BS8 1RL Bristol, City of

Streets

• Queen's 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 A (26% of about 720 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, Park Street and Brandon Hill (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 10.
• 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: 1 protected tree within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• CITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, grade II*
• UNIVERSITY TOWER AND WILLS MEMORIAL BUILDING AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS AND LAMPS, grade II*
• 42, 44 AND 46, QUEEN'S ROAD, grade II
• ATTACHED WALL AND RAILING TO THE REAR OF NUMBER 20, grade II
• BROWN'S RESTAURANT AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, grade II
• DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS WITH ATTACHED WALLS, grade II
• The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol, grade II
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND LAMPS, grade II
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, grade II
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, MUSEUM LECTURE THEATRE, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• 1 Berkeley Crescent Bristol BS8 1HA, permissioned (150 m)
• 16 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (190 m)
• 15 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (190 m)
• 14 Charlotte Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PP, permissioned (200 m)
• 71 & 71A Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5PB: up to 17 homes, permissioned (210 m)
• 64 Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5JN: up to 5 homes, permissioned (240 m)
• 60 Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5JN, permissioned (260 m)
• 48 Park Street City Centre Bristol BS1 5JG: up to 6 homes, permissioned (300 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

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.