Bourne Road Bushey, Hertsmere

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (WD23), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17201917.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £670,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 4, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Hertsmere costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bushey, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bushey Manor Field, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 78 to 82 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 30 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Manor View Practice, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 57 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£670,000£670,000£670,000
20232£855,000£810,000£900,000
20201£670,000£670,000£670,000
20181£975,000£975,000£975,000
20171£740,000£740,000£740,000
20151£585,000£585,000£585,000
20142£528,000£495,000£561,000
20121£500,000£500,000£500,000
20093£510,000£330,000£542,500
20073£440,000£415,000£460,000
20062£395,000£370,000£420,000
20051£370,000£370,000£370,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Mar 20244 WD23 3NHDetached£670,000
26 Sep 20231 WD23 3NHDetached£810,000
10 Mar 20237C WD23 3NHDetached£900,000
13 Jan 20215 WD23 3NHDetached£890,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Oct 20205 WD23 3NHDetached£670,000
19 Oct 20183A WD23 3NHDetached£975,000
14 Feb 20178 WD23 3NHDetached£740,000
23 Oct 20153A WD23 3NHDetached£585,000
30 May 20146A WD23 3NHDetached£561,000
2 Apr 20147A WD23 3NHSemi-detached£495,000
13 Jun 20127B WD23 3NHSemi-detached£500,000
9 Dec 20092D WD23 3NHDetached£510,000
21 Aug 20097C WD23 3NHDetached£542,500
18 May 20091A WD23 3NHDetached£330,000
27 Nov 20071 WD23 3NHDetached£415,000
13 Aug 20072C WD23 3NHDetached£460,000
20 Jul 20072 WD23 3NHDetached£440,000
16 May 20067B WD23 3NHSemi-detached£420,000
24 Feb 20064A WD23 3NHDetached£370,000
31 Jan 200510 WD23 3NHDetached£370,000
12 Dec 200322 WD23 3NHDetached£455,750
16 Sep 200310 WD23 3NHDetached£335,000
5 Apr 20027A WD23 3NHSemi-detached£323,000
7 Sep 200013 WD23 3NHSemi-detached£183,000
17 Apr 20009 WD23 3NHDetached£250,000
31 Aug 19992 WD23 3NHDetached£275,000
17 Jun 19997A WD23 3NHSemi-detached£223,396New build.
24 May 19997B WD23 3NHSemi-detached£224,450New build.
19 May 19997C WD23 3NHDetached£249,000New build.
17 Apr 199813 WD23 3NHSemi-detached£125,000
31 Oct 199611 WD23 3NHSemi-detached£95,500
25 Oct 199614 WD23 3NHSemi-detached£99,000
15 May 19953 WD23 3NHDetached£121,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 137 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (2); 1991-1995 (2); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hertsmere in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,139£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (39% of about 830 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 15 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 30 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WD23 3NHnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 10 unlikely
WD23 3AUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 30 addresses are between 78 m and 82 m above sea level (80 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WD23 3AU100%100%100%0%
WD23 3NH100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBushey 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Watford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Carpenders Park 1.2 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Homefield Road Bushey80 m
Car parksLambert Court Car Park1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR20.9 km (13 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor View Practice920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Triangle Healthcare (UK) LTD460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Street (Dental Surgery)460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRoyal National Orthopaedic Hospital At Spire Bushey2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationBushey Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bushey Manor Field 12 ha290 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,740 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha120 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Rose Garden, Bushey, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 500 m (0.3 miles) south. 44 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Rose Garden, BusheyRegistered park or garden, Grade II500 m (0.3 miles) south
LululandListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St JamesListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Grims DykeRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper Haydon HillHill470 m (0.3 miles) south
Bushey PondLake or reservoir580 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Rectory PondLake or reservoir620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Haydon Hill PondLake or reservoir910 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Home SpringWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
The DellValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552930

1 of the street's 30 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Hertsmere: see them on the Hertsmere page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Bournehall Primary SchoolPrimary4–1170 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Little Reddings Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Grange AcademySecondary11–18590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bushey Meads SchoolSecondary11–18900 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Bushey Manor Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queens' SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Bushey and Oxhey Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merry Hill Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bushey Heath Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bromet Primary SchoolPrimary5–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Impact Food Group @ Bournehall Primary School WD23 3FESchool/college/university180 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The King Stag WD23 3EHPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
The Swan Public House WD23 3EEPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
First Place Nursery In Bushey WD23 3AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Tesco WD23 3PPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Mar 2025
NJ Shallis Butchers Ltd WD23 3PPRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Sakura WD23 3PPTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2025
Bushey Local Ltd WD23 3PPRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Mar 2025
Triangle Healthcare (UK) Ltd WD23 3PPRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Falconer School WD23 3ATSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 2025
BLUE OCEAN FISH AND CHIPS WD23 3PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Blue Ocean Fish And Chips WD23 3PPTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2026
Durans Bistro WD23 3DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Simmons Bakers WD23 3PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jun 2025
Bella Rosa WD23 3DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

57 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson9
Drugs3
Other theft3
Public order3
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Avenue Rise (14); On or near Bourne Road (14); On or near Bournehall Avenue (12); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (10); On or near Homefield Road (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 350 residents in 134 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5040
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Blue Ocean Fish And Chips (takeaway/sandwich shop, WD23 3PP) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was Awaiting inspection (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WD23 3NH: 29 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • WD23 3AU: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bournehall Avenue · Nightingale Road · Bournehall Lane · Avenue Rise · Homefield Road · Melbourne Road · The Close · Moatfield Road · Frobisher Close · Spring Crofts · Clapgate Road · Glencoe Road

All the streets in WD23 and across Hertsmere.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.