Dands Drive Middleton Cheney, West Northamptonshire

57 addresses across 3 postcodes (OX17), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 36100207.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £294,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 15, D: 11, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: 5 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 B; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Banbury, about 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 133 to 136 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodlands Surgery, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20252£294,500£250,000£339,000
20241£262,500£262,500£262,500
20231£295,000£295,000£295,000
20222£297,500£290,000£305,000
20202£242,500£235,000£250,000
20191£272,500£272,500£272,500
20181£325,000£325,000£325,000
20172£252,500£238,000£267,000
20153£230,000£217,000£282,500
20132£188,000£178,000£198,000
20121£178,000£178,000£178,000
20111£174,000£174,000£174,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Nov 202536 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£339,000
28 Mar 202517 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£250,000
11 Apr 202421 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£262,500
17 Nov 202325 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£295,000
3 Mar 202245 OX17 2NNTerraced£290,000
24 Feb 202236 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£305,000
17 Nov 202025 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£235,000
2 Oct 202033 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£250,000
3 Apr 201920 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£272,500
27 Apr 201839 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£325,000
18 Dec 201722 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£238,000
25 Apr 201735 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£267,000
23 Oct 201525 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£230,000
12 Aug 201526 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£282,500
17 Apr 201533 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£217,000
20 Sep 201311 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£178,000
28 Jun 20135 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£198,000
5 Apr 201241 OX17 2NNTerraced£178,000
23 Sep 201138 OX17 2NNTerraced£174,000
16 Oct 200939 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£244,000
14 Oct 200928 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£250,000
17 Jul 20099 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£165,000
8 Feb 20087 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£206,000
23 Aug 200736 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£185,000
18 Jul 200728 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£220,000
30 Nov 200638 OX17 2NNTerraced£155,000
29 Sep 200630 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£196,000
2 Jun 200645 OX17 2NNTerraced£170,000
12 Dec 200341 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£155,500
28 Nov 20037 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£160,000
31 Oct 20033 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£182,000
14 Feb 200322 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£135,000
18 Jan 20021 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£202,950
1 Dec 200022 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£75,000
4 Aug 200032 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£98,500
20 Sep 199933 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£73,000
11 Dec 199832 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£77,000
29 Sep 19989 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£65,000
31 Oct 199746 OX17 2NNTerraced£60,000
2 May 199746 OX17 2NNTerraced£50,000
4 Dec 199618 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£12,600
3 Feb 199541 OX17 2NNSemi-detached£44,000
31 Jan 199529 OX17 2NNTerraced£40,000

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (18); Bungalow, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1967-1975 (24); 1976-1982 (9); 2018 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (social) (14); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (37 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (53% of about 530 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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
OX17 2NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX17 2PDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 5 unlikely
OX17 2PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 57 addresses are between 133 m and 136 m above sea level (135 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
OX17 2NN100%100%100%0%
OX17 2PD100%100%100%0%
OX17 2PS100%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 stationsBanbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Kings Sutton 82,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Library Middleton Cheney200 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Banbury Town Centre4.4 km (2.7 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX53.5 km (33 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 surgeriesWoodlands Surgery3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Middleton Cheney Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentistsBridge Street Dental Practice4.5 km (2.8 miles)
HospitalThe Foscote Hospital4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationBanbury Police Station5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machinesM&S ATM3.4 km (2.1 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Green 1,660 m²140 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 890 m²300 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha160 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²50 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade I), 370 m north-west. 39 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I370 m north-west
Battle of Cropredy Bridge 1644Registered battlefield4.8 km (3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Baldwin's SpinneyWood3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Thenford HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Whitnell's SpinneyWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Williamscot Hill SpinneyWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-west
Rowdon PlantationWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) south
Grimsbury ReservoirLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
60 to 6410
Under 555657

1 of the street's 57 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Middleton Cheney Primary AcademyPrimary4–11220 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chenderit SchoolSecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Middleton Cheney Pre-School Ltd OX17 2PDSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good4 Jul 2022
Sanderz Convenience Store OX17 2PDRetailers - other240 m4 Good25 Jan 2023
THE COOP OX17 2PBRetailers - other240 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Henry's Cafe OX17 2PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good25 Jan 2023
Middleton Madras OX17 2PBOther catering premises260 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Oct 2025
New Mings OX17 2PBTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Dolphin Inn OX17 2PWPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good3 Nov 2021
Bambooh Education Ltd OX17 2NSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Homes2Inspire OX17 2NFSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2014
New Inn OX17 2NDPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Feb 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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Shoplifting8
Anti-social behaviour6
Robbery1
Burglary1
Public order1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (13); On or near Dands Drive (6); On or near Peacock'S Close (3); On or near Swan Close (2); On or near Midway (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Dec 2025 08:40 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Dec 2024 15:10 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Mar 2023 14:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 582 residents in 245 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • OX17 2NN: 55 addresses of 56 in the postcode
  • OX17 2PD: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • OX17 2PS: 1 address of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Main Road · Dands Close · Bowman Close · Peacocks Close · Arrow Close · Midway · Swan Close · Horton Crescent · Yew Tree Close · Poplars Close · The Avenue · Poplars Cottages

All the streets in OX17 and across West Northamptonshire.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.