Bower Spring Sheffield

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (S3), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34401215.

  • Flood: 2 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 A; Band D in Sheffield costs £2,510 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sheffield, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 550 m (0.3 miles) away, and The Ponderosa (12 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Clover City Practice, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 140 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 13% of households owned their home and 61% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 256 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Sheffield in 2026-27: Band D £2,510 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,673£1,952£2,231£2,510£3,068£3,626£4,184£5,020

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (54% of about 2,070 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: yes, Furnace Hill. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
S3 8PBzone 2 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
S3 8PNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 2 addresses are between 50 m and 52 m above sea level (51 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
S3 8PB100%100%100%0%
S3 8PN100%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 stationsSheffield 10 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Darnall 22,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Meadowhall 1.9 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramCathedral470 m (0.3 miles)
Kelham Island500 m (0.3 miles)
Castle Square520 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 88 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gibraltar Street/Bower Spring Sheffield Centre10 m
Bus or coach stationSheffield Interchange/A1 Sheffield Centre800 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brookshaw Retail Park Car Park150 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN53.9 km (34 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clover City Practice600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Green Lane (Dental Surgery)490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSheffield Childrens Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationWest Bar Police Station250 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 1 High Street Lloyds Bank460 m (0.3 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 5.0 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Ponderosa 12 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,040 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2,370 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsHolberry Gardens Allotment Gardens 1,990 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of the former tool steelworks at Bower Spring, a scheduled monument, 30 m. 199 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 22 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of the former tool steelworks at Bower SpringScheduled monument30 m
24, Paradise SquareListed building, Grade II*290 m south
14-22, Paradise SquareListed building, Grade II*290 m south
4-12 Paradise Square and attached railingsListed building, Grade II*310 m south
17 and 19, Paradise SquareListed building, Grade II*320 m south
Buried remains of the former Marshall’s Millsands steelworksScheduled monument370 m east
Remains of the former Doncaster Street Steelworks including the standing structure of a cementation furnaceScheduled monument440 m (0.3 miles) west
Weston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
Monument Grounds, SheffieldRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
WoodsideWood630 m (0.4 miles) north
Clay WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) south-east
Little Roe WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Sharrow ValeValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Wood HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-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)17.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 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 Sheffield: see them on the Sheffield 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
Netherthorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Astrea Academy SheffieldAll-through2–18770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pye Bank CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grace Owen Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Springfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
UTC Sheffield City CentreSecondary13–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Byron Wood Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Broomhall Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Sheffield College16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
All Saints' Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Shakespeare's S3 8UBPub/bar/nightclub30 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Oct 2023
W Cake or Bread S3 8UARetailers - other40 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jan 2026
The First Sip S3 8UARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Giordana Pizza S3 8PTTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m4 Good22 Jan 2025
Native S3 8UARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good28 Aug 2025
7 Spices Balti S3 8PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good22 Oct 2025
Banana Industries S3 8UARetailers - other60 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
National Emergency Services Museum S3 8PTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Dec 2018
The Copper Kettle S3 7AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good19 Oct 2023
Hampton by Hilton Sheffield S1 2DAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Kelham Island Tavern S3 8RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good11 Mar 2024
The Fat Cat S3 8SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good18 Dec 2018
Karbon S3 8SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
2 Father’s Catering Ltd S3 8SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good18 Sep 2024
Feast S1 2DWOther catering premises200 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025

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.

256 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences81
Anti-social behaviour37
Shoplifting31
Other theft23
Public order18
Criminal damage and arson14
Vehicle crime14
Burglary14
Other crime6
Drugs6
Robbery6
Bicycle theft4
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (69); On or near Alma Street (58); On or near Silver Street (27); On or near West Bar (23); On or near Westbar Green (16).

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: 143 residents in 116 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 age2940
Children under 151%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright4%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented82%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)61%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • S3 8PB: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
  • S3 8PN: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gibraltar Street · Furnace Hill · Corporation Street · Steelhouse Lane · Cupola · Spring Street · West Bar · Copper Street · Workhouse Lane · Lambert Street · Penistone Road · Russell Street

All the streets in S3 and across Sheffield.

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.