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On Roper Avenue, in Heanor South & Shipley Park
What it's like at DE75 7BZ: every home that has sold on Roper 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.
Sales and extensions on Roper Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 33 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Roper AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £105,000 | 73 m² | £1,438/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Roper AvenueDetached | Aug 2013 | £120,000 | 84 m² | £1,429/m² | 1 |
| 5, Roper AvenueDetached | Jul 2009 | £112,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Roper AvenueTerraced | Oct 2007 | £100,500 | 75 m² | £1,340/m² | 2 |
| 9, Roper AvenueDetached | Jul 2021 | £258,000 | 95 m² | £2,716/m² | 1 |
| 12, Roper AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 1998 | £36,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Roper AvenueOther | Oct 2023 | £250,000 | 122 m² | £2,049/m² | 2 |
| 17, Roper AvenueDetached | Apr 1998 | £55,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Roper AvenueDetached | Jun 2023 | £169,000 | 52 m² | £3,250/m² | 1 |
| 23, Roper AvenueDetached | Sept 2011 | £130,000 | 71 m² | £1,831/m² | 1 |
| 25, Roper AvenueDetached | Apr 2013 | £125,000 | 95 m² | £1,316/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Langley Mill, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km), with 100k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Nottingham.
The nearest bus stop is Coppice Primary School, 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 34); 13 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Coppice Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 79% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Heanor Gate Spencer Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 49.6 · 12.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Boyes, 850 m away, with Roper Convenience Store closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Park Surgery (450 m), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Croppers is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Medical Centre, 13 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: 14 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Bluebell Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Heanor Miners Welfare the nearest pub (450 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 175 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 18 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 14% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 163 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Coppice Drive Park, 400 m away; for exercise, The Town Ground (550 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, East Midlands is 20 km away, and Birmingham, with far more destinations, 68 km.
Most households own their home, 20% 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.
36 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Donavon Monument to north of cemetery chapel at Marlpool Cemetery | II | 190 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%.
9 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 DE75 7BZ →
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 75 min
Nearest: Manor Farm Park and Woodland · about 32 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 20 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 | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.5% | 94.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.2% | 1.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.4% | 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.
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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 33 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.