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On Farm Close, in Totteridge & Barnet Gate
What it's like at EN5 3BS: every home that has sold on Farm Close 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Farm Close; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 4 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Farm CloseSemi-detached | Mar 2013 | £312,500 | 94 m² | £3,324/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, Farm CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £308,000 | 89 m² | £3,461/m² | 1 |
| 10, Farm CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2009 | £311,000 | 101 m² | £3,079/m² | 1 |
| 16, Farm CloseSemi-detached | Aug 2008 | £299,950 | 76 m² | £3,947/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 49% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is High Barnet Underground station, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km). The nearest rail station is New Barnet, 3.5 km away, with 1.3m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Aitken Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route 384); 18 departures an hour from the 6 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 (26 by car).
Central London is 16 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Whitings Hill Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 77% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 85.6 · 86.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Totteridge Academy (1.5 km) and Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School (2.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (1.9 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (3.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 1.5 km away, with Quinta Local closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Old Court House Surgery (1.7 km), with Prima Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Nonno's Barber's is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Barnet General Hospital, 1.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% 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: 3 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Bells Hill Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Arkley the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 46 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 40% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Whitings Hill Open Space, 150 m away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (1.8 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond), 9.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
14 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.
Chipping Barnet constituency: Dan Tomlinson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 2,914 (5.7%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Labour 42%, Conservative 37%, Reform UK 8%, Green Party 7%.
21 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 EN5 3BS →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 24 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 25 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 48% of adults have a degree.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Barnet 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 4 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.5% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.9% | 77.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.4% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 11.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 10.7% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 40 min
Nearest: Tower Lifeboat Station · about 39 min
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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