Millfields Close Orpington, Bromley

53 addresses across 1 postcode (BR5), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20301217.

15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2009 the median was £180,000 across 1 sale. 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 20, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bromley costs £2,140 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is St Mary Cray, about 360 m away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 320 m away, and Riverside Gardens (5.5 hectares) is about 450 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 43 to 49 m above sea level. 19 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Crescent Surgery, about 750 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km. About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 167 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
20091£180,000£180,000£180,000
20081£208,000£208,000£208,000
20073£195,000£195,000£202,000
20061£167,000£167,000£167,000
20051£158,000£158,000£158,000
20041£145,000£145,000£145,000
20032£129,750£120,000£139,500
20021£124,000£124,000£124,000
20001£96,500£96,500£96,500
19991£106,000£106,000£106,000
19971£69,995£69,995£69,995
19961£55,000£55,000£55,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Dec 200918 BR5 2LQTerraced£180,000
31 May 200830 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£208,000
15 Nov 20076 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£202,000
20 Sep 200727 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£195,000
1 Feb 200711 BR5 2LQTerraced£195,000
6 Sep 200646 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£167,000
11 May 200546 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£158,000
4 Jun 200430 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£145,000
24 Sep 200320 BR5 2LQTerraced£139,500
16 May 20036 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£120,000
6 Sep 200213 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£124,000
16 Jun 200013 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£96,500
22 Sep 19993 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£106,000
2 May 19976 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£69,995
16 Dec 199613 BR5 2LQSemi-detached£55,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (7). Built: 1930-1949 (16); 1950-1966 (12); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (17); owner-occupied (9).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bromley in 2026-27: Band D £2,140 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,427£1,664£1,902£2,140£2,616£3,091£3,567£4,280

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (41% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in this postcode: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 53 addresses are between 43 m and 49 m above sea level (47 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BR5 2LQ100%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 stationsSt Mary Cray 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25360 m
Petts Wood 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Orpington 5.0 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m, 48 within 800 m; nearest Station Approach / St Mary Cray60 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup4.6 km
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier11.4 km
Car parksCar Park at Rear of Templegate House2.1 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.8 km
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.4 km

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; nearest Crescent Surgery750 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Osbon Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery1.0 km
HospitalQueen Mary's Hospital Sidcup Elective Surgical Hub2.7 km
Police stationSidcup Police Station3.4 km
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone350 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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 550 m²320 m
Largest park within 800 mRiverside Gardens 5.5 ha450 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,190 m²550 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha750 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha450 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m east. 16 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*260 m east
Church of St PaulinusListed building, Grade II*780 m north-east
Romano-British masonry building and Saxon cemetery, Fordcroft, OrpingtonScheduled monument880 m south
Priory Gardens, OrpingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km south
Scadbury Manor moated site and fishpondsScheduled monument1.9 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Garland HillHill1.2 km north-east
Highlands WoodWood1.4 km east
The WarrenWood1.6 km south-east
Covet WoodWood1.7 km south-west
Kynaston WoodWood1.7 km south-east
Rush PondLake or reservoir3.5 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)12.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59180
Under 553453

19 of the street's 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Leesons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11530 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Paul's Cray Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11700 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m No published inspection
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.0 km No published inspection
Manor Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km No published inspection
Gray's Farm Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Philomena's Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.5 km No published inspection
Midfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km No published inspection
Perry Hall Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kemnal Technology CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Harris Primary Academy OrpingtonPrimary3–111.8 km No published inspection
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–112.0 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Starbucks Coffee BR5 3SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Aldi Stores BR5 3SGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good30 Mar 2025
Bromley Borough Foodbank – St Mary Cray Centre BR5 2LJRetailers - other260 m5 Very good8 Jan 2024
Blazing Chicken BR5 2LJTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Fholar African Foods Ltd BR5 2LJRetailers - other260 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Twinz Bakery BR5 2LJTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Island Fish And Chips BR5 2LJTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Nisa Local BR5 2LJRetailers - other260 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Cafe Express BR5 2LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good26 Aug 2025
House Of Jollof/ Kerbside Kitchen/ O' Deserts Drinks & Wraps BR5 3QYTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Go Bagel BR5 3QYTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Aug 2025
Amazon UK Services Ltd BR5 3AADistributors/Transporters280 mAwaiting inspection
Pink Olives BR5 2PQTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good30 Sep 2025
TGF Pizza BR5 3NLTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good8 Apr 2025
The Pavilion BR5 3NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Oct 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.

167 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences48
Anti-social behaviour30
Shoplifting23
Vehicle crime22
Robbery9
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft8
Drugs7
Other crime6
Public order3
Burglary2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (54); On or near Hyde Drive (43); On or near Homefield Close (18); On or near Meadow View (13); On or near Millfields Close (12).

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: 291 residents in 115 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus28%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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.

  • BR5 2LQ: 53 addresses of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Millfields Cottages · Station Road · Station Approach · Homefield Close · Meadow View · Greenleigh Avenue · Hyde Drive · Mill Brook Road · Murray Road · Scarlet Close · Oast House Way · Market Meadow

All the streets in BR5 and across Bromley.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.