CB2 3RD Cambridge

Streets

• Botolph Lane, Cambridge: 20 addresses
• Free School Lane, Cambridge: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 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 (22% of about 730 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, Historic Core (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 44.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, grade I
• PEMBROKE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING OLD COURT (EXCEPT THE CHAPEL AND CLOISTER) AND IVY COURT, grade I
• PEMBROKE COLLEGE, THE CHAPEL WITH HITCHAM'S CLOISTER, grade I
• THE RAILINGS, PIERS, GATEWAY AND SCREEN WALL ON THE EAST SIDE OF PRINCIPAL COURT, ST CATHARINES COLLEGE, grade I
• PEMBROKE COLLEGE, LIBRARY, grade II*
• 1 Silver Street and 71-72 Trumpington Street, grade II
• 1, 1A AND 1B, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 1, MILL LANE, grade II
• 12 AND 13, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 14-16, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 2 and 3 Silver Street, grade II
• 2 AND 3, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 3, PEMBROKE STREET, grade II
• 4 Silver Street, grade II
• 4, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 4, PEMBROKE STREET, grade II
• 5, 6, 7 AND 7A, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• 5, PEMBROKE STREET, grade II
• 51 Trumpington Street and 2 Pembroke Street with wall-mounted Richardson Candle, grade II
• 52, TRUMPINGTON STREET, grade II
• 53, TRUMPINGTON STREET, grade II
• 54, TRUMPINGTON STREET, grade II
• 6-12, PEMBROKE STREET, grade II
• 70 Trumpington Street, grade II
• 74, TRUMPINGTON STREET, grade II
• 8-11, BOTOLPH LANE, grade II
• Block between Ivy Court and Old Master's Lodge, Pembroke College, grade II
• BOTOLPH HOUSE, grade II
• CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS) UNIVERSITY PRESS, grade II
• CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, FOUR LAMP STANDARDS IN NEW COURT, grade II

And 14 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Essex House 71 Regent Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire: up to 13 homes, permissioned (570 m)
• 14-17 Regent Terrace Cambridge CB2 1AA: up to 6 homes, permissioned (620 m)
• Land Rear Of 5-17 New Square Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1EY: up to 8 homes, permissioned (760 m)
• Housing Allocation, Land at Parkside Police Station and Fire and Rescue Station, Parkside, Cambridge, CB1: up to 50 homes, not permissioned (830 m)
• Land at Parkside Police Station, Parkside, not permissioned (830 m)
• Warkworth Lodge Warkworth Terrace Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1EG: up to 9 homes, permissioned (850 m)
• 23 And 25, Hills Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1NW: up to 10 homes, permissioned (1.0 km)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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 79%, gigabit 79% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.