Comet Place London, Lewisham

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (SE8), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22000259.

  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 1, D: 6, E: 5).
  • Flood: 22 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 B; Band D in Lewisham costs £2,237 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Deptford, about 250 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Margaret Macmillan Park, is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 20.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Deptford Medical Centre, about 230 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 55% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 940 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.

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 March 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 45 m². Most common: Flat (16). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 2025 (4); 2005 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (9); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lewisham in 2026-27: Band D £2,237 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,492£1,740£1,989£2,237£2,735£3,232£3,729£4,475

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 1,860 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: yes, Deptford High Street, Deptford High Street & St Pauls Church, St Johns. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Small HMO Northern Extension, Deptford District Centre.
  • 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 18 at medium risk and 21 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 1 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
SE8 4EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
SE8 4EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
SE8 4AAnot in 2 or 3 3 / 13 / 9 unlikely
SE8 4DYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 5 / 1 possible

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 25 addresses are between 6 m and 13 m above sea level (7 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
SE8 4AA100%63%63%0%
SE8 4DY100%100%100%0%
SE8 4EP100%22%22%0%
SE8 4EU100%0%0%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 stationsDeptford 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25250 m
New Cross 3.2 million journeys in 2024–25410 m (0.3 miles)
St Johns (London) 842,000 journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDeptford Bridge DLR Station390 m
Greenwich DLR Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Elverson Road DLR Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Deptford High St /New Cross Rd170 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalMasthouse Terrace Pier Millwall1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksGreenwich Park Street Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points26 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station210 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.5 km (4.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.1 km (19 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Deptford Medical Centre230 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nightingale Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Community Health South London N340 m
HospitalUniversity Hospital Lewisham2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service490 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Perfect Fried Chicken Cashzone180 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Margaret Macmillan Park 1.2 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Fordham Park 3.8 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 960 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Luxmore Gardens 4,070 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 370 m north. 88 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 17 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PaulListed building, Grade I370 m north
13 and 15, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north
17, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north
19 and 21, Albury StreetListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north
Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys WharfScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Site of the launch ways of the SS Great EasternScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
West Grove, Conduit House, BlackheathScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) east
Island GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Greenwich ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New Cross Gate CuttingWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Greenwich ReachTidal water1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
South DockLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Newcastle DrawdockTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
One Tree HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) east
Saunders NessWetland2.3 km (1.4 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)20.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.3205
Particles (PM10)15.34015

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
70 to 74030
55 to 59900
Under 55162225

9 of the street's 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 3 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 Lewisham: see them on the Lewisham 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
Tidemill AcademyPrimary3–11230 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Addey and Stanhope SchoolSecondary11–16250 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11270 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5580 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Grinling Gibbons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Stephen's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Deptford Green SchoolSecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Myatt Garden Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Childeric Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Ashmead Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11840 m (0.5 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kims Newsagent SE8 4AARetailers - other30 m5 Very good25 Apr 2026
El Cheap OU SE8 4AARetailers - other40 m5 Very good2 Feb 2024
Honey's SE8 4AATakeaway/sandwich shop40 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Dec 2023
Roots SE8 4AARetailers - other40 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Apr 2026
Cafe Bianca SE8 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good9 Jan 2026
Uncle's Halal Butchers SE8 4AARetailers - other40 m4 Good9 Mar 2024
109 Halal Butchers SE8 4AARetailers - other40 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2024
Deptford Supermarket SE8 4AARetailers - other40 m4 Good26 Nov 2025
Kingz Chicken n Grill SE8 4AATakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good16 May 2026
Best Butchers and Grocery SE8 4ADRetailers - other50 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Glory For The Needy SE8 4RTRetailers - other60 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Top Butcher & Grocery Ltd SE8 4AERetailers - other70 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Jan 2026
Ocean Chill SE8 4RTRetailers - other70 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Feb 2025
Eva Business Limited SE8 4RTRetailers - other70 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Apr 2025
MERKUR Slots, SE8 4AFPub/bar/nightclub80 mExempt

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.

940 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences266
Anti-social behaviour153
Shoplifting92
Public order78
Other theft72
Theft from the person70
Drugs60
Burglary39
Criminal damage and arson32
Robbery25
Vehicle crime22
Possession of weapons13
Bicycle theft11
Other crime7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Deptford High Street (177); On or near Comet Place (72); On or near Admiralty Close (61); On or near Reginald Square (59); On or near Vaughan Williams Close (54).

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: 577 residents in 241 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 age3740
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram17%4%
By any public transport, including bus24%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)55%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

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

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Elgar Close · Hales Street · Speedwell Street · New Butt Lane · Comet Street · Reginald Square · Deptford High Street · Reginald Road · New Cross Road · Vaughan Williams Close · Frankham Street · Stanley Street

All the streets in SE8 and across Lewisham.

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.