Pine Grove Bushey, Hertsmere

50 addresses across 1 postcode (WD23), about 250 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 17213631.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (C: 24, D: 4, E: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Junction, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Munden Drive Open Space (16 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Suthergrey House Medical Centre, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 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
20251£650,000£650,000£650,000
20213£595,000£500,000£601,000
20153£355,000£329,950£395,000
20144£311,250£305,000£320,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20092£222,500£220,000£225,000
20081£275,000£275,000£275,000
20063£275,000£236,000£275,000
20051£250,000£250,000£250,000
20042£239,500£231,000£248,000
20034£210,500£205,000£225,000
20014£168,250£156,000£200,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Aug 20256 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£650,000
29 Nov 20216 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£595,000
31 Aug 202113 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£601,000
12 Feb 202144 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£500,000
29 Jul 20151 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£395,000
12 Jun 20153 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£355,000
29 May 201551 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£329,950
6 Nov 201413 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£307,500
3 Nov 20147 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£315,000
13 Jun 20146 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£320,000
11 Mar 20144 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£305,000
3 May 201145 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£250,000
8 Oct 200948 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£220,000
15 Jul 200933 WD23 2DYTerraced£225,000
10 Jan 20083 WD23 2DYTerraced£275,000
21 Nov 200613 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£275,000
26 May 200610 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£236,000
17 Mar 200611 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£275,000
5 Aug 200514 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£250,000
1 Oct 200419 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£248,000
1 Sep 20046 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£231,000
18 Dec 20034 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£225,000
5 Dec 200315 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£205,000
26 Sep 200321 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£206,000
1 May 20035 WD23 2DYTerraced£215,000
23 Nov 200117 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£156,000
14 Sep 20018 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£200,000
10 Sep 20017 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£177,500
29 Jun 200116 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£159,000
4 Jun 199918 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£114,000
14 Apr 199931 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£62,000
30 Apr 19987 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£130,000
9 Oct 199511 WD23 2DYSemi-detached£32,000

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.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (32); Flat (1); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (26); 1930-1949 (7); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (20); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

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 (48% of about 650 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, give and take, on the footway, verge (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 0 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 50 addresses are between 69 m and 71 m above sea level (70 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 2DY100%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 Junction 6.9 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Watford North 65,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Watford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highwood Avenue North Bushey70 m
Car parksMeteor Parking1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR22.5 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. 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 surgeriesSuthergrey House Medical Centre1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tee Kay Enterprises160 m
NHS dentistsBetter Care Clinic1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalLangley House Community Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationWatford Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone150 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,190 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Munden Drive Open Space 16 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Knutsford Recreation Ground 4.2 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsTimberlake Allotments 1.5 ha840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site at Bushey Hall Farm, a scheduled monument, 520 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site at Bushey Hall FarmScheduled monument520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Wall HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
The Rose Garden, BusheyRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Scotts WoodWood650 m (0.4 miles) south-west
WildwoodsWood680 m (0.4 miles) north
Watford PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Round HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
The DellValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Chantry IslandIsland4.5 km (2.8 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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
Under 555050

None of the street's 50 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 1 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
Highwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11100 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queens' SchoolSecondary11–18900 m (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
Knutsford Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Central Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) 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
Parkgate Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School Church of England/ChristianPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 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
Parkgate Infants' and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Royal British Legion WD23 2ASPub/bar/nightclub110 mExempt
North Bushey Preschool WD23 2AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Ar & VS Food And Wine WD23 2ASRetailers - other140 mExempt
Mill Lane Cafe WD23 2ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jan 2026
Highwood Primary School WD23 2AWSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good25 Apr 2023
Sullys Supermarket WD23 2ANRetailers - other160 m4 Good4 Mar 2025
Highwood Post Office WD23 2ANRetailers - other170 mExempt
Great Bushey Fish And Chip Shop WD23 2ANTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good15 Nov 2024
Bushey Pizzeria WD23 2ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Dina's WD25 8FAMobile caterer350 m5 Very good25 Sep 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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Anti-social behaviour15
Public order4
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Shoplifting2
Drugs2
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Highwood Avenue (16); On or near Pine Grove (9); On or near Campbell Close (8); On or near Bushey Mill Lane (7); On or near Pinfold Road (6).

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: 326 residents in 114 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 age4040
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • WD23 2DY: 50 addresses of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pinfold Road · The Leas · Forest Walk · Highwood Avenue · Walnut Green · Marion Close · Campbell Close · Millbrook Road · Scottswood Close · Robin Hood Drive · Friars Way · Park Avenue

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.