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On Sycamore Drive, in Sleaford East
What it's like at NG34 8BN: every home that has sold on Sycamore 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.
Sales and extensions on Sycamore Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 23 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 18, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2023 | £140,000 | 86 m² | £1,628/m² | 1 |
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| 20, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £184,000 | 84 m² | £2,190/m² | 1 |
| 24, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | May 2011 | £98,000 | 129 m² | £760/m² | 3 |
| 25, Sycamore DriveDetached | Mar 2019 | £138,500 | 97 m² | £1,428/m² | 4 |
| 30, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2015 | £126,500 | 116 m² | £1,091/m² | 2 |
| 31, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2010 | £100,000 | 96 m² | £1,042/m² | 2 |
| 34, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2012 | £82,500 | 85 m² | £971/m² | 2 |
| 36, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2001 | £19,110 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Sycamore DriveFlat | May 2006 | £76,000 | 72 m² | £1,056/m² | 1 |
| 43a, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | May 2005 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 47, Sycamore DriveFlat | May 2005 | £77,000 | 71 m² | £1,085/m² | 2 |
| 53, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Jul 1999 | £9,300 | – | – | 1 |
| 53a, Sycamore DriveTerraced | Mar 2025 | £125,000 | 119 m² | £1,050/m² | 2 |
| 55, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £91,000 | 72 m² | £1,264/m² | 2 |
| 57, Sycamore DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2002 | £64,000 | – | – | 2 |
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 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 296k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Lincoln.
The nearest bus stop is Sycamore Drive, 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route IT1); 19 departures an hour from the 17 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, about a 5-minute walk (600 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, 450 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 Lidl, 150 m away; W B Willsons (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Sleaford Medical Group (1.0 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Vamp Hairdressers is 400 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.
Fillets Fish & Chip Restaurant and Takeaway is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Marquis of Granby the nearest pub (600 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, 900 m away; for exercise, Northgate Sports Centre (500 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
20 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.
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%.
12 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 8BN →
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: 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.
On this street: 2 of 19 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 | 1.4% | 2.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 2.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 94.1% | 79.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.8% | 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.
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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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.