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On Firfield Avenue, in Breaston & Draycott
What it's like at DE72 3EG: every home that has sold on Firfield 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 Firfield Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Firfield AvenueDetached | Oct 2007 | £450,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Firfield AvenueDetached | Sept 2020 | £577,500 | 126 m² | £4,583/m² | 3 |
| 2, Firfield AvenueDetached | Apr 2026 | £800,000 | 117 m² | £6,838/m² | 3 |
| 3, Firfield AvenueDetached | Feb 2024 | £527,500 | 140 m² | £3,768/m² | 4 |
| 4, Firfield AvenueDetached | Oct 2000 | £112,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Firfield AvenueDetached | Oct 2007 | £304,000 | 394 m² | £772/m² | 1 |
| 9a, Firfield AvenueDetached | Dec 2006 | £520,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, Firfield AvenueDetached | Sept 2017 | £395,000 | 112 m² | £3,527/m² | 1 |
| 17, Firfield AvenueTerraced | Nov 2020 | £643,000 | 227 m² | £2,833/m² | 2 |
| 19, Firfield AvenueDetached | Nov 2024 | £630,000 | 168 m² | £3,750/m² | 1 |
| 21, Firfield AvenueDetached | Jul 2018 | £500,000 | 303 m² | £1,650/m² | 1 |
| 25, Firfield AvenueDetached | Oct 2014 | £613,750 | 172 m² | £3,568/m² | 1 |
| 27, Firfield AvenueDetached | Nov 2024 | £410,000 | 86 m² | £4,767/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Long Eaton, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 652k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Nottingham.
The nearest bus stop is Firfield Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 19 minutes on weekdays (routes IGO, 1, 222); 16 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 42 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
The nearest primary school is Firfield Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 60% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wilsthorpe School, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 50.5 · 16.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Food, 450 m away, with Evans Pharmacy closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Overdale Medical Practice (1.2 km), with Evans Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, C2 Hair Design is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Medical Centre, 11 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 45% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 62% 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: 8 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Hoggs Bistro is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Bulls Head Inn the nearest pub (150 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 23 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 33% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Queen Elizabeth II Garden, 250 m away; for exercise, West Park Leisure Centre (1.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, East Midlands is 7.3 km away, and Birmingham, with far more destinations, 57 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
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.
Erewash constituency: Adam Thompson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,859 (13.6%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 6%.
12 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 DE72 3EG →
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 10 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 85.2% | 93.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.7% | 5.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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 13 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 66 min
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