Avenue Heights The Mount, Reading

40 addresses across 1 postcode (RG2), about 40 m long. USRN 31010155.

  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 21, D: 6).
  • 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 Reading costs £2,613 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Reading, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waterloo Meadows, is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 63 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Milman & Kennet Surgery, about 320 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 26% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 222 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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Flat (35); Maisonette, not recorded (1). Built: 2003-2006 (25); 1996-2002 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (13); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Reading in 2026-27: Band D £2,613 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,742£2,032£2,322£2,613£3,193£3,774£4,355£5,226

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 800 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 40 addresses are between 63 m and 65 m above sea level (64 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
RG2 0EP100%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 14 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Reading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Reading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Christchurch Gardens Whitley170 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Drake Way, RG2800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR35.3 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milman & Kennet Surgery320 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Basingstoke Road Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitley Street (Dental Surgery)440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRoyal Berkshire Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationReading Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM400 m (0.2 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterloo Meadows 7.2 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²100 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cintra Park 5.8 ha200 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Newcastle Road Allotments 6,410 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Christ Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 340 m north-east. 37 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*340 m north-east
High BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.Scheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
The Forbury GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Reading CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holy BrookLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Whiteknights LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) east
Fobney IslandIsland2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
The WildernessWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
View IslandIsland2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Nores HillHill2.7 km (1.7 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)10.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
60 to 6450
55 to 59100
Under 552540

15 of the street's 40 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 Reading: see them on the Reading 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
The Palmer Primary AcademyPrimary3–11140 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Reading Girls' SchoolSecondary11–18640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Katesgrove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Reading SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kendrick SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitley Park Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 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
Coley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Redlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blagdon Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Mary & All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Cedar Court Cafe RG2 0NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good7 Mar 2025
Northumberland Day Nursery RG2 7PWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m4 Good28 Sep 2026
Pizza Go Go RG2 0ERTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good19 Aug 2026
7 Day Local Express Ltd RG2 0ERRetailers - other190 m5 Very good28 Jan 2025
Best and Less Supermarket RG2 0ERRetailers - other190 m1 Major improvement necessary18 May 2026
The Meme's Kitchen RG2 0ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory7 May 2026
Wok on Wheels RG2 0ERTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Rose Garden Early Years Centre RG2 7AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m4 Good17 Dec 2024
Dhaulagiri Kitchen Cafe and Restaurant RG2 0ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m2 Improvement necessary17 Feb 2026
Trehan Newsagents RG2 0ERRetailers - other240 m1 Major improvement necessary19 Jun 2026
Go Beanies Play and Learn (Palmer Academy) RG2 7PPOther catering premises240 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
HCL @ The Palmer Primary Academy RG2 7PPOther catering premises240 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Ahmed Chem Ltd RG2 0ERRetailers - other250 mExempt
Alamin Tandoori RG2 0ERTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jun 2026
Mustang Kitchen RG2 0EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 mAwaiting inspection

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.

222 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences123
Anti-social behaviour19
Other theft17
Public order14
Criminal damage and arson11
Drugs10
Vehicle crime8
Burglary8
Bicycle theft7
Robbery2
Other crime2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hagley Road (51); On or near Swainstone Road (34); On or near Shenstone Road (23); On or near Ella Garett Close (20); On or near Clent Road (17).

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: 367 residents in 187 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 age3640
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)26%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van29%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Northumberland Day Nursery (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, RG2 7PW) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

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 0EP: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Clent Road · Whitley Rise · George Palmer Close · Bourne Avenue · Shenstone Road · Swainstone Road · Christchurch Gardens · Surrey Road · Waterloo Rise · Ella Garett Close · Rowley Road · Warwick Road

All the streets in RG2 and across Reading.

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.