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On The Drive, in Harold Park & Harold Wood
What it's like at RM3 0DU: every home that has sold on The 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The 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.
None of the 32 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, The DriveDetached | Sept 2002 | £400,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2b, The DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £530,000 | 95 m² | £5,579/m² | 1 |
| 3, The DriveTerraced | Jul 2003 | £277,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, The DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £750,000 | 100 m² | £7,500/m² | 1 |
| 5, The DriveTerraced | Jun 2002 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, The DriveTerraced | Apr 2021 | £480,000 | 104 m² | £4,615/m² | 1 |
| 8, The DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £815,000 | 179 m² | £4,553/m² | 2 |
| 9, The DriveTerraced | Feb 2015 | £385,000 | 114 m² | £3,377/m² | 1 |
| 10, The DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £600,000 | 85 m² | £7,059/m² | 1 |
| 11, The DriveTerraced | Aug 2020 | £480,000 | 108 m² | £4,444/m² | 3 |
| 15, The DriveTerraced | May 2025 | £530,000 | 84 m² | £6,310/m² | 1 |
| 16, The DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2006 | £314,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, The DriveTerraced | Jul 2013 | £315,000 | 90 m² | £3,500/m² | 1 |
| 19, The DriveTerraced | Jul 2006 | £310,000 | 110 m² | £2,818/m² | 1 |
| 20, The DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £635,000 | 122 m² | £5,205/m² | 1 |
| 21, The DriveTerraced | Sept 2023 | £589,000 | 111 m² | £5,306/m² | 2 |
| 22, The DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £460,000 | 105 m² | £4,381/m² | 2 |
| 23, The DriveTerraced | Oct 2010 | £390,000 | 129 m² | £3,023/m² | 2 |
| 31, The DriveSemi-detached | May 2018 | £625,000 | 142 m² | £4,401/m² | 1 |
| 32, The DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £276,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, The DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2004 | £250,000 | 106 m² | £2,358/m² | 1 |
| 37, The DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £163,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, The DriveTerraced | Nov 2024 | £680,000 | 80 m² | £8,500/m² | 2 |
| 45, The DriveDetached | Apr 2011 | £320,000 | 85 m² | £3,765/m² | 2 |
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 Harold Wood, a few minutes' walk (250 m), with 3.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Wessex Lane, 100 m away, with a bus about every 20 minutes on weekdays (route 346); 97 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 15% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 27 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Broadford Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (900 m); 49% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Ardleigh Green Junior School (1.5 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Redden Court School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 47.4 · 10.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hall Mead School (4 km) and The Coopers' Company and Coborn School (4.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (10.8 km) and Woodford County High School (14.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Food, 250 m away; Nisa Local (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Green Wood Practice (200 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Images is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 4.8 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 17 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Methodist Church is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and King Harold the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 78 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 26% flats and 11% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Kings Park Play Area, 300 m away; for exercise, Teenage Area (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 16 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 32 km.
29 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| the Grange, Harold Wood Hospital | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
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%.
11 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 RM3 0DU →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
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 32 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 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 | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 92.8% | 91.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.1% | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.7% | 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: Sea Lanes Canary Wharf · about 33 min
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