane · Seneca Road · Berne Road · Brook Road · Chipstead Avenue · Zermatt Road

All the streets in CR7 and across Croydon.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.