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On Water Lane, in Longstanton, Swavesey & Oakington
What it's like at CB24 3AL: every home that has sold on Water Lane 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Water Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 65 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Water LaneDetached | May 2022 | £365,000 | 86 m² | £4,244/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Water LaneTerraced | Apr 2002 | £132,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Water LaneTerraced | Oct 2015 | £225,000 | 71 m² | £3,169/m² | 3 |
| 12, Water LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £276,000 | 74 m² | £3,730/m² | 4 |
| 13, Water LaneDetached | Mar 2022 | £395,000 | 83 m² | £4,759/m² | 2 |
| 15, Water LaneDetached | Oct 2014 | £310,000 | 76 m² | £4,079/m² | 1 |
| 25, Water LaneDetached | Nov 2017 | £400,000 | 89 m² | £4,494/m² | 1 |
| 27, Water LaneDetached | Oct 2006 | £456,000 | 212 m² | £2,151/m² | 1 |
| 28, Water LaneDetached | Mar 2013 | £260,000 | 79 m² | £3,291/m² | 1 |
| 29, Water LaneDetached | Sept 2004 | £362,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Water LaneDetached | Aug 2024 | £370,000 | 75 m² | £4,933/m² | 1 |
| 32, Water LaneDetached | Aug 2018 | £347,000 | 70 m² | £4,957/m² | 3 |
| 33, Water LaneDetached | Jul 2002 | £180,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Water LaneDetached | Sept 2022 | £345,000 | 73 m² | £4,726/m² | 1 |
| 36, Water LaneSemi-detached | May 2025 | £402,500 | 104 m² | £3,870/m² | 4 |
| 37, Water LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £315,000 | 133 m² | £2,368/m² | 4 |
| 40, Water LaneDetached | Jun 2017 | £435,000 | 108 m² | £4,028/m² | 1 |
| 43, Water LaneSemi-detached | Sept 1999 | £115,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, Water LaneDetached | Feb 2010 | £249,950 | 105 m² | £2,380/m² | 3 |
| 48, Water LaneDetached | Sept 2006 | £215,000 | 93 m² | £2,312/m² | 2 |
| 53, Water LaneDetached | Nov 2000 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Water LaneDetached | Mar 2016 | £427,500 | 119 m² | £3,592/m² | 2 |
| 57, Water LaneDetached | May 2015 | £440,000 | 133 m² | £3,308/m² | 1 |
| 57a, Water LaneDetached | Oct 2015 | £425,000 | 133 m² | £3,195/m² | 1 |
| 64, Water LaneDetached | Jun 2024 | £775,000 | 218 m² | £3,555/m² | 1 |
| 66, Water LaneDetached | Apr 2022 | £595,000 | 149 m² | £3,993/m² | 2 |
| 91, Water LaneDetached | Jan 2015 | £475,000 | 49 m² | £9,694/m² | 3 |
| 92, Water LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £325,000 | 85 m² | £3,824/m² | 1 |
| 100, Water LaneTerraced | Jul 2019 | £295,000 | 55 m² | £5,364/m² | 3 |
| 114, Water LaneDetached | Mar 2013 | £322,000 | 119 m² | £2,706/m² | 2 |
| 116, Water LaneDetached | Jun 2005 | £295,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 118, Water LaneDetached | Jan 2015 | £382,500 | 109 m² | £3,509/m² | 3 |
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: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Cambridge North, a drive away (7.3 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Oakington CofE Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Northstowe Learning Community, 2.2 km away; Attainment 8: 51.4 · 23.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Swavesey Village College (3.5 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 2.6 km away, with Nisa Local closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Longstanton Branch Surgery (2.5 km), with Well Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.7 km).
For a haircut, Bechecomber's Hair is 2.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals, 14 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Olive Tree Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (800 m), and White Horse the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 91 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 47 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
It's new: 53% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 890 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Northstowe Phase 2 Water Park, 2.4 km away; for exercise, The Oakington and Westwick Sports Pavilion (300 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 46 km away.
Most households own their home, 14% rent privately.
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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 25 and 27, High Street | II | 130 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%.
4 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 CB24 3AL →
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
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.
On this street: 0 of 47 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 3.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.4% | 74.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 14.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 53 min
Nearest: Nene Valley Railway · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 65 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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