Allen Road Ely, East Cambridgeshire

59 addresses across 2 postcodes (CB7), about 510 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12006083.

162 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £251,000 across 2 sales. 53 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 46, D: 1). 11 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in East Cambridgeshire costs £2,485 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 71% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Ely, about 2.2 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Ely Common, is about 270 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 8 to 14 m above sea level. 22 of its 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Cathedral Medical Centre, about 840 m away. About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 32 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£251,000£212,000£290,000
20251£335,000£335,000£335,000
20243£270,000£147,500£328,000
20233£320,000£305,000£337,500
20225£310,000£120,000£315,000
20218£273,250£200,000£395,000
20202£228,000£209,000£247,000
20196£251,250£227,000£307,500
20185£232,000£214,000£296,000
20173£227,500£180,000£280,000
20168£245,250£187,500£284,500
201510£238,750£164,000£297,000
Most recent sales (162)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 May 202656 CB7 4GRTerraced£290,000
12 Feb 2026102 CB7 4GRFlat or maisonette£212,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 2025115 CB7 4NLTerraced£335,000
30 Aug 202423 CB7 4NLTerraced£328,000
23 Aug 202440 CB7 4GRTerraced£270,000
1 Aug 202497 CB7 4NLTerraced£347,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 202459 CB7 4NLTerraced£147,500
28 Apr 202372 CB7 4GRSemi-detached£320,000
29 Mar 202357 CB7 4NLTerraced£305,000
17 Feb 202343 CB7 4NLOther£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Feb 20239 CB7 4NLTerraced£337,500
28 Nov 202227 CB7 4NLTerraced£310,000
19 Aug 202254 CB7 4GRTerraced£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 202225 CB7 4NLTerraced£310,000
23 May 202241 CB7 4NLTerraced£315,000
17 Feb 202298 CB7 4GRTerraced£246,000
14 Feb 202222 CB7 4GRSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 20218 CB7 4GRTerraced£322,500
30 Sep 202134 CB7 4GRTerraced£200,000
16 Sep 202130 CB7 4GRTerraced£232,000
24 Jun 202148 CB7 4GRSemi-detached£278,000
6 Apr 202145 CB7 4NLSemi-detached£395,000
12 Mar 202157 CB7 4NLTerraced£272,500
25 Feb 2021106 CB7 4GRTerraced£210,000
29 Jan 202116 CB7 4GRTerraced£274,000
29 Jan 2021GARAGE, 16 CB7 4GROther£274,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Dec 2020106 CB7 4GRTerraced£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 202035 CB7 4NLTerraced£247,000
1 Jun 202030 CB7 4GRTerraced£209,000
20 Nov 201935 CB7 4NLTerraced£232,000
23 Aug 201950 CB7 4GRTerraced£252,500
11 Jul 201990 CB7 4GRDetached£307,500
3 Apr 201933 CB7 4NLTerraced£227,000
3 Apr 2019GARAGE, 33 CB7 4NLOther£227,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jan 201999 CB7 4NLTerraced£295,000
11 Jan 2019121 CB7 4NLDetached£250,000
20 Sep 201829 CB7 4NLTerraced£277,500
15 Aug 20189 CB7 4NLTerraced£296,000
18 Jul 201856 CB7 4GRTerraced£226,000
8 Jun 201896 CB7 4GRTerraced£232,000
18 Apr 201868 CB7 4GRTerraced£214,000
31 Aug 201727 CB7 4NLTerraced£280,000
24 Feb 201734 CB7 4GRTerraced£180,000
31 Jan 201733 CB7 4NLTerraced£227,500
31 Jan 2017GARAGE, 33 CB7 4NLOther£227,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Nov 2016103 CB7 4NLSemi-detached£284,500
14 Jun 201653 CB7 4NLFlat or maisonette£187,500Leasehold.
13 May 201635 CB7 4NLTerraced£236,500
12 May 201652 CB7 4GRTerraced£197,000
11 May 201693 CB7 4NLTerraced£270,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

53 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (18); Flat (10); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 2007-2011 (20); 2007 onwards (7); 2003-2006 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (12); rented (social) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,485 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,657£1,933£2,209£2,485£3,037£3,590£4,142£4,970

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (25% of about 830 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 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 1.0 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 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent works)

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: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 7 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
CB7 4GRnot in 2 or 3 3 / 4 / 4 unlikely
CB7 4NLnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 3 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 59 addresses are between 8 m and 14 m above sea level (10 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CB7 4GR100%100%100%0%
CB7 4NL100%71%71%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 stationsEly 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Littleport 252,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 12 within 800 m; nearest Longchamp Drive Ely120 m
Car parksFishermans Car Park1.4 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest Newnham Street Car Park1.3 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN58.3 km

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; nearest Cathedral Medical Centre840 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy840 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Lynn Road (Dental Surgery)840 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital840 m
Police stationEly Police Station1.6 km
Cash machinesCashpoint® Minster Place Lloyds Bank1.7 km

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; nearest Ely Common 3.2 ha270 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²710 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,710 m²750 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest New Barns Avenue Allotments 1.1 ha640 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 3.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ely Cathedral: claustral buildings, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km south-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ely Cathedral: claustral buildingsScheduled monument1.8 km south-west
'Cherry Hill', castle moundScheduled monument1.9 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roswell PitsLake or reservoir470 m south
Redmoor PlantationWood2.0 km north
Quanea HillHill2.4 km south-east
Brick HillHill2.8 km north
Thorney HillHill3.0 km south-east
The RookeryWood3.4 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, 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
55 to 59220
Under 553759

22 of the street's 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Ely St Mary's CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11470 m Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Spring Meadow Infant SchoolPrimary4–7530 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Isle of Ely Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km No published inspection
Lantern Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection
Ely CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cathedral View Childcare Ltd CB7 4GQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Play-Station After School Club CB7 4RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m5 Very good21 Feb 2022
Caterlink @ Ely St Mary's Cof E Junior School CB7 4RBSchool/college/university470 m5 Very good26 Nov 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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Criminal damage and arson8
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order4
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Allen Road (15); On or near Park/Open Space (8); On or near Merivale Way (5); On or near Turner Drive (3); On or near Orford Close (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: 497 residents in 216 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 age3340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work81%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)53%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • CB7 4GR: 32 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • CB7 4NL: 27 addresses of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Orford Close · Turner Drive · Prickwillow Road · Allix Way · Cleopatra Close · Merivale Way · Monarch Way · Longchamp Drive · Skipper Walk · Summerhayes · Red Admiral Street · Brimstone Drive

All the streets in CB7 and across East Cambridgeshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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