Benet Close Milton, South Cambridgeshire

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (CB24), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35300806.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £475,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 4, C: 8, D: 6).
  • 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 South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 99% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge North, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Milton Country Park, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Milton Surgery, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 137 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20232£475,000£425,000£525,000
20211£390,000£390,000£390,000
20182£387,500£375,000£400,000
20132£245,475£234,950£256,000
20121£235,000£235,000£235,000
20111£225,000£225,000£225,000
20081£237,500£237,500£237,500
20061£219,950£219,950£219,950
20031£155,000£155,000£155,000
19981£90,200£90,200£90,200
19961£63,000£63,000£63,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Oct 202324 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£425,000
27 Jan 202328 CB24 6ALTerraced£525,000
30 Nov 20219 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£390,000
11 May 201811 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£375,000
15 Feb 20183 CB24 6ALTerraced£400,000
2 Aug 201321 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£234,950
15 May 201319 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£256,000
30 Nov 201215 CB24 6ALTerraced£235,000
18 Jul 201113 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£225,000
3 Jan 20088 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£237,500
8 Sep 200611 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£219,950
31 Oct 200323 CB24 6ALTerraced£155,000
7 Jul 19984 CB24 6ALTerraced£90,200
29 Nov 199613 CB24 6ALSemi-detached£63,000

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 May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,540 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 25 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
CB24 6ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 7 / 13 unlikely
CB24 6AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 12 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 addresses are about 7 m above sea level.

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
CB24 6AL100%100%100%0%
CB24 6AW100%99%99%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 stationsCambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Waterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnabas Court Milton100 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksCambridge North Station Car Park1.7 km (1 mile)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN39.9 km (25 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milton Surgery410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco In-Store Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentistsCavendish House Dental Care2.6 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalSpire Cambridge Lea Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationHiston Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM220 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 Milton Country Park 33 ha360 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²210 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha150 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.5 ha1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 33 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Milton House, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Milton HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Parish Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Multi-phased settlement east of MiltonScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Todd's PitLake or reservoir410 m (0.3 miles) east
Dickerson's PitLake or reservoir690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Chesterton FenWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Long ReachLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Biggin Pin PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Castle HillHill4.3 km (2.6 miles) south-west

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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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 5920
Under 552830

2 of the street's 30 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Milton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cambridge Regional College16 plus14–991.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Shirley Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Unicorn House CB24 6AWTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Jaws Fish Bar CB24 6AWTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
Tesco (Main Shop) CB24 6AYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Costa Coffee CB24 6AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good19 Nov 2022
Yo! To Go CB24 6AYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good15 Jul 2026
The Giving Place CIC CB24 6ATRetailers - other250 m5 Very good13 Aug 2024
The Espresso Bar CB24 6ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Aug 2026
Kids R Us (The Annexe) CB24 6BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
The Phoenix Trust (Milton) Ltd CB24 6AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Respite at 1 High Street CB24 6AJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m4 Good14 May 2025
One Stop Shop CB24 6AJRetailers - other350 m5 Very good22 Feb 2021
Milton Spice CB24 6AJTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Roll Inn CB24 6AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Grounds Cafe Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 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.

137 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting51
Anti-social behaviour23
Violence and sexual offences20
Public order8
Other theft8
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson5
Drugs5
Burglary4
Possession of weapons2
Robbery2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (89); On or near Petrol Station (20); On or near Benet Close (5); On or near Winship Road (5); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5).

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: 583 residents in 276 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 age4440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 9 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.

Nearby streets

Barnabas Court · Winship Road · Recreation Close · The Rowans · The Rowans · Walkling Way · Cambridge Road · Edmund Close · James Carlton Close · The Elms · Coles Road · A14

All the streets in CB24 and across South Cambridgeshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from 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.