Browning Close London, Bexley

27 addresses across 1 postcode (DA16), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20100216.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £390,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 10, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Bexley costs £2,366 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Welling, about 870 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Shoulder of Mutton Green, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bellegrove Surgery, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20241£390,000£390,000£390,000
20231£405,000£405,000£405,000
20221£377,000£377,000£377,000
20212£415,000£365,000£465,000
20162£290,000£280,000£300,000
20153£265,000£260,000£282,500
20131£200,000£200,000£200,000
20121£166,000£166,000£166,000
20111£176,000£176,000£176,000
20092£183,000£178,000£188,000
20071£187,500£187,500£187,500
20031£172,500£172,500£172,500
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Apr 20246 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£390,000
27 Nov 202325 DA16 3NZTerraced£405,000
29 Apr 202226 DA16 3NZTerraced£377,000
16 Dec 20219 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£365,000
5 Feb 20212 DA16 3NZTerraced£465,000
28 Feb 20197 DA16 3NZTerraced£315,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Sep 201625 DA16 3NZTerraced£300,000
21 Mar 201618 DA16 3NZTerraced£280,000
13 Oct 20157 DA16 3NZTerraced£282,500
27 Mar 201517 DA16 3NZTerraced£260,000
6 Jan 20156 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£265,000
25 Mar 20134 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£200,000
10 Feb 201216 DA16 3NZTerraced£166,000
3 Jun 20117 DA16 3NZTerraced£176,000
6 Nov 20096 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£178,000
22 Oct 20093 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£188,000
30 Mar 200717 DA16 3NZTerraced£187,500
29 Sep 20034 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£172,500
31 May 20028 DA16 3NZTerraced£122,995
5 Jan 200117 DA16 3NZTerraced£100,000
10 Mar 20004 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£98,000
28 Nov 19979 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£74,000
25 Apr 199712 DA16 3NZTerraced£60,000
14 Jun 199626 DA16 3NZTerraced£66,000
17 Feb 19955 DA16 3NZSemi-detached£63,000

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bexley in 2026-27: Band D £2,366 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,103£2,366£2,892£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (40% of about 650 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 2 October 2026 to 8 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 19 August 2026 to 25 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 27 addresses are between 57 m and 59 m above sea level (58 m on average).

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
DA16 3NZ100%96%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 stationsWelling 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25870 m (0.5 miles)
Falconwood 823,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Plumstead 923,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chaucer Road (DA16) Welling360 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier3.2 km (2 miles)
Car parksWestwood Lane Car Park820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points25 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity600 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR38.3 km (24 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellegrove Surgery640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellegrove Pharmacy590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery710 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalMemorial Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationPlumstead Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.3 km (0.8 miles)

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shoulder of Mutton Green 1.4 ha250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)East Wickham Open Space 29 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,690 m²800 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rosemary Road Allotments 2.1 ha560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Burial mound on Winns Common, Plumstead, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Burial mound on Winns Common, PlumsteadScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Shrewsbury Barrow, Shooters HillScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Danson ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site6.5 km (4.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clothworkers WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Hill GroveWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Bleak HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
The LakeLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Gallions ReachTidal water3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Gallions PointWetland3.6 km (2.3 miles) north

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)15.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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
Under 55272727

None of the street's 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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 Bexley: see them on the Bexley 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
East Wickham Primary AcademyPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Timbercroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Leigh Stationers' Primary AcademyPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Rockliffe Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Stephen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hook Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bishop Ridley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Greenslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Harris Academy FalconwoodSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Plumcroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Welling SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Plumstead Manor SchoolSecondary11–191.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, 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
Slimming World Franchise DA16 3RSRetailers - other270 mExempt
The Green Man Pub DA16 3NLPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good10 Aug 2026
Wickham Food & Wine DA16 3LURetailers - other350 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Willow Dene School SE18 2JDSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Willow's Delish SE18 2JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good16 Jan 2024
Sandringham Pre-School At St. Marys Church Hall DA16 3QUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 2023

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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Public order4
Burglary4
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Drugs1
Criminal damage and arson1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chaucer Road (12); On or near Burns Close (6); On or near Keats Road (5); On or near Blake Close (4); On or near Wordsworth Road (3).

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: 330 residents in 136 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rentedunder 1%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Shelley Drive · Blake Close · Wordsworth Road · Tennyson Close · Burns Close · Chaucer Road · Keats Road · Peters Close · Honiton Road · Whiting Close · Blenheim Drive · Wycliffe Close

All the streets in DA16 and across Bexley.

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.