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On Melliss Avenue, in North Sheen
What it's like at TW9 4AB: every home that has sold on Melliss 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.
11 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 Melliss 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.
15 of the 279 homes on the street are owned by companies (3 overseas).
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 62% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Kew Gardens, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.4m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Richmond (London).
The nearest bus stop is Kew Retail Park, 300 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route R68); 26 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 12 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Kew Riverside Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Chiswick School, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 54.5 · 18% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Christ's Church of England Comprehensive Secondary School (1.2 km) and Orleans Park School (3.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Tiffin Girls' School (5 km) and Tiffin School (6.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Richmond food centre, 1.1 km away, with Boots UK closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Richmond Medical Group (300 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Posh In Kew is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is West Middlesex University Hospital, 2.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 72% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Putney Town Rowing Club the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 81 per 1,000 residents a year.
Homes are mostly flats (52%).
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is St Luke's Open Space, 700 m away; for exercise, Tideway Scullers School (700 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 8.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Heathrow is 12 km away.
41 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 |
|---|---|---|
| West Hall | II | 170 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.
Richmond Park constituency: Sarah Olney MP (Liberal Democrat), since December 2019. 2024 general election: LD hold, majority 17,155 (32.9%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 55%, Conservative 22%, Labour 10%, Green Party 7%.
58 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 TW9 4AB →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 64% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Richmond, the American International University in London, 1.8 km away (TEF Bronze).
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 258 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 201 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.0% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 68.2% | 87.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 21.0% | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 8.7% | 3.5% | 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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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 279 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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