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On Purves Road, in Kensal Green
What it's like at NW10 5TG: every home that has sold on Purves Road 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.
12 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 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 Purves Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 164 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 128, Purves RoadTerraced | Oct 2001 | £312,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat B, 130, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2022 | £400,000 | 89 m² | £4,494/m² | 1 |
| 130, Purves RoadOther | Apr 2023 | £25,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 130b, Purves RoadFlat | Nov 2024 | £820,000 | 60 m² | £13,667/m² | 1 |
| 132, Purves RoadFlat | Dec 2022 | £680,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 134, Purves RoadTerraced | Jul 1999 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| First Floor Flat, 138, Purves RoadFlat | Jan 2007 | £265,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 146, Purves RoadTerraced | Aug 2023 | £625,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 150a, Purves RoadFlat | May 2024 | £495,000 | 92 m² | £5,380/m² | 3 |
| 154, Purves RoadTerraced | Oct 1995 | £77,000 | 87 m² | £885/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 154, Purves RoadFlat | Apr 1996 | £62,950 | – | – | 1 |
| First Floor Flat, 154, Purves RoadFlat | Jul 2024 | £615,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 156b, Purves RoadFlat | Sept 2025 | £700,000 | 84 m² | £8,333/m² | 3 |
| 158, Purves RoadTerraced | Jan 2000 | £69,804 | – | – | 2 |
| 160, Purves RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2000 | £249,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 162, Purves RoadTerraced | Feb 1999 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 164, Purves RoadTerraced | Jul 2024 | £1,615,000 | 178 m² | £9,073/m² | 2 |
| 166, Purves RoadTerraced | Sept 2005 | £400,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 168, Purves RoadFlat | Aug 2007 | £310,000 | – | – | 3 |
| First Floor Flat, 168b, Purves RoadFlat | May 2012 | £309,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 170, Purves RoadOther | Jun 2024 | £4,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 170, Purves RoadFlat | Oct 1995 | £64,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 172, Purves RoadTerraced | Jun 2000 | £249,999 | 133 m² | £1,880/m² | 1 |
| 176, Purves RoadOther | Feb 2018 | £3,000 | 70 m² | £43/m² | 2 |
| 176a, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2018 | £525,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 176b, Purves RoadFlat | Aug 2023 | £785,000 | 85 m² | £9,235/m² | 1 |
| 188, Purves RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £1,260,000 | 122 m² | £10,328/m² | 2 |
| 190, Purves RoadTerraced | Sept 2007 | £540,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 192, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2002 | £175,000 | – | – | 2 |
| First Floor Flat, 192, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2006 | £245,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 192a, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2025 | £610,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 192b, Purves RoadFlat | Jan 2024 | £566,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat A, 194, Purves RoadFlat | Aug 2020 | £520,000 | 58 m² | £8,966/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Maisonette, 198, Purves RoadFlat | Jul 2005 | £224,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 198a, Purves RoadFlat | Feb 2021 | £999,950 | 92 m² | £10,869/m² | 3 |
| 198b, Purves RoadFlat | Oct 2024 | £575,000 | 76 m² | £7,566/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Kensal Rise, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 2.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to West Hampstead.
The nearest bus stop is Kensal Rise Station, 250 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes 6, 52, 187); 169 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 17% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 8 km away as the crow flies.
44% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Princess Frederica CofE Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 84% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School (1.6 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Queens Park Community School, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 51.1 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: All Saints Catholic College (1.8 km) and Kensington Aldridge Academy (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (5.9 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (9.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is C & D Food And Wine Stores, 200 m away; Station Rise (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Chamberlayne Surgery (250 m), with Dollmeads Dispensing Chemist the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, My Hair Doctor is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is St Mary's Hospital, 4.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
The Cedar Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Maggies Bar the nearest pub (250 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 71 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 22 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (55%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 82% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Hazel Road Open Space, 400 m away; for exercise, Absolute Studios (250 m).
59 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.
Queen's Park and Maida Vale constituency: Georgia Gould MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,913 (38.9%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 53%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 13%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
71 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 NW10 5TG →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 5.2 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 19.0 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London Heathrow is 17 km away.
Most households own their home, 30% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 51% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Regent's University London, 4.7 km away (TEF Silver).
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.
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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 164 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 72 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.7% | 77.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.2% | 14.7% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.