Denefield Drive London, Croydon

7 addresses across 1 postcode (CR8), about 60 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20500219.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Croydon costs £2,600 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kenley, about 320 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Riddlesdown Common, is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 86 to 89 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Old Coulsdon Medical Practice, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£300,000£300,000£300,000
20212£601,950£453,900£750,000
20181£305,000£305,000£305,000
20162£305,750£247,500£364,000
20152£436,750£272,500£601,000
20141£195,000£195,000£195,000
20071£500,000£500,000£500,000
20061£185,000£185,000£185,000
20041£177,000£177,000£177,000
20031£128,000£128,000£128,000
19992£125,975£79,950£172,000
19981£82,000£82,000£82,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 2026FLAT 8 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£300,000Leasehold.
27 Aug 2021FLAT 5 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£453,900Leasehold.
6 Aug 20213 CR8 5GRDetached£750,000
12 Jul 2018FLAT 7 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£305,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 2016FLAT 6 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£247,500Leasehold.
19 Feb 2016FLAT 5 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£364,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 20153 CR8 5GRDetached£601,000
5 May 2015FLAT 7 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£272,500Leasehold.
3 Nov 2014FLAT 6 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£195,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 20073 CR8 5GRDetached£500,000
14 Aug 2006FLAT 7 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£185,000Leasehold.
26 Jan 2004FLAT 7 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£177,000Leasehold.
24 Oct 2003FLAT 6 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£128,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 1999FLAT 6 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£79,950Leasehold.
21 Jun 19993 CR8 5GRDetached£172,000
24 Jul 1998FLAT 7 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 1997FLAT 6 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£56,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 1997FLAT 8 CR8 5GRFlat or maisonette£54,000Leasehold.

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: Flat (5); House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (4); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Croydon in 2026-27: Band D £2,600 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,733£2,022£2,311£2,600£3,178£3,755£4,333£5,200

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 850 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

Groundwater flooding is possible in this postcode: 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 7 addresses are between 86 m and 89 m above sea level (88 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CR8 5GR100%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 stationsKenley 269,000 journeys in 2024–25320 m
Riddlesdown 287,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Whyteleafe 228,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenley Treatment Works160 m
Bus or coach stationKenley - Kenley Hotel360 m
Car parksParking space on Sunnydene Road, CR81.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station600 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW20.3 km (13 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 surgeriesOld Coulsdon Medical Practice2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Zina Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kenley Dental Practice380 m
HospitalPurley War Memorial Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationKenley Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Kenley420 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Riddlesdown Common 41 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Kenley Common 72 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,380 m²850 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenley Sports Club 1.5 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsHartley Down Allotments 2.9 ha2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 123 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Newe (or Wide) Ditch, Riddlesdown, a scheduled monument, 760 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Newe (or Wide) Ditch, RiddlesdownScheduled monument760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Group of four World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Group of seven World War II fighter pens at the former airfield of RAF KenleyScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coombes WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) north
Mitchley WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Ragged GroveWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Foxley WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Dollyper's HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Happy ValleyValley3.6 km (2.3 miles) south-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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail 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 trafficRailways
55 to 5951
Under 5526

5 of the street's 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 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 Croydon: see them on the Croydon 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
Harris Primary Academy KenleyPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Riddlesdown CollegiateSecondary11–19730 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Hayes Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kenley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Atwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beaumont Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Gresham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 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
Abbey Wood Grange Day Nursery CR8 5DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Smokin' Grill Steakhouse CR8 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m2 Improvement necessary10 Jun 2026
Kenley Wine Merchant CR8 5AARetailers - other380 m4 Good23 Mar 2022
Mama Jane's Pizza CR8 5AATakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good26 Sep 2024
Morley's Fried Chicken CR8 5AATakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good19 Feb 2025
Kenley House/China Town/Halal/Flying/Wood/Famous/BestChinese CR8 5JDTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 May 2026
Co-op Food CR8 5AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Nov 2023
Welcomes Road CR8 5HAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour17
Violence and sexual offences11
Vehicle crime7
Burglary3
Drugs2
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bader Close (22); On or near Waterbourne Way (12); On or near Bredune (3); On or near Wordsworth Avenue (2); On or near Beechcroft Avenue (1).

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: 453 residents in 190 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 age3640
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van30%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%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)35%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

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

Wordsworth Avenue · Bader Close · Yewbank Close · Church Road · Betula Close · Hazeldene Court · Waterbourne Way · Beechcroft Avenue · Glenside Close · Bredune · Ashurst Close · Purcell Close

All the streets in CR8 and across Croydon.

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.