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On Beech Avenue, in Alfreton
What it's like at DE55 7EW: every home that has sold on Beech 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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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 Beech Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 53 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Beech AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Feb 2000 | £36,000 | 74 m² | £486/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £84,000 | 75 m² | £1,120/m² | 2 |
| 5, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2007 | £62,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2015 | £67,750 | 68 m² | £996/m² | 1 |
| 15, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £150,000 | 61 m² | £2,459/m² | 4 |
| 17, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £160,000 | 67 m² | £2,388/m² | 2 |
| 18, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £90,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 19, Beech AvenueTerraced | Apr 2026 | £145,000 | 61 m² | £2,377/m² | 2 |
| 20, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2016 | £100,000 | 67 m² | £1,493/m² | 2 |
| 21, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £53,000 | 74 m² | £716/m² | 2 |
| 25, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2010 | £69,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2013 | £91,000 | 65 m² | £1,400/m² | 3 |
| 31, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2012 | £66,000 | 68 m² | £971/m² | 1 |
| 32, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £145,000 | 73 m² | £1,986/m² | 1 |
| 36, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £115,000 | 63 m² | £1,825/m² | 3 |
| 37, Beech AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Mar 2021 | £93,000 | 67 m² | £1,388/m² | 2 |
| 40, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £124,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £185,000 | 74 m² | £2,500/m² | 2 |
| 45, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £120,000 | 65 m² | £1,846/m² | 1 |
| 46, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £71,000 | 67 m² | £1,060/m² | 1 |
| 47, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £137,000 | 67 m² | £2,045/m² | 1 |
| 49, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2004 | £87,500 | 84 m² | £1,042/m² | 1 |
| 51, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2003 | £74,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 54, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 1997 | £29,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2005 | £88,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 57, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £137,000 | 81 m² | £1,691/m² | 1 |
| 58, Beech AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £155,000 | 65 m² | £2,385/m² | 3 |
| 59, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £95,000 | 82 m² | £1,159/m² | 1 |
| 60, Beech AvenueTerraced | Sept 2007 | £96,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 61, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2014 | £85,000 | 67 m² | £1,269/m² | 3 |
| 62, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2021 | £145,000 | 80 m² | £1,813/m² | 3 |
| 62a, Beech AvenueDetached | Nov 2022 | £200,000 | 73 m² | £2,740/m² | 1 |
| 65, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | May 2012 | £75,000 | 67 m² | £1,119/m² | 2 |
| 66, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £93,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 67, Beech AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £153,000 | 88 m² | £1,739/m² | 2 |
| 68, Beech AvenueDetached | May 2018 | £105,000 | 81 m² | £1,296/m² | 1 |
| 70, Beech AvenueDetached | Sept 2018 | £142,500 | – | – | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Alfreton, about a 10-minute walk (750 m), with 383k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Nottingham.
The nearest bus stop is Beech Avenue, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 153); 32 departures an hour from the 16 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 80% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is David Nieper Academy, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 41 · 6.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 350 m away; Go Local Alfreton (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Limes Medical Centre (600 m), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Glam Tan is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is King's Mill Hospital, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 69% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 23 restaurants and cafés, 12 pubs and bars.
The Smashed Moo is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Prospect Street Micro Pub the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 139 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 18 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 23% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 272 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Alfreton Park, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Alfreton Leisure Centre (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, East Midlands is 30 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 66 km.
Most households own their home, 17% 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.
33 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.
Amber Valley constituency: Linsey Farnsworth MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,554 (8.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 25%, Green Party 5%.
6 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 DE55 7EW →
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 75 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 38 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 | 1.4% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 94.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 1.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.6% | 3.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 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.
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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 53 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.