Lee Road Merton

31 addresses across 5 postcodes (SW19), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22103841.

  • Flood: 9 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 C; Band D in Merton costs £2,147 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 99% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Merton, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Nelson Gardens, is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Merton Medical Practice, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 C (38% of about 1,690 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 20 October 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 11 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 28 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 10 low and 0 very low.

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 3HXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 6 / 0 unlikely
SW19 3XDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SW19 2RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 11 unlikely
SW19 3WLnot in 2 or 3
SW19 3XXnot 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 addresses are about 16 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
SW19 2RR100%99%99%0%
SW19 3HX100%100%100%0%
SW19 3WL100%100%100%0%
SW19 3XD100%100%100%0%
SW19 3XX100%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 stationsSouth Merton 125,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Wimbledon 13 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Haydons Road 323,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramMorden Road Tram Stop340 m
South Wimbledon Underground Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Merton Park Tram Stop750 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morden Road Tram Stop Merton Park130 m
Bus or coach stationCromwell Road Bus Station Kingston Upon Thames7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Ferry terminalWandsworth Riverside Quarter Pier5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Car parksMorden Station Car Park (TfL)860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points45 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR19.8 km (12 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Merton Medical Practice600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Pharmacy600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Parade Dental Partnership600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalNelson Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationSun Hill Police Station330 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&S ATM760 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nelson Gardens 3,660 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Morden Hall Park 41 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²290 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Recreation Ground 2.7 ha130 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Phipp's Bridge Allotments 1.8 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 43 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall Works, a scheduled monument, 730 m (0.5 miles) north-east. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall WorksScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) west
Morden Hall ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south
South Park GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cherry WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Cannon HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Paper Mill CutLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Rushmere PondLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Pyl Brook (East Branch)Lake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Farm BogWetland3.9 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)15.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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
70 to 74100
65 to 69700
60 to 64800
55 to 59900
Under 5563131

25 of the street's 31 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 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
Merton Abbey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m No published inspection
Harris Academy WimbledonSecondary11–19330 m Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park AcademyPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pelham Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 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
Merton Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Haslemere Primary SchoolPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
All Saints' CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
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
Poplar Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Singlegate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rutlish SchoolSecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, 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
Ocado SW19 3HXDistributors/Transporters160 m5 Very good18 Jun 2024
Cater Link at Merton Abbey Primary School SW19 2JYSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good8 May 2025
After School Club SW19 2JYSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Bovingdons Warehouse SW19 3HXDistributors/Transporters190 mAwaiting inspection
Mr Kimchi SW19 3TZManufacturers/packers230 m4 Good27 Feb 2026
Napiers The Herbalists SW19 3BLDistributors/Transporters250 m5 Very good8 Jan 2024
Impact Food Group @ Harris Academy Wimbledon SW19 2JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Jarganic Ltd SW19 2RRRetailers - other300 mAwaiting inspection
Koji Spirit Works SW19 2RLRetailers - other310 mAwaiting inspection
RAMMYS CAFE SW19 2RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mAwaiting inspection
Odyssey Dining SW19 2RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mExempt
Deskontao Ltd SW19 3TZDistributors/Transporters360 m4 Good18 Apr 2024
Camellia's Tea House SW19 2RRManufacturers/packers380 m5 Very good27 Oct 2023
Nisa Loco SW19 2NNRetailers - other390 m4 Good23 Aug 2023
JJ Food Service Limited SW19 2RLDistributors/Transporters390 m5 Very good10 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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Public order4
Shoplifting3
Other theft3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nursery Road (9); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5); On or near Lee Road (5).

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: 678 residents in 274 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 age3440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented50%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram21%4%
By any public transport, including bus29%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%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)57%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 9 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 MERTON: Highway repair and maintenance works, 20 October 2026 to 22 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Jubilee Way · Nursery Road · The Path · Willmore End · Lombard Road · Hayward Close · Willmore End · Priory Close · Pincott Road · Rowland Way · Becket Close · Gilbert Close

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.