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On Balmoral Avenue, in Friern Barnet
What it's like at N11 3QA: every home that has sold on Balmoral 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).
Sales and extensions on Balmoral Avenue; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 30 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Mar 2015 | £629,999 | – | – | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jun 2017 | £775,000 | 165 m² | £4,697/m² | 2 |
| 3, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Nov 2015 | £645,000 | 141 m² | £4,574/m² | 2 |
| 4, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Feb 2021 | £540,000 | 75 m² | £7,200/m² | 5 |
| 5, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jun 1998 | £179,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jun 1998 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jan 1998 | £176,000 | 119 m² | £1,479/m² | 1 |
| 8, Balmoral AvenueDetached | Sept 2025 | £635,000 | 84 m² | £7,560/m² | 2 |
| 9, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Sept 2009 | £365,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 1997 | £139,950 | 86 m² | £1,627/m² | 1 |
| 11, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Feb 1998 | £169,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Balmoral AvenueDetached · company-owned | Jul 1997 | £149,950 | 71 m² | £2,112/m² | 1 |
| 13, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Oct 1997 | £172,000 | 106 m² | £1,623/m² | 1 |
| 14, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2002 | £279,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Feb 2016 | £650,000 | 117 m² | £5,556/m² | 2 |
| 16, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2009 | £335,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 17, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £143,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2016 | £595,000 | 79 m² | £7,532/m² | 3 |
| 19, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2011 | £380,000 | 86 m² | £4,419/m² | 3 |
| 20, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jan 2015 | £480,000 | 94 m² | £5,106/m² | 3 |
| 21, Balmoral AvenueDetached | Jan 1998 | £185,000 | 131 m² | £1,412/m² | 1 |
| 22, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Jun 1998 | £149,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Balmoral AvenueDetached | Jul 2003 | £345,000 | 110 m² | £3,136/m² | 2 |
| 24, Balmoral AvenueDetached | Jul 1998 | £151,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Dec 1997 | £111,995 | 67 m² | £1,672/m² | 1 |
| 28, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | Feb 2003 | £209,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Balmoral AvenueTerraced | May 2011 | £270,000 | 63 m² | £4,286/m² | 3 |
| 32, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1997 | £111,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Balmoral AvenueDetached | Dec 2010 | £370,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 36, Balmoral AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2003 | £285,000 | – | – | 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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is New Southgate, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 920k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Finsbury Park.
The nearest bus stop is Whitmore Close, 200 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 221, 232, 382); 148 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 12 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Paul's CofE Primary School N11, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 63% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Friern Barnet School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 44.8 · 10.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Compton School (0.8 km) and Alexandra Park School (1.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (1.7 km) and The Henrietta Barnett School (4.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Marks And Spencer's Simply Foods, 200 m away; Sports Direct (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Friern Barnet Medical Centre (750 m), with Caplet Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Legends Brothers is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Whittington Hospital, 5.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 72% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and New Southgate Conservative Club the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 93 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 47% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Friern Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Dr. Zak's Pumping Iron Gym (500 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond), 5.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Former Friern Hospital | II | 150 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Hornsey and Friern Barnet constituency: Catherine West MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 21,475 (44.1%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Labour 59%, Green Party 15%, Liberal Democrat 13%, Conservative 8%.
29 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 N11 3QA →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 15.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 19 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 26 km.
Most households own their home, 30% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
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 Barnet 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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 16 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 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.7% | 77.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.8% | 11.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 10.7% | 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 35 min
Nearest: Tower Lifeboat Station · about 34 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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