Creative Road London, Lewisham

234 addresses across 7 postcodes (SE8), about 230 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 22007169.

  • Energy: 148 homes have an energy certificate (B: 148).
  • Flood: 44 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 Lewisham costs £2,237 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 17% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Deptford, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Brookmill Park (2.7 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) 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 -2 to 4 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 Primecare Pms (South Street), about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 1% of households owned their home and 74% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 210 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
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jul 202660, GOBY HOUSE SE8 3GNOther£42,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Mar 201860, GOBY HOUSE SE8 3GNOther£51,307,200Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

148 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: Flat (140); Maisonette, detached (8). Built: 2015 (138); 2018 (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (148 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 1,200 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Deptford Creekside (council page). 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): Lower Creekside LSIS, Small HMO Northern Extension.
  • 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, 44 at medium risk and 104 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 148 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 21 medium, 68 low and 59 very low.

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
SE8 3GNzone 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
SE8 3GLzone 3 0 / 1 / 43 unlikely
SE8 3LFzone 3 0 / 0 / 36 unlikely
SE8 3FUzone 3 0 / 0 / 25 unlikely
SE8 3GJzone 3 0 / 21 / 0 unlikely
SE8 3LEzone 3 0 / 18 / 0 unlikely
SE8 3DXzone 3 0 / 2 / 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 234 addresses are between -2 m and 4 m above sea level (1 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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 3DX83%17%17%0%
SE8 3FU100%100%100%0%
SE8 3GJ100%100%100%0%
SE8 3GL100%100%100%0%
SE8 3GN100%100%100%0%
SE8 3LE100%96%96%0%
SE8 3LF100%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 stationsDeptford 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25430 m (0.3 miles)
Greenwich 2.4 million journeys in 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
New Cross 3.2 million journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDeptford Bridge DLR Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Greenwich DLR Station470 m (0.3 miles)
Cutty Sark (for Maritime Greenwich) DLR Station790 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wavelengths Leisure Centre Deptford190 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road6.5 km (4 miles)
Ferry terminalGreenwich Pier1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksGreenwich Park Street Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points22 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station250 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.5 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Primecare Pms (South Street)580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rose Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Merivale Dental Practice340 m
HospitalBlackheath Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationGreenwich Police Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Perfect Fried Chicken Cashzone380 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,940 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Brookmill Park 2.7 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,390 m²80 m
Playing fieldLuxmore Gardens 4,070 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,730 m²690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 8.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 350 m north-west. 194 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 18 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PaulListed building, Grade I350 m north-west
34-40, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north-west
43, Albury StreetListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) north-west
37, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys WharfScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Site of the launch ways of the SS Great EasternScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Greenwich Hospital (RN College)Scheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Island GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Greenwich ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Greenwich ReachTidal water1 km (0.6 miles) north
New Cross Gate CuttingWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
One Tree HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Newcastle DrawdockTidal water1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Folly PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Saunders NessWetland1.9 km (1.2 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 740470
65 to 6901090
60 to 640290
55 to 590250
Under 5523424234

210 of the street's 234 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more 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)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11370 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5440 m (0.3 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
Addey and Stanhope SchoolSecondary11–16650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Grinling Gibbons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
James Wolfe Primary School and Centre for the DeafPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Stephen's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morden Mount Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashmead Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Ursula's Convent School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Workspace Cafe SE8 3DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Spring Cafe Cockpit SE8 3DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good10 Sep 2024
The Bakers Art SE8 4SARetailers - other160 m4 Good5 Nov 2024
THE YEAST BROTHERS SE8 4SATakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
How Greedy SE8 4SATakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
Trinity Laban SE8 3DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
Imperial oaks SE10 8BNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Wavelengths Leisure Centre Cafe SE8 4RJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good25 Apr 2026
BEIJA-FLOR COFFEE SE8 4EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Sultan Sofrasi SE10 8JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Premier Inn SE10 8BNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house220 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Paddy Wok SE8 4SATakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good11 Jul 2025
Coffee and Beyond SE10 8JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Kitcho by Ajiichiban SE10 8JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good28 May 2026
The Arepas, Latinos Grill, Jalapenos, Dip It, Korn Dogs, Al Dente Pastas SE8 4SATakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024

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.

210 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour52
Other theft21
Drugs13
Burglary13
Vehicle crime11
Bicycle theft10
Theft from the person9
Public order7
Robbery7
Criminal damage and arson3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near B208 (56); On or near Deptford Church Street (52); On or near Merryweather Place (36); On or near Creative Road (27); On or near Creekside (22).

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 119 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 age3040
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over0%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)under 1%61%
Owned outright0%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)0%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)67%32%
Travel to work by car or van6%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)74%34%
No qualifications2%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%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

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.

  • SE8 3GN: 63 addresses of 66 in the postcode
  • SE8 3GL: 48 addresses of 52 in the postcode
  • SE8 3LF: 45 addresses
  • SE8 3FU: 30 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • SE8 3GJ: 23 addresses
  • SE8 3LE: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • SE8 3DX: 2 addresses of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Creekside · Bronze Street · Deptford Church Street · Deptford Church Street · Merryweather Place · Cofferdam Way · Frankham Street · Berthon Street · Berthon Street · Crossfield Street · Tidemill Way · Resolution Way

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.