Bowyer Place Camberwell, Southwark

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (SE5), about 130 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 22500305.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Southwark cost £569,160 in August 2026 (-2.1% on a year); private rents averaged £2,516 a month.
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Old Canal Filling, is 250 m away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A202, carries 20,283 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Southwark costs £1,967 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Denmark Hill, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Burgess Park, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Parkside Medical Centre, about 370 m away, with 18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 18% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 510 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 60 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 8 of them fatal or serious; 6 involved a pedestrian.

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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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Southwark

A typical home in Southwark cost £569,160 in August 2026, 2.1% less than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 3% less than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,727,364
Semi-detached£1,226,452
Terraced£835,115
Flat or maisonette£466,671
Bought by a first-time buyer£497,815

Private renters in Southwark paid £2,516 a month on average in September 2026, 7.3% more than a year before. That is 39% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,907
Two bedrooms£2,387
Three bedrooms£2,779
Four or more bedrooms£3,670

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Southwark in 2026-27: Band D £1,967 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,312£1,530£1,749£1,967£2,404£2,842£3,279£3,935

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (41% of about 1,890 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): Protected shopping frontage SF56: Camberwell Road.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 3.3 km (2.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SE5 0EEzone 3 1 / 2 / 0 unlikely
SE5 7HUzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 250 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Old Canal Filling Southwark, London until 1975 Inert 250 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 3 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
SE5 0EE100%88%88%0%
SE5 7HU100%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 stationsDenmark Hill 6.0 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Loughborough Junction 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Elephant and Castle 2.2 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramKennington Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Oval Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Elephant & Castle Underground Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wyndham Road / Camberwell Road90 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalVauxhall St George Wharf Pier2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksAshmole Primary School Car Park(School Breaks)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points57 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity130 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.7 km (6.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25.5 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parkside Medical Centre Good Aug 2017370 m
Pharmacies27 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sheel Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery360 m
HospitalMaudsley Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Camberwell Lodge Good Dec 2024280 m
Police stationCamberwell Police Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone150 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Burgess Park 47 ha50 m
Play area18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²250 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.2 ha900 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Caspian Street Allotments 1,250 m²130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 71 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Giles, a listed building (Grade II*), 820 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 167 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St GilesListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I830 m (0.5 miles) north
Church of St John the DivineListed building, Grade I890 m (0.6 miles) west
Myatt's FieldsRegistered park or garden, Grade II930 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Kennington ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holly Grove ShrubberyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Upper PoolTidal water3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
King's ReachTidal water3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Knight's HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) south
RedriffWetland4.6 km (2.9 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)22.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)15.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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
75 dB or more100
65 to 69100
60 to 64010
55 to 59010
Under 55002

2 of the street's 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 from railways, 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 Southwark: see them on the Southwark page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Brunswick Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11350 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–11380 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Infants School Roman CatholicPrimary3–7380 m No published inspection
Ark All Saints Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–18490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
John Ruskin Primary School and Language ClassesPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18520 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John the Divine Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint Gabriel's College Church of EnglandSecondary11–16710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Michael Faraday SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Crawford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 510 m (0.3 miles); the nearest is 130 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Premier Learning SE5 0EE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 130 m
Mini Treasures Nursery SE5 0ET Full day care 24 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 170 m
Bethwin Road Playground SE5 0YJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 220 m
Fruit Tree Day Nursery SE5 7NL Full day care 53 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 250 m
The Play Shelter After School Club @ Brunswick Park SE5 7QH Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 280 m
Smart childcare services SE5 7HN Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 280 m
Mini Treasures Children Centre SE5 0XG Full day care 80 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m
Rosiah Childcare SE5 0DL Full day care 36 Not inspected yet 360 m
Camberwell After School Project SE5 0JY Full day care 20 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m
CASP@John Ruskin School SE5 0PQ Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)

Ofsted also registers 216 childminders and 123 home childcarers (nannies) in Southwark. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Sainsbury's SE5 0EERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good13 Oct 2025
Seehra supermarket SE5 0EERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Nov 2025
Margarets cakes of distinction SE5 0EDRetailers - other110 m4 Good14 Jun 2024
Zeret kitchen SE5 0EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good1 Jul 2024
Costcutter SE5 0HBRetailers - other120 m4 Good7 Aug 2024
Tennessee fried chicken SE5 0EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m1 Major improvement necessary21 May 2026
Iceland foods ltd SE5 0EERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m4 Good4 Feb 2026
Pasha SE5 0EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Apr 2025
Guido's grill SE5 0HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good14 Oct 2024
New pak hong SE5 0HBTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good6 May 2026
Kimchi and radish ltd SE5 0BUManufacturers/packers140 m5 Very good22 Jul 2024
New church news SE5 7JJRetailers - other150 m4 Good17 May 2018
Elite snacks SE5 0ETRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Wyndham supermarket SE5 0ADRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Taggs coffee co. SE5 0EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good21 Mar 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.

510 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour120
Violence and sexual offences119
Shoplifting46
Theft from the person43
Drugs42
Vehicle crime29
Public order24
Other theft21
Burglary18
Robbery15
Bicycle theft13
Criminal damage and arson12
Possession of weapons5
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Camberwell Road (143); On or near Crown Street (56); On or near Addington Square (45); On or near Broome Way (42); On or near Sears Street (38).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

60 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 8 serious and 52 slight, in which 9 people were seriously hurt. 6 involved a pedestrian; 26 involved a cyclist; 14 involved a motorcyclist; 3 involved a child under 16. 38% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021101
2022132
2023140
2024125
2025110
The most recent 10 of 60
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Oct 2025 20:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A215, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Aug 2025 12:03 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A215, 20 mph Daylight
29 Jul 2025 23:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A215, 20 mph Dark
27 Jul 2025 12:15 Slight 1 person A215, 20 mph Daylight
2 Jul 2025 10:15 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A215, 20 mph Wet road
29 Jun 2025 03:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A215, 30 mph Daylight
29 May 2025 15:38 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A215, 20 mph Daylight
15 May 2025 15:20 Slight 1 person A215, 30 mph Daylight
26 Mar 2025 22:24 Slight 1 person A215, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
20 Mar 2025 16:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A215, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A202 between Medlar St and A215, with 20,283 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 470 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A202 Camberwell New Rd to A215 1,827 estimated; counted 2018 2% -0% since 2015 360 m
A215 Medlar St to Camberwell Church St 17,538 counted 2025 3% -8% since 2015 400 m (0.2 miles)
A202 Medlar St to A215 20,283 counted 2025 3% +45% since 2015 470 m (0.3 miles)
A202 LA Boundary to Medlar St 18,110 estimated; counted 2024 2% -4% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 821 residents in 373 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 age3340
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)18%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van9%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus43%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Pucker up juice co. (takeaway/sandwich shop, SE5 7SW) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ark all saints academy (school/college/university, SE5 0UB) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • SE5 0EE: 1 address of 190 in the postcode
  • SE5 7HU: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Camberwell Road · Rust Square · Broome Way · Kitson Road · Crown Street · Sears Street · Caspian Street · Bowyer Street · Crown Street · New Church Road · Lomond Grove · Bethwin Road

All the streets in SE5 and across Southwark.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.