Mount Grace Road Potters Bar, Hertsmere

100 addresses across 8 postcodes (EN6), about 840 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 17211936.

  • Sales: 99 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £1,950,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Hertsmere cost £553,008 in August 2026 (+1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,846 a month.
  • Energy: 51 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 11, D: 24, E: 13, F: 2).
  • Flood: 40 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Little Heath Tip, is 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 9 times (25 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1000, carries 12,306 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band G; Band D in Hertsmere costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Potters Bar, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 94 to 117 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 100 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Highview Medical Centre, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20261£1,950,000£1,950,000£1,950,000
20256£885,000£600,000£1,170,000
20243£1,100,000£660,000£1,275,000
20233£1,175,000£990,000£1,215,000
20221£1,325,000£1,325,000£1,325,000
20214£1,012,500£670,000£1,260,000
20205£856,000£640,000£1,260,000
20191£850,000£850,000£850,000
20181£810,000£810,000£810,000
20174£718,500£570,000£1,110,000
20161£960,000£960,000£960,000
20154£740,000£547,500£800,000
All 99 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Oct 20231 EN6 1REDetached£1,215,000
8 Feb 20161 EN6 1REDetached£960,000
7 Feb 20141 EN6 1REDetached£546,000
30 Apr 20013 EN6 1REDetached£375,000
18 Nov 20204 EN6 1REDetached£1,260,000
31 Aug 20064 EN6 1REDetached£495,000
30 Nov 20054 EN6 1REDetached£412,500
15 Oct 20045 EN6 1REDetached£460,000
14 Sep 20207 EN6 1REDetached£640,000
27 Jan 20108 EN6 1REDetached£560,000
30 May 20039 EN6 1RESemi-detached£463,750
2 Aug 200510 EN6 1REDetached£570,000
6 Nov 200611 EN6 1RDSemi-detached£435,000
24 Jul 200611 EN6 1RDSemi-detached£506,440
25 Jun 200213 EN6 1RDSemi-detached£360,000
2 Aug 200714 EN6 1REDetached£665,000
10 Nov 200414 EN6 1REDetached£555,000
3 Aug 201716 EN6 1REDetached£1,110,000
14 Sep 200616 EN6 1REDetached£645,000
31 Oct 202317 EN6 1RDSemi-detached£990,000
28 Feb 202519 EN6 1RDDetached£632,500
30 Jun 199720 EN6 1REDetached£196,000
18 Dec 202021 EN6 1RDDetached£856,000
20 Jul 200121 EN6 1RDDetached£265,000
19 Nov 201523 EN6 1RDDetached£770,000
8 Sep 202524 EN6 1RDDetached£600,000
1 Dec 200424 EN6 1RDDetached£425,000
7 Feb 200025 EN6 1RDDetached£227,500
22 Sep 201526 EN6 1RDDetached£800,000
11 Apr 201427 EN6 1RDSemi-detached£500,000
16 Dec 200429 EN6 1RDDetached£675,000
3 Feb 200329 EN6 1RDDetached£640,000
19 Jun 200229 EN6 1RDDetached£360,000
9 Nov 202330 EN6 1RDTerraced£1,175,000
22 Jun 200130 EN6 1RDTerraced£400,000
10 Oct 202531 EN6 1RDDetached£1,170,000
17 Dec 200431 EN6 1RDDetached£650,000New build.
19 Mar 202132 EN6 1RDDetached£1,150,000
18 Feb 200232 EN6 1RDDetached£390,000
3 Nov 200534 EN6 1RDDetached£540,000
6 Dec 199636 EN6 1RDDetached£245,000
19 Dec 202238 EN6 1RDDetached£1,325,000
14 Jun 201342 EN6 1RBDetached£880,000
30 Nov 200742 EN6 1RBDetached£600,000
10 Jul 202544 EN6 1RBDetached£890,000
15 Dec 202046 EN6 1RBSemi-detached£805,000
12 Jan 200446 EN6 1RBSemi-detached£360,000
10 May 201348 EN6 1RBSemi-detached£350,000
12 Apr 201750 EN6 1RBDetached£725,000
12 Dec 201354 EN6 1RBDetached£611,500
19 Oct 200058 EN6 1RBDetached£395,000
14 Jun 200760 EN6 1RBDetached£540,000
30 Jun 202162 EN6 1QZDetached£1,260,000
19 Apr 200262 EN6 1QZDetached£346,500
30 Jul 200764 EN6 1QZDetached£670,000
22 Jan 199664 EN6 1QZDetached£146,500
12 Oct 200766 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£320,000
28 Sep 200668 EN6 1QZDetached£633,500
28 Feb 199768 EN6 1QZDetached£180,000
20 Jun 202570 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£880,000
4 May 200170 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£280,000
27 Nov 202072 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£980,000
5 Jun 200372 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£425,000
24 Sep 202176 EN6 1QZSemi-detached£670,000
26 Jun 200376A EN6 1QZSemi-detached£335,000
18 Mar 202578 EN6 1QZDetached£1,050,000
30 Jun 199778 EN6 1QZDetached£205,000
1 May 200880 EN6 1QZDetached£590,000
27 Apr 200680A EN6 1QYDetached£354,000
6 Jun 200180A EN6 1QYDetached£249,950
12 Aug 200982 EN6 1QYDetached£520,000
17 Nov 200682 EN6 1QYDetached£290,000
18 Apr 199684 EN6 1QYDetached£154,000
3 Sep 199686 EN6 1QYDetached£155,000
30 Sep 202188 EN6 1QYDetached£875,000
5 Apr 200188 EN6 1QYDetached£335,000
28 Feb 199788 EN6 1QYDetached£179,000
16 May 201794 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£712,000
20 Nov 201594 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£485,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 200296 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£270,000
28 Jul 199998 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£168,000
26 Sep 199798 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£145,000
30 Nov 2017100 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£570,000
1 Mar 2018104 EN6 1QYDetached£810,000
26 Nov 2024108 EN6 1QYDetached£1,100,000
1 Sep 2000108 EN6 1QYDetached£375,000
14 Jun 1996111 EN6 1QYDetached£247,500
30 Mar 2026113 EN6 1QYDetached£1,950,000
12 Sep 2019113 EN6 1QYDetached£850,000
9 Feb 2015115 EN6 1QYDetached£710,000
24 Feb 2015119 EN6 1QYDetached£547,500
29 Aug 2012121 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£500,000
19 Jun 2002121 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£249,950
14 Nov 2024123 EN6 1QYSemi-detached£660,000
29 May 2014125 EN6 1QYDetached£650,000
8 Feb 2013125 EN6 1QYDetached£400,000
12 Jan 2024127 EN6 1QYDetached£1,275,000
15 Mar 2002127 EN6 1QYTerraced£500,000
8 Jul 2015POTTERS BAR SQUASH CLUB EN6 1RBOther£145,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Hertsmere

A typical home in Hertsmere cost £553,008 in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year before. That is 2% more than five years earlier and 11% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,207,168
Semi-detached£619,477
Terraced£491,260
Flat or maisonette£294,407
Bought by a first-time buyer£411,137

Private renters in Hertsmere paid £1,846 a month on average in September 2026, 4% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,269
Two bedrooms£1,619
Three bedrooms£1,960
Four or more bedrooms£2,823

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

51 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 154 m². Most common: House, detached (29); House, semi-detached (10); Bungalow, detached (7). Built: 1930-1949 (25); 1900-1929 (10); 1950-1966 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (42); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (51 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 20,272 kWh of it on average in 2024, 33% more than the district's 15,231 kWh, and 4,330 kWh of electricity, 9% more than the district's 3,957 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
EN6 1QY26 6 Economy 74,118 kWh 2622,040 kWh
EN6 1RD194,173 kWh 2019,600 kWh
EN6 1RE173,797 kWh 1724,832 kWh
EN6 1RB112,984 kWh 1120,603 kWh
EN6 1QZ123,973 kWh 1222,869 kWh
EN6 1RG112,638 kWh 1212,707 kWh
EN6 1RW30 5 Economy 73,383 kWh 3115,458 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is EN6.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band G (26% of about 1,560 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Potters Bar Solar Farm Hertsmere 15/1289/FUL Solar farm 5 MW Operational Mar 2017 1.6 km (1 mile)
Cattlegate Farm Biogas (Farm AD) Welwyn Hatfield 6/1795-11 Anaerobic digestion 1.5 MW Operational Dec 2015 4.5 km (2.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 September 2026 to 1 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Disconnection or alteration of supply, give and take, on the footway (standard works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 20 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 August 2026 to 10 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (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, 29 addresses are in areas at high risk, 11 at medium risk and 27 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 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 11 are in areas at high risk, 2 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EN6 1QYzone 3 11 / 2 / 1 unlikely
EN6 1RDnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 6 unlikely
EN6 1REnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 5 unlikely
EN6 1RBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 7 unlikely
EN6 1QZnot in 2 or 3 4 / 4 / 0 unlikely
EN6 1RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EN6 1RGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EN6 1RWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 8 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 9 times, for 25 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Potters Bar Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Darkes Lane, Potters Bar Thames Water Potters Bar Brook 9 25 200 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 470 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Little Heath Tip Little Heath, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire Not recorded Inert 470 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 100 addresses are between 94 m and 117 m above sea level (103 m on average); the ground rises about 23 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
EN6 1QY100%100%100%0%
EN6 1QZ100%100%100%0%
EN6 1RB100%100%100%0%
EN6 1RD100%95%95%0%
EN6 1RE100%100%100%0%
EN6 1RF100%100%100%0%
EN6 1RG100%100%100%0%
EN6 1RW100%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 stationsPotters Bar 2.5 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Brookmans Park 275,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Hadley Wood 362,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Quakers Lane Little Heath250 m
Bus or coach stationParkhouse Bus Station Hatfield8.1 km (5 miles)
Car parksGobions Open Space Car Park2.3 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger540 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN23.3 km (14 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highview Medical Centre Good Mar 2017430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elms Pharmacy430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greenleaves Dental Practice380 m
HospitalPotter Bar Hospital1.5 km (1 mile)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clock Tower Mews Good Mar 2019420 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBarnet Police Station5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Potters Bar Cashzone720 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 10 ha170 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,680 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsChauncy Avenue Allotment Site 3.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Gobions (Gubbins), a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gobions (Gubbins)Registered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Battle of Barnet 1471Registered battlefield4.5 km (2.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Five Acre WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Leggatts WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Fir WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Foxhole HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Deep BottomValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Gobions PondLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

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 5940
Under 5596100

4 of the street's 100 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 Hertsmere: see them on the Hertsmere page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Gracewood AcademySecondary11–18390 m Requires improvement (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Little Heath Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Oakmere Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) 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 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
Cranborne Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 93% in 2024 and 90% in 2023)
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Canopy Nurseries Potters Bar EN6 5DB Full day care 81 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Alpha Bears Day Care Nursery EN6 5BQ Full day care 41 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
Little Heath Nursery Playgroup EN6 1JJ Sessional day care 22 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Tilbury Nursery EN6 1BZ Sessional day care 35 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
The Potters Bar Day Nursery and Pre-school EN6 5AT Full day care 53 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Good Shepherd Clubs at Lochinver House School EN6 1LW Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 660 m (0.4 miles)
Kip McGrath - Potters Bar EN6 5DR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
St John's Nursery Playgroup, Wayside EN6 5NE Sessional day care 40 Mar 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
St. John's Nursery Playgroup EN6 2DZ Sessional day care 40 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Fun Fest Potters Bar EN6 2BA Out-of-school day care 48 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 841 childminders and 251 home childcarers (nannies) in Hertfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 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
Millys Patisserie EN6 1HPRetailers - other350 m5 Very good10 Apr 2026
Gracewood Academy EN6 1EZSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Impact Food Group @ Gracewood Academy EN6 1EZSchool/college/university390 mAwaiting inspection
Canopy Potters Bar EN6 5DBSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Vrisaki Kebab House EN6 5DBTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Oakmere House EN6 5AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
Alpha Bears Day Care Nursery Ltd EN6 5BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Di Napoli One Ltd EN6 5DATakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 May 2025
Elms Pharmacy EN6 5DARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
A&D Minimarket EN6 5DARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary5 Mar 2026
Hali & Lulu EN6 5DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 Jan 2026
Potters Chippy EN6 5BBTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Hatcher Bistro EN6 5BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory26 Jun 2026
Cakeandcraft EN6 5BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Lions Kebab EN6 5BBTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2026

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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour6
Drugs4
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons3
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hatfield Road (18); On or near Blackbury Close (15); On or near Mount Grace Road (3); On or near Anthorne Close (1); On or near Sandringham Road (1).

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.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 3 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a motorcyclist. 33% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202210
202310
202400
202522
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Dec 2025 19:16 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
7 May 2025 21:55 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
24 Feb 2023 08:37 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Feb 2022 13:00 Slight 1 person A1000, 30 mph Daylight
18 Nov 2021 09:55 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Jun 2021 14:20 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist 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.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A1000 between School Rd, Potters Bar and B157, with 12,306 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 490 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A1000 B156 to School Rd 10,744 estimated; counted 2018 2% -17% since 2015 110 m
A1000 School Rd, Potters Bar to B157 12,306 counted 2025 1% -18% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,024 residents in 400 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 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 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

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.

Nearby streets

Quakers Lane · Blackbury Close · Anthorne Close · Church Road · High Street · The Highlands · Billy Lows Lane · Richmond Court · Church Road · Richmond Road · Norman Court · St Michaels Way

All the streets in EN6 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; 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.