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On Pettitts Close, in Bar Hill, Girton & Grantchester
What it's like at CB23 8DQ: every home that has sold on Pettitts 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Pettitts Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 9 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Pettitts CloseDetached | Oct 2017 | £440,000 | 131 m² | £3,359/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Pettitts CloseDetached | Dec 2019 | £420,000 | 129 m² | £3,256/m² | 1 |
| 3, Pettitts CloseDetached | May 2026 | £545,000 | 177 m² | £3,079/m² | 1 |
| 4, Pettitts CloseDetached | May 1997 | £126,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Pettitts CloseDetached | Oct 2008 | £325,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Pettitts CloseDetached | Sept 2007 | £381,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Pettitts CloseDetached | Nov 2017 | £438,500 | 134 m² | £3,272/m² | 1 |
| 14, Pettitts CloseDetached | Jun 2026 | £500,000 | 129 m² | £3,876/m² | 1 |
| 18, Pettitts CloseDetached | Aug 2014 | £400,000 | 137 m² | £2,920/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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 Cambridge North, a drive away (9.6 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Field View, 500 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 5).
The nearest primary school is Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School, and Pre-School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 70% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Northstowe Learning Community, 5.1 km away; Attainment 8: 51.4 · 23.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Parkside Community College (5.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco (Main Shop), 1.2 km away; Holland & Barrett (1.2 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maple Surgery Bar Hill Health Centre (1.0 km), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, Ashleys the Barbers is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals, 8.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 54% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% 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: 13 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and The Black Horse Inn Dry Drayton the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 121 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 41% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 650 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Pump Green, 350 m away; for exercise, Waves Health & Leisure Club (1.3 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 40 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 51% of adults have a degree.
5 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 15 and 17, Pettits Lane | II | 130 m |
| Honey Hill Cottage | II | 160 m |
| 9 and 11, Pettits Lane | II | 180 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire constituency: Ian Sollom MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 4,621 (8.7%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 37%, Conservative 28%, Labour 13%, Reform UK 11%.
3 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 CB23 8DQ →
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Pettitts Close in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 6 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 | 2.1% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.7% | 3.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 73.0% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 10.8% | 14.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.5% | 0.8% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 51 min
Nearest: Nene Valley Railway · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.