Napier Drive Bushey, Hertsmere

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (WD23), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17212054.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £575,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, E: 2).
  • Flood: 4 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 Watford High Street, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fisher's Field, is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 64 to 68 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Manor View Practice, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 50 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£575,000£575,000£575,000
20231£416,000£416,000£416,000
20221£505,000£505,000£505,000
20201£425,000£425,000£425,000
20191£392,000£392,000£392,000
20142£387,500£385,000£390,000
20122£252,500£250,000£255,000
20031£232,000£232,000£232,000
20001£172,500£172,500£172,500
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Oct 20241A WD23 2JHDetached£575,000
2 Jun 202311 WD23 2JHTerraced£416,000
19 Apr 20221 WD23 2JHTerraced£505,000
3 Sep 202015 WD23 2JHTerraced£425,000
19 Sep 20195 WD23 2JHTerraced£392,000
29 Sep 20141 WD23 2JHTerraced£390,000
22 Aug 20141A WD23 2JHDetached£385,000
5 Oct 201217 WD23 2JHSemi-detached£255,000
31 Jul 20121 WD23 2JHTerraced£250,000
7 Mar 200313 WD23 2JHTerraced£232,000
28 Jun 200013 WD23 2JHTerraced£172,500

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 April 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (3); 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 (28% of about 850 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
WD23 2JHnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WD23 2JJnot 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 11 addresses are between 64 m and 68 m above sea level (65 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 2JH100%100%100%0%
WD23 2JJ100%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 stationsWatford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25730 m (0.5 miles)
Bushey 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Watford Junction 6.9 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest James Close Bushey260 m
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lambert Court Car Park150 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest EV Chargers Installation600 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR21 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor View Practice890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caspian Dental Clinic780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalUrgent Care Hemel Hempstead Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationHertfordshire Constabulary (Watford Police Station)1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM430 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fisher's Field 3.3 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Oxhey Park 13 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²320 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterfields Recreation Ground 2.1 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Frogmore House, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 37 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Frogmore HouseListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Rose Garden, BusheyRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Moated site at Bushey Hall FarmScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icedale WoodWood470 m (0.3 miles) north
Fisher's FieldWood680 m (0.4 miles) north
The DellValley800 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Scotts WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) north
Round HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Haydon Hill PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 551011

1 of the street's 11 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
Bushey and Oxhey Infant SchoolPrimary5–7620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bushey Manor Junior SchoolPrimary7–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Central Primary SchoolPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Field Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery)Primary3–71 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Queens' SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 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
The Grange AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 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
Watford Grammar School for Girls Church of EnglandSecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School Church of England/ChristianPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Bromet Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 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
Bournehall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 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

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
Bush-E-Babes WD23 2EQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
St Paul's Church WD23 2EQOther catering premises230 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Sea Breeze WD23 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
T & O Stores WD23 2EDRetailers - other270 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Fima Coffee House WD23 2EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Londis WD23 2EDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Zams Peri Peri WD23 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
JP News Food & Wine WD23 2EDRetailers - other290 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Kandy Cafe WD23 2EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
N Family Club WD23 2ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good24 Jul 2026
Longwood Nursery WD23 2QGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jul 2025
DAS Store WD23 2LXRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Mar 2025
Eat-Well Diner Ltd WD23 2LXTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory26 Jan 2026
TeamSport Indoor Karting WD23 2NZOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jul 2024
Premier Inn Watford Central WD17 2NJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 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.

50 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime7
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Other theft2
Other crime1
Public order1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lambert Court (12); On or near Bushey Hall Road (11); On or near Ashlyn Close (9); On or near Bennetts Field (4); On or near Bushey Grove 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: 347 residents in 123 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 age3740
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%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)46%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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 Sabores Restaurant (other catering premises, WD23 2EA) is no longer listed; it was rated 1 Major improvement necessary found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Kandy Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WD23 2ED) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 6 October 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 2JH: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • WD23 2JJ: 1 address of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hastings Way · Belmont Road · Bushey Grove Road · St Leonards Close · Grove Hall Road · Bennett's Field · Vernon Road · Ashlyn Close · Bushey Hall Road · Malden Fields · Beechen Grove · Beechcroft 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.