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On Dunster Close, in Romford North
What it's like at RM5 3AT: every home that has sold on Dunster 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 Dunster 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 35 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Dunster CloseTerraced | Oct 2025 | £460,000 | 92 m² | £5,000/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Dunster CloseTerraced | Aug 2010 | £215,000 | 84 m² | £2,560/m² | 1 |
| 4, Dunster CloseTerraced | Sept 2013 | £230,000 | 82 m² | £2,805/m² | 1 |
| 6, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £515,000 | 124 m² | £4,153/m² | 3 |
| 8, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £315,000 | 84 m² | £3,750/m² | 1 |
| 12, Dunster CloseTerraced | Sept 2025 | £490,000 | 114 m² | £4,298/m² | 3 |
| 12a, Dunster CloseTerraced | Dec 2015 | £192,500 | 50 m² | £3,850/m² | 1 |
| 14, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £475,000 | 83 m² | £5,723/m² | 1 |
| 18, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2019 | £400,000 | 100 m² | £4,000/m² | 1 |
| 20, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £540,000 | 104 m² | £5,192/m² | 1 |
| 22, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £550,000 | 125 m² | £4,400/m² | 2 |
| 24, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | May 2008 | £205,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £319,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £400,000 | 81 m² | £4,938/m² | 2 |
| 34, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Mar 1997 | £82,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Apr 2018 | £520,000 | 134 m² | £3,881/m² | 1 |
| 38, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | May 2025 | £615,000 | 141 m² | £4,362/m² | 2 |
| 40, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £524,000 | 82 m² | £6,390/m² | 2 |
| 44, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2013 | £200,000 | 86 m² | £2,326/m² | 1 |
| 46, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £442,500 | 126 m² | £3,512/m² | 1 |
| 48, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Jan 2015 | £285,000 | 94 m² | £3,032/m² | 1 |
| 52, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £421,000 | 81 m² | £5,198/m² | 2 |
| 54, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £331,000 | 80 m² | £4,138/m² | 1 |
| 56, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £220,000 | 83 m² | £2,651/m² | 1 |
| 58, Dunster CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £250,000 | 81 m² | £3,086/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Romford, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 12.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Hainault Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 294, 175, 247, 365); 140 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 12% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 23 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Crownfield Junior School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 49% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Clockhouse Primary School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is Marshalls Park Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 42.9 · 6.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Warren School (2.5 km) and All Saints Catholic School and Technology College (3.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (6.4 km) and Woodford County High School (10.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is Home Bargains, 800 m away, with Day Lewis Pharmacy closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is North Street Medical Care (700 m), with My Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Sunbathers Tanning salon is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen's Hospital, 2.7 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 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Church Of The Good Shepherd is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Royal British Legion the nearest pub (150 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 14% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 68% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is King George's Playing Fields, 550 m away; for exercise, Iron Phoenix CrossFit (950 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 13 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 33 km.
23 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%.
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 RM5 3AT →
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Havering since 2011.
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 35 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 33 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.
On this street: 3 of 29 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.1% | 91.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.4% | 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.
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