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On Hillfoot Avenue, in Romford North
What it's like at RM5 3LJ: every home that has sold on Hillfoot Avenue 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.
Sales and extensions on Hillfoot Avenue; 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.
1 of the 44 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £441,000 | 121 m² | £3,645/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2012 | £245,000 | 59 m² | £4,153/m² | 1 |
| 1b, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £335,000 | 74 m² | £4,527/m² | 2 |
| 3, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1995 | £83,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £400,000 | 134 m² | £2,985/m² | 4 |
| 9, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Aug 2022 | £520,000 | 97 m² | £5,361/m² | 2 |
| 13, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2008 | £298,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | May 2026 | £425,000 | 89 m² | £4,775/m² | 3 |
| 17, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Aug 2017 | £360,000 | 93 m² | £3,871/m² | 1 |
| 19, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Nov 2024 | £460,000 | 81 m² | £5,679/m² | 3 |
| 25, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Jun 2024 | £436,500 | 81 m² | £5,389/m² | 2 |
| 33, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Sept 2018 | £343,000 | 78 m² | £4,397/m² | 1 |
| 35, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Aug 2009 | £175,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 37, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Feb 1997 | £73,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 39, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2009 | £235,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Dec 2024 | £400,000 | 68 m² | £5,882/m² | 1 |
| 47, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Mar 2018 | £365,000 | 78 m² | £4,679/m² | 2 |
| 51, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Jul 2018 | £415,000 | 101 m² | £4,109/m² | 2 |
| 53, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Jan 2005 | £202,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Apr 2024 | £440,000 | 82 m² | £5,366/m² | 1 |
| 57, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2025 | £405,000 | 72 m² | £5,625/m² | 1 |
| 59, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Feb 2026 | £400,000 | 66 m² | £6,061/m² | 1 |
| 61, Hillfoot AvenueTerraced | Nov 1995 | £62,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 65, Hillfoot AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1999 | £108,000 | – | – | 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 (2.6 km), with 12.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Hulse Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 294, 175, 247, 365); 116 departures an hour from the 4 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 St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 75% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Clockhouse Primary School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is Marshalls Park Academy, 1.4 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 Tesco, 350 m away, with Romford Egg Stall closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Chase Cross Medical Centre (550 m), with Brooks Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Sunbathers Tanning salon is 1.7 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.
Happy Eater Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Bell & Gate the nearest pub (100 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 Lawns Park, 300 m away; for exercise, Iron Phoenix CrossFit (1.4 km).
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.
38 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%.
29 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 3LJ →
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 44 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: 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: 0 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% | 1.0% |
| 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.