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On The Drive, in Romford North
What it's like at RM5 3TS: 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
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.
1 of the 87 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, The DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2004 | £357,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The DriveTerraced | Nov 2002 | £220,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 3, The DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2008 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, The DriveSemi-detached | May 2018 | £390,000 | 71 m² | £5,493/m² | 1 |
| 5, The DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2010 | £227,000 | 70 m² | £3,243/m² | 1 |
| 6, The DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2008 | £238,000 | 124 m² | £1,919/m² | 1 |
| 7, The DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2007 | £272,500 | 118 m² | £2,309/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Romford, a short drive or bike ride (2.7 km), with 12.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Mashiters Hill, 300 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 103, 499); 36 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 Rise Park Junior School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 40% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Clockhouse Primary School (1.2 km).
The nearest secondary is Bower Park Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 37.7 · 3% 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, 450 m away; Nova Food Centre (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Chase Cross Medical Centre (500 m), with Brooks Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Sunbathers Tanning salon is 1.8 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.
Brick Lane Bagel Co is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Bell & Gate the nearest pub (500 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, 100 m away; for exercise, Iron Phoenix CrossFit (1.6 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.
40 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%.
21 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 3TS →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
On this street: 0 of 62 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 | 0.9% | 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.
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.
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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 87 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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