Helme Close Wimbledon, Merton

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (SW19), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22103257.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £2,100,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band H; Band D in Merton costs £2,147 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 87% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wimbledon, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Galustian Gardens Open Space, is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alexandra Road Surgery, about 380 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 48 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£2,100,000£2,100,000£2,100,000
20212£2,272,500£2,080,000£2,465,000
20121£1,175,000£1,175,000£1,175,000
20091£910,000£910,000£910,000
19971£429,950£429,950£429,950
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Mar 20255 SW19 7EBDetached£2,100,000
29 Sep 20211 SW19 7EBDetached£2,080,000
19 Mar 20212 SW19 7EBDetached£2,465,000
16 Apr 20125 SW19 7EBDetached£1,175,000
23 Jul 20093 SW19 7EBDetached£910,000
11 Dec 19972 SW19 7EBDetached£429,950

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 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 197 m². Most common: House, detached (3). Built: 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Merton in 2026-27: Band D £2,147 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,431£1,670£1,908£2,147£2,624£3,101£3,578£4,294

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band H (28% of about 1,230 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SW19 7EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SW19 7BLnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 6 addresses are between 33 m and 37 m above sea level (34 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
SW19 7BL100%87%87%0%
SW19 7EB100%0%0%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWimbledon 13 million journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Haydons Road 323,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Wimbledon Chase 272,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWimbledon Underground Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Wimbledon Tram Stop590 m (0.4 miles)
Dundonald Road Tram Stop1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wimbledon Magistrates Court330 m
Bus or coach stationCromwell Road Bus Station Kingston Upon Thames6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Ferry terminalWandsworth Riverside Quarter Pier4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wimbledon Quarter Car Park570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points46 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR18.3 km (11 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alexandra Road Surgery380 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sterling Chemist490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery280 m
HospitalParkside Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service610 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 4 Queens Road Halifax540 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Galustian Gardens Open Space 690 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)South Park Gardens 2.3 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.6 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsEffra Road Allotments 1,340 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m north-west. 83 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*360 m north-west
The Old Rectory HouseListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) north-west
South Park GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II730 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Eagle HouseListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) west
Wimbledon ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site8.5 km (5.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wimbledon Park LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Ashen Grove WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Rushmere PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Bluegate PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Farm BogWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Jerry's HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-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)15.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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, 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
55 to 59100
Under 55566

1 of the street's 6 addresses is 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 Merton: see them on the Merton 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
Bishop Gilpin CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11120 m Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ricards Lodge High SchoolSecondary11–19270 m No published inspection
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Priory CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Dundonald Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pelham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wimbledon College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Wimbledon Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Wimbledon Chase Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Garfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Ursuline High School Wimbledon Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2021, 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
Bishop Gilpin C Of E Primary School SW19 7EPSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Impact Food Group@ Ricards Lodge High School Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Willington School Foundation Ltd SW19 7QQSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good1 Jun 2026
Blooming Years Day Nursery SW19 7JZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Oaktree Pre-school SW19 7BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
The Olive Grove SW19 7BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Two Dogs SW19 7QPRetailers - other390 mAwaiting inspection
Leopold News SW19 7BDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good14 Nov 2023
West Coast Fish Shop SW19 7BBRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Dec 2025
Xins House SW19 7BBOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 Sep 2025
The Vintage Fish SW19 7BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Mumsy Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Oct 2025
Blackstone Coffee Ltd SW19 7BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Aug 2025
Newport Food and Wine SW19 7BDRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jul 2024
Library cafe SW19 7NBTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 2026

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.

48 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Other theft5
Anti-social behaviour5
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order2
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bernard Gardens (11); On or near Worcester Road (6); On or near Ricards Road (6); On or near Leopold Avenue (5); On or near Brockham Close (4).

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: 612 residents in 219 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 age4140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)69%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%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)68%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 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.

  • SW19 7EB: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • SW19 7BL: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Glendale Drive · St Aubyn's Avenue · Church Hill · Pine Grove · Brockham Close · Ricards Road · Lake Road · Worcester Road · Leopold Avenue · Bernard Gardens · Parkwood Road · St Mary's Road

All the streets in SW19 and across Merton.

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.