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Buckenhams & Snetterton
What it's like at NR17 1RH: every home that has sold on the street 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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Nothing recorded on this street or nearby yet.
Sales and extensions on the street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
No sales recorded at this postcode since 1995.
The nearest station is Attleborough, a drive away (3.5 km), with 175k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Norwich.
The nearest bus stop is High School, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 37E); 1 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 80 minutes away by public transport (28 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Old Buckenham Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Old Buckenham High School, 250 m away; Attainment 8: 37.8 · 3.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Old Buckenham Stores, 450 m away, with Tap & Tipple / Harrow & Fearn closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Attleborough Surgery (3.5 km), with Allied Pharmacy Church Street the closest pharmacy (4.0 km).
For a haircut, The Beauty Box is 2.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 20 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 18 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Ox & Plough is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The Gamekeepers the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 141 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 60% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 187 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Norwich is 28 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 85 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
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.
10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baptist Chapel | II | 130 m |
| 3 Cottages in Range 30 Metres East of Sunnydene | II | 180 m |
| Sunnydene | II | 180 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.
Mid Norfolk constituency: George Freeman MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,054 (6.7%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Conservative 37%, Labour 30%, Reform UK 21%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
6 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 NR17 1RH →
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 13.1% | 6.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 34.8% | 60.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 44.4% | 23.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.7% | 8.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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: Caister Point · about 47 min
Nearest: Beccles Lido · about 45 min
Nearest: Newmarket Racecourse · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.