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On Dolwen Road, in Betws-yn-Rhos, Llangernyw & Llansannan
What it's like at LL29 8AJ: every home that has sold on Dolwen Road 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 Dolwen Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 60 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Bryn Morfydd, Dolwen RoadSemi-detached | May 2024 | £238,000 | 122 m² | £1,951/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Bryn Morfydd, Dolwen RoadTerraced | Apr 2001 | £44,950 | 147 m² | £306/m² | 1 |
| 4, Bryn Morfydd, Dolwen RoadDetached | Mar 2022 | £285,000 | 173 m² | £1,647/m² | 3 |
| Bryn Morfydd, Dolwen RoadDetached | Jan 2004 | £200,000 | 180 m² | £1,111/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Colwyn Bay, a drive away (4.6 km), with 358k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Rhyl.
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Ysgol Cynfran, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ysgol Bryn Elian, 2.9 km away.
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 2.5 km away, with Premier Express Llysfaen Stores closer still (1.4 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cadwgan Surgery (2.3 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (2.4 km).
For a haircut, Mane Attraction is 4.5 km away.
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 12 pubs and bars.
Bubble Catering at Old Colwyn Golf Club is the closest café or restaurant (2.4 km), and Fusion at the Semaphore Lodge the nearest pub (1.1 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 67% of homes.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 52% were built before 1919.
Bungalow country: 24% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Wynn Gardens, 2.5 km away; for exercise, Dreamers Dare (2.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 1.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 54 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 91 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
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.
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.
Bangor Aberconwy constituency: Claire Hughes MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,896 (11.8%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 34%, Plaid Cymru 22%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 15%.
0 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 LL29 8AJ →
Nearest: Adventure Parc Snowdonia · about 32 min
Nearest: Welsh Mountain Zoo · about 32 min
Nearest: Eirias Stadium · 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: 1 of 45 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 29 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.8% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 10.6% | 82.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 63.8% | 7.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 12.9% | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 0.2% | 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 60 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.