Pumphandle Path Finchley, Barnet

1 address across 1 postcode (N2), about 130 m long. USRN 20035250.

  • 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 Barnet costs £2,133 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is New Southgate, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Long Lane Pasture, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 85 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 Woodlands Medical Practice, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 63% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 178 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnet in 2026-27: Band D £2,133 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,422£1,659£1,896£2,133£2,607£3,080£3,554£4,265

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (34% of about 790 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 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1.
  • 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 30 September 2026.

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 12 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.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 85 m above sea level.

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
N2 8JD100%95%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 stationsNew Southgate 920,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Alexandra Palace 1.9 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bowes Park 525,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEast Finchley Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Finchley Central Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
West Finchley Underground Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oak Lane East Finchley230 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town6.5 km (4 miles)
Car parksNCP East Finchley Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points35 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY18.9 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.2 km (15 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodlands Medical Practice500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gordon Smith Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barnet P C T (Dental Surgery)50 m
HospitalFinchley Memorial Hospital Cdc1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationGolders Green Police station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone320 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Long Lane Pasture 1.1 ha350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Glebe Land Open Space 14 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²180 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vale Farm Allotments 5,180 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hawthorne Dene, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) north. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hawthorne DeneListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north
St Pancras and Islington CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
East Finchley Cemetery (Formerly St Marylebone Cemetery)Registered park or garden, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Manor House moated site, East End Road, FinchleyScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coldfall WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Little WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Big WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Coppetts WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
The DecoyLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
North HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) south

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)16.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.9205
Particles (PM10)15.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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 5511

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Bishop Douglass School Finchley Roman CatholicSecondary11–18370 m Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tudor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Martin Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manorside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Archer AcademySecondary11–16670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Lourdes RC School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Akiva School JewishPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Christ's College FinchleySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Brookland Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookland Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Age UK Barnet N2 8LTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Oct 2021
Newstead Childrens Centre N2 8LGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Community Hall - Wilmot Close N2 8LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Kids In Motion Nursery N2 8EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
SBWA N2 8LBOther catering premises280 m4 Good10 Aug 2026
Long Lane Supermarket N2 8JNRetailers - other300 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Finchley Foodbank N2 8HGRetailers - other330 m5 Very good21 Nov 2023
East Finchley Food & Wine N2 9ABRetailers - other340 m5 Very good21 Feb 2022
Tafil Grill N2 9ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory5 May 2026
Apiavi N2 8JLRetailers - other350 m4 Good22 Jun 2026
New Imperial Spice N2 8JLTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good25 Nov 2025
Bishop Douglas RC School N2 0SQSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good15 May 2025
King Street Food & Wine N2 8DTRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good30 Jan 2023
The Windsor Castle N2 8DLPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
IL Piccolo Villaggio N2 8DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 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.

178 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences65
Anti-social behaviour39
Vehicle crime30
Other theft12
Burglary10
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs4
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Central Avenue (37); On or near New Oak Road (18); On or near Red Lion Hill (14); On or near Sylvester Road (13); On or near Brendon Grove (11).

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: 334 residents in 157 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 age3640
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented52%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van26%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)63%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)62%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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.

  • N2 8JD: 1 address of 50 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Vanderville Gardens · Taunton Drive · Simms Gardens · Blackdown Close · Thackrah Close · Ploughmans Walk · Fallows Close · Brendon Grove · Oak Lane · New Oak Road · Central Avenue · Challoner Close

All the streets in N2 and across Barnet.

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.