Farm Vale Bexley

12 addresses across 1 postcode (DA5), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20100540.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £559,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bexley cost £414,833 in August 2026 (+1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,540 a month.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Manor Farm, Dartford Road - Energy Storage System, is 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A2, carries 101,170 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Bexley costs £2,366 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bexley, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Plas Meddyg Surgery, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.
  • Road safety: 10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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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
20241£559,000£559,000£559,000
20211£655,000£655,000£655,000
20201£390,000£390,000£390,000
20181£440,000£440,000£440,000
20171£415,000£415,000£415,000
20151£335,000£335,000£335,000
20131£220,000£220,000£220,000
20011£132,000£132,000£132,000
19991£105,000£105,000£105,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 20247 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£559,000
16 Dec 20219 DA5 1NJDetached£655,000
8 Sep 20206 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£390,000
18 Apr 20185 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£440,000
14 Jul 20178 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£415,000
4 Sep 20157 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£335,000
20 Sep 20132 DA5 1NJTerraced£220,000
6 Jul 20013 DA5 1NJSemi-detached£132,000
16 Jul 19994 DA5 1NJTerraced£105,000

House prices and rents in Bexley

A typical home in Bexley cost £414,833 in August 2026, 1.9% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 27% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£737,494
Semi-detached£535,915
Terraced£418,205
Flat or maisonette£245,833
Bought by a first-time buyer£362,775

Private renters in Bexley paid £1,540 a month on average in September 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,231
Two bedrooms£1,529
Three bedrooms£1,870
Four or more bedrooms£2,430

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 April 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bexley in 2026-27: Band D £2,366 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,103£2,366£2,892£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (38% of about 950 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: 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Manor Farm, Dartford Road - Energy Storage System Bexley 25/01153/FULM Battery storage 212 MW Planning application made Jun 2025 780 m (0.5 miles)
Riverside Resource Recovery Facility (RRRF) Energy from waste (incinerator) 72 MW Operational Sep 2011 3.4 km (2.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

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.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 13 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DA5 1NJ100%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 stationsBexley 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Crayford 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Barnehurst 956,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bexley / Black Prince120 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Hurst Road/Valentine Avenue Sidcup1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksAlbion Road Car Park910 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points38 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW40.7 km (25 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Plas Meddyg Surgery Good May 2016730 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osbon Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery380 m
HospitalKings @ Erith & District Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mountview Requires improvement Nov 20251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationBexleyheath Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank Cash Machine640 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 19 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 780 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Mary's Recreation Ground 4.1 ha330 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Love Lane Allotments 2.7 ha730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Garden Wall, Gatepiers and Gates to North Amd West of Hall Place, a listed building (Grade I), 470 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Garden Wall, Gatepiers and Gates to North Amd West of Hall PlaceListed building, Grade I470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hall PlaceListed building, Grade I470 m (0.3 miles) east
Hall PlaceScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) east
Hall PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II550 m (0.3 miles) east
Parish Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) south
Danson ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eighty Oak WoodWood430 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
The DellHollow2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Great MountHill3.8 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Crayford CreekTidal water3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Crayford MarshesWetland4.3 km (2.7 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)14.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)14.84015

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 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
65 to 69100
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 55012

12 of the street's 12 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 Bexley: see them on the Bexley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Beths Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18150 m Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Columba's Catholic Boys' School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Gravel Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Catherine's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Townley Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Old Bexley Church of England SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Lift BexleyheathSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Pelham Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Mayplace Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Paulinus Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Nurseries and childcare

8 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 730 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Old Bexley Village Pre-school DA5 3LX Sessional day care 30 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
Cherry Tree Kids Club at Gravel Hill Primary School DA6 7QJ Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 890 m (0.6 miles)
Nickie's Nippers Pre School Ltd DA1 4BU Sessional day care 36 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cherry Tree Kids Club Old Bexley DA5 3JR Out-of-school day care 61 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bexley Heath DA6 7EG Full day care 100 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Enchanted Wood Preschool Ltd- The Broadway DA6 7BT Sessional day care 48 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
First Class Learning Bexleyheath DA6 7BT Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Enchanted Wood Preschool Ltd- Old Road DA1 4DN Full day care 61 May 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 265 childminders and 80 home childcarers (nannies) in Bexley. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Holiday Inn DA5 1NDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Independent Catering @ Beths Grammar School DA5 1NESchool/college/university150 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Black Horse Public House DA5 1NTPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good9 Mar 2024
Bexley Community Library With Inspire Community Trust DA5 1LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good11 Jul 2024
Bexley Lawn Tennis & Squash Club DA5 1AXPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good15 Aug 2024
Dartfordians Community Sports Club DA5 1LWPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Ginger Spiced DA5 1LWRetailers - other380 m5 Very good29 Aug 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime13
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft3
Public order3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hartford Road (15); On or near Otford Close (12); On or near Rye Close (5); On or near Elmington Close (4); On or near Farm Vale (3).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 9 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. 30% happened in the dark, and 30% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202171
202220
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
20 Jan 2023 17:00 Slight 1 person A223, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
2 Jun 2022 18:30 Slight 1 person A223, 30 mph Daylight
1 Apr 2022 23:36 Slight 1 person A223, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
2 Dec 2021 12:00 Slight 3 people A2, 30 mph Daylight
29 Sep 2021 12:30 Slight 1 person A2, 50 mph Daylight
22 May 2021 09:20 Slight 1 person A223, 30 mph Wet road
11 May 2021 08:33 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A223, 50 mph Daylight
21 Apr 2021 15:15 Slight 2 people A223, 30 mph Daylight
29 Mar 2021 22:46 Slight 1 person A2, 50 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Feb 2021 16:45 Slight 2 people A2, 50 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A2 between A223 and LA Boundary, with 101,170 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 310 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A223 A220 to A2 21,701 counted 2025 2% +30% since 2015 60 m
A223 A222 to A220 17,909 estimated; counted 2023 1% +6% since 2015 220 m
A223 A2(T) main route to A220 20,388 estimated; counted 2024 4% +29% since 2015 250 m
A220 A223 to A223 30,730 estimated; counted 2023 3% -12% since 2015 270 m
A2 A223 to LA Boundary 101,170 counted 2025 4% -3% since 2015 310 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 305 residents in 123 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)27%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

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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

Otford Close · Southwold Road · Elmington Close · Gravel Hill Close · Bourne Road · Rye Close · Newick Close · Hartford Road · Cranleigh Close · Harbex Close · Lesley Close · Henfield Close

All the streets in DA5 and across Bexley.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.