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On Buchanan Close, in Oakwood Park & Highlands
What it's like at N21 1SG: every home that has sold on Buchanan 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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2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Buchanan Close; 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.
None of the 30 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Buchanan CloseDetached | Jun 1996 | £169,995 | 127 m² | £1,339/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Buchanan CloseDetached | Dec 1996 | £135,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Buchanan CloseFlat | Sept 1999 | £92,000 | 61 m² | £1,508/m² | 1 |
| 5, Buchanan CloseDetached | Jan 2019 | £640,000 | 121 m² | £5,289/m² | 2 |
| 6, Buchanan CloseFlat | May 2001 | £131,000 | 78 m² | £1,679/m² | 2 |
| 7, Buchanan CloseDetached | May 2024 | £680,000 | 101 m² | £6,733/m² | 2 |
| 8, Buchanan CloseFlat | Aug 2017 | £415,000 | 68 m² | £6,103/m² | 3 |
| 10, Buchanan CloseFlat | Apr 2006 | £177,000 | 48 m² | £3,688/m² | 2 |
| 12, Buchanan CloseFlat | Oct 1999 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jun 2015 | £365,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 16, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jun 2003 | £195,000 | 71 m² | £2,746/m² | 2 |
| 20, Buchanan CloseFlat | Sept 1999 | £99,950 | 66 m² | £1,514/m² | 1 |
| 22, Buchanan CloseFlat | Oct 1999 | £119,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Buchanan CloseFlat | Oct 1999 | £129,950 | 94 m² | £1,382/m² | 1 |
| 26, Buchanan CloseFlat | Dec 2011 | £172,500 | 60 m² | £2,875/m² | 3 |
| Flat 6, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jul 2026 | £360,000 | 52 m² | £6,923/m² | 6 |
| Flat 8, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Mar 2016 | £250,000 | 43 m² | £5,814/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jul 2014 | £235,000 | 48 m² | £4,896/m² | 2 |
| Flat 9, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jul 2022 | £340,000 | 54 m² | £6,296/m² | 3 |
| Flat 14, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Apr 2012 | £212,000 | 53 m² | £4,000/m² | 3 |
| Flat 4, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Oct 2023 | £335,000 | 53 m² | £6,321/m² | 3 |
| Flat 5, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jan 2000 | £117,000 | 46 m² | £2,543/m² | 3 |
| Flat 11, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jun 1996 | £80,995 | 99 m² | £818/m² | 1 |
| Flat 15, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Feb 2020 | £285,000 | 57 m² | £5,000/m² | 3 |
| Flat 7, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Apr 2002 | £149,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 13, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jan 2001 | £95,000 | 44 m² | £2,159/m² | 2 |
| Flat 12, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Dec 2016 | £325,000 | 57 m² | £5,702/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Sept 2021 | £265,000 | 44 m² | £6,023/m² | 5 |
| Flat 10, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Jun 1999 | £90,000 | 53 m² | £1,698/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, Adam Lodge, 2, Buchanan CloseFlat | Feb 2020 | £315,000 | 54 m² | £5,833/m² | 3 |
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 Grange Park, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 493k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Finsbury Park.
The nearest bus stop is Pennington Drive, 50 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (route W9); 71 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Eversley Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Wolfson Hillel Primary School (0.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Highlands School, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 55.6 · 17% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Ashmole Academy (1.5 km) and East Barnet School (2.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Latymer School (3.5 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (5.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 200 m away; Baba Express (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highlands Practice (200 m), with Highlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Vas' Barbers is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is North Middlesex University Hospital, 4.3 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Village Tandoori is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Old Grammarians RFC the nearest pub (500 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 43% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 44% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Oakwood Park, 750 m away; for exercise, Southgate Leisure Centre (1.5 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond), 8.7 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
19 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.
Southgate and Wood Green constituency: Bambos Charalambous MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,300 (33.5%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 51%, Conservative 18%, Green Party 12%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
32 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 N21 1SG →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 19 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 30 km.
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% 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.
On this street: 0 of 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 14 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 87.0% | 84.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 12.1% | 12.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 2.3% | 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 44 min
Nearest: Canary Wharf Pier · about 37 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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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