Buckmaster Close London, Lambeth

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (SW9), about 60 m long. USRN 21901694.

  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 3).
  • Flood: 4 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 C; Band D in Lambeth costs £2,047 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brixton, about 380 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Max Roach Park, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 20.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stockwell Group Practice, about 230 m away, with 21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 9% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,373 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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.

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 June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: Flat (3); House, mid-terrace (1); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (1); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lambeth in 2026-27: Band D £2,047 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,365£1,592£1,820£2,047£2,502£2,957£3,412£4,094

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 620 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SW9 0TGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SW9 0TNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 0 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 9 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
SW9 0TG100%50%50%0%
SW9 0TN100%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 stationsBrixton 804,000 journeys in 2024–25380 m
Loughborough Junction 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Clapham High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBrixton Underground Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Stockwell Underground Station800 m (0.5 miles)
Clapham North Underground Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 62 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stockwell Park Walk Brixton80 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road3.2 km (2 miles)
Ferry terminalVauxhall St George Wharf Pier2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking lot700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points63 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.6 km (7.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24 km (15 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 surgeries21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stockwell Group Practice230 m
Pharmacies26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingshield Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brixton Dental Clinic180 m
HospitalThe Lambeth Hospital520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBrixton Police Station230 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM230 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 Max Roach Park 1.9 ha140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Slade Gardens 2.5 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²100 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 810 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lorn Road Allotments 3,600 m²660 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 9.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Academy, a listed building (Grade II*), 120 m south. 174 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The AcademyListed building, Grade II*120 m south
Mausoleum of Richard Budd in Grounds of Church of St MatthewListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St MatthewListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south
Myatt's FieldsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Ruskin ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site3.7 km (2.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long PondLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Eagle PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Mount PondLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Knight's HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Holly Grove ShrubberyWood3 km (1.9 miles) east
Chelsea ReachTidal water3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west

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)20.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.3205
Particles (PM10)15.64015

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
55 to 59100
Under 55788

1 of the street's 8 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 Lambeth: see them on the Lambeth 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
St Helen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11130 m No published inspection
Stockwell Primary SchoolPrimary2–11210 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Angell Town Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hill Mead Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Loughborough Primary SchoolPrimary2–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Platanos CollegeSecondary11–19870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Van Gogh PrimaryPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sudbourne Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Evelyn Grace AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Allen Edwards Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Larkhall Primary CampusPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (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
Abacus Nursery School SW9 0TQSchool/college/university70 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Latin American Shop SW9 9SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good2 Feb 2021
One Stop Express SW9 9SJRetailers - other130 m4 Good27 Jun 2026
Quality Cafe SW9 9SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Apr 2025
Sato's Kitchen SW9 9SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good8 May 2026
Co-op Lambeth Stockwell Road SW9 9TPRetailers - other140 m5 Very good12 Jun 2026
Brixton Kebab SW9 9SLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good20 May 2026
O2 Academy Brixton SW9 9SLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Funchal Bakery SW9 9TNRetailers - other150 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Mar 2026
Morley's Fast Food SW9 7AWTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Nov 2025
Crackerjack Food And Wine SW9 7AWRetailers - other160 m5 Very good16 May 2026
Creams Cafe SW9 7AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Turtle Bay SW9 7AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Roosters Spot SW9 7AWTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good6 Jun 2026
Stockwell Primary School SW9 9TGSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025

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.

1,373 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour327
Violence and sexual offences325
Public order137
Shoplifting128
Drugs120
Theft from the person68
Other theft60
Robbery57
Criminal damage and arson50
Burglary35
Vehicle crime28
Bicycle theft14
Other crime12
Possession of weapons12

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (406); On or near Romero Close (205); On or near Stockwell Park Walk (81); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (74); On or near Aytoun Road (71).

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: 305 residents in 123 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 age3940
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)9%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented79%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram21%4%
By any public transport, including bus56%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)40%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Jaralam Newsagent (retailers - other, SW9 8BA) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Rajan News (retailers - other, SW9 8BA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Gail's Bakery Brixton (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SW9 8HE) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 23 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings You Me Sushi (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SW9 7DG) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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

Albemarle Walk · Benedict Road · Stockwell Park Walk · Knowle Close · Aytoun Road · Rumsey Road · Astoria Walk · Romero Close · Rossiter Grove · Moat Place · Stockwell Avenue · Winans Walk

All the streets in SW9 and across Lambeth.

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.