House buyers are notoriously conservative, even though some like to claim they are not.
Given the choice of a house next to a nursery, and a house next to another house - like 99 per cent of the others on the market - the buyer is going to take that option.
I don't want to make too much of the increased likelihood of crime, but it's a fact burglars steal what they can see from where they happen to be.
If I walked 10 burglars down a street, the crime rate in that street would almost inevitably increase.
It's one of the reasons why people like quiet cul-de-sacs, although I take the point a property being too isolated also carries its own risks.