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On Aspens Place, in Bovingdon & Chipperfield
What it's like at HP1 2TY: every home that has sold on Aspens Place 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 Aspens Place; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 5 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Aspens PlaceDetached | Nov 2007 | £910,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Aspens PlaceDetached | Dec 2020 | £1,050,000 | 266 m² | £3,947/m² | 3 |
| 4, Aspens PlaceDetached | Oct 2018 | £1,200,000 | 285 m² | £4,211/m² | 4 |
| 5, Aspens PlaceDetached | Jul 2007 | £850,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Tulsi, 2, Aspens PlaceDetached | Aug 2006 | £925,000 | – | – | 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: 45% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Hemel Hempstead, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 1.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is VP Autoservices, 150 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 500, X500); 10 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 36 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Pixies Hill Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 66% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Hemel Hempstead School, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 49.9 · 11.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chesham Grammar School (5.9 km) and Dr Challoner's High School (6.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 850 m away; Nash Chemists (850 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Parkwood Surgery (1.6 km), with Nash Chemists the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Ambers is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Watford General Hospital, 11 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 15 pubs and bars.
Boxmoor Lodge Hotel is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Camelot R U F Club the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 143 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 42% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 251 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Fishery Moor, 400 m away; for exercise, Hemel Hempstead Sports Centre (Everyone active) (1.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 20 km away.
9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Old Pastures | II | 30 m |
| Gateway to Old Pastures | II | 60 m |
| Moor End Cottage | II | 100 m |
| the Swan Inn | II | 140 m |
| Lodge at West Corner of Felden Lane | II | 170 m |
| 6, Box Lane | II | 170 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.
Hemel Hempstead constituency: David Taylor MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,857 (11.0%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 38%, Conservative 27%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 12%.
23 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 HP1 2TY →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
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.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.9% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 86.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.9% | 1.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.0% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.0% | 0.7% | 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 50 min
Nearest: Legoland Hill Train · about 35 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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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 5 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.