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On Button Road, in Grays Chafford Gorges & Orsett Road
What it's like at RM17 5HE: every home that has sold on Button 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Button Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 36 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Button RoadDetached | Mar 2008 | £333,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Button RoadDetached | Oct 1995 | £93,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Button RoadDetached | Nov 2018 | £416,000 | 107 m² | £3,888/m² | 4 |
| 4, Button RoadDetached | Apr 2014 | £330,000 | 103 m² | £3,204/m² | 2 |
| 5, Button RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £500,000 | 126 m² | £3,968/m² | 3 |
| 6, Button RoadDetached | Jun 2013 | £313,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 7, Button RoadDetached | Aug 2009 | £282,500 | 130 m² | £2,173/m² | 3 |
| 8, Button RoadDetached | Oct 2003 | £249,995 | – | – | 3 |
| 9, Button RoadDetached | Sept 2014 | £329,995 | 108 m² | £3,056/m² | 3 |
| 10, Button RoadDetached | Jan 2003 | £217,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Button RoadDetached | Oct 2011 | £315,000 | 115 m² | £2,739/m² | 3 |
| 12, Button RoadDetached | Feb 2015 | £600,000 | 150 m² | £4,000/m² | 3 |
| 13, Button RoadDetached | Oct 1999 | £144,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Button RoadDetached | Feb 2020 | £500,000 | 124 m² | £4,032/m² | 2 |
| 15, Button RoadDetached | Aug 2007 | £395,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Button RoadDetached | Jan 1996 | £99,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Button RoadDetached | Nov 1996 | £114,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Button RoadDetached | Nov 2002 | £290,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 19, Button RoadDetached | Aug 1996 | £119,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Button RoadDetached | Nov 1999 | £179,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 21, Button RoadDetached | Oct 1996 | £104,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Button RoadDetached | Feb 2009 | £250,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 23, Button RoadDetached | Apr 2004 | £245,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Button RoadDetached | Jan 1997 | £109,450 | 118 m² | £928/m² | 1 |
| 25, Button RoadDetached | Sept 2005 | £299,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 26, Button RoadDetached | Sept 2017 | £445,000 | 114 m² | £3,904/m² | 4 |
| 27, Button RoadDetached | Jan 1997 | £114,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Button RoadDetached | Feb 2006 | £250,000 | 94 m² | £2,660/m² | 2 |
| 29, Button RoadDetached | Jan 2016 | £360,000 | 157 m² | £2,293/m² | 2 |
| 30, Button RoadDetached | May 2003 | £245,000 | 143 m² | £1,713/m² | 2 |
| 31, Button RoadOther | Dec 2017 | £20,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 32, Button RoadDetached | Nov 2000 | £247,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 34, Button RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £600,000 | 110 m² | £5,455/m² | 4 |
| 36, Button RoadDetached | Jun 1996 | £109,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, Button RoadDetached | Jun 2004 | £327,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 40, Button RoadDetached | Feb 2026 | £560,000 | 118 m² | £4,746/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Grays, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 3.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to West Ham.
The nearest bus stop is Davis Road, 450 m away, with a bus about every 43 minutes on weekdays (route 88).
Rail is a big part of life: 13% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 32 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Belmont Castle Academy, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 69% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Quarry Hill Academy (0.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Thames Park Secondary School, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 46.4 · 10.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Harris Academy Chafford Hundred (2.3 km) and Harris Academy Ockendon (5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend (5.3 km) and Gravesend Grammar School (6.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 750 m away, with KMY Chafford Service Station closer still (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Chafford Hundred Medical Centre (800 m), with Armada Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Woodfords Hair and Beauty Salon is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Darent Valley Hospital, 6.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 74% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Royal Mail Delivery Office Canteen is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Piglets Parent And Toddler Group the nearest pub (850 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 132 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 14% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Chafford Hundred Park, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Bannatyne's Health Club (1.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 19 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 46 km.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
6 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.
Thurrock constituency: Jen Craft MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,474 (17.2%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Reform UK 26%, Conservative 21%, Green Party 4%.
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 RM17 5HE →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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 | 0.2% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 85.8% | 85.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.9% | 13.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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.
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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 36 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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