StreetDossier

Birch Road Baglan, Neath Port Talbot

55 addresses across 3 postcodes (SA12), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47716292.

  • Sales: 58 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £160,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 48 homes have an energy certificate (A: 3, B: 5, C: 25, D: 13, E: 2).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Neath Port Talbot costs £2,541 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Baglan, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Parc Baglan, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 55 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Waterside Medical Practice, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 55 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20263£160,000£145,000£182,000
20251£158,000£158,000£158,000
20245£146,000£80,000£180,000
20231£150,000£150,000£150,000
20211£121,500£121,500£121,500
20203£100,500£86,500£116,000
20191£104,000£104,000£104,000
20185£90,050£59,000£120,000
20174£81,500£60,000£116,000
20162£104,350£103,700£105,000
20153£86,000£81,000£90,000
20142£65,000£60,000£70,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 58)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 202629 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£160,000
19 May 202623 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£145,000
30 Apr 202631 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£182,000
14 Mar 202537 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£158,000
12 Dec 202412 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£179,000
9 Dec 202433 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£146,000
22 Nov 20249 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£180,000
10 Sep 202444 SA12 8PWTerraced£99,995Leasehold.
16 Jan 202444 SA12 8PWTerraced£80,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 20239 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£93,300Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Mar 20237 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£150,000
25 Jun 202137 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£121,500
22 Oct 20207 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£86,500
13 Oct 20201 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£100,500
20 Aug 202045 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£116,000
31 May 201937 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£104,000
2 May 20193 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Nov 201853 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£90,050
24 Aug 201833 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£120,000
17 Jul 201816 SA12 8PWTerraced£87,000
16 May 201829 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£97,000
16 Mar 201838 SA12 8PWFlat or maisonette£59,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 201734 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£60,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 201750 SA12 8PWDetached£88,000
13 Apr 20178 SA12 8PWTerraced£116,000
2 Feb 201733 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£75,000
26 Aug 201621 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£103,700
15 Apr 201623 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£105,000
16 Dec 20152 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£81,000
13 Nov 20155 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£90,000
12 Aug 201546 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£86,000
29 Aug 201433 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£70,000
19 Mar 201423 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£60,000
8 Jul 201121 SA12 8PNTerraced£63,500
21 May 20101 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£90,000
9 Apr 201016 SA12 8PWTerraced£73,000
2 Oct 20098 SA12 8PWTerraced£103,000
27 Jul 200932 SA12 8PWFlat or maisonette£51,500Leasehold.
17 Dec 200744 SA12 8PWTerraced£87,500Leasehold.
31 Oct 200737 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£106,500
16 Oct 20073 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£100,000
20 Aug 200745 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£122,000
23 Jun 20068 SA12 8PWTerraced£109,000
3 Feb 200644 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 200531 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£100,000
2 May 200337 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£47,500
6 Feb 20038 SA12 8PWTerraced£37,000
12 Jul 200229 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£40,000
8 Jul 20027 SA12 8PNSemi-detached£31,500
31 May 200248 SA12 8PWSemi-detached£44,500

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

48 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (36); Flat (12). Built: 1950-1966 (35); 1967-1975 (7); 1930-1949 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (21); owner-occupied (21); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Neath Port Talbot in 2026-27: Band D £2,541 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,694£1,977£2,259£2,541£3,106£3,671£4,236£5,083£5,930

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (70% of about 660 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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

None of the 91 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. 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. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 55 addresses are between 35 m and 42 m above sea level (38 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
SA12 8PG100%100%100%0%
SA12 8PN100%100%100%0%
SA12 8PW100%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 stationsBaglan 35,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Briton Ferry 42,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Port Talbot Parkway 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hawthorn Avenue Baglan80 m
Bus or coach stationPort Talbot Bus Station 13.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal8.2 km (5.1 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL41 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waterside Medical Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Baglan Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Samantha Edwards370 m
HospitalNeath Port Talbot Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationNeath Police Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM2.6 km (1.6 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parc Baglan 2.7 ha220 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha310 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Craig Ty-Isaf Camp, a scheduled monument, 860 m (0.5 miles) east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Craig Ty-Isaf CampScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) east
Ruins of St Baglan's ChurchScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Church of St CatharineListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Plas BaglanScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Jersey ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Daren WenHill740 m (0.5 miles) north
Cefn-cwrt ReservoirLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Cwm BaglanValley1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Warren HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Shelone WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Red Jacket PillTidal water2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 555455

1 of the street's 55 addresses is 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 Neath Port Talbot: see them on the Neath Port Talbot page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Baglan Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Blaenbaglan Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Bae Baglan English mediumAll-through3–161.5 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Oh my goodies SA12 8PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Mayberry Food Store SA12 8DGRetailers - other300 m4 Good16 Nov 2017
Happy Garden SA12 8DGTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good7 May 2025
Khan's Fish & Chips SA12 8NUTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good22 Apr 2025
Del-Phil (Fishing vessel) SA12 8UBMobile caterer310 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Baglan Community Church SA12 8UBRetailers - other320 m5 Very good11 Sep 2012
Tomms Care Ltd SA12 8NUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good21 Jul 2023
I K FoodStores SA12 8NURetailers - other370 m5 Very good21 Apr 2021
Baglan Primary School SA12 8TFSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 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.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Burglary10
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order7
Other crime4
Drugs3
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ashgrove (10); On or near Birch Road (9); On or near Sycamore Crescent (7); On or near Acorn Place (6); On or near Rhodfa Ddraenen Wen (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: 604 residents in 265 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 streetWales
Median age3943
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over17%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%66%
Owned outright28%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented18%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work54%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)21%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%26%
Travel to work by car or van74%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle5%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%32%
No qualifications30%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)97%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, semi-detached (lodged 16 October 2026) found 2 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

Hawthorn Avenue · Sycamore Crescent · Rhodfa Ddraenen Wen · Llys Sycamorwydden · Lle Alffa · Heol Greenwood · Greenwood Road · Hawthorn Avenue · Chestnut Road · Heol Albion · Kier Hardy · Ash Grove

All the streets in SA12 and across Neath Port Talbot.

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.