Bembridge Drive Northampton

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN2), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28700997.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £245,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 1, D: 12, E: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 97% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kingsthorpe Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 70 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queensview Medical Centre, about 170 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20252£245,000£240,000£250,000
20211£143,500£143,500£143,500
20203£138,000£90,000£173,000
20192£132,500£89,500£175,500
20181£237,000£237,000£237,000
20172£202,000£199,000£205,000
20162£175,975£164,950£187,000
20151£200,000£200,000£200,000
20141£140,000£140,000£140,000
20131£135,000£135,000£135,000
20111£115,500£115,500£115,500
20091£107,000£107,000£107,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 202516 NN2 6LZTerraced£250,000
28 Nov 202519 NN2 6LZTerraced£240,000
6 Mar 202515 NN2 6LZTerraced£203,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202136 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£143,500Leasehold.
4 Nov 202034 NN2 6LZTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 20207 NN2 6LZTerraced£173,000
6 Jul 202026 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£138,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 201914 NN2 6LZTerraced£175,500
16 Sep 201938 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£89,500Leasehold.
30 Apr 2019BEMBRIDGE HOUSE NN2 6LZOther£6,420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Sep 20185 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£237,000
18 Dec 20173 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jul 201717 NN2 6LZTerraced£205,000
7 Jul 201712 NN2 6LZTerraced£199,000
19 Oct 201610 NN2 6LZTerraced£164,950
26 Jul 201619 NN2 6LZTerraced£187,000
11 Sep 20152 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£200,000
14 Jan 201419 NN2 6LZTerraced£140,000
6 Mar 201316 NN2 6LZTerraced£135,000
11 Mar 20118 NN2 6LZTerraced£115,500
16 Jan 200916 NN2 6LZTerraced£107,000
28 Nov 200814 NN2 6LZTerraced£105,000
25 Jan 200817 NN2 6LZTerraced£146,000
27 Apr 20072 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£177,000
30 Jan 20078 NN2 6LZTerraced£135,000
28 Jul 200619 NN2 6LZTerraced£150,000
27 Jan 20069 NN2 6LZTerraced£135,000
2 Feb 20059 NN2 6LZTerraced£110,000
20 Apr 200416 NN2 6LZTerraced£66,000
11 Sep 20033 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£123,000
26 Oct 200117 NN2 6LZTerraced£91,500
15 Jun 200112 NN2 6LZTerraced£79,000
27 Apr 20001 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£76,500
17 Mar 200011 NN2 6LZTerraced£72,500
27 Aug 199911 NN2 6LZTerraced£66,500
12 Feb 19993 NN2 6LZSemi-detached£71,000
23 Dec 199813 NN2 6LZTerraced£45,000
19 Jul 199617 NN2 6LZTerraced£42,500
28 Jul 199512 NN2 6LZTerraced£36,000

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (14); 2016 (2); 2015 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (51% of about 960 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.

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 30 September 2026

  • 1 December 2026: West Northamptonshire Council, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) 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

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 on this street 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 28 addresses are between 70 m and 73 m above sea level (72 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
NN2 6LS100%96%96%0%
NN2 6LZ100%97%97%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2513.2 km (8.2 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aldi Queens Park310 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksBizspace Northampton KG House Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging pointsAllego Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN56 km (35 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queensview Medical Centre170 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Balmoral Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queens Park Dental Practice480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNorthampton General Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police1.5 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda ThorntonRoarthamp, Kingsthorpe Cashzone170 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsthorpe Park 7.7 ha300 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²290 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha250 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha120 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Kingsthorpe Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) north. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kingsthorpe HallListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) east
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I760 m (0.5 miles) north
Northampton Castle, remains ofScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hoppinghill SpinneyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Ryehill SpinneyWood2 km (1.3 miles) west
Heath SpinneyWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Long SpinneyWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Hunsbury HillHill4.1 km (2.5 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)9.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 5930
Under 552528

3 of the street's 28 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Kingsthorpe Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kingsthorpe Village Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Camrose Early Years Centre for Children & FamiliesNursery0–5830 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 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
Earl Spencer Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Malcolm Arnold Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Northampton International AcademyAll-through4–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Kings Heath Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Spring Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, 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
ALDI Stores Ltd NN2 6NPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m5 Very good14 Apr 2016
Sugar & Whisk Treats NN2 6LJMobile caterer300 mAwaiting inspection
Symphony House Nursing Home NN2 6LPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Cambian Northampton School NN2 6LRSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Farrow House Ltd NN2 6LRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Sep 2017

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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour11
Violence and sexual offences9
Vehicle crime8
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1
Burglary1
Other theft1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Studland Road (9); On or near Kensington Close (9); On or near Bembridge Drive (6); On or near Motspur Drive (4); On or near Branksome Avenue (3).

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: 455 residents in 190 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 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • NN2 6LZ: 27 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • NN2 6LS: 1 address of 80 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Studland Road · Branksome Avenue · Motspur Drive · Kensington Close · Lyncroft Way · Thornton Road · Horsley Road · Tollgate Close · Cartwright Road · Currie Road

All the streets in NN2 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.