A472 Usk / Brynbuga, Monmouthshire

63 addresses across 4 postcodes (NP15), about 160 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 47303315.

  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 12, E: 1, F: 2).
  • Flood: At least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band G; Band D in Monmouthshire costs £2,417 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pontypool and New Inn, about 7.4 km (4.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 26 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Surgery James House, about 320 m away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, detached (5); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1900-1929 (11); before 1900 (6); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Monmouthshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,417 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,611£1,880£2,148£2,417£2,954£3,491£4,028£4,833£5,639

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (25% of about 600 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 street; Welsh 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, Usk. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Listed buildings

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: of the 101 address points in this street's postcodes, 8 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 91 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 6 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 94 at low risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 2 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 9 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
NP15 1SSzone 3 1 / 1 / 31
NP15 1TJzone 3 4 / 0 / 30
NP15 1SUzone 3 0 / 0 / 5
NP15 1SYzone 3 3 / 0 / 25

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 63 addresses are between 14 m and 24 m above sea level (17 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NP15 1SS100%100%100%0%
NP15 1SU100%100%100%0%
NP15 1SY94%94%94%0%
NP15 1TJ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsPontypool and New Inn 127,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Cwmbran 432,000 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Newport (South Wales) 2.8 million journeys in 2024–2514.2 km (8.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodside Usk40 m
Bus or coach stationCwmbran Bus Station Stand A19.4 km (5.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Usk Car Park250 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS38 km (24 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Surgery James House320 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Usk Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Usk Dental Practice410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalCounty Hospital8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Police stationGwent Police Federation7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodside Garage, Llanbadoc Cashzone140 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,700 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²110 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Island 3.0 ha70 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,370 m²30 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Usk Bridge (partly in Usk Community), a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m south-east. 178 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Usk Bridge (partly in Usk Community)Listed building, Grade II*70 m south-east
Usk Bridge (partly in Llanbadoc Community)Listed building, Grade II*90 m south-east
Bridge Street, rear wingListed building, Grade II*140 m east
Olde MalstersListed building, Grade II*200 m south-east
Usk Castle (Unoccupied Parts)Scheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Graig Foel medieval ringworkScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Usk Roman SiteScheduled monument640 m (0.4 miles) east
Cefn IlaRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Langates WoodWood400 m (0.2 miles) south-west
Graig-yn-AlltWood430 m (0.3 miles) south
Bell PoolLake or reservoir630 m (0.4 miles) south
Pant-y-cwcw WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Flagstaff HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Cwm CayoValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 69110
60 to 6480
55 to 5970
Under 553763

26 of the street's 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Monmouthshire: see them on the Monmouthshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Usk Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Woodside Service Station NP15 1SSRetailers - other140 m5 Very good17 Nov 2023
Avicenna Pharmacy NP15 1BQRetailers - other160 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
The Bank NP15 1BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 mAwaiting inspection
Little Dinos Role Play Centre Ltd NP15 1BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good10 Feb 2025
Alfred Russel Wallace NP15 1BQPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Dil Indian Restaurant NP15 1BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good11 Dec 2025
Cross Keys Inn NP15 1BQPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good27 Jun 2026
Parsons Bakery NP15 1BQRetailers - other230 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Number 49 NP15 1BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Co operative Stores NP15 1BQRetailers - other230 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
New China NP15 1BQTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
Casa Bianca Usk NP15 1BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Jun 2026
Lines Taproom & Noddfa NP15 1BQPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Glen-Yr-Afon House Hotel NP15 1SYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
The Mad Platter NP15 1BQPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft10
Shoplifting7
Violence and sexual offences6
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (16); On or near Bridge Street (13); On or near Conigar Crescent (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 342 residents in 157 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetWales
Median age5443
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%66%
Owned outright44%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented15%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work54%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)34%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%26%
Travel to work by car or van50%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%3%
On foot or by bicycle4%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%32%
No qualifications14%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NP15 1SS: 31 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • NP15 1TJ: 26 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • NP15 1SU: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • NP15 1SY: 2 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

A472 · Conigar Crescent · Bridge Street · New Market Street · New Market Street · Baron Court · Old Market Street · Porthycarne Close · Manor Court

All the streets in NP15 and across Monmouthshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.