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On Shadow Wood Drive, in Pont-y-clun & Llanharry
What it's like at CF72 8SX: every home that has sold on Shadow Wood Drive 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 Shadow Wood Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 18 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2004 | £262,995 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2004 | £297,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Jun 2007 | £309,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2004 | £249,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Nov 2022 | £550,000 | 163 m² | £3,374/m² | 2 |
| 6, Shadow Wood DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £275,000 | 111 m² | £2,477/m² | 4 |
| 7, Shadow Wood DriveTerraced | Dec 2014 | £225,000 | 113 m² | £1,991/m² | 4 |
| 8, Shadow Wood DriveTerraced | Jan 2017 | £218,000 | 113 m² | £1,929/m² | 2 |
| 9, Shadow Wood DriveTerraced | Apr 2014 | £219,950 | 112 m² | £1,964/m² | 2 |
| 10, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Oct 2004 | £193,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Jan 2019 | £315,000 | 112 m² | £2,813/m² | 3 |
| 12, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Jul 2004 | £289,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2011 | £312,000 | 115 m² | £2,713/m² | 2 |
| 14, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Mar 2022 | £505,000 | 141 m² | £3,582/m² | 2 |
| 15, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Jun 2004 | £329,995 | 185 m² | £1,784/m² | 1 |
| 16, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Jul 2004 | £325,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Sept 2005 | £305,000 | 131 m² | £2,328/m² | 1 |
| 18, Shadow Wood DriveDetached | Feb 2023 | £605,000 | 180 m² | £3,361/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Pontyclun, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 278k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Cardiff Central.
The nearest bus stop is Oaklands, 50 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (route 122); 9 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Y. G. G. G. Llantrisant, a few minutes' walk (100 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Y Pant Comprehensive, 650 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 800 m away, with Taff Ely Foodbank closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Old School Surgery (950 m), with Pontyclun Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, Marcus the Barber is 950 m away.
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
Oasis is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Miskin Arms the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 39% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
The nearest park is Pontyclun Park, 1.3 km away; for exercise, PureGym (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Cardiff is 14 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 49 km.
Most households own their home, 13% rent privately.
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.
6 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.
Cardiff West constituency: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 7,019 (15.7%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Plaid Cymru 21%, Conservative 15%, Reform UK 13%.
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 CF72 8SX →
On this street: 0 of 11 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 | 0.8% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 97.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.0% | 0.6% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.5% | 1.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
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 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.