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On Buxton Gardens, in Acton Central
What it's like at W3 9LG: every home that has sold on Buxton Gardens 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Buxton Gardens; 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.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Buxton GardensSemi-detached | Mar 2012 | £870,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Buxton GardensSemi-detached | Sept 1997 | £255,000 | 156 m² | £1,635/m² | 1 |
| 7, Buxton GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £1,975,000 | 238 m² | £8,298/m² | 4 |
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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is West Acton Underground station, about a 10-minute walk (850 m). The nearest rail station is Acton Main Line, 900 m away, with 2.7m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Rosemont Road, 250 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes 266, 440); 175 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 16% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 10 km away as the crow flies.
52% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m).
The nearest secondary is Ark Soane Academy, 400 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Twyford Church of England High School (0.8 km) and Ada Lovelace Church of England High School (2.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Tiffin Girls' School (9.6 km) and The Henrietta Barnett School (9.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons, 400 m away; Fostok Halab (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hillcrest Surgery (400 m), with Pyramid Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Moos is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Charing Cross Hospital, 4.2 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 64 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
London Star Lounge is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Kings Head Restaurant & Pub the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (18 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 221 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (72%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 63% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 246 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Springfield Gardens, 200 m away; for exercise, Twyford Avenue Sports Ground (300 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 7.0 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
75 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.
Ealing Central and Acton constituency: Dr Rupa Huq MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,995 (29.3%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 47%, Conservative 18%, Liberal Democrat 13%, Green Party 11%.
84 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 W3 9LG →
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 18.6 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London Heathrow is 14 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 40% of households rent privately and 23% socially.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 52% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of West London, 2.0 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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The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 22 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 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 78.8% | 80.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.6% | 8.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.3% | 9.9% | 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.
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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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.