Briar Grove Ely, East Cambridgeshire

28 addresses across 1 postcode (CB6), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12004122.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £385,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20, D: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in East Cambridgeshire costs £2,485 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ely, about 1.7 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Mary's Surgery, about 1.0 km away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 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
20261£385,000£385,000£385,000
20243£380,000£350,000£550,000
20221£362,500£362,500£362,500
20211£310,000£310,000£310,000
20191£315,000£315,000£315,000
20171£302,550£302,550£302,550
20132£230,000£192,500£267,500
20121£198,000£198,000£198,000
20111£187,500£187,500£187,500
20102£195,000£195,000£195,000
20091£184,000£184,000£184,000
20079£194,999£160,545£225,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Feb 202621 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£385,000
7 Aug 20257 CB6 3EUDetached£630,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Nov 202426 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£350,000
10 Oct 202419 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£380,000
12 Mar 20246 CB6 3EUDetached£550,000
17 Jan 20228 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£362,500
12 Nov 20219 CB6 3EUDetached£310,000
17 May 201924 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£315,000
9 Jan 201721 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£302,550
4 Oct 201326 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£192,500
12 Apr 20136 CB6 3EUDetached£267,500
27 Apr 201219 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£198,000
25 Nov 20114 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£187,500
15 Dec 201028 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£195,000
27 Aug 20101 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£195,000
14 Jan 200919 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£184,000
27 Jun 200726 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£193,000New build.
22 Jun 200725 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£194,999New build.
22 Jun 200724 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£190,000New build.
31 May 200728 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£210,000
31 May 200727 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£205,000
30 Mar 200720 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£225,000New build.
23 Mar 200721 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£210,000New build.
28 Feb 200723 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£168,999New build.
28 Feb 200722 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£160,545New build.
29 Dec 20067 CB6 3EUDetached£317,500New build.
22 Dec 200619 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£235,999New build.
22 Dec 200617 CB6 3EUTerraced£195,999New build.
22 Dec 200618 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£189,999New build.
20 Dec 200612 CB6 3EUTerraced£178,000New build.
20 Dec 200616 CB6 3EUTerraced£178,000New build.
20 Dec 200615 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£178,000New build.
20 Dec 200614 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£178,000New build.
30 Nov 20068 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£194,999New build.
30 Nov 200611 CB6 3EUTerraced£189,999New build.
30 Nov 200610 CB6 3EUTerraced£189,999New build.
28 Nov 20069 CB6 3EUDetached£215,000New build.
31 Jul 20066 CB6 3EUDetached£250,000New build.
31 Jul 20065 CB6 3EUDetached£179,999New build.
27 Jul 20064 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£179,999New build.
30 Jun 20062 CB6 3EUDetached£207,999New build.
30 Jun 20063 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£204,995New build.
30 Jun 20061 CB6 3EUSemi-detached£187,000New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 2003-2006 (16); 2007-2011 (3); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,485 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,657£1,933£2,209£2,485£3,037£3,590£4,142£4,970

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 700 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.

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: no postcode centre 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 23 m and 25 m above sea level (24 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
CB6 3EU100%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 stationsEly 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km
Littleport 252,000 journeys in 2024–258.8 km
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–259.0 km
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 27 within 800 m; nearest The Glaives Ely110 m
Car parksForehill Car Park1.6 km
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest Roam Charging Station710 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN56.9 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest St Mary's Surgery1.0 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest St Mary's Pharmacy1.0 km
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Enhance Dental920 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital2.8 km
Police stationEly Police Station1.5 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Watford - Carpenders Park, Carpenders Park1.0 km

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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 9.2 ha60 m
Play area11 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 250 m²120 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha220 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Canterbury Avenue Allotments 470 m²340 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 9.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Barn to south-west of St John's Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade I), 650 m east. 22 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 4 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barn to south-west of St John's FarmhouseListed building, Grade I650 m east
Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene, St John's FarmScheduled monument720 m east
St John's FarmhouseListed building, Grade I780 m east
Infirmary hall to the north of St John's Farmhouse (formerly Barn to the north of St John's Farmhouse)Listed building, Grade I780 m east
Dove house to St John's FarmListed building, Grade I790 m east
Ely Cathedral: claustral buildingsScheduled monument1.4 km east
'Cherry Hill', castle moundScheduled monument1.4 km east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roswell PitsLake or reservoir2.9 km east
Little HillHill3.6 km west
Redmoor PlantationWood4.5 km north-east
Burnt HillHill4.5 km west
Quanea HillHill4.5 km east
The RookeryWood4.7 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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 5950
Under 552328

5 of the street's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Ely St John's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11140 m 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
Ely CollegeSecondary11–181.4 km No published inspection
Lantern Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kids Club Ely Ltd CB6 3BWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good5 Aug 2022
Lunchtime Company Ltd At Ely St Johns Primary School CB6 3BWSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good29 Jan 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Vehicle crime4
Public order3
Other crime3
Bicycle theft2
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs2
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wheatsheaf Close (14); On or near Morley Drive (10); On or near Hertford Close (4); On or near Kingsley Walk (2); On or near Murfitt Close (1).

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: 312 residents in 125 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 age3940
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership11%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work77%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)52%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • CB6 3EU: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kingsley Walk · Pasture Grove · Meadow Way · The Glaives · Hollendale Walk · Hertford Close · Murfitt Close · Morley Drive · Leicester Close · Alexander Chase · Northampton Close · Windmill Close

All the streets in CB6 and across East Cambridgeshire.

What this page cannot tell you

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

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.