Pool Close Beckenham, Bromley

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (BR3), about 30 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20302314.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £465,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Bromley costs £2,140 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lower Sydenham, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Beckenham Place Park, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sydenham Green Group Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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
20211£465,000£465,000£465,000
19971£81,500£81,500£81,500
19962£73,250£71,500£75,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Jun 20211 BR3 1ERTerraced£465,000
10 Jan 19974 BR3 1ERSemi-detached£81,500
18 Oct 19965 BR3 1ERSemi-detached£71,500
14 Jun 19962 BR3 1ERTerraced£75,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2020 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 71 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (1); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1); rented (social) (1).

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 (31% of about 950 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.

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 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, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BR3 1ERnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BR3 1RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 7 addresses are between 33 m and 35 m above sea level (35 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
BR3 1ER100%100%100%0%
BR3 1RW100%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 stationsLower Sydenham 787,000 journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
Beckenham Hill 379,000 journeys in 2024–25770 m (0.5 miles)
New Beckenham 721,000 journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBeckenham Junction Tram Stop1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Beckenham Road Tram Stop1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greycot Road New Beckenham150 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Ferry terminalGreenwich Pier7 km (4.3 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Sydenham Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.6 km (19 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sydenham Green Group Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Touchwood Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miss Ea Dighe1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalUniversity Hospital Lewisham3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationCatford Police Base1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Om Food & Wine Londis, Catford710 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beckenham Place Park 105 ha350 m
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²310 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kent County Cricket Ground 7.3 ha310 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 108 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Beckenham Place Mansion, a listed building (Grade II*), 620 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beckenham Place MansionListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site6.5 km (4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stumpshill WoodWood470 m (0.3 miles) east
Ash PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Pool River (West Branch)Lake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Lower LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Intermediate LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Martin's HillHill3.1 km (1.9 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)15.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
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 and rail 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 trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5567

1 of the street's 7 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 Bromley: see them on the Bromley page.

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
Sedgehill AcademySecondary11–18400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worsley Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Elfrida Primary SchoolPrimary2–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Haseltine Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Harris Girls Academy BromleySecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Athelney Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Alexandra Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kent County Cricket Club BR3 1RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Taylorshaw @ Sedgehill Academy SE6 3QWSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Taipec Ltd SE26 5FPDistributors/Transporters460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Lewisham Youth Service Dumps Adventure Playground SE6 3QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Taylorshaw at Watergate Primary SE6 3WGSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime19
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hackington Crescent (17); On or near Greycot Road (13); On or near Braeside (4); On or near Pool Close (3); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (2).

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: 212 residents in 77 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 1531%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van25%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus23%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

Overbrae · Greycot Road · Copers Cope Road · Copers Cope Road · Hackington Crescent · Braeside · Highland Croft · Stumps Hill Lane · Meadow Close · Beckenham Hill Road · Porchester Mead · Grace Mews

All the streets in BR3 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 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.