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On Fry Close, in Collier Row & Park Farm
What it's like at RM5 2QE: every home that has sold on Fry 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Fry Close; 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 19 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Jun 2013 | £217,000 | 81 m² | £2,679/m² | 3 |
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| 2, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2009 | £230,000 | 99 m² | £2,323/m² | 2 |
| 3, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £345,000 | 84 m² | £4,107/m² | 2 |
| 5, Fry CloseTerraced | Sept 1995 | £64,000 | 80 m² | £800/m² | 1 |
| 7, Fry CloseTerraced | May 2021 | £410,000 | 88 m² | £4,659/m² | 3 |
| 9, Fry CloseTerraced | May 2018 | £385,000 | 118 m² | £3,263/m² | 1 |
| 10, Fry CloseTerraced | Nov 2014 | £270,000 | 86 m² | £3,140/m² | 1 |
| 11, Fry CloseTerraced | Jul 2018 | £350,000 | 86 m² | £4,070/m² | 4 |
| 13, Fry CloseTerraced | Jul 1998 | £84,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Apr 1999 | £105,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £377,000 | 70 m² | £5,386/m² | 4 |
| 18, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2013 | £240,000 | 89 m² | £2,697/m² | 1 |
| 20, Fry CloseTerraced | May 2008 | £233,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Fry CloseTerraced | Jun 2019 | £325,000 | 98 m² | £3,316/m² | 4 |
| 24, Fry CloseTerraced | Sept 2024 | £420,000 | 87 m² | £4,828/m² | 2 |
| 32, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £137,000 | 69 m² | £1,986/m² | 2 |
| 34, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £445,000 | 87 m² | £5,115/m² | 4 |
| 36, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Dec 2011 | £246,000 | 96 m² | £2,563/m² | 1 |
| 38, Fry CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £429,999 | 149 m² | £2,886/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Romford, a drive away (4.0 km), with 12.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Portmore Gardens, 100 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 294, 651); 46 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 22 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Oasis Academy Pinewood, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Clockhouse Primary School (0.4 km).
The nearest secondary is Bower Park Academy, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 37.7 · 3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Warren School (3 km) and All Saints Catholic School and Technology College (4.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (5.8 km) and Woodford County High School (9.7 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Food, 150 m away; Pound n Max (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lynwood Medical Centre (750 m), with Sapphire Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Sunbathers Tanning salon is 3.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 4.0 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 17 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Forest Row Community Association is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and RM5 Bar & Restaurant the nearest pub (850 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 74 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 6% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 47% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Lawns Park, 1.4 km away; for exercise, Redbridge Cycling Centre (1.8 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 13 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 32 km.
7 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.
Romford constituency: Andrew Rosindell MP (Reform UK), since June 2001. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,463 (3.3%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Conservative 35%, Labour 32%, Reform UK 22%, Green Party 5%.
16 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 RM5 2QE →
On this street: 1 of 16 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 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.7% | 91.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.9% | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Most households own their home, 14% 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 19 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.
Nearest: Leigh Bell Wharf · about 36 min
Nearest: Sea Lanes Canary Wharf · about 31 min
Nearest: Hertfordshire Zoo · about 34 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.