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On Ullswater Close, in Kempston Central & East
What it's like at MK42 8JX: every home that has sold on Ullswater 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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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 Ullswater Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £235,000 | 84 m² | £2,798/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Feb 1998 | £71,000 | 111 m² | £640/m² | 1 |
| 5, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £340,000 | 118 m² | £2,881/m² | 2 |
| 6, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | May 2024 | £285,000 | 78 m² | £3,654/m² | 2 |
| 9, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2009 | £180,000 | 114 m² | £1,579/m² | 2 |
| 12, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Mar 2014 | £183,000 | 99 m² | £1,848/m² | 3 |
| 14, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | May 1997 | £56,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Ullswater CloseSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £290,000 | 86 m² | £3,372/m² | 5 |
| Flat 5, Ullswater Court, Ullswater CloseFlat | Sept 2015 | £86,000 | 42 m² | £2,048/m² | 3 |
| Flat 4, Ullswater Court, Ullswater CloseFlat | Feb 2000 | £33,500 | 52 m² | £644/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, Ullswater Court, Ullswater CloseFlat | May 2022 | £125,000 | 34 m² | £3,676/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, Ullswater Court, Ullswater CloseFlat | Aug 2011 | £82,000 | 52 m² | £1,577/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, Ullswater Court, Ullswater CloseFlat | Apr 2021 | £130,000 | 24 m² | £5,417/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Kempston Hardwick, a short drive or bike ride (2.5 km), with 10k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Bedford.
The nearest bus stop is The Windermere, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route C10); 41 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 72 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Balliol Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 39% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Daubeney Academy, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 38.5 · 4.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bedford Free School (2 km) and Goldington Academy (4.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative, 250 m away, with Hks Shell Kempston closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is King Street Surgery (450 m), with Britannia Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Holder's Haircare is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Bedford Hospital, 1.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% 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: 14 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Caprinos Pizza is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and E&R Kitchen the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 87 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 14% flats and 17% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Cryselco Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Cryselco Park Pavilion (350 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 28 km away.
Most households own their home, 23% 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.
47 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.
Bedford constituency: Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,430 (23.2%), turnout 56%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 11%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
17 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 MK42 8JX →
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 74 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 12 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 5 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.1% | 86.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 3.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.7% | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.5% | 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 13 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.