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On School Drive, in Newton Longville & Great Horwood
What it's like at MK17 0BZ: every home that has sold on School Drive 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on School Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 30 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 6, School DriveDetached | Mar 2022 | £440,000 | 105 m² | £4,190/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, School DriveDetached | Sept 1999 | £110,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, School DriveDetached | Sept 2018 | £350,000 | 82 m² | £4,268/m² | 1 |
| 20, School DriveDetached | Jul 1998 | £103,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, School DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2011 | £155,000 | 84 m² | £1,845/m² | 1 |
| 26, School DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2015 | £280,000 | 99 m² | £2,828/m² | 2 |
| 30, School DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £385,000 | 84 m² | £4,583/m² | 2 |
| 32, School DriveSemi-detached | May 2014 | £250,000 | 96 m² | £2,604/m² | 1 |
| 36, School DriveDetached | Aug 2013 | £277,500 | 91 m² | £3,049/m² | 2 |
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: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bletchley, a drive away (3.6 km), with 1.4m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is School Drive, 100 m away, with a bus about every 27 minutes on weekdays (routes 50, 51); 7 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 61 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
Central London is 72 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Newton Longville Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 69% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Lift Sir Herbert Leon, 3.2 km away; Attainment 8: 33.7 · 1.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Watling Academy (5.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Royal Latin School (10.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 2.5 km away, with Curly Tails closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Whaddon Healthcare (3.3 km), with Bliep Chemist the closest pharmacy (2.3 km).
For a haircut, Madisons Hair Salon is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Milton Keynes Hospital, 8.4 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 59% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Newton's Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Crooked Billet the nearest pub (250 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 166 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 52% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Chepstow Drive Local Park, 1.5 km away; for exercise, Tattenhoe Pavilion (3.0 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.2 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| September Cottage | 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.
Buckingham and Bletchley constituency: Callum Anderson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 2,421 (5.1%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Conservative 32%, Reform UK 16%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
10 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 MK17 0BZ →
For holidays, London Luton is 34 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% 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.
On this street: 0 of 22 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 6.1% | 1.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 46.4% | 83.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 37.3% | 5.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.3% | 8.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.8% | 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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 81 min
Nearest: Eversholt Swimming Pool · about 36 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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