Willow Drive Barnet

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (EN5), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20046440.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £1,200,117 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6, E: 1, 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 Barnet costs £2,133 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 71% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is New Barnet, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ravenscroft Gardens, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 105 to 112 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Old Court House Surgery, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 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
20211£1,200,117£1,200,117£1,200,117
20162£830,000£780,000£880,000
20152£811,000£707,000£915,000
20141£1,175,000£1,175,000£1,175,000
20121£645,000£645,000£645,000
20101£579,950£579,950£579,950
20061£494,500£494,500£494,500
20051£440,000£440,000£440,000
20031£250,000£250,000£250,000
20011£250,000£250,000£250,000
20001£235,000£235,000£235,000
19971£149,950£149,950£149,950
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Dec 202110 EN5 2LQDetached£1,200,117
24 Mar 201611 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£880,000
11 Mar 20162 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£780,000
27 Nov 20156 EN5 2LQTerraced£707,000
26 Aug 201510 EN5 2LQDetached£915,000
21 Aug 201412 EN5 2LQDetached£1,175,000
14 Dec 20121A EN5 2LQSemi-detached£645,000
31 Mar 201010 EN5 2LQDetached£579,950
21 Jul 20068 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£494,500
8 Dec 20052 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£440,000
10 Apr 20039 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£250,000
18 Jan 200111 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£250,000
31 Mar 20007 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£235,000
21 Oct 19979 EN5 2LQSemi-detached£149,950

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 June 2011 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 162 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1950-1966 (1); 2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

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 D (29% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

  • 25 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor 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 9 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
EN5 2LQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EN5 2LFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 8 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 16 addresses are between 105 m and 112 m above sea level (108 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
EN5 2LF100%71%71%0%
EN5 2LQ100%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 stationsNew Barnet 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Hadley Wood 362,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Oakleigh Park 924,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramHigh Barnet Underground Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Willow Drive Chipping Barnet60 m
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moxon Street Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY24.1 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.6 km (17 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Old Court House Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parry Jones Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cedar Lawn Avenue (Dental Surgery)280 m
HospitalHadley Wood Hospital660 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBarnet Police Station570 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food - Mays Lane Cashzone450 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ravenscroft Gardens 1.1 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 8.5 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Court House Recreation Ground 2.2 ha220 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bells Hill Allotments 2.1 ha560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade II*), 500 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Battle of Barnet 1471Registered battlefield1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whitings HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Priddeon's HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Bournwell HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Monken Hadley CommonWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Darland's LakeLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Deadman's BottomValley3.2 km (2 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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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 551516

1 of the street's 16 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 Barnet: see them on the Barnet 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
Underhill SchoolPrimary2–11450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barnet and Southgate College16 plus16–99470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Queen Elizabeth's Girls' SchoolSecondary11–18620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Catherine's RC School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Foulds SchoolPrimary5–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetSecondary11–18870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ark Pioneer AcademySecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitings Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ Church Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Totteridge AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Monken Hadley CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cromer Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 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
Kyocha EN5 2HSRetailers - other300 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Barnet Grange Care Home EN5 4BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Woodlands Day Nursery EN5 2HLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good28 May 2026
The Local Offey EN5 2DYRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Hope Corner Community Centre EN5 2DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 2025
St John The Baptist EN5 4BWTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 May 2022
The Black Horse Barnet EN5 4BWPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Sep 2026
Coopers Of Barnet EN5 2DYRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2021
Co-op EN5 2DYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2026
Open Palace EN5 2DYTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Jun 2026
Griffiths Convenience Store EN5 4BXRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Feb 2023
Carlton Court Care Home EN5 2SQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 2026
Underhill School & Childrens Centre EN5 2LZSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 May 2026
The Hyde Nursery EN5 4QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Sep 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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour16
Vehicle crime7
Other theft4
Burglary3
Public order2
Drugs2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (13); On or near Hillside Gardens (10); On or near Fitzjohn Avenue (8); On or near Cedar Lawn Avenue (7); On or near Sutherland Close (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: 239 residents in 105 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 age4940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • EN5 2LQ: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • EN5 2LF: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pinecroft Crescent · Manorside · Sutherland Close · Hillside Gardens · Scholars Close · Fitzjohn Avenue · Manor Road · Newlyn Road · Cedar Lawn Avenue · Leecroft Road · Orchard Road · The Croft

All the streets in EN5 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.