Lessness Road London, Bexley

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (DA17), about 30 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20100846.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; 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 Belvedere, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 200 m away, and Lesnes Abbey Park (67 hectares) is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Belvedere Medical Centre, about 160 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 236 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£315,000£315,000£315,000
20201£368,000£368,000£368,000
20151£250,000£250,000£250,000
20141£191,450£191,450£191,450
20081£204,750£204,750£204,750
20041£154,995£154,995£154,995
20021£140,000£140,000£140,000
20012£76,248£57,500£94,995
19981£75,000£75,000£75,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Sep 20243 DA17 5JTTerraced£315,000
7 Dec 20204 DA17 5JTTerraced£368,000
7 Apr 20154 DA17 5JTTerraced£250,000
13 May 20143 DA17 5JTTerraced£191,450
9 Jul 20082 DA17 5JTTerraced£204,750
2 Jul 20043 DA17 5JTTerraced£154,995
1 Nov 20023 DA17 5JTTerraced£140,000
22 Jun 20013 DA17 5JTTerraced£94,995
15 Jun 20012 DA17 5JTTerraced£57,500
6 Nov 19981 DA17 5JTTerraced£75,000

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 October 2014 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 73 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

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 C (51% of about 900 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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

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

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

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 47 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
DA17 5JS100%100%100%0%
DA17 5JT100%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 stationsBelvedere 696,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Abbey Wood 12 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Erith 740,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stapley Road Lessness Heath50 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Hurst Road/Valentine Avenue Sidcup4.9 km (3 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Car parksAlbion Road Car Park3 km (1.9 miles)
EV charging points56 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR42.1 km (26 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Belvedere Medical Centre160 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knightons Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Picardy Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalKings @ Erith & District Hospital1.5 km (1 mile)
Police stationBelvedere Police Station280 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank110 m

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 Unnamed 3.8 ha200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lesnes Abbey Park 67 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,150 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha180 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapmans Land Allotments 1.4 ha340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 72 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lesnes Abbey, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lesnes AbbeyScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lime WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) east
Erith MarshesWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
South MereLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Erith ReachTidal water3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Bleak HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) west
The DellHollow4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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
Under 55555

None of the street's 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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), 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
Lessness Heath Primary SchoolPrimary3–11290 m No published inspection
Bedonwell Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7840 m (0.5 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
Bedonwell Junior SchoolPrimary7–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Belmont AcademyPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Augustine of Canterbury CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Northumberland Heath Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Trinity Church of England School, BelvedereSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 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
St Fidelis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lime Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 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
Belvedere Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Belvedere Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Peri Peri & Pizza Company DA17 5JNTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Chicken World Also T/A JRR Local Store DA17 5JNTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Nov 2025
The Royal Standard DA17 5JNPub/bar/nightclub50 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Mar 2026
The Sandwich Company DA17 5JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good11 May 2026
The Fox DA17 5JUPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good1 Apr 2024
Rombi's DA17 5LJRetailers - other110 m4 Good21 Nov 2024
The Co-Operative DA17 5JGRetailers - other110 m5 Very good23 Feb 2024
Sainsbury's DA17 5JGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets110 m5 Very good23 Feb 2024
Three Cooks Sandwich Bar DA17 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good26 Oct 2026
R 2 (Post Office) DA17 5JGRetailers - other110 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Refresh Club DA17 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Nuxley Road Post Office DA17 5JGRetailers - other110 m5 Very good18 Apr 2024
Nuxley Cafe DA17 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good15 Jun 2026
Refresh Coffee Shop DA17 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good14 Sep 2024
Albert Local DA17 5LJRetailers - other120 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jun 2025

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.

236 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting73
Violence and sexual offences49
Anti-social behaviour43
Public order18
Other theft15
Vehicle crime10
Burglary10
Robbery7
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (104); On or near Bedwell Road (25); On or near Albert Road (24); On or near Charton Close (19); On or near Nuxley Road (11).

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: 322 residents in 137 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 age3840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%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 away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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 Three Cooks Sandwich Bar (restaurant/cafe/canteen, DA17 5JG) now 5 Very good, was 2 Improvement necessary (rated 26 October 2026) 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

Stapley Road · Grosvenor Road · Albert Road · Standard Road · Wynford Place · Cheshunt Road · Bedwell Road · Hertford Walk · Victoria Street · Alfred Road · Stream Way · Nuxley Road

All the streets in DA17 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.
  • 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.