The Boulevard Balham, Wandsworth

1 address across 1 postcode (SW17), about 40 m long. USRN 22906835.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 24 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 D; Band D in Wandsworth costs £1,028 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Balham, about 290 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wandsworth Common, is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Balham Park Surgery, about 110 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 78% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 231 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£400,000£400,000£400,000
20231£610,000£610,000£610,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Mar 202415B SW17 7BWFlat or maisonette£400,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 202315A SW17 7BWFlat or maisonette£610,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 201822 - 23 SW17 7BWOther£1,125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Jun 201722 - 23 SW17 7BWOther£1,900,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 Wandsworth in 2026-27: Band D £1,028 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£685£800£914£1,028£1,257£1,485£1,714£2,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 830 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 13 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.

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.

© 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 address is about 26 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
SW17 7BW100%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 stationsBalham 6.0 million journeys in 2024–25290 m
Wandsworth Common 962,000 journeys in 2024–25870 m (0.5 miles)
Streatham Hill 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBalham Underground Station280 m
Tooting Bec Underground Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Clapham South Underground Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Du Cane Court Balham50 m
Bus or coach stationWest Dulwich - Croxted Road4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalSt Mary’s Wandsworth Pier Clapham Junction3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking Space (B) on Upper Tooting Park, SW17460 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points67 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16.2 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR21.5 km (13 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Balham Park Surgery110 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Balham Gateway Dental170 m
HospitalOld Hospital Close670 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service640 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machinesBarclays ATM1.7 km (1 mile)

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 Wandsworth Common 64 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²380 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3,910 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 142 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Springfield Hospital, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.4 km (0.9 miles) west. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Springfield HospitalRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site6.8 km (4.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mount PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Eagle PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Long PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Ashen Grove WoodWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) west
Knight's HillHill3.6 km (2.3 miles) east
Battersea ReachTidal water4.2 km (2.6 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)17.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.8205
Particles (PM10)14.24015

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
55 to 59100
Under 55011

1 of the street's 1 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 Wandsworth: see them on the Wandsworth 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
Ravenstone Primary SchoolPrimary3–1180 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11200 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rutherford House SchoolPrimary4–11220 m Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chestnut Grove AcademySecondary11–19430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Balham Nursery SchoolNursery2–5590 m (0.4 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 Anselm's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Ghost Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fircroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Henry Cavendish Primary SchoolPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alderbrook Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ernest Bevin AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, 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
Gurkhas Balham SW17 7BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good2 Jul 2026
Bertie & Boo Adventure Island SW17 7BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good7 May 2026
Eveline Day Nurseries The Boulevard SW17 7BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Bucci Restaurant SW12 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Henny's Wine Bar SW12 9BEPub/bar/nightclub70 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jul 2025
Eveline Day School SW17 7BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Co-Operative SW12 9BERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Taro Japanese Restaurant SW12 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Jefferson's Ice Cream SW12 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Balham Budgens SW17 7AWRetailers - other100 m4 Good13 Dec 2024
Ming's Cuisine SW12 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good6 Sep 2024
Spicy Noodle Cafe SW12 9BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Apr 2026
Chicken Valley SW17 7AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Beijing Noodles SW17 7AWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Ralph's Balham SW12 9AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good25 Apr 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.

231 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting51
Anti-social behaviour45
Violence and sexual offences39
Other theft17
Vehicle crime16
Criminal damage and arson15
Public order15
Theft from the person10
Burglary9
Robbery7
Bicycle theft5
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (90); On or near Pakenham Close (34); On or near Balham High Road (33); On or near Oakmead Road (22); On or near Rowfant Road (18).

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: 537 residents in 235 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 age2940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented59%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work85%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)70%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram15%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)78%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • SW17 7BW: 1 address of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ravenstone Street · Cheriton Square · Hunter Close · Pakenham Close · Rowfant Road · Tunley Road · Foxbourne Road · Brook Close · Cloudesdale Road · Marius Road · Ashdown Way · Nevis Road

All the streets in SW17 and across Wandsworth.

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.