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On Oak Street, in City Centre West
What it's like at NR3 3BP: every home that has sold on Oak 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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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 Oak Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
10 of the 53 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 87, Oak StreetFlat | Oct 2018 | £95,000 | 62 m² | £1,532/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89a, Oak StreetOther · company-owned | Jun 2022 | £86,500 | 40 m² | £2,163/m² | 2 |
| 98a, Oak StreetDetached | Oct 2007 | £105,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 98b, Oak StreetFlat | May 2017 | £124,950 | 76 m² | £1,644/m² | 1 |
| 100a, Oak StreetFlat | May 2005 | £74,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 100b, Oak StreetFlat | May 2003 | £87,000 | 54 m² | £1,611/m² | 2 |
| 102a, Oak StreetFlat | Aug 2026 | £140,000 | 36 m² | £3,889/m² | 8 |
| 102b, Oak StreetTerraced | Oct 2025 | £162,000 | 86 m² | £1,884/m² | 3 |
| 104a, Oak StreetFlat | Jan 2022 | £138,000 | 82 m² | £1,683/m² | 3 |
| 104b, Oak StreetFlat | Apr 2007 | £88,000 | 43 m² | £2,047/m² | 2 |
| 106a, Oak StreetTerraced | Mar 2020 | £122,000 | 45 m² | £2,711/m² | 5 |
| 106b, Oak StreetTerraced | Apr 2010 | £89,000 | 66 m² | £1,348/m² | 1 |
| 108, Oak StreetFlat | Jun 2014 | £110,000 | 74 m² | £1,486/m² | 2 |
| 121, Oak StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2002 | £49,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 123, Oak StreetDetached | Sept 2008 | £80,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 134 - 138, Oak StreetOther | Aug 2024 | £46,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 140 - 146, Oak StreetOther · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £99,500 | – | – | 2 |
| The Great Hall, 127, Oak StreetDetached | Oct 2009 | £120,000 | 142 m² | £845/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Norwich, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 4.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is St Crispins Road, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 30); 67 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 6 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
53% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Magdalen Gates Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Lionwood Infant and Nursery School (1.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Jane Austen College, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 53.7 · 23.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 6% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is J&B - The House Of Afro-Foods, 350 m away, with Phoenix Gym closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Oak Street Medical Pract. (200 m), with Wellbeing Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Sally Beauty is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 5.0 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 213 restaurants and cafés and 49 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
St Edmunds Society is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Norwich VR Bar the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (51 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 557 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 99% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (City Centre, Heigham Grove).
There are 438 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (78%).
It's new: 56% of homes were built since 2000.
The nearest park is Gildencroft Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Phoenix Gym (250 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Norwich is 5.2 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 109 km.
49 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 108, Oak Street | II | 60 m |
| 106, Oak Street | II | 60 m |
| 102 and 104, Oak Street | II | 70 m |
| 98 and 100, Oak Street | II | 70 m |
| Station Bridge | II | 90 m |
| Gentlemens Urinal | II | 100 m |
| the Great Hall | II | 100 m |
| Church of St Martin at Oak | I | 190 m |
| Folly House and Pineapple House | II | 190 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.
Norwich South constituency: Clive Lewis MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,239 (29.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Green Party 18%, Conservative 13%, Reform UK 12%.
23 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 NR3 3BP →
Many neighbours rent: 39% of households rent privately and 30% socially.
It's young: 44% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 30% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is Norwich University of the Arts, 800 m away (TEF Gold).
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 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 37 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 8 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 60.0% | 86.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 35.4% | 11.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.6% | 1.7% | 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 33 min
Nearest: Beccles Lido · 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 53 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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