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On The Meads, in Letchworth South West
What it's like at SG6 3SE: every home that has sold on The Meads 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 The Meads; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 9 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The MeadsDetached | Jun 2018 | £455,000 | 73 m² | £6,233/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The MeadsDetached | Jul 2025 | £450,000 | 69 m² | £6,522/m² | 1 |
| 3, The MeadsDetached | Mar 2023 | £575,000 | 93 m² | £6,183/m² | 3 |
| 5, The MeadsTerraced | Jun 2006 | £330,000 | 116 m² | £2,845/m² | 1 |
| 6, The MeadsDetached | Nov 2025 | £660,000 | 112 m² | £5,893/m² | 2 |
| 8, The MeadsDetached | Dec 2010 | £260,000 | 84 m² | £3,095/m² | 1 |
| 9, The MeadsDetached | Oct 2017 | £470,000 | 83 m² | £5,663/m² | 2 |
| 10, The MeadsDetached | Apr 2025 | £555,000 | 92 m² | £6,033/m² | 3 |
| 11, The MeadsDetached | Sept 2015 | £400,000 | 87 m² | £4,598/m² | 3 |
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: 45% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Letchworth Garden City, a few minutes' walk (400 m), with 1.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Kings Cross.
The nearest bus stop is Station Way, 200 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 97, 56, 92A); 29 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 52 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Icknield Infant and Nursery School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Fearnhill School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 38.9 · 3.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Hitchin Boys' School (4.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Wm Morrison, 250 m away; Spring Road Stores (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Nevells Road Surgery (500 m), with Morrisons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Dani's Styles is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Lister Hospital, 5.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 47% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 34 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Emil Dale Academy is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Arena Tavern the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 105 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 70% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Letchworth, Willian).
There are 50 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 39% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Broadway Gardens, 300 m away; for exercise, Studio Core (300 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 15 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
54 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.
North East Hertfordshire constituency: Chris Hinchliff MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,923 (3.7%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 16%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
5 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 SG6 3SE →
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
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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On this street: 0 of 9 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 | 0.6% | 1.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.2% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.0% | 11.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 62 min
Nearest: Leighton Buzzard Light Railway · about 51 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 9 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.