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On Five Arches Close, in Midsomer Norton North
What it's like at BA3 2BU: every home that has sold on Five Arches Close 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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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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Five Arches Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £169,950 | 65 m² | £2,615/m² | 4 |
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| 2, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Jun 2011 | £131,500 | 62 m² | £2,121/m² | 3 |
| 3, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £198,000 | 47 m² | £4,213/m² | 2 |
| 4, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £263,000 | 82 m² | £3,207/m² | 5 |
| 5, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | May 2019 | £210,000 | 47 m² | £4,468/m² | 2 |
| 7, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2008 | £196,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £210,000 | 50 m² | £4,200/m² | 3 |
| 10, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £225,000 | 51 m² | £4,412/m² | 3 |
| 11, Five Arches CloseDetached | Feb 2013 | £174,500 | 76 m² | £2,296/m² | 1 |
| 12, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Feb 1999 | £64,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | May 2001 | £82,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £269,950 | 62 m² | £4,354/m² | 3 |
| 20, Five Arches CloseSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Oldfield Park, a drive away (11 km), with 386k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Bristol Temple Meads.
The nearest bus stop is Wheelers Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (routes 101, 424); 12 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 70 minutes away by public transport (30 by car).
The nearest primary school is Welton Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 52% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Norton Hill Primary School (1.6 km).
The nearest secondary is Norton Hill Academy, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 50.2 · 9.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op Late Shop, 450 m away; Costcutters (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Westfield Surgery (700 m), with Westfield Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, A Cut Above is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal United Hospital Bath, 13 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Longfellows Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.0 km), and The Railway Hotel Radstock the nearest pub (650 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 60 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 42% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Midsomer Norton and Welton).
There are 31 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 36% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Tyning Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Midsomer Norton Sports Centre (1.1 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bristol is 19 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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.
10 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.
Frome and East Somerset constituency: Anna Sabine MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 5,415 (11.6%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 36%, Conservative 24%, Reform UK 14%, Labour 14%.
14 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 BA3 2BU →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Nearest: Weston-super-Mare Sand Bay · about 46 min
Nearest: Longleat Safari and Adventure Park · about 36 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 9 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 | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.7% | 84.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.4% | 4.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.1% | 8.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.8% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bath and North East Somerset since 2011.
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 13 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.