Forty Close Wembley, Brent

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (HA9), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20202418.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £493,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 8, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Brent costs £2,235 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wembley Stadium, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Elvin Gardens, is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Preston Road Surgery, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 890 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 96 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£493,000£493,000£493,000
20211£495,000£495,000£495,000
20191£575,000£575,000£575,000
20181£560,000£560,000£560,000
20161£576,142£576,142£576,142
20151£485,000£485,000£485,000
20141£455,000£455,000£455,000
20111£333,000£333,000£333,000
20081£338,000£338,000£338,000
20072£317,500£315,000£320,000
20045£275,000£250,000£385,000
20032£260,000£250,000£270,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 2024BROOK HOUSE NURSING HOME HA9 8UUOther£5,299,999Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 20249 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£493,000
26 Apr 20249 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Mar 202116 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£495,000
15 Nov 20193 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£650,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jan 201918 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£575,000
7 Dec 20185 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£560,000
1 Jul 201620 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£576,142
13 May 20153 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£485,000
9 Sep 20143 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£455,000
9 May 201118 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£333,000
23 May 200818 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£338,000
28 Sep 200711 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£320,000
13 Mar 20078 HA9 8LJFlat or maisonette£315,000
4 Nov 20043 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£360,000
3 Aug 200414 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£275,000
19 Jul 200412 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£250,000
16 Jul 20041 HA9 8LJDetached£385,000
30 Jan 200414 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£275,000
12 Nov 20031 HA9 8LJDetached£270,000
13 Aug 200311 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£250,000
1 May 20023 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£228,000
31 Jul 20015 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£200,000
20 Jul 200111 HA9 8LJSemi-detached£238,000

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 June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 110 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (9); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brent in 2026-27: Band D £2,235 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,490£1,739£1,987£2,235£2,732£3,229£3,725£4,471

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 1,050 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): Article 4 for HMOs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 10 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 15 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 11 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
HA9 8LJzone 2 1 / 0 / 9 unlikely
HA9 8UUzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 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 17 addresses are between 33 m and 35 m above sea level (34 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
HA9 8LJ100%100%100%0%
HA9 8UU100%0%0%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 stationsWembley Stadium 885,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
North Wembley 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Wembley Central 4.4 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWembley Park Underground Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Preston Road Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
North Wembley Underground Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brook Avenue Wembley Park120 m
Bus or coach stationBrunswick Road / Clarendon Road Ealing4 km (2.5 miles)
Ferry terminalLittle Venice Waterbus Stop8.6 km (5.4 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Forty Avenue, HA9160 m
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR15.9 km (9.9 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Preston Road Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Health First Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalNorthwick Park Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationChalkhill Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM630 m (0.4 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 Elvin Gardens 3,650 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldPreston Park 7.5 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,320 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a World Heritage Site, 9.7 km (6 miles) south. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site9.7 km (6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barn HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Northwick ParkWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Welsh Harp ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) east
Horsenden WoodWood3.1 km (2 miles) south-west
Horsenden HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Hendon GroveWood4.6 km (2.9 miles) north-east

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)15.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)13.74015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6930
60 to 6420
55 to 5930
Under 55817

9 of the street's 17 addresses are 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 Brent: see them on the Brent 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
Preston Manor SchoolAll-through4–19230 m No published inspection
Ark AcademyAll-through3–18460 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Michaela Community SchoolSecondary11–19580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Wembley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chalkhill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Preston Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Elvin AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Lane Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wembley High Technology CollegeSecondary11–191.7 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Brook House Nursing Home - LCH Brook Ltd HA9 8UUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Learning Stars Montessori Children's House HA9 8HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
St Christopher School Kitchen- The Inspired Learning Group HA9 8HESchool/college/university310 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Kenbrook- Methodist Homes (MHA) HA9 9PFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Dimensions UK Ltd HA9 8EPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good14 May 2025
Wembley United Synagogue HA9 8HWOther catering premises360 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
LAKOMKA HA9 8HFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
Health First Pharmacy HA9 8HFRetailers - other370 mExempt
Grandma's Food & Bar HA9 8HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Alfa Internet Cafe HA9 8HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Chicky's Piri Piri HA9 8HSTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)2 Improvement necessary19 May 2026
Ni Hao HA9 8HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Capital Food & Wine HA9 8HGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Angus Burgers Ltd and Kai Sushi by Angus Ltd HA9 8HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2025
Exotic Off License (Exotic Food Store (Wembley) Ltd)) HA9 8HGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2024

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.

96 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour39
Violence and sexual offences17
Vehicle crime6
Public order6
Theft from the person5
Other theft5
Drugs5
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime3
Burglary3
Bicycle theft2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bowling Green Court (33); On or near Forty Close (17); On or near Forty Avenue (15); On or near Crown Walk (14); On or near Elliot Close (11).

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: 886 residents in 310 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 age4240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van27%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram22%4%
By any public transport, including bus32%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

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.

Nearby streets

Crown Walk · Gabrielle Close · Oakington Avenue · Brook Avenue · Forty Avenue · Elliot Close · Hollycroft Avenue · Beechcroft Gardens · Matthews Close · Talisman Way · South Gardens · Preston Road

All the streets in HA9 and across Brent.

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.