Bower Close Peterborough

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (PE1), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30101112.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £430,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 7, E: 1, F: 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 A; Band D in Peterborough costs £2,293 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Peterborough, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, and Central Park (8.8 hectares) is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 164 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
20251£430,000£430,000£430,000
20231£200,000£200,000£200,000
20222£234,000£210,000£258,000
20211£220,000£220,000£220,000
20191£215,000£215,000£215,000
20171£168,000£168,000£168,000
20161£167,000£167,000£167,000
20151£165,500£165,500£165,500
20121£132,750£132,750£132,750
20091£107,500£107,500£107,500
20082£147,500£145,000£150,000
20072£123,500£90,000£157,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Nov 20254 PE1 5LLDetached£430,000
16 Aug 202318 PE1 5LLTerraced£200,000
31 Oct 202221 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£210,000
22 Apr 202212 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£258,000
17 Dec 202123 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£167,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jul 202110 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£220,000
19 Nov 201914 PE1 5LLDetached£215,000
5 May 201719 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£168,000
29 Feb 201622 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£167,000
10 Nov 20155 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£165,500
14 Aug 201221 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£132,750
7 Aug 200928 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£107,500
11 Jul 20089 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£145,000
11 Apr 20089 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£150,000
11 Dec 200728 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£90,000
30 Nov 20077 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£157,000
12 Oct 20063 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£131,000
26 Jul 200617 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£143,000
27 Jun 200624 PE1 5LLDetached£195,000
20 Jan 20051 PE1 5LLTerraced£134,000
3 Dec 20044 PE1 5LLDetached£194,995
25 Nov 20049 PE1 5LLDetached£149,000
27 Jun 200328 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£100,000
31 Mar 20037 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£104,995
15 Nov 200224 PE1 5LLDetached£110,000
28 Mar 20025 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£80,000
31 Aug 200112 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£83,000
29 Jun 20013 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£73,000
2 May 200118 PE1 5LLTerraced£82,000
20 Apr 200113 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£18,995Leasehold.
3 Jul 200017 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£68,950
7 May 199924 PE1 5LLDetached£67,000
29 Jul 199822 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£51,000
24 Apr 199828 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£54,950
3 Jun 199715 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£54,000
31 Jan 19975 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£48,000
16 Oct 199515 PE1 5LLSemi-detached£46,500
4 May 199514 PE1 5LLDetached£63,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); Bungalow, semi-detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (10); 1976-1982 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Peterborough in 2026-27: Band D £2,293 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,529£1,784£2,039£2,293£2,803£3,313£3,822£4,587

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (43% of about 760 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 13 August 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (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

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 addresses are about 14 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
PE1 5LH100%100%100%0%
PE1 5LL100%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 stationsPeterborough 5.3 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Whittlesea 51,000 journeys in 2024–258.2 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wheatsheaf Eastfield130 m
Bus or coach stationQueensgate Bus Park Peterborough1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksWellington Street Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA79.4 km (49 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mi Pharmacy (Eastfield Road Branch)870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalPeterborough City Hospital3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationThorpe Wood Police Station5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone870 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Central Park 8.8 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,610 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,360 m²370 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,270 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Touthill and site of castle baileyScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Peterborough Cathedral Precincts, including Table Hall and Infirmary ArcadeScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Peterborough Cathedral PrecinctsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Norwood SpinneyWood3.2 km (2 miles) north
Highlees SpinneyWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) west
Holywell PondsLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west
Grimeshaw WoodWood4.5 km (2.8 miles) west
Horsey HillHill4.6 km (2.9 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
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 5910
Under 552627

1 of the street's 27 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 Peterborough: see them on the Peterborough 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
City of Peterborough AcademySecondary11–16280 m Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Inspire Education Group16 plus16–99350 m No published inspection
St John Fisher Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Newark Hill AcademyPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greater Peterborough UTCSecondary11–19580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lime Academy AbbotsmedePrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 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
Thomas Deacon AcademyAll-through7–19850 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dogsthorpe Infant SchoolPrimary5–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The King's (The Cathedral) School Church of EnglandAll-through7–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen's Drive Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.1 km (0.7 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
Dogsthorpe AcademyPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Anna Ca-Soo Day Nursery PE1 4RAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Golden House PE1 4RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
The Tuck Shop PE1 4RATakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good18 May 2026
Costcutter PE1 4RARetailers - other90 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Eastfield Off Licence PE1 4RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Medeshampstede Academy PE1 5LQSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Florinee Homes – Madison House PE1 4BHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Parcs Nursery PE1 4DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Parc's Restaurant PE1 4DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Inspire Education Group PE1 4DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Caterlink @ Greater Peterborough UTC PE1 4DZSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good10 Sep 2024
Ali Baba Store PE1 5LERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good12 May 2023
The Chestnuts Comm Centre CIO PE1 5LDOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Nov 2023
Greengate Court Sheltered Scheme PE1 5LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

164 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences72
Anti-social behaviour28
Public order19
Other theft11
Criminal damage and arson9
Burglary5
Shoplifting4
Other crime4
Vehicle crime4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (56); On or near Tait Close (40); On or near Ashcroft Gardens (18); On or near Shire Grove (17); On or near Delamere Close (11).

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: 756 residents in 282 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Shire Grove · Briar Way · Ashcroft Gardens · Osric Court · Tait Close · Eastfield Road · Delamere Close · Gracechurch Court · Dunstan Court · College Park · Mansfield Court · Fleetwood Mews

All the streets in PE1 and across Peterborough.

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.