OX1 5LQ
Last sold £200,000 in February 2001
12, Forest Side, Oxford
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 67m
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Price history in context
- Feb 2001 — £200,000
What this home might be worth today
£629,000
Estimate range £598,000–£661,000
+214.6% since February 2001 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 26 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- St Swithun's CofE Primary School 18-min walk
- Rose Hill Primary School 30-min walk crosses a major road
- Oxford station 3.6km
- Old Peg Brake/Colley's Ladder/Under Wood 174m
- The coast (coastline) 70.3km
- Lake 405m
- Pond 198m
- Oxford Canal 3.5km
- Hinksey Drain 351m
- Rivermead Nature Park 792m
- Play Area 18m
- Best-One 298m
- Upper Road (Opp) 274m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 96% of premises — not all
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 96% of premises — not all
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 96% of premises — not all
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Oxford, 3.6km away
- 51 min London
- 60 min Birmingham
- 61 min Bristol
- 99 min Cardiff
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,610 hours a year — sunnier than 60% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 3% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 49 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 17, Forest Side, Oxford £145,500 · 1997
- 16, Forest Side, Oxford £198,000 · 2000
- 10, Forest Side, Oxford £325,000 · 2003
- 24, Forest Side, Oxford £230,800 · 2004
- 11, Forest Side, Oxford £160,000 · 2006
- 14, Forest Side, Oxford £249,995 · 2007
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted TPO T1 – Walnut - Reduce crown height and lateral spread by 1-2m, pruning back to… Jul 2026 source
- Rejected Non material amendment on application P25/V0150/HH - to erect a bike shed in the front… May 2026 source
- Undecided Erection of a ground floor extension May 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of an additional storey. Jun 2026 source
- Undecided Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) on application ref P23/V1239/HH - to allow for… May 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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