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On Laidlaw Drive, in Oakwood Park & Highlands
What it's like at N21 1SS: every home that has sold on Laidlaw 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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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 Laidlaw Drive; 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 25 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Apr 1998 | £141,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Laidlaw DriveDetached | Jul 2000 | £199,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 3, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Aug 2025 | £572,500 | 83 m² | £6,898/m² | 3 |
| 4, Laidlaw DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2019 | £430,000 | 74 m² | £5,811/m² | 4 |
| 5, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Jun 2023 | £625,000 | 85 m² | £7,353/m² | 5 |
| 6, Laidlaw DriveSemi-detached | May 1996 | £121,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Mar 1998 | £110,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Jul 2011 | £295,000 | 61 m² | £4,836/m² | 4 |
| 9, Laidlaw DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £520,000 | 61 m² | £8,525/m² | 2 |
| 10, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Feb 1997 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Laidlaw DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £540,000 | 78 m² | £6,923/m² | 3 |
| 12, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Dec 2024 | £460,000 | 61 m² | £7,541/m² | 4 |
| 13, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Aug 2000 | £176,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 14, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Aug 1996 | £121,650 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Nov 1996 | £123,450 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | May 2002 | £168,000 | 55 m² | £3,055/m² | 2 |
| 17, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Apr 2012 | £359,000 | 88 m² | £4,080/m² | 4 |
| 18, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Oct 1996 | £102,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Jun 2017 | £480,000 | 62 m² | £7,742/m² | 5 |
| 20, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Dec 1996 | £102,000 | 61 m² | £1,672/m² | 1 |
| 21, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Nov 1996 | £103,500 | 62 m² | £1,669/m² | 1 |
| 22, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Jun 2018 | £480,000 | 62 m² | £7,742/m² | 3 |
| 24, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Dec 2000 | £53,000 | 58 m² | £914/m² | 2 |
| 26, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Aug 1996 | £123,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Laidlaw DriveTerraced | Sept 2010 | £325,000 | 61 m² | £5,328/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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Grange Park, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 493k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Finsbury Park.
The nearest bus stop is Lonsdale Drive, 200 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (route 377); 69 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 Grange Park Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 87% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Wolfson Hillel Primary School (0.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Highlands School, 300 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, 150 m away; Baba Express (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highlands Practice (150 m), with Highlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, Vas' Barbers is 400 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 (400 m), and Old Grammarians RFC the nearest pub (550 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, 900 m away; for exercise, Southgate Leisure Centre (1.7 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond), 8.7 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
21 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%.
30 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 1SS →
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.
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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 25 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 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 15 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 | 0.3% | 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.