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On Church Lane, in Sleaford East
What it's like at NG34 7DF: every home that has sold on Church Lane 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.
3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Church Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 95 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Church LaneTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2026 | £175,000 | 67 m² | £2,612/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Church LaneTerraced | Apr 2008 | £100,000 | 63 m² | £1,587/m² | 1 |
| 15, Church LaneFlat | Jan 2015 | £68,750 | 65 m² | £1,058/m² | 6 |
| 18, Church LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £93,500 | 65 m² | £1,438/m² | 4 |
| 19, Church LaneDetached | Dec 2004 | £113,000 | 92 m² | £1,228/m² | 2 |
| Fire Station, Church LaneOther · company-owned | Jul 2020 | £205,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Old Mart, Church LaneOther · company-owned | May 2025 | £225,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Sleaford, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 296k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Lincoln.
The nearest bus stop is Church Lane Primary School, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes IT2, IT3, IT1); 16 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 59 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
The nearest primary school is Church Lane Primary School & Nursery, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Carre's Grammar School, 150 m away; Attainment 8: 58 · 12.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (0.3 km) and Carre's Grammar School (0.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 100 m away; W B Willsons (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Sleaford Medical Group (450 m), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Rhi's Waxing is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Grantham and District Hospital, 18 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 64% 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 36 restaurants and cafés and 17 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Soma X New Image Gym is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Marquis of Granby the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 147 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 36% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Sleaford).
There are 168 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 27% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 602 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Nettles Fish Park, 400 m away; for exercise, Northgate Sports Centre (150 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
60 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Northgate House | II | 40 m |
| Carres Charity | II | 50 m |
| 37-41, Northgate | II | 50 m |
| the Marquis of Granby Public House and Attached Outbuildings | II | 60 m |
| 35, Northgate | II | 60 m |
| 43, Northgate | II | 60 m |
| 51 and 53, Northgate | II | 70 m |
| Manor House, Rhodes House, Wall and Gate Piers to Cobbled Yard and Garden Wall to No 33 | II* | 80 m |
| Carre'S Grammar School | II | 90 m |
| 31, Northgate | II | 100 m |
| 2a, Church Lane | II | 120 m |
| 27-29 and Attached Gateway to Number 25 | II | 120 m |
Sleaford and North Hykeham constituency: Dr Caroline Johnson MP (Conservative), since December 2016. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 4,346 (8.9%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 22%, Lincolnshire Independents Lincolnshire First 6%.
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 NG34 7DF →
For holidays, Humberside is 64 km away, and Birmingham, with far more destinations, 109 km.
Most households own their home, 22% 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.
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
On this street: 1 of 64 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 54 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 2.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 2.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.0% | 79.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.9% | 4.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 39 min
Nearest: Great Central Railway (Nottingham) · about 54 min
Nearest: Woodside Wildlife Park · about 35 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 95 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.