Grinling Place London, Lewisham

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (SE8), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22000470.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2005 the median was £240,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Lewisham cost £486,416 in August 2026 (-1.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,832 a month.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • 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.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 5 times (50 hours) in 2025.
  • 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, The O2 Arena - Wind turbines, is 3.2 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A200, carries 19,881 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Deptford, about 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Charlotte Turner Gardens, is about 150 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: It is about 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kingfisher Medical Centre, about 240 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 20% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 349 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 53 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 11 of them fatal or serious; 9 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20051£240,000£240,000£240,000
All 2 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 20053 SE8 5HRTerraced£240,000
9 Dec 2025AKWAABA CENTRE SE8 5HGOther£2,350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Lewisham

A typical home in Lewisham cost £486,416 in August 2026, 1.6% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 12% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,106,429
Semi-detached£768,448
Terraced£600,670
Flat or maisonette£374,267
Bought by a first-time buyer£429,182

Private renters in Lewisham paid £1,832 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,459
Two bedrooms£1,793
Three bedrooms£2,062
Four or more bedrooms£2,719

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 September 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,972 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% more than the district's 8,916 kWh, and 3,969 kWh of electricity, 31% more than the district's 3,037 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is SE8.

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 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 B (43% of about 700 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Small HMO Northern Extension.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
The O2 Arena - Wind turbines Greenwich 21/2229/F Wind 10 turbines 3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2021 3.2 km (2 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SE8 5HRzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SE8 5HGzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any 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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 5 times, for 50 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into R.thames ( Tidal ), Ravensbourne/Deptford Creek.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Deptford Storm Relief Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 3 46 510 m (0.3 miles)
Deptford Creek Cso Thames Water; monitored 81% of the year Ravensbourne/Deptford Creek 2 4 660 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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 on the street 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 highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 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 that area 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 5 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
SE8 5HG100%100%100%0%
SE8 5HR100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 2024–25270 m
New Cross 3.2 million journeys in 2024–25650 m (0.4 miles)
Greenwich 2.4 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDeptford Bridge DLR Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Greenwich DLR Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cutty Sark (for Maritime Greenwich) DLR Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Deptford High Street70 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road6.4 km (4 miles)
Ferry terminalMasthouse Terrace Pier Millwall790 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points27 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.1 km (19 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingfisher Medical Centre Good Dec 2024240 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chemist2Door20 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colosseum Dental (Creekside)100 m
HospitalBlackheath Hospital Good May 20193.1 km (1.9 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Olive Place Good Mar 2018660 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service380 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Perfect Fried Chicken Cashzone360 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Charlotte Turner Gardens 1.3 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Fordham Park 3.8 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²120 m
Playing fieldLuxmore Gardens 4,070 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Royal Naval Place North Allotment 2,180 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 10 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 13 and 15, Albury Street Se8, a listed building (Grade II*), 130 m south-east. 65 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 16 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
13 and 15, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*130 m south-east
17, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*140 m south-east
19 and 21, Albury StreetListed building, Grade II*150 m east
23-27, Albury Street Se8Listed building, Grade II*160 m east
Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys WharfScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) north
Site of the launch ways of the SS Great EasternScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Greenwich Hospital (RN College)Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Island GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Greenwich ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2 km (1.2 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-east
New Cross Gate CuttingWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
South DockLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Steelyard CutLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Saunders NessWetland2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
One Tree HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) 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 74100
60 to 64300
55 to 59400
Under 55088

8 of the street's 8 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 Lewisham: see them on the Lewisham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Grinling Gibbons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11160 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5280 m 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11290 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
Tidemill AcademyPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Clyde Nursery School.Nursery2–5570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Deptford Green SchoolSecondary11–16720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.8 (47.7 in 2025 and 44.6 in 2024); 38.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Addey and Stanhope SchoolSecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.6 (41.1 in 2025 and 37.9 in 2024); 36% grade 5+ in English and maths
Childeric Primary SchoolPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)
Harbinger Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.7 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 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Oak Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 460 m (0.3 miles); the nearest is 100 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kush Montessori SE8 3PR Full day care 30 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 100 m
Indo-Chinese Little Rainbow Day Nursery SE8 5LW Full day care 60 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 160 m
Bunny Hop Day Nursery SE8 5TW Full day care 24 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 230 m
Junior Adventures Group @ Invicta Deptford SE8 SE8 3HD Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 310 m
Diadems Day Nursery SE8 4NS Full day care 40 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 340 m
Get Active Kids LTD SE8 3PH Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 340 m
The Working Mums Club SE8 3PH Full day care 18 Not inspected yet 340 m
Montage at the Albany SE8 4AG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 370 m
Totally Kidz Day Nursery LTD SE8 3GH Full day care 40 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 4 areas, Expected standard in 2 450 m (0.3 miles)
Bree's Little Stars Nursery and Preschool SE8 3EG Full day care 60 Not inspected yet 460 m (0.3 miles)

Ofsted also registers 252 childminders and 157 home childcarers (nannies) in Lewisham. 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 14 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
Sugar Spot aka Juicy Bagel SE8 5HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 mAwaiting inspection
Just In General Store SE8 3NTRetailers - other60 m5 Very good25 Apr 2026
Perfecto SE8 3NTTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good15 Oct 2025
Pho Ngoc Hiep Restaurant SE8 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Feb 2025
MOC Restaurant SE8 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Apr 2026
LA FRATERNITE GUINNENE SE8 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
All Tribe Restaurant SE8 3NTTakeaway/sandwich shop70 mAwaiting inspection
Klose & Soan SE8 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good25 Jul 2025
Intervallo SE8 3NTTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Payless SE8 3HSRetailers - other80 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Feb 2024
DZ Food SE8 3PRRetailers - other90 m5 Very good11 Jul 2025
Bao Long SE8 3PRRetailers - other90 m5 Very good8 Dec 2023
Lebanese Restaurant SE8 3PRTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
The Watergate SE8 3HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 mAwaiting inspection
Eggfree Cake Box SE8 3PRRetailers - other100 m5 Very good26 Oct 2023

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.

349 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences117
Theft from the person49
Anti-social behaviour40
Drugs24
Public order23
Burglary21
Other theft20
Robbery16
Vehicle crime15
Criminal damage and arson9
Bicycle theft6
Possession of weapons4
Shoplifting4
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grinling Place (37); On or near Ffinch Street (36); On or near Hyde Street (34); On or near Edward Place (29); On or near Payne Street (24).

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.

53 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 10 serious and 42 slight, in which 1 person died and 11 people were seriously hurt. 9 involved a pedestrian; 23 involved a cyclist; 11 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 30% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021134
202294
2023121
202470
2025122
The most recent 10 of 53
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Nov 2025 08:15 Fatal 1 person: 1 pedestrian A200, 20 mph Daylight
23 Oct 2025 17:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
2 Jul 2025 13:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A200, 20 mph Wet road
2 Jul 2025 10:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 20 mph Wet road
20 Jun 2025 08:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 20 mph Daylight
19 Jun 2025 11:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 20 mph Daylight
25 May 2025 17:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 20 mph Dark, no street lights
6 May 2025 03:15 Slight 3 people Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
9 Apr 2025 10:55 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A200, 30 mph Daylight
5 Apr 2025 16:40 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A200, 30 mph Daylight

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 A200 between LA Boundary and A2209, with 19,881 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 160 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A200 LA Boundary to A2209 19,881 counted 2025 3% -16% since 2015 160 m
A2209 LA Boundary to A200 15,233 estimated; counted 2011 5% -13% since 2015 300 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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 602 residents in 285 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 age3340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)20%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram18%4%
By any public transport, including bus31%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Rose Pharmacy (retailers - other, SE8 3BN) newly listed: Exempt found 14 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings All Week (manufacturers/packers, SE8 5QA) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Dog & Bell (pub/bar/nightclub, SE8 3JD) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 12 October 2026) found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Marcella (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SE8 3NU) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 17 October 2026) found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Londis (retailers - other, SE8 5RA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 23 October 2026) found 11 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Clyde Street · Beech Close · New King Street · Hyde Street · Albury Street · Lamerton Street · Hamilton Street · Larch Close · Albury Street · Brig Mews · Armada Street · Carrick Mews

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; 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.