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On Slack Lane, in Ambergate, Heage & Idridgehay
What it's like at DE56 2JU: every home that has sold on Slack 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.
Sales and extensions on Slack Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 21 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Slack LaneDetached | Aug 2010 | £234,700 | 106 m² | £2,214/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Slack LaneDetached | Sept 2016 | £480,000 | 155 m² | £3,097/m² | 1 |
| 3, Slack LaneDetached | May 2026 | £375,000 | 135 m² | £2,778/m² | 2 |
| 4, Slack LaneDetached | Aug 2015 | £159,950 | 75 m² | £2,133/m² | 3 |
| 5, Slack LaneDetached | Mar 2008 | £210,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Slack LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £129,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 7, Slack LaneDetached | Jun 2026 | £412,500 | 101 m² | £4,084/m² | 4 |
| 8, Slack LaneDetached | Aug 2008 | £350,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Slack LaneDetached | Jul 2025 | £270,000 | 85 m² | £3,176/m² | 1 |
| 10, Slack LaneDetached | Jun 1995 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Slack LaneDetached | Apr 1997 | £35,000 | 152 m² | £230/m² | 1 |
| 12, Slack LaneDetached | Dec 2007 | £307,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Slack LaneDetached | Jan 2010 | £285,000 | 102 m² | £2,794/m² | 1 |
| 17, Slack LaneDetached | Nov 2007 | £570,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Slack LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £325,000 | 70 m² | £4,643/m² | 3 |
| 22, Slack LaneDetached | Aug 2003 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Slack LaneDetached | Apr 2008 | £206,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Slack LaneDetached | Oct 2007 | £240,000 | 91 m² | £2,637/m² | 1 |
| 30, Slack LaneDetached | Dec 1996 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Priory Grange, Slack LaneDetached | Jul 2009 | £215,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Hollies, Slack LaneDetached | Oct 2006 | £383,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Ambergate, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 39k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Derby.
The nearest bus stop is Gun Lane, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 141, 319); 4 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 55 minutes away by public transport (25 by car).
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Heage Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Belper School and Sixth Form Centre, 3.4 km away; Attainment 8: 44.3 · 5.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 2.7 km away, with The Firs Caravan Club Site closer still (950 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Whitemoor Medical Centre (2.7 km), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.7 km).
For a haircut, Finlays is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Derby Hospital, 15 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Bridge House is the closest café or restaurant (1.5 km), and The Spanker Inn the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 125 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 57% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 297 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Charnwood Drive Park, 3.1 km away; for exercise, Belper Leisure Centre (3.2 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, East Midlands is 27 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 62 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 56% of households own their home outright.
1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Gun 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.
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%.
8 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 DE56 2JU →
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
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: 1 of 10 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 | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.7% | 94.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.4% | 1.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 3.0% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Amber Valley 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 21 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 85 min
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