Whitefield Close Orpington, Bromley

17 addresses across 1 postcode (BR5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20301341.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £405,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (D: 9, E: 5).
  • 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 Bromley costs £2,140 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St Mary Cray, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, River Cray Water Meadows, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broomwood Health Centre, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 92 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
20251£405,000£405,000£405,000
20221£445,000£445,000£445,000
20211£340,000£340,000£340,000
20181£316,000£316,000£316,000
20171£352,000£352,000£352,000
20161£335,000£335,000£335,000
20151£305,000£305,000£305,000
20131£212,000£212,000£212,000
20122£180,000£180,000£180,000
20111£203,000£203,000£203,000
20091£140,000£140,000£140,000
20071£237,500£237,500£237,500
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jan 202515 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£405,000
22 Aug 20223 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£335,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jun 20223 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Apr 20228 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£445,000
29 Jul 20212 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£340,000
18 Apr 20181 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£316,000
7 Mar 20181 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 20177 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£352,000
25 Jul 20164 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£335,000
12 Nov 20158 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£305,000
31 May 20131 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£212,000
7 Dec 201212 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£180,000
23 Mar 201216 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£180,000
22 Aug 201113 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£203,000
13 Mar 20094 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£140,000
18 Jun 200714 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£237,500
16 Jun 200614 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£170,000
19 Dec 20016 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£130,000
3 Sep 19988 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£93,000
18 Mar 199811 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£101,000
27 Feb 19989 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£89,000
17 Dec 19966 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£70,000
30 Sep 19967 BR5 3LDSemi-detached£72,000

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 June 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (14). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1930-1949 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

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 (59% of about 920 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 20 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026 to 2 October 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (major 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

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.

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.

© 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 17 addresses are between 45 m and 48 m above sea level (47 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
BR5 3LD100%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 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Petts Wood 1.7 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Orpington 5.0 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Landway St Mary Cray170 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Arsenal Pier11.2 km (7 miles)
Car parksCar Park at Rear of Templegate House2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.6 km (7.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW35 km (22 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broomwood Health Centre780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osbon Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalQueen Mary's Hospital Sidcup Elective Surgical Hub2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationSidcup Police Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Cashzone250 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 (0.5 miles); nearest River Cray Water Meadows 3.2 ha290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)St Pauls Cray Hill Country Park 31 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,310 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Paulinus, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m north. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PaulinusListed building, Grade II*290 m north
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Romano-British masonry building and Saxon cemetery, Fordcroft, OrpingtonScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Ruxley old churchScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Scadbury Manor moated site and fishpondsScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Priory Gardens, OrpingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Garland HillHill600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Highlands WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) east
The WarrenWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Hockenden WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Ruxley WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Rush PondLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 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)12.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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 551617

1 of the street's 17 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), 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
St Paul's Cray Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11290 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leesons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) 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
Gray's Farm Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) 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
Manor Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Kemnal Technology CollegeSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) 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
Midfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Philomena's Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 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
Valley Stores BR5 3HGRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jan 2026
Butterfly Jerk BR5 3HGTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Mr Chippy BR5 3HGTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
Premier Supermarket & Post Office - Main Road St Pauls Cray BR5 3HGRetailers - other240 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Oct 2025
Leaf And Latte BR5 3HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Home Bargains BR5 3SRRetailers - other340 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
St Pauls Cray Church Of England Primary School BR5 3WDSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Shelly Tots Pre-school BR5 3WDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Tesco Express BR5 3AQRetailers - other380 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Starbucks Coffee BR5 3SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Aldi Stores BR5 3SGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good30 Mar 2025
Riverside School BR5 3HSSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Lidl BR5 3AERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2025
TGF Pizza BR5 3NLTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 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.

92 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Vehicle crime25
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order5
Other theft4
Drugs4
Burglary3
Robbery2
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Calvin Close (14); On or near Martins Close (14); On or near Ethelbert Road (12); On or near Francis Road (11); On or near Stonegate Close (6).

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: 348 residents in 135 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 age4140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram15%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%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)36%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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: BT: New service connection, 20 October 2026 to 21 October 2026 (some 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.

  • BR5 3LD: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Calvin Close · Millwood Road · Georges Close · Edmunds Avenue · Wesley Close · Cascade Close · Ethelbert Road · Warnham Grove · Paulinus Close · Francis Road · Andrews Close · Main Road

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 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.