Anson Crescent Reading, Wokingham

45 addresses across 1 postcode (RG2), about 330 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44700029.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £360,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 38 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 16, D: 18).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Wokingham costs £2,498 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Reading Green Park, about 3.3 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is South Reading & Shinfield Group Med Prac, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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
20231£360,000£360,000£360,000
20211£298,000£298,000£298,000
20202£231,000£152,000£310,000
20181£277,000£277,000£277,000
20152£211,000£200,000£222,000
20141£209,950£209,950£209,950
20131£200,000£200,000£200,000
20111£136,000£136,000£136,000
20101£141,000£141,000£141,000
20051£189,995£189,995£189,995
20042£144,500£143,000£146,000
20031£160,000£160,000£160,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Aug 202335 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£360,000
28 May 202131 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£298,000
10 Mar 202039 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£310,000
24 Jan 202012 RG2 8JTFlat or maisonette£152,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 20185 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£277,000
13 Nov 201512 RG2 8JTFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 201539 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£222,000
25 Nov 201421 RG2 8JTTerraced£209,950
4 Sep 201317 RG2 8JTDetached£200,000
26 Apr 20115 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£136,000
12 Apr 201031 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£141,000
23 Sep 200541 RG2 8JTTerraced£189,995
7 Dec 200439 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£146,000
14 May 200434 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£143,000
12 Dec 200338 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£160,000
8 Dec 19975 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£47,000
22 Aug 199739 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£60,000
29 Nov 199621 RG2 8JTTerraced£54,950
25 May 199539 RG2 8JTSemi-detached£42,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (27); 2017 (4); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (25); owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wokingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,498 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,665£1,943£2,220£2,498£3,053£3,608£4,163£4,995

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (42% of about 920 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; 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.

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 30 September 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

© 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 45 addresses are between 53 m and 61 m above sea level (57 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
RG2 8JT100%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 stationsReading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Earley 426,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Reading 14 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wentworth Avenue Whitley Wood50 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Car parksParking space on Brixham Road1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR34.9 km (22 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 surgeriesSouth Reading & Shinfield Group Med Prac1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitley Wood Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationLoddon Valley Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Whitley Wood Cashzone390 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 1.3 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsGoddards Farm Allotment Gardens 1.8 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nores HillHill290 m south-east
Pearman's CopseWood870 m (0.5 miles) east
Redhatch CopseWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
St John's CopseWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Longwater LakeLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Rounds IslandsIsland2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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: 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 5950
Under 554045

5 of the street's 45 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 Wokingham: see them on the Wokingham page.

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
Christ The King Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Geoffrey Field Junior SchoolPrimary7–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Geoffrey Field Infant SchoolPrimary3–7480 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hartland High SchoolSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) Inadequate (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Ridgeway Primary SchoolPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blagdon Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Whiteknights Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Alder Grove Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shinfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Londis RG2 8NYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m2 Improvement necessary26 Oct 2025
PMK Supermarket RG2 8NYRetailers - other300 m2 Improvement necessary7 Jul 2026
LuvMuffin RG2 8HHMobile caterer330 mAwaiting inspection
Co-operative Food RG2 8LQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Food Avenue RG2 8LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Dragon Garden RG2 8LZTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Curry Chef RG2 8LZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory27 Apr 2026
Northumberland Food & Wine RG2 8LZRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 May 2026
Shinfield Players Theatre RG2 9DFRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory21 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mitford Close (14); On or near Anson Crescent (9); On or near Whitley Wood Road (8); On or near Alandale Close (5); On or near Wentworth Avenue (5).

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: 385 residents in 136 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • RG2 8JT: 45 addresses of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Whitley Wood Road · Anson Walk · Ash Green · Birch Green · Alandale Close · Oak Green · Poplar Green · Anson Walk · Southglade · Wood Green · Mitford Close · Nores Road

All the streets in RG2 and across Wokingham.

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.