Keston Close London, Bexley

19 addresses across 1 postcode (DA16), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20100792.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £465,000 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: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 8).
  • 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.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Riverside Energy Park (REP), is 4 km (2.5 miles) away.
  • 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 Welling, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bostall Heath, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 60 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bexley Medical Group, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 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
20221£465,000£465,000£465,000
20162£320,000£300,000£340,000
20151£306,000£306,000£306,000
20081£245,000£245,000£245,000
20071£275,000£275,000£275,000
20061£175,000£175,000£175,000
20042£216,250£187,000£245,500
20032£131,500£112,000£151,000
20021£189,995£189,995£189,995
19971£69,000£69,000£69,000
All 14 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 20043 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£245,500
9 Aug 20023 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£189,995
1 Apr 20167 DA16 1BDTerraced£300,000
22 Jun 20078 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£275,000
6 Dec 20199 DA16 1BDOther£460,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Sep 201510 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£306,000
8 Apr 201611 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£340,000
25 Jan 200811 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£245,000
10 Nov 200311 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£112,000
19 May 200613 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£175,000
29 Sep 199713 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£69,000
13 Oct 202214 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£465,000
30 Jun 200416 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£187,000
30 Oct 200316 DA16 1BDSemi-detached£151,000

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); Flat (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,995 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 4,765 kWh of electricity, 38% more than the district's 3,443 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 DA16.

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 (39% of about 640 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Riverside Resource Recovery Facility (RRRF) Energy from waste (incinerator) 72 MW Operational Sep 2011 870 m (0.5 miles)
Crossness Sewage Works Turbine Bexley 08/03936/FULMIN Wind 1 turbine 2.5 MW Operational Feb 2014 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Crossness Sewage Works Bexley 12/01114/FULM Sewage Sludge Digestion 5.7 MW Operational Jun 2016 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Riverside Energy Park (REP) The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure EN010093 Anaerobic digestion 19 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2020 4 km (2.5 miles)
Riverside Energy Park (REP) The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure EN010093 Energy from waste (incinerator) 80.5 MW Being built Jan 2023 4 km (2.5 miles)
Beckton STW Biodiesel Power Plant Biomass 8 MW Operational Dec 2010 4.9 km (3 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 25 September 2026 to 28 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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 in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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 19 addresses are between 58 m and 60 m above sea level (60 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
DA16 1BD100%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 stationsWelling 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Abbey Wood 12 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Bexleyheath 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Plumstead Cemetery East Wickham150 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Hurst Road/Valentine Avenue Sidcup4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points47 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity210 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR40.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bexley Medical Group Good Feb 2020790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Karia Dental270 m
HospitalKings @ Erith & District Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 167 Lodge Hill Good Oct 2019150 m
Police stationPlumstead Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone720 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bostall Heath 72 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,750 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,850 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsCooks Farm Allotments 1.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 104 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Greek Orthodox Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 540 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Greek Orthodox ChurchListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Burial mound on Winns Common, PlumsteadScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Lesnes AbbeyScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Danson ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.5 miles) south
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site8.2 km (5.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bostall WoodsWood700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hill GroveWood730 m (0.5 miles) west
Bleak HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
The LakeLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Erith MarshesWetland3 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Gallions ReachTidal water3.8 km (2.4 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)14.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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 55181919

1 of the street's 19 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 Bexley: see them on the Bexley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
Hillsgrove Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
St Michael's East Wickham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Welling SchoolSecondary11–18940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 36.4 (34.7 in 2025 and 36.7 in 2024); 32.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Alexander McLeod Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Abbey Wood Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bedonwell Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published
Bedonwell Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
East Wickham Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Brampton Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Barrington Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Foster's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 82% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
St Stephen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; 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 93% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 45% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 87% 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 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Cherry Tree Kids Club DA16 1DR Sessional day care 25 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 300 m
Heath Lodge Day Nursery DA7 5SJ Full day care 36 Not inspected yet 700 m (0.4 miles)
Poppets Pre School DA16 3AP Sessional day care 35 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 710 m (0.4 miles)
Bo Peeps Preschool Ltd DA16 1LS Sessional day care 28 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 870 m (0.5 miles)
Enchanted Wood Preschool Ltd- Little Nest DA16 1LN Sessional day care 15 Not inspected yet 890 m (0.6 miles)
Clever Clogs Childcare Ltd DA16 1LB Full day care 58 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)
Chirpy Kids After School Club SE2 0QS Out-of-school day care 30 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 1 area, Needs attention in 3 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Mayfair Day Nursery DA7 4TT Full day care 79 Good (Jul 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Monkey Puzzle Welling DA16 3AF Full day care 78 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cherry Tree Kids Club @ East Wickham Primary Academy DA16 3BP Out-of-school day care 32 Not inspected yet 1.4 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 6 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
Costcutter DA16 1AXRetailers - other250 m5 Very good3 May 2024
Salt & Batter DA16 1AXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good19 May 2026
The Pantry @ Hillsgrove Primary School DA16 1DRSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
ISS Facility Services SE2 0ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Cherry Tree Kids Club At The Children's Centre DA16 1DLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Chestnuts Kiosk SE2 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jan 2025
Lets Just Create CIC SE2 0AXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Longleigh Lane DA7 5SLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Mar 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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order9
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hartley Road (17); On or near Totnes Road (12); On or near Downe Close (8); On or near Lodge Hill (6); On or near Sidmouth Road (5).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Jan 2023 18:25 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
16 Jun 2021 15:23 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 382 residents in 129 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 age3940
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY: Highway repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 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 September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Downe Close · Denton Road · Sandgate Road · Hillsgrove Close · Hartley Road · Lodge Hill · Lodge Hill · Exmouth Road · Totnes Road · Hadlow Road · Langley Road · Elmsted Crescent

All the streets in DA16 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.