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On Songbird Close, in Shinfield
What it's like at RG2 9AB: every home that has sold on Songbird Close 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Songbird Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 18 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Songbird CloseDetached | Oct 2003 | £299,950 | 101 m² | £2,970/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Songbird CloseDetached | Dec 2025 | £580,000 | 139 m² | £4,173/m² | 3 |
| 3, Songbird CloseTerraced | Sept 2016 | £295,000 | 59 m² | £5,000/m² | 3 |
| 4, Songbird CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £330,000 | 100 m² | £3,300/m² | 2 |
| 5, Songbird CloseFlat | Aug 2015 | £272,000 | 61 m² | £4,459/m² | 4 |
| 6, Songbird CloseDetached | Dec 2013 | £330,000 | 100 m² | £3,300/m² | 3 |
| 7, Songbird CloseTerraced | Sept 2025 | £370,000 | 66 m² | £5,606/m² | 4 |
| 8, Songbird CloseDetached | Oct 2024 | £340,000 | 78 m² | £4,359/m² | 3 |
| 9, Songbird CloseTerraced | May 2006 | £202,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Songbird CloseTerraced | Mar 2013 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Songbird CloseTerraced | Jun 2015 | £252,000 | 64 m² | £3,938/m² | 3 |
| 12, Songbird CloseTerraced | Oct 2025 | £355,000 | 64 m² | £5,547/m² | 3 |
| 14, Songbird CloseTerraced | Jun 2026 | £364,000 | 63 m² | £5,778/m² | 4 |
| 15, Songbird CloseTerraced | Apr 2004 | £203,000 | 63 m² | £3,222/m² | 1 |
| 16, Songbird CloseTerraced | Sept 2009 | £205,000 | 64 m² | £3,203/m² | 3 |
| 18, Songbird CloseTerraced | Oct 2024 | £350,000 | 65 m² | £5,385/m² | 5 |
| 29, Songbird CloseFlat | Jan 2023 | £270,000 | 84 m² | £3,214/m² | 1 |
| 33, Songbird CloseFlat | Aug 2012 | £185,000 | 67 m² | £2,761/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Reading Green Park, a drive away (4.3 km), with 221k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Reading.
The nearest bus stop is Church Lane, 100 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes 3, 600, 92); 21 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 58 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Shinfield Infant and Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Oakbank School, 1.3 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Maiden Erlegh School (2.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Reading School (3.6 km) and Kendrick School (4 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Great Britain, 300 m away; Share Shinfield (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is South Reading & Shinfield Group Med Prac (300 m), with Shinfield Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Champions Barner Lounge is 1.5 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Berkshire Hospital, 3.9 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 81% 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: 8 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Tin Roof Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Bell & Bottle the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 11 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 38% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 557 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Deardon Field, 700 m away; for exercise, Loddon Valley Leisure Centre (2.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 35 km away.
28 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.
Earley and Woodley constituency: Yuan Yang MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 848 (1.8%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Conservative 38%, Liberal Democrat 13%, Green Party 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 RG2 9AB →
Most households own their home, 16% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
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.
On this street: 0 of 15 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 | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.9% | 92.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.5% | 5.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 49 min
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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 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.