Recreation Road
Bromley, Greater London, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: area-safety proxy 25/100; transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 46/100. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £450,000 from 37 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: area-safety proxy 25/100; family indicators 50/100; green-space proximity 46/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; amenity proximity 60/100; daily amenities 30/100; market proxy 65/100. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £450,000 from 37 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transaction activity 50%, Market 50%; no return forecast. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: area-safety proxy 25/100; green-space proximity 46/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 60/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 90/100; daily amenities 30/100; area-safety proxy 25/100. Recorded median sale price: £450,000 from 37 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
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Area safety score 25/100 — based on recorded incident counts for the associated LSOA, not this specific street. Counts are not adjusted for population and do not establish an above-average crime rate.
Score 25/100. This is an LSOA incident-count proxy, not a population-adjusted crime rate.
How Life Works Here
Recreation Road is located in Bromley, Greater London. The associated LSOA area has 416 recorded incidents from 2025-08 to 2026-07. Incident rows were observed in 12 of the 12 selected months. These are area counts, not street-level incidents or population-adjusted rates; they do not establish a comparison with local or national averages. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: rail and bus. The nearest mapped stop (Shortlands Village / Valley School) is 137m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The median property price is £450,000. Based on 37 transactions recorded since 2014. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 1,904; owner-occupied homes 29.4%; social housing 3.1%; retired population 8.8%; average household size 2.4. There are 8 schools within 2 km, 8 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. 4 are rated Outstanding. Primary schools are nearby, though secondary options may require travel. The nearest school is just 235m away. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is investors at 78/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 53/100. Its recorded district percentile is 35. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
Property Market
Terraced | Freehold | Transactions: High recorded volume
Source release: 2026-08-28; registrations received through 2026-07-31. Earlier periods can be revised by late registrations. Standard and additional transactions are included, so property mix can affect the median.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Open Government Licence v3.0). Median comparisons use two full calendar years five years apart, with at least five sales in each. Different properties may have sold; this is not a house-price index or a prediction of returns.
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Recreation Road, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (3)
- PureGym 913m · 11 min walk
- Pavillion Leisure Centre 949m · 12 min walk
- Bromley Fitness Centre 986m · 12 min walk
hospitals (3)
- Sloane Hospital 718m · 9 min walk
- Renal Dialysis Unit 844m · 10 min walk
- London Women's Clinic - Bromley 1683m · 21 min walk
libraries (3)
- Bromley Central Library 695m · 9 min walk
- Shortlands Library 1005m · 13 min walk
- Burnt Ash Library 1944m · 24 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- Field of Hope 409m · 5 min walk
- Church House Gardens 579m · 7 min walk
- College Green 608m · 8 min walk
- Bromley Palace Park 1241m · 16 min walk
- Shaftesbury Park 1684m · 21 min walk
schools (5)
- Valley Primary School 236m · 3 min walk
- Harris Primary Academy Shortlands 521m · 6 min walk
- St Mark's Church of England Primary School 935m · 12 min walk
- Highfield Infants' School 944m · 12 min walk
- Highfield Junior School 1194m · 15 min walk
Transport Links
Similar Streets
Compared within this district using at least four shared score dimensions. Missing indicators are excluded.
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- Lych Gate Road — Bromley45
- Queen's Mead Road — Bromley46
- Blossom Drive — Bromley45
- Braemar Gardens — Bromley54
Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees.
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