BS8 1BT Bristol, City of

Streets

• Lower Clifton Hill, Bristol: 9 addresses
• Jacob's Wells Road, Bristol: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (34% of about 760 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Clifton (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 11.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Ashley Ward, Cabot Ward, Clifton East Ward, Cotham Ward and Lawrence Hill Ward (1999 ward boundary).
• Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 1-9, MERIDIAN VALE, grade II
• DOVER COTTAGES NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• ELDON HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II
• NUMBERS 1 AND 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS NUMBERS 1 TO 10 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND WALLS, grade II
• NUMBERS 5, 7 AND 9 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, grade II
• Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, grade II
• STONELEIGH HOUSE, grade II
• TERRACE WALL, STEPS AND LAMPS TO WEST OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, grade II
• WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS TO STRANGER'S BURIAL GROUND, grade II
• WALLS AND STEPS TO FOOTPATH LEADING TO MERIDIAN VALE, grade II
• WALLS, LODGE AND GATES TO QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• 7 Constitution Hill Bristol BS8 1DG, permissioned (250 m)
• 1 Berkeley Crescent Bristol BS8 1HA, permissioned (270 m)
• 14 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (420 m)
• 15 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (430 m)
• 16 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (430 m)
• 71 & 71A Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PB: up to 17 homes, permissioned (460 m)
• 64 Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5JN: up to 5 homes, permissioned (520 m)
• Brunel House St Georges Road Bristol BS1 5UY, permissioned (530 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.