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On Friends Avenue, in Cheshunt South
What it's like at EN8 8LE: every home that has sold on Friends 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). 4 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Friends Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 118 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 61, Friends AvenueTerraced | Jun 2018 | £372,500 | 83 m² | £4,488/m² | 2 |
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| 62, Friends AvenueTerraced | Mar 2014 | £280,000 | 89 m² | £3,146/m² | 2 |
| 63, Friends AvenueTerraced | Jun 2010 | £249,000 | 77 m² | £3,234/m² | 3 |
| 64, Friends AvenueTerraced | Dec 2014 | £295,000 | 75 m² | £3,933/m² | 3 |
| 65, Friends AvenueTerraced | Oct 2016 | £433,500 | 78 m² | £5,558/m² | 3 |
| 66, Friends AvenueTerraced | Mar 2018 | £395,000 | 72 m² | £5,486/m² | 1 |
| 68, Friends AvenueDetached | Mar 2022 | £485,000 | 74 m² | £6,554/m² | 4 |
| 69, Friends AvenueTerraced | Nov 2010 | £245,000 | 84 m² | £2,917/m² | 2 |
| 70, Friends AvenueSemi-detached | May 1998 | £109,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 72, Friends AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2010 | £240,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 73, Friends AvenueTerraced | Jul 2018 | £430,000 | 86 m² | £5,000/m² | 5 |
| 74, Friends AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2006 | £275,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 76, Friends AvenueDetached | Jun 2025 | £460,000 | 73 m² | £6,301/m² | 4 |
| 77, Friends AvenueTerraced | Dec 1999 | £143,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 78, Friends AvenueTerraced | Dec 2017 | £377,000 | 73 m² | £5,164/m² | 3 |
| 79, Friends AvenueTerraced | May 2005 | £238,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 80, Friends AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £455,000 | 73 m² | £6,233/m² | 3 |
| 81, Friends AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £255,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 82, Friends AvenueDetached | Jun 2021 | £405,000 | 85 m² | £4,765/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Theobalds Grove, a few minutes' walk (450 m), with 751k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Seven Sisters.
The nearest bus stop is The Roman Urn PH, 250 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 310, 251, 66, 242); 16 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 69% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Goffs - Churchgate Academy, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 42.6 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Broxbourne School (5.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Latymer School (8.2 km) and Woodford County High School (10.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Family Action Food on our doorstep, 150 m away; Helios Bakery Patisserie (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Warden Lodge Medical Practice (500 m), with Swan Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Sunbathers Tanning is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is North Middlesex University Hospital, 9.6 km away, rated good 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: 12 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Bunty's is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Roman Urn the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 64 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 24 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 28% flats and 7% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Cedars Park, 550 m away; for exercise, The Laura Trott Leisure Cente (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 22 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 28 km.
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.
Broxbourne constituency: Lewis Cocking MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,858 (6.7%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Conservative 37%, Labour 30%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
24 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 EN8 8LE →
Most households own their home, 24% 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Broxbourne 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 118 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.
Nearest: Southend Westcliff Bay · about 44 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 75 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 57 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 80.6% | 86.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 15.7% | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.5% | 0.4% | 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.