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On Brooklands Gardens, in Romford East
What it's like at RM11 2AF: every home that has sold on Brooklands 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Brooklands Gardens; 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.
None of the 42 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £610,000 | 113 m² | £5,398/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9, Brooklands GardensDetached | Jan 2017 | £625,000 | 137 m² | £4,562/m² | 7 |
| 11, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £369,000 | 48 m² | £7,688/m² | 3 |
| 13, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £382,000 | 62 m² | £6,161/m² | 2 |
| 17, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £429,000 | 57 m² | £7,526/m² | 2 |
| 21, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2001 | £127,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £119,995 | 57 m² | £2,105/m² | 1 |
| 25, Brooklands GardensSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £400,000 | 88 m² | £4,545/m² | 4 |
| 27, Brooklands GardensTerraced | Mar 2021 | £520,000 | 114 m² | £4,561/m² | 1 |
| 29, Brooklands GardensTerraced | Mar 2024 | £485,000 | 94 m² | £5,160/m² | 3 |
| 33, Brooklands GardensTerraced | May 2004 | £199,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Brooklands GardensFlat | Sept 2010 | £119,000 | 54 m² | £2,204/m² | 3 |
| 35a, Brooklands GardensFlat | Sept 2010 | £115,000 | 36 m² | £3,194/m² | 1 |
| 37, Brooklands GardensTerraced | Jul 1999 | £144,000 | – | – | 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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Emerson Park, about a 10-minute walk (750 m), with 303k journeys a year; its busiest route is to West Ham.
The nearest bus stop is Brooklands Gardens, 150 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes 370, 165, 650, 649); 80 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 24 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Towers Infant School, a few minutes' walk (500 m).
The nearest secondary is The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 51.4 · 14.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Redden Court School (2.3 km) and All Saints Catholic School and Technology College (4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (9.1 km) and Woodford County High School (13.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 450 m away, with Hillview Food & Wine closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The New Medical Centre (600 m), with Shadforth Pharmaceutical Co the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Hairport is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 2.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Towers Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and The Drill Hotel the nearest pub (500 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 15% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 70% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Haynes Park, 450 m away; for exercise, David Lloyd Clubs (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 13 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 35 km.
38 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.
Hornchurch and Upminster constituency: Julia Lopez MP (Conservative), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,943 (4.1%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Conservative 33%, Reform UK 28%, Labour 28%, Green Party 6%.
31 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 RM11 2AF →
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.
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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 42 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 25 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% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.0% | 91.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.6% | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.9% | 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: Southend Westcliff Bay · about 33 min
Nearest: Sea Lanes Canary Wharf · about 32 min
Nearest: Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation · about 32 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.