48 addresses across 5 postcodes (SW16), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22101395.
Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £427,500 across 2 sales.
Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 10, E: 4).
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 Merton costs £2,147 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Norbury, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 31 to 33 m above sea level.
Noise: 5 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fairview Medical Centre, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 1,270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 112 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)
Year
Sales
Median price
Lowest
Highest
2026
2
£427,500
£420,000
£435,000
2025
1
£715,000
£715,000
£715,000
2024
1
£435,000
£435,000
£435,000
2021
1
£396,800
£396,800
£396,800
2019
1
£490,000
£490,000
£490,000
2018
1
£365,000
£365,000
£365,000
2012
1
£240,000
£240,000
£240,000
2011
1
£249,995
£249,995
£249,995
2008
1
£278,000
£278,000
£278,000
2007
2
£252,750
£242,000
£263,500
2005
2
£225,000
£220,000
£230,000
2004
1
£230,000
£230,000
£230,000
Most recent sales (32)
Date
Address
Type
Price
Notes
28 Jul 2026
42 SW16 5HB
Terraced
£420,000
13 Mar 2026
44 SW16 5HB
Terraced
£435,000
26 Jan 2026
44 SW16 5HB
Terraced
£360,700
Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m².
Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1900-1929 (9); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (6).
What each band costs in Merton in 2026-27: Band D £2,147 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,431
£1,670
£1,908
£2,147
£2,624
£3,101
£3,578
£4,294
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (67% of about 1,370 homes).
A1%
B3%
C23%
D67%
E5%
F0%
G0%
H0%
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): 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
23 October 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
18 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency 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
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
SW16 5HB
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
SW16 5HA
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 3
unlikely
SW16 5HE
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 2
unlikely
SW16 5HF
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
SW16 5QJ
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 2
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.
The street's 48 addresses are between 31 m and 33 m above sea level (31 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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
SW16 5HA
100%
100%
100%
0%
SW16 5HB
100%
100%
100%
0%
SW16 5HE
100%
97%
97%
0%
SW16 5HF
100%
100%
100%
0%
SW16 5QJ
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Norbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25
1 km (0.6 miles)
Streatham Common 2.8 million journeys in 2024–25
1 km (0.6 miles)
Mitcham Eastfields 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops
7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Darcy Road Norbury
210 m
Bus or coach station
West Dulwich - Croxted Road
4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Ferry terminal
St Mary’s Wandsworth Pier Clapham Junction
7.2 km (4.4 miles)
Car parks
Apcoa
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points
27 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity
380 m
Airport with scheduled flights
London City Airport LCY
17 km (11 miles)
Nearest large airport
London Heathrow Airport LHR
23.5 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fairview Medical Centre
820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies
10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fairlight Pharmacy
340 m
NHS dentists
11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Idh LTD
740 m (0.5 miles)
Hospital
Wilson Hospital
2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Police station
Metropolitan Police Service
910 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines
1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM
610 m (0.4 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed2.4 ha
460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed1,860 m²
190 m
Playing field
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed1.1 ha
420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments
3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed7,190 m²
580 m (0.4 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 4.6 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is The Rookery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
16.8
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
8.9
20
5
Particles (PM10)
13.6
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
Aircraft
55 to 59
5
0
0
Under 55
43
48
48
5 of the street's 48 addresses are 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 Merton: see them on the Merton 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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Woodmansterne School
All-through
3–18
340 m
No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Norbury Manor Primary School
Primary
3–11
550 m (0.3 miles)
No published inspection
Granton Primary School
Primary
3–11
700 m (0.4 miles)
No published inspection
Harris Primary Academy Merton
Primary
2–11
840 m (0.5 miles)
No published inspection
William Morris Primary School
Primary
3–11
860 m (0.5 miles)
Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Harris Academy Merton
Secondary
11–18
870 m (0.5 miles)
Outstanding (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lonesome Primary School
Primary
3–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Beecholme Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
No published inspection
The Sherwood School
Primary
3–11
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
No published inspection
St Mark's Church of England Academy
Secondary
11–18
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gorringe Park Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Lidl SW16 5HX
Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets
270 m
5 Very good
5 Jul 2024
Chango SW16 5BN
Manufacturers/packers
290 m
5 Very good
8 May 2025
Avocargo Ltd SW16 5BN
Distributors/Transporters
290 m
5 Very good
22 Mar 2024
Cole's Bakerys & Commercial Kitchen SW16 5BN
Retailers - other
290 m
Awaiting inspection
Woodmansterne School SW16 5XE
School/college/university
310 m
5 Very good
20 Nov 2025
Fairlight Chemist SW16 5HX
Retailers - other
340 m
Exempt
Rowan Fish Bar
Takeaway/sandwich shop
340 m
5 Very good
9 Dec 2025
Clementine Convenience Store
Retailers - other
340 m
5 Very good
15 Sep 2025
Chicken Express SW16 5HX
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
340 m
4 Good
13 Nov 2025
Rowan Tandoori SW16 5HX
Takeaway/sandwich shop
340 m
5 Very good
9 Dec 2025
Swiss Salad Sauce SW16 5JH
Retailers - other
360 m
5 Very good
3 Apr 2025
Wheelers SW16 4QD
Retailers - other
380 m
4 Good
24 May 2026
Cosy Cafe Restaurant SW16 5JF
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
430 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
20 Jul 2026
Rowan Mini Market
Retailers - other
430 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
16 Apr 2024
Fornos Delicatessen SW16 5JF
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
1 Oct 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.
112 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
46
Anti-social behaviour
14
Other theft
12
Burglary
12
Vehicle crime
11
Public order
6
Drugs
4
Criminal damage and arson
3
Possession of weapons
2
Other crime
1
Robbery
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near Chilmark Road (33); On or near Cranesbill Close (15); On or near Hassocks Road (15); On or near Hemlock Close (10); On or near Windermere Road (10).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,266 residents in 426 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 street
England
Median age
38
40
Children under 15
19%
17%
Aged 65 and over
13%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
66%
61%
Owned outright
31%
33%
Shared ownership
2%
1%
Social rented
8%
17%
Private rented
25%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
61%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
6%
6%
Retired (of adults)
16%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
2%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
34%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
31%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
15%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
26%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
5%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
70%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
3%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
42%
34%
No qualifications
16%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
5%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
76%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
6%
2%
Deprivation
The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 6 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
Roadworks Street works permit: LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON: Highway repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
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.
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.