Bretonside Barbican, Plymouth

1 address across 1 postcode (PL4), about 30 m long. USRN 30205588.

  • Flood: 9 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 B; Band D in Plymouth costs £2,442 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 78% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Plymouth, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Beaumont Park, is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 4 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Friary House Surgery, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 24% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 577 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
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Apr 202644 PL4 0AUOther£45,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jun 201746 PL4 0AUOther£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 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 Plymouth in 2026-27: Band D £2,442 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,628£1,899£2,171£2,442£2,984£3,527£4,070£4,884

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (27% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Barbican (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMOs Mutley, Greenbank, City Centre and surrounding areas.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 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: of the 7 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 7 very low.

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: the 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.

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 address is about 4 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
PL4 0AU89%89%78%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 stationsPlymouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Devonport 50,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Dockyard (Devonport) 15,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 89 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Charles Church Plymouth City Centre100 m
Bus or coach stationPlymouth Coach Station Plymouth City Centre720 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalPlymouth (Barbican) Landing Stage560 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Discovery Wharf, PL440 m
EV charging points25 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCornwall Airport Newquay NQY61.7 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL127 km (79 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friary House Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy180 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Plymouth City Centre Dental Practice290 m
HospitalMount Gould Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationCharles Cross Police Station260 m
Cash machines10 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM190 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beaumont Park 3.5 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hoe Park 11 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²270 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.7 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Charles Church, a listed building (Grade I), 180 m north-west. 212 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 18 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Charles ChurchListed building, Grade I180 m north-west
36, Looe StreetListed building, Grade II*250 m south-west
Custom HouseListed building, Grade II*310 m south-west
Old Custom HouseListed building, Grade II*370 m south-west
Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary CourtScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) north-east
Plymouth Castle (remains of)Scheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) south
Civic Square, PlymouthRegistered park or garden, Grade II640 m (0.4 miles) west
The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the HoeScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
The HoeRegistered park or garden, Grade II840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Teats HillHill540 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Drake's Place ReservoirLake or reservoir700 m (0.4 miles) north
Deadman's BayBay830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Arnold's PointWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Jenny CliffCliff or slope2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Warren PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
65 to 6910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 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 Plymouth: see them on the Plymouth 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
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11200 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mount Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Salisbury Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Plymouth High School for GirlsSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Pilgrim Primary AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Andrew's Cof E VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Cathedral School of St Mary Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 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: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Prince Rock Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Millbay AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lipson Vale Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lipson Co-operative AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Premier Plymouth PL4 0AURetailers - other10 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Sep 2025
Jalwa Indian Bistro PL4 0AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2025
Bretonside Kebab PL4 0AUTakeaway/sandwich shop20 mAwaiting inspection
Plaza Snooker Club PL4 0AUPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Minerva Cafe PL4 0BDOther catering premises30 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Jun 2025
Signature Strawberries Ltd PL4 0RBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Bombay Burger Kitchen PL4 0BBTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m4 Good17 Sep 2024
The Kings Head PL4 0BBPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good22 Nov 2017
Babawok / Uno Street Food PL4 0BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good6 Aug 2026
Lebneaz - Wraps PL4 0BBTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m4 Good2 Sep 2026
Sappho's Plymouth PL4 0BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Dragon & Draught PL4 0BDTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
Cafe Kiss PL4 0BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good27 Oct 2025
Rumours PL4 0BBPub/bar/nightclub80 mAwaiting inspection
Sawan PL4 0DFPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good14 Mar 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.

577 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences221
Anti-social behaviour86
Other theft71
Criminal damage and arson49
Shoplifting47
Public order38
Vehicle crime13
Other crime11
Drugs11
Burglary11
Possession of weapons8
Theft from the person8
Robbery3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Moon Street (63); On or near Gasking Street (44); On or near Parking Area (43); On or near Trafalgar Street (42); On or near Friary Street (39).

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: 209 residents in 138 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 age4140
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented60%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%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)48%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • PL4 0AU: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hawkers Avenue · Moon Street · Martin Lane · Bilbury Street · Tin Lane · North Quay · Looe Street · Lower Street · Harbour Avenue · Sutton Wharf · Breton Side · Hill Street

All the streets in PL4 and across Plymouth.

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.