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On Droop Street, in Queen's Park Gardens
What it's like at W10 4EQ: every home that has sold on Droop Street 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Droop Street; 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 41 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 12, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat · company-owned | Oct 1999 | £105,000 | 76 m² | £1,382/m² | 2 |
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| Flat 43, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Jul 2001 | £113,000 | 45 m² | £2,511/m² | 1 |
| Flat 10, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Jun 2007 | £249,000 | 87 m² | £2,862/m² | 2 |
| Flat 61, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Dec 2019 | £360,000 | 46 m² | £7,826/m² | 3 |
| Flat 54, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat · company-owned | Apr 2003 | £185,000 | 47 m² | £3,936/m² | 2 |
| Flat 22, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Jan 2006 | £230,000 | 79 m² | £2,911/m² | 1 |
| Flat 34, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Mar 2013 | £270,000 | 82 m² | £3,293/m² | 1 |
| Flat 55, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Nov 2011 | £190,000 | 41 m² | £4,634/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Dec 2017 | £445,000 | 76 m² | £5,855/m² | 2 |
| Flat 13, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat · company-owned | Oct 2023 | £315,000 | 49 m² | £6,429/m² | 1 |
| Flat 8, Birch House, 5, Droop StreetFlat | Jun 2025 | £197,500 | 47 m² | £4,202/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Queens Park (London), about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 4.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Wembley Central.
The nearest bus stop is Third Avenue (W10), 50 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 18, 28, 228); 244 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 14% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 6 km away as the crow flies.
57% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Queen's Park Primary School, a few minutes' walk (50 m); 75% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Luke's CofE Primary School (0.5 km), with 9 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is All Saints Catholic College, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 51.3 · 19% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Paddington Academy (1.2 km) and Kensington Aldridge Academy (1.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (5.9 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (9.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away, with Atlas Halal Meat closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Srikrishnamurthy Harrow Road Surgery (200 m), with Medicare (London) Ltd Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, New Level Cuts is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is St Mary's Hospital, 2.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Lucky Bean - Canalot is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Ashmore the nearest pub (500 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 95 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 43% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Queens Park Estate).
There are 17 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (60%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 67% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Harrow Road Open Space, 150 m away; for exercise, Jubilee Community Leisure Centre (300 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 3.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
74 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 |
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| Droop Street School | II | 90 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Queen's Park and Maida Vale constituency: Georgia Gould MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,913 (38.9%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 53%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 13%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
87 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 W10 4EQ →
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 20.8 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 18 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 18 km.
Most households own their home, 21% rent privately.
It's young: 23% of residents are aged 15–29.
The nearest university is Regent's University London, 3.7 km away (TEF Silver).
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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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 41 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.
On this street: 0 of 40 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 26 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 0.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 86.9% | 51.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.9% | 15.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.1% | 31.2% | 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.