Avenue One Letchworth, North Hertfordshire

151 addresses across 32 postcodes (SG6,SG7), about 820 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 27900822.

  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are 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 C; Band D in North Hertfordshire costs £2,449 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 58% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Letchworth Garden City, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 78 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 154 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Birchwood And Sollershott Surgeries, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Feb 2025STARWOOD HOUSE SG6 2HBOther£10,440Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Sep 2023TESCO STORES LTD SG6 2HBOther£9,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jul 2019ROWAN HOUSE SG6 2WWOther£1,300,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jul 2016ELECTROX SG6 2HBOther£2,100,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in North Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,449 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,632£1,904£2,176£2,449£2,993£3,537£4,081£4,897

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (53% of about 1,340 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 17 November 2026 to 18 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 12 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 50 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
SG6 2HBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 27 unlikely
SG6 2HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
SG6 2WWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG6 2YYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 1BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG6 1HQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 2HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SG6 2TSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
SG6 2TTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG6 2XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 3WXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9GBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9GGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9GUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9GYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9GZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG6 9JAnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JBnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JEnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JLnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JNnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JPnot in 2 or 3
SG6 9JQnot in 2 or 3
SG7 5NGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG7 5SHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 159 addresses are between 78 m and 92 m above sea level (85 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
SG6 1BE100%86%86%0%
SG6 1HQ100%100%100%0%
SG6 2HB95%58%58%0%
SG6 2HU88%75%75%0%
SG6 2HW100%100%100%0%
SG6 2TS100%100%100%0%
SG6 2TT100%100%100%0%
SG6 2WW100%100%100%0%
SG6 2YY100%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 stationsLetchworth Garden City 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Baldock 569,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Hitchin 2.9 million journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Third Avenue Letchworth210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stevenage8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Car parksLetchworth Town Hall Car Park1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ElectrAssure Ltd.180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN16.2 km (10 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 Birchwood And Sollershott Surgeries1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birch Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Norton Way South (Dental Surgery)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalThe Lister Hospital6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Police stationLetchworth Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Jackmans Cashzone670 m (0.4 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 gardenUnnamed 1.8 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²230 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha210 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,410 m²690 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Howard Park and Gardens, Letchworth, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.1 km (0.7 miles) west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Howard Park and Gardens, LetchworthRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Broadway, LetchworthRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Settlement site S of Blackhorse FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Western LakeLake or reservoir140 m north
Jackman's PlantationWood750 m (0.5 miles) south
Norton PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Norton CommonWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Willian PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Lannock HillHill2.7 km (1.7 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
65 to 6960
60 to 6410
55 to 5960
Under 55141154

13 of the street's 154 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 North Hertfordshire: see them on the North Hertfordshire 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
Hillshott Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7840 m (0.5 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
Garden City AcademyPrimary2–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Infants' School Church of EnglandPrimary4–71 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Junior Mixed School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pixmore Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Weston Way Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Knights Templar SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Norton St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St John Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Northfields Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Grange AcademyPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: 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
Costa Coffee SG6 2HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Travelodge Letchworth Garden City SG6 2HBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Space Sweets SG6 2HBRetailers - other120 m5 Very good10 Jul 2024
McDonalds SG6 2HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good20 Aug 2025
B & M Stores SG6 2HNRetailers - other240 m4 Good11 Sep 2014
Aldi Stores Ltd SG6 2HURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good24 Jun 2026
Get A Drip Pharma SG6 1LPRetailers - other360 m5 Very good13 Sep 2024
2Excel Logistics Ltd SG6 2TDDistributors/Transporters390 mExempt
Blue Jay Oriental Foods Ltd SG6 1GJImporters/Exporters390 mExempt
North Herts Leisure Centre Ea Cafe SG6 2ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
Halfords Ltd SG6 1UPRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 May 2015
Wickes Building Supplies Ltd SG6 1UPRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 May 2015
Iceland Foods Ltd SG6 1UPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Home Bargains SG6 1UPRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Burger King SG6 1UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft42
Shoplifting9
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Violence and sexual offences2
Public order2
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (40); On or near Shopping Area (13); On or near Fifth Avenue (8); On or near Sixth Avenue (5); On or near Dunham'S Lane (3).

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: 508 residents in 225 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 age3540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work80%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 5 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 17 November 2026 to 18 November 2026 (two-way signals) 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.

Nearby streets

Second Avenue · Fifth Avenue · Sixth Avenue · Third Avenue · Fourth Avenue · Amor Way · Dunhams Court · Jackman's Place · Baldock Road · Dunham's Lane · Campus Five · Oakfield Business Corner

All the streets in SG6, SG7 and across North Hertfordshire.

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.