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On Lancaster Drive, in Hacton
What it's like at RM12 5SU: every home that has sold on Lancaster Drive 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Lancaster Drive; 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.
6 of the 124 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Lancaster DriveTerraced | Apr 2013 | £230,000 | 76 m² | £3,026/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Lancaster DriveTerraced | Jan 2023 | £400,000 | 61 m² | £6,557/m² | 2 |
| 2, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £533,000 | 138 m² | £3,862/m² | 2 |
| 5, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2017 | £375,000 | 77 m² | £4,870/m² | 1 |
| 6, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £475,000 | 93 m² | £5,108/m² | 1 |
| 7, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2019 | £432,500 | 91 m² | £4,753/m² | 2 |
| 9, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Feb 1998 | £89,000 | 114 m² | £781/m² | 1 |
| 10, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £400,000 | 77 m² | £5,195/m² | 1 |
| 11, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £445,000 | 81 m² | £5,494/m² | 1 |
| 12, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £575,000 | 107 m² | £5,374/m² | 3 |
| 13, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached · company-owned | Apr 2018 | £368,250 | 78 m² | £4,721/m² | 1 |
| 14, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2005 | £245,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 15, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2009 | £292,000 | 119 m² | £2,454/m² | 2 |
| 16, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2011 | £217,000 | 70 m² | £3,100/m² | 1 |
| 22, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £580,000 | 118 m² | £4,915/m² | 3 |
| 28, Lancaster DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2011 | £275,000 | 95 m² | £2,895/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Elm Park Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (750 m). The nearest rail station is Emerson Park, 2.1 km away, with 303k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Abbs Cross Academy, 300 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 372, 365, 165); 32 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 15% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 24 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Benhurst Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 63% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Scotts Primary School (0.4 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College, 200 m away; Attainment 8: 45.5 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Coopers' Company and Coborn School (3.3 km) and Hall Mead School (3.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (10.7 km) and Dartford Grammar School (11.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 100 m away; SG Newsagent & Off Licence (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Surgery, Dr T Rahman and Dr C Y Tsoi (550 m), with Elm Park Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Just Jakes is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 3.4 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 6 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Giggling Squid is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Royal British Legion Club the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 6% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 42% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 266 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Harrow Lodge Park, 750 m away; for exercise, Abbs Cross Swimming Pool (150 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.4 µg/m³).
37 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%.
17 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 RM12 5SU →
For holidays, London City is 12 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 38 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 50% 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 124 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 93 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 96.1% | 91.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.7% | 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: Leigh Bell Wharf · about 38 min
Nearest: Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation · 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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