Moving to Hertfordshire from Enfield

[Fhg2587]

This is my first time posting..

My husband and I have lived our whole lives in London, we now have 2 children (2.5 and 10 months) and we are done with living here and have decided we don’t really want to bring up our children where we live. We have totally been priced out and can’t get anything bigger or move areas (north London) and get much more for our money.

We want to stay north (Hertfordshire mainly) but we aren’t great with areas. We also cant move until the January before my eldest would start school which would mean missing the schools deadline.

Does anyone have any advice on how best to approach all of this? Moving earlier isn’t an option atm. What areas could we be looking at? Current idea is bishops stortford…but we are open to places as we don’t know many areas. Our budget would be around 650k…

Has anyone had experience of moving past the cut off January date in Hertfordshire?

Thanks so much!

With your budget I think you should be able to find a decent place in Hertford, Knebworth, Welwyn North (Digswell) or Datchworth.

Thanks so much for these. What are the schools like in these areas?

You can get a rough guide to schools by looking at the department of education website, https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk, no schools have exam results since 2019 of course, but you want to look at the progress scores more than the attainment figures, although it's all a blunt instrument. You could look at the primary education boards on here as well.

I only know south Herts really and am not up to date with areas/pricing so will let others advise on that, but AFAIK Herts schools operate on catchment areas so you may want to look at the Herts website for school admissions info.

£650 would get you this in Hitchin
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/109478771#/

In catchment for excellent primary and secondary schools. Fab town. This house has excellent walking and cycling on the doorstep. If I could afford it I would buy it myself