Poorly, unless you own a car and a home office. More than half of working residents work from home. The rest mostly drive. Hardly anyone takes the train. Here the car is the whole transport plan.
Henley-on-Thames Rail Station is the nearest named station, but at the 2021 Census the share of Greenlands residents who commuted by train came to 0%. Buses carried under 1%. There are 2 bus stops in the area. The station is close enough to point at on a map and too far away to be part of anyone's routine.
The commute is decided at home. About 54% of working residents worked from home at the Census, about 36% drove, and about 7% walked. Cycling came to 0%. About 62% of households have two or more cars and about 5% have none. So the bulk of the commute happens between the kitchen and the study, and anyone who does leave the house takes the car and probably owns a spare.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics give modelled times for the area as a whole, not a route from any particular front door. They put the nearest town centre about 17 minutes away by car, 32 by bike, 57 by public transport and 88 on foot. An hour and a half on foot to the shops is the result that matters here. Nobody is popping into town.
The same statistics cover everyday destinations. The nearest GP is about 14 minutes by car, 46 by public transport and 78 on foot. The nearest hospital is about 26 minutes by car and 79 by public transport. A food store is about 13 minutes by car and an hour on foot. The nearest employment centre is about 42 minutes by car and 25 by public transport, the one destination where the modelled bus trip is quicker than driving. These figures date from 2019. The car and walking times will hold, since the distances haven't moved, but the public transport times will have aged as services changed, so check them against a current timetable before relying on them.
The current timetable is better than the stop count suggests. Each of the 2 stops averages about 50 scheduled departures on a weekday, with three or four buses an hour at peak, and both stops have a weekend service. That makes it a usable bus service rather than a lifeline that comes twice a day. It just isn't how anyone here gets to work.
Broadband is the real connection for a place that mostly works from home, and it is uneven. Superfast broadband reaches about 93% of premises, but gigabit and ultrafast both reach only about 29%. No premises fall below the universal service minimum. A home office will work at most addresses, but if large video calls are your job, check the exact address before you exchange. Mobile coverage is good: every postcode gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 98% from all of them.
In practice, commuting from Greenlands means driving to wherever the work is, or getting the kind of job where the commute is a walk to the spare room. Nothing in the brief puts the station or the bus at the centre of anyone's week.
Road noise reaches the whole place. Every one of the seven postcodes sits near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present is 75 decibels. That describes the postcode, not the bedroom, so listen at the property yourself at rush hour. Rail noise doesn't register here.
Greenlands is poorly connected for anyone who needs to leave it, and it works for people who have arranged their lives so they rarely have to, with a car in the drive, a desk upstairs and broadband that is adequate but not fast.