Brampton, Ontario · TRREB community: Sandringham-Wellington
Sandringham-Wellington is the MLS name for Springdale, a 4,000-acre master-planned district in north Brampton bounded by Countryside Drive, Bovaird Drive, Heart Lake Road and Airport Road. Construction began in 1991 and ran through the mid-2000s, producing a ground-related, family-sized housing stock — 52% detached, 21% semi-detached, and 56% of homes with four or more bedrooms.
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Harold M. Brathwaite SS offers the International Baccalaureate programme. Sandalwood Heights SS opened in 2007 and carries Specialist High Skills Majors in Business and, since September 2023, Health and Wellness. St. Marguerite d'Youville CSS has been at its Dixie Road site since 2002 and runs SHSM programmes in Health Care, Child Care and Sports.
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| North | Countryside Drive |
| South | Bovaird Drive |
| East | Airport Road |
| West | Heart Lake Road |
Source: City of Brampton Secondary Plan Area 2, Springdale (office consolidation, July 2026). Springdale is described as a 4,000-acre district planned for roughly 75,000 people in about 22,000 homes. Municipal planning boundaries and TRREB's MLS community boundaries are drawn separately and do not always match at the edges.
Springdale was laid out in the 1980s and begun in 1991, marketed as a five-billion-dollar "town within a city" aimed at completion around 2005. That timeline is written into the housing: most of the stock dates from 1991 to 2005, which makes this a mature neighbourhood with established trees and finished infrastructure rather than a construction zone.
The mix is 52% detached and 21% semi-detached, with 56% of homes at four or more bedrooms and 89% owner-occupied. That high semi-detached share is characteristic of 1990s Brampton production housing and is a large part of why this community remains one of the more accessible entry points into a four-bedroom home in the city.
Condo and apartment stock is limited relative to newer Brampton communities. Buyers looking for low-maintenance apartment living generally end up in Northwest Brampton's Mount Pleasant Village or the Queen Street corridor instead.
Secondary Plan Area 2 zones a full ladder of densities — Low Density 1 capped at 35 units per net residential hectare, through Medium, Medium High at 75 units per hectare, and High Density — alongside regional, district and neighbourhood retail, service and highway commercial, institutional, recreational open space and natural heritage designations. In practice this is why the community has its own retail node rather than depending on the rest of the city.
Note for MLS searching: Sandringham-Wellington North is a separate TRREB community. It is the newer strip between Countryside Drive and Mayfield Road at the city's northern edge, matching the City's Countryside Villages plan area, built mostly 2006 to 2016 and 62% detached with 93% owner-occupancy.
| Bramalea GO | 1713 Steeles Avenue East, Kitchener line — the nearest station. The rebuilt station opened in May 2023 with a 2,059-space parking garage, 16 bus bays, an accessible pedestrian tunnel and a 12-car platform. |
| Trinity Common Terminal | 164 Great Lakes Drive, inside Trinity Common Mall — the local hub, serving routes 5/5A, 17, 18B, 21, 23, 32 and 33, plus GO Route 32 to North York. |
| Züm | 505 Züm Bovaird runs the southern edge east to Airport Road and Viscount Station. 502 Züm Main runs north–south on Main and Hurontario from Sandalwood Loop to Square One. |
| Highways | Highway 410 runs along the western flank with interchanges at Bovaird Drive, Sandalwood Parkway and Mayfield Road. Highway 407 is reached south via the 410; Highway 427 via Queen Street East. |
| Pearson | South via Airport Road, or the 410 to the 401 and 427. Brampton Transit Route 30 Airport Road and 505 Züm Bovaird provide the transit link. |
| Brampton Civic Hospital | 2100 Bovaird Drive East — William Osler Health System, opened 2007, 608 beds, capacity for roughly 80,000 emergency visits a year, serving about 500,000 residents. This is the city's full-service acute hospital and it is inside the community's southern boundary. |
| Springdale Library | 10705 Bramalea Road — opened 2019, 26,000 square feet, triangular plan with a green roof and a 13-foot oculus, geothermal and rainwater collection, LEED Gold. Winner of a Governor General's Medal in Architecture in 2020. |
| Komagata Maru Park | Adjacent to Springdale Library at Bramalea Road and Sandalwood Parkway — terraced gardens, splash pad and children's playground. |
| Brampton Soccer Centre | Southwest corner of Dixie Road and Sandalwood Parkway — opened 2007 at a cost of $26.9 million. Four indoor and four outdoor soccer fields, gymnasium, dance studio, two overlapping cricket pitches, basketball courts and a playground with splash pad. |
| Trinity Common Mall | Bovaird Drive East at Great Lakes Drive — regional retail with a Cineplex cinema and the transit terminal. |
| Sesquicentennial Park | 11333 Bramalea Road — eight baseball diamonds; hosts major sporting events and cultural festivals. |
| Parks overall | 35 parks with 115 recreational facilities, including 35 sports fields, 12 trails, 2 pools and 2 community centres. |
Brampton's Residential Rental Licensing programme went city-wide on January 1, 2026, covering rental properties with one to four units. Applications are free but require an online education module and proof of at least $2 million in liability insurance.
Operating without a licence carries escalating fines — $750 for a first offence, $1,250 for a second, $1,500 after that. Separately from licensing, a basement apartment must be a legally registered second unit meeting the Ontario Building Code and Fire Code: ceiling height, egress windows, fire separation and interconnected alarms are the usual failure points in older stock.
"Finished basement with a kitchen" and "legal registered second unit" are not the same thing, and only one of them is financeable as income and insurable as a rental. Ask for the registration, not the renovation photos.
Source: City of Brampton — Residential Rental Licensing expanded city-wide. Confirm current requirements with the City.
Effectively yes. Springdale is the City of Brampton's Secondary Plan Area 2 name for the district bounded by Countryside Drive, Bovaird Drive, Heart Lake Road and Airport Road. TRREB lists the same area on MLS as Sandringham-Wellington. If you are searching listings, search the MLS name.
Yes, it is a separate TRREB community — the strip between Countryside Drive and Mayfield Road at the city's northern edge, matching the City's Countryside Villages plan area. It is newer stock, mostly built 2006 to 2016, 62% detached and 93% owner-occupied.
Yes. Brampton Civic sits at 2100 Bovaird Drive East on the north side of Bovaird, inside the community's southern boundary. It opened in 2007, has 608 beds, is designed for about 80,000 emergency visits a year and serves roughly 500,000 people. It is the city's only full-service acute hospital.
Construction began in 1991 and the district was planned to be substantially complete by around 2005. Most homes date from that window: 52% detached, 21% semi-detached, 56% with four or more bedrooms, and 89% owner-occupied. Expect mature trees and finished infrastructure — and expect second-generation mechanical replacements on some homes.
Correct. The nearest is Bramalea GO at 1713 Steeles Avenue East on the Kitchener line, rebuilt and reopened in May 2023 with a 2,059-space parking garage and 16 bus bays. Locally, Trinity Common Terminal at 164 Great Lakes Drive is the bus hub, and 505 Züm Bovaird runs the southern edge.
Very few relative to newer Brampton communities. The stock is dominated by detached and semi-detached ground-related homes. Buyers who want apartment living usually look at Northwest Brampton's Mount Pleasant Village or the Queen Street corridor instead.
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