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On Sandy Lane, in Lyndhurst & Minstead
What it's like at SO43 7DN: every home that has sold on Sandy Lane 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 Sandy Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 10 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Chart House, Sandy LaneDetached | Jun 1995 | £245,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drenewydd, Sandy LaneDetached | Jul 2016 | £785,000 | 448 m² | £1,752/m² | 2 |
| Forest Bank Cottage, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2000 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Hazelwood, Sandy LaneDetached | Jan 2004 | £630,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Sandy Coombe, Sandy LaneDetached | Mar 2023 | £1,300,000 | 202 m² | £6,436/m² | 2 |
| Sandy Lane Cottage, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £475,000 | 117 m² | £4,060/m² | 3 |
| The Shilling, Sandy LaneDetached | Jul 2019 | £900,000 | 202 m² | £4,455/m² | 1 |
| Three Gables, Sandy LaneDetached | Mar 2015 | £855,000 | 216 m² | £3,958/m² | 2 |
| Woodpeckers, Sandy LaneDetached | Dec 2022 | £935,000 | 155 m² | £6,032/m² | 2 |
| Wymering House, Sandy LaneDetached | May 2012 | £800,000 | 439 m² | £1,822/m² | 1 |
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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ashurst New Forest, a drive away (4.4 km), with 108k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is The Crown Hotel, 300 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 86, 617, C5, 616).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 72 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Michael and All Angels CofE Infant School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Few families with young children: only 11% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 450 m away, with Forest Edge Roasting Co closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lyndhurst Surgery (350 m), with Carefirst Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Nail N.V is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Southampton General Hospital, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 30 restaurants and cafés and 24 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Elyse is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Lyndhurst Bowling Club the nearest pub (under 50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 68 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 69% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Lyndhurst, Forest Central (South)).
There are 115 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 58% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Ashurst Recreation Ground, 5.8 km away.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Southampton is 17 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 96 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 51% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 33% are 65 or over.
36 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wall in Front of Elcombes and Little Elcombes | II | 190 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
New Forest East constituency: Sir Julian Lewis MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 8,495 (18.8%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 39%, Labour 20%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 16%.
9 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 SO43 7DN →
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Sandy Lane in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 7 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 | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.7% | 1.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 63.7% | 86.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 22.5% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.2% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.6% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.