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On Briar Gardens, in Buckenhams & Snetterton
What it's like at NR17 2GY: every home that has sold on Briar Gardens 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 Briar Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 8 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Briar GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £225,000 | 71 m² | £3,169/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Briar GardensSemi-detached | May 2008 | £180,000 | 80 m² | £2,250/m² | 1 |
| 3, Briar GardensDetached | Oct 2012 | £225,000 | 113 m² | £1,991/m² | 2 |
| 4, Briar GardensDetached | Dec 2008 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Briar GardensDetached | Jan 2008 | £220,000 | 95 m² | £2,316/m² | 1 |
| 6, Briar GardensDetached | Dec 2007 | £218,000 | 98 m² | £2,224/m² | 1 |
| 7, Briar GardensDetached · company-owned | Dec 2007 | £217,000 | 97 m² | £2,237/m² | 1 |
| 8, Briar GardensDetached | Apr 2021 | £350,000 | 176 m² | £1,989/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Attleborough, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 175k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Norwich.
The nearest bus stop is Mill Lane, 150 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (routes 14, 90, X14); 10 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 Attleborough Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (850 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Attleborough Academy, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 41.4 · 5.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Quick Stop Grocery & Newsagent, 1.1 km away; The Bakery (1.1 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Surgery (1.2 km), with Allied Pharmacy Church Street the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Blossom is 1.1 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.
Royal Garden Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (1.0 km), and The Griffin the nearest pub (1.2 km).
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.
1 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.
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%.
13 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 2GY →
No crimes recorded "on or near" Briar Gardens in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 7 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 | 1.9% | 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.
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