Find a London home near parks and everyday amenities

“Near amenities” can describe very different places. A large park, a small garden, a full-size supermarket and a shopping street do different jobs in everyday life. Decide which journeys matter before combining them into your search.

notbad keeps green-space, supermarket and shopping access as three independent conditions. A place must meet every one you enable, but you can leave a preference disabled while investigating a more important requirement.

Choose both a walk and a useful green-space size

The green-space condition has two parameters: a maximum walking time and the minimum area of an individual mapped space. Its starting values are 15 minutes and 2 hectares. One hectare is 10,000 square metres.

The area requirement refers to the mapped park, garden, nature reserve or woodland. It is not a total assembled from several small nearby spaces. Adjacent areas are not automatically combined to meet the limit, and holes in a mapped boundary do not count as green-space area.

This makes the parameter useful for distinguishing a small local space from a larger destination. It does not measure the space's facilities, maintenance, atmosphere or how much of it you would enjoy using.

Understand what mapped access means

An eligible space needs a mapped walking path and no explicit mapped access prohibition. Woodland cover alone is not enough. A forest shown on the base map may therefore be absent from the walking results.

The estimate follows the saved street and pedestrian network to a mapped path in the space. It is not a straight-line radius, and the indicated approach may be approximate. Missing paths or connections can leave a place unknown rather than invent a route.

Mapping is not a guarantee of a public right of entry. Check the actual entrance, access information, opening arrangements and route when a space becomes important to a housing decision. The app does not check fees, temporary closures or step-free access.

Distinguish full-size supermarkets from compact shops

The supermarket condition covers supported chains and requires a mapped full supermarket format. Known smaller formats, such as Express, Local and Simply Food, are excluded. You can select several chains; any selected chain can qualify within the walking limit.

Format comes from the saved map classification, not an independent floor-area survey or a complete retailer directory. A missing supermarket does not prove that none exists, and a mapped store is not confirmation that it is currently trading.

The walk reaches a mapped customer entrance where available, or a labelled approximate store approach. Opening hours, stock and temporary closures are outside the calculation.

Decide whether you want a centre, a street, or either

Shopping access includes mapped shopping centres and retail parks. They do not need a minimum count of brands. Shopping streets have a different rule: at least two different supported clothing or footwear chains must be nearby on the same connected named street. Two branches of one chain do not qualify by themselves.

You can choose centres, streets or both. With both selected, either destination type can meet the shopping condition. The walk reaches a qualifying entrance or shop approach; it does not include travel around the inside of a centre or a tour of every shop along a street.

Combine conditions without losing the question

Explore one journey first, then add another. If a combination leaves few matching places, decide which parameter you can change rather than treating the result as a verdict about the whole neighbourhood.

Select a place to see the actual mapped destination and walking estimate. If you already have a postcode, its independent report searches these destinations up to 30 minutes, with green spaces of at least 2 hectares. That report is descriptive and does not inherit your exploration limits.

Source and freshness

These three conditions use the retained OpenStreetMap snapshot from 30 October 2026. They are saved mapping-based estimates, not live venue information. Use the information icons for the individual method and coverage, and check current access details before relying on a destination.

Compare the reference position with the entrance

The Camden comparison separates Chalk Farm, Primrose Hill and the O2 Centre; they do not have the same noise or walking evidence. In Wandsworth, the retained King George's Park position has unresolved walking evidence despite its mapped park location. In the City of London, reported green destinations can be outside the City boundary. A catalog position can be inside a site rather than at an entrance; use the point details and check practical access before treating a map symbol as a usable walk.