Alder Close Hoddesdon, Broxbourne

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (EN11), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4825027.

  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 5).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Broxbourne costs £2,306 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rye House, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Champions Green, is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Limes Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 80 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: Bungalow, end-terrace (3); Bungalow, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (6); 2003-2006 (4); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Broxbourne in 2026-27: Band D £2,306 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,538£1,794£2,050£2,306£2,819£3,332£3,844£4,613

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (53% of about 1,240 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EN11 0PWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
EN11 0PGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 8 unlikely

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 18 addresses are between 37 m and 38 m above sea level (37 m on average).

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
EN11 0PG100%100%100%0%
EN11 0PW100%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 stationsRye House 436,000 journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
St Margarets (Herts) 351,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Broxbourne 1.8 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stanstead Road Rye Park80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Hertford5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Car parksJBF HGV Parking1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN21.1 km (13 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Limes Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rye Park Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThe Princess Alexandra Hospital6.4 km (4 miles)
Police stationHoddesdon Police Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM180 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 Champions Green 1,360 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²110 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pound Close 3.4 ha80 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stanstead Road Allotment 1.9 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 730 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 31 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St PaulListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Swan InnListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Gateposts to South of Rye House Gatehouse on the Causeway at the South West Corner of the MoatListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) east
Rye House moated enclosure and gatehouseScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Rye House GatehouseListed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Admirals Walk LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Dells WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Hailey WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Lanthorn's WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Clay HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Nazeing MarshWetland3.9 km (2.4 miles) south

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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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 smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5960
Under 551218

6 of the street's 18 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 Broxbourne: see them on the Broxbourne page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rye Park Nursery SchoolNursery2–5360 m No published inspection
Forres Primary AcademyPrimary5–11470 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Catherine's Hoddesdon CofE Primary School Church of England/ChristianPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The John Warner SchoolSecondary11–18810 m (0.5 miles) Inadequate (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Cranbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Roselands Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
High Leigh Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Robert Barclay AcademySecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sheredes Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Hoddesdon Labour Club EN11 0JRPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
All in One Pizza (Unit 3) EN11 0JRTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good25 Mar 2024
Hoddesdon Supermarket EN11 0JRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Cafe Anatolia EN11 0JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Bargain Beers and Wines EN11 0JPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m4 Good19 May 2026
Stanstead Stores EN11 0RLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good31 Aug 2026
Ideal Food & Wine EN11 0JLRetailers - other220 m4 Good19 Mar 2024
Cleous Bites Kitchen EN11 0RHOther catering premises220 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
The Jerk Joint London Ltd EN11 0RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good21 May 2026
Sidney Fish Chips EN11 0JLTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good19 May 2026
TGF Pizza EN11 0JLTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Pera Peri Cafe EN11 0JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
Arkay Newsagents EN11 0RLRetailers - other230 m5 Very good17 Jul 2024
The Tulip Cafe EN11 0RLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Georges EN11 0PETakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025

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.

80 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour22
Public order6
Drugs5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson4
Shoplifting4
Burglary2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1
Other theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (29); On or near Alder Close (16); On or near Crossfield Road (9); On or near Laburnum Road (8); On or near River Avenue (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 759 residents in 261 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 streetEngland
Median age3740
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local 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.

Nearby streets

Lilac Road · Oliver Close · Rye Road · Laburnum Road · Crossfield Road · Hawthorn Road · Burford Street · Woodmill Mews · Whitley Road · Kenning Road · Fairfield Road · Whittingstall Road

All the streets in EN11 and across Broxbourne.

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.