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On Oaklands Avenue, in Brookmans Park
What it's like at AL9 7UJ: every home that has sold on Oaklands Avenue since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
11 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Oaklands Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 56 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £337,500 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £665,000 | 92 m² | £7,228/m² | 1 |
| 6, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | May 2012 | £480,000 | 126 m² | £3,810/m² | 3 |
| 8, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | May 2014 | £440,000 | 79 m² | £5,570/m² | 2 |
| 10, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 1996 | £123,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £340,000 | 94 m² | £3,617/m² | 2 |
| 14, Oaklands AvenueDetached | Aug 2007 | £375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £495,000 | 102 m² | £4,853/m² | 2 |
| 18, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £600,000 | 84 m² | £7,143/m² | 1 |
| 20, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2019 | £563,000 | 82 m² | £6,866/m² | 1 |
| 22, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £800,000 | 118 m² | £6,780/m² | 2 |
| 24, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1998 | £179,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2014 | £498,995 | 82 m² | £6,085/m² | 2 |
| 28, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2010 | £375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2017 | £510,000 | 82 m² | £6,220/m² | 1 |
| 32, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £700,000 | 93 m² | £7,527/m² | 2 |
| 34, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2017 | £671,000 | 103 m² | £6,515/m² | 2 |
| 36, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2010 | £400,000 | 131 m² | £3,053/m² | 1 |
| 40, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £610,000 | 143 m² | £4,266/m² | 1 |
| 44, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £343,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £555,000 | 117 m² | £4,744/m² | 2 |
| 50, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £118,450 | 136 m² | £871/m² | 2 |
| 52, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £630,000 | 83 m² | £7,590/m² | 1 |
| 54, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £745,000 | 104 m² | £7,163/m² | 2 |
| 56, Oaklands AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2017 | £727,500 | 86 m² | £8,459/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Brookmans Park, a few minutes' walk (300 m), with 275k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Moorgate.
The nearest bus stop is Bluebridge Avenue, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 305, 355); 2 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 24 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Brookmans Park Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 77% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Chancellor's School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 47.6 · 12.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Dame Alice Owen's School (3.9 km) and Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School (5.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (7.7 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (11.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-operative Food, 300 m away; J R Hammersley And Son Fishmongers (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Potterells Medical Centre (1.0 km), with Brookmans Park Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Skin is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Barnet General Hospital, 8.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 15 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Mitsi Tavernaki is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Woodman Inn the nearest pub (1.4 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 36 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 49% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Morven Park, 2.7 km away; for exercise, Pratique (350 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 21 km away.
22 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Welwyn Hatfield constituency: Andrew Lewin MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,799 (7.8%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 13%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
18 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near AL9 7UJ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 43% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of Hertfordshire, 4.7 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 49 min
Nearest: Epping Ongar Railway · about 38 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 40 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.8% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 87.9% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.5% | 1.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.4% | 7.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 1.5% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 56 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.