Rose Drive Chesham, Buckinghamshire

84 addresses across 5 postcodes (HP5), about 620 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 7300555.

  • Sales: 106 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £450,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 45 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 4, D: 31, E: 8, F: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Amersham, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, and Chesham Moor (14 hectares) is about 740 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 141 to 154 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 84 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Water Meadow Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 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
20261£450,000£450,000£450,000
20252£480,500£440,000£521,000
20242£471,000£450,000£492,000
20235£460,000£437,500£488,320
20224£467,500£425,000£505,000
20215£420,000£188,058£440,000
20191£360,000£360,000£360,000
20182£408,500£392,000£425,000
20172£410,000£410,000£410,000
20163£364,000£280,000£406,000
20156£302,500£280,000£350,000
20142£300,000£290,000£310,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 106)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Jan 20261 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£450,000
31 Mar 202526 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£440,000
26 Feb 202512 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£521,000
18 Jan 202455 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£492,000
18 Jan 2024101 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£450,000
5 Oct 202353 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£460,000
19 Sep 202385 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£437,500
16 Aug 202328 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£460,000
2 Jun 202337 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£488,320
1 Feb 202393 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£477,500
27 May 202213 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£500,000
26 May 202281 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£435,000
26 Apr 202212 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£505,000
7 Feb 2022101 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£425,000
30 Sep 202163 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£440,000
29 Jun 2021127 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£188,058
21 Jun 202111 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£425,000
30 Apr 202165 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£325,000
26 Feb 202116 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£420,000
21 Aug 20191 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£360,000
22 Jun 201837 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£425,000
17 Apr 201828 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£392,000
27 Oct 201791 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£410,000
27 Oct 201747 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£410,000
15 Dec 20168 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£364,000
8 Aug 20163 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£280,000
4 Mar 201651 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£406,000
26 Aug 201520 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£350,000
10 Jul 2015123 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£305,000
29 Jun 201526 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£340,000
20 Feb 201593 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£300,000
20 Feb 2015129 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£280,000
4 Feb 20159 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£300,000
7 Jul 2014107 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£310,000
21 Feb 2014131 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£290,000
17 Sep 201379 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£280,000
17 Jul 201349 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£320,000
9 May 20132 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£279,950
29 Jun 201228 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£280,000
8 May 2012115 HP5 1RTSemi-detached£245,000
17 Feb 201267 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£240,000
26 Jan 201237 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£294,250
9 Dec 201131 HP5 1RNSemi-detached£238,000
30 Nov 201112 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£292,500
28 Apr 201147 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£265,000
23 Jun 201063 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£273,000
22 Jan 20108 HP5 1RSSemi-detached£265,000
18 Nov 200941 HP5 1RRSemi-detached£285,000
20 Oct 20091A HP5 1RNDetached£340,000
12 Oct 200951 HP5 1RRDetached£315,000

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 July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

45 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (42); Bungalow, detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (39); 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (47% of about 620 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, 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
HP5 1RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HP5 1RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HP5 1RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HP5 1RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HP5 1RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 84 addresses are between 141 m and 154 m above sea level (149 m on average); the ground rises about 13 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
HP5 1RL100%100%100%0%
HP5 1RN100%100%100%0%
HP5 1RR100%100%100%0%
HP5 1RS100%100%100%0%
HP5 1RT100%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 stationsAmersham 1.9 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Chalfont and Latimer 780,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Berkhamsted 1.3 million journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramChesham Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rose Drive Chesham10 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Car Park530 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN25 km (16 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Water Meadow Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Garlicks Chemist1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Market Square Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalChesham Hospital (Op)530 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationAmersham Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Chesham Cashzone840 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,060 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Chesham Moor 14 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²370 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,130 m²780 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hollybush Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) north-east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hollybush FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Bowl barrow in Lowndes Park, known as the `Rolling Pin'Scheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hill Farm PlantationWood230 m east
Big Round GreenWood390 m north-east
Hill Farm SpringWood620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Kingfisher LakeLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south
Aldridge's DellHollow1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Ley HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) 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)7.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 558384

1 of the street's 84 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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
Waterside Primary AcademyPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chesham Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18830 m (0.5 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
Thomas Harding Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chesham Bois Church of England SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newtown SchoolPrimary2–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Brushwood Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Elmtree Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Chiltern Hills Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Burglary3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rose Drive (6); On or near Kesters Road (4); On or near Eunice Grove (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 537 residents in 246 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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.

Nearby streets

Kesters Road · Cavendish Road · Eunice Grove · Woodland View · Larks Rise · Shepherds Way

All the streets in HP5 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.