Brick Knoll Park St Albans

148 addresses across 111 postcodes (AL1,AL2,AL3,AL4,AL5), about 470 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 37302133.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in St Albans cost £655,974 in August 2026 (+3.2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,934 a month.
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in St Albans costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St Albans City, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 310 m away, and Highfield Park (33 hectares) is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 93 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 149 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hatfield Road Surgery, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 125 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
All 7 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 2017UNIT 2B AL1 5UGOther£875,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Oct 2015UNIT 2B AL1 5UGOther£700,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Aug 2022UNIT 4 AL1 5UGOther£6,150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Aug 2022UNIT 4 AL1 5UGOther£5,550,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 2017ST. ALBANS DELIVERY OFFICE, 12 - 14 AL1 5BBOther£1,021,042Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Mar 2022EVANS HALSHAW VAUXHALL AL1 5UGOther£12,756,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jan 2021EVANS HALSHAW VAUXHALL AL1 5UGOther£5,100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in St Albans

A typical home in St Albans cost £655,974 in August 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 19% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,274,817
Semi-detached£780,991
Terraced£585,030
Flat or maisonette£330,508
Bought by a first-time buyer£481,627

Private renters in St Albans paid £1,934 a month on average in September 2026, 2.7% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,272
Two bedrooms£1,635
Three bedrooms£2,023
Four or more bedrooms£2,907

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,040 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 13,577 kWh, and 3,420 kWh of electricity, 8% less than the district's 3,737 kWh. There are gas meters for about 81% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
AL1 5DE92,985 kWh 815,347 kWh
AL1 5NT28 14 Economy 72,589 kWh 227,397 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is AL1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in St Albans in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,150£2,419£2,957£3,494£4,032£4,838

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (49% of about 2,140 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): Brick Knoll Park.
  • Tree preservation orders: 5 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Coursers Farm AD Plant (Waste AD) Hertsmere 0/0262-12 Anaerobic digestion 3 MW Operational Oct 2016 3.8 km (2.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 21 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 14 September 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, stop/go boards, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
AL1 5UGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
AL1 5DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 5BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 5UBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9UQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9FZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 1WZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 3XYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 3ZJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 4ZGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 5FEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 5NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 5NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9EZnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9FAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9FBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9FLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9FPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9FZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9GDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9GFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9GJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9HJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9JZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9LWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9LZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9PJnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9PQnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9PUnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9QDnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9QNnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9RBnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9RGnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9RJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9RRnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9SEnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9SSnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9SXnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9TBnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9TEnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9TGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9TJnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9TQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9TRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9TWnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9TYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9TZnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9UHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9ULnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9UPnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9UWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9WBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9WQnot in 2 or 3
AL1 9WRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9WSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9WUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9XPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL1 9XQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 1RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 2DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 3JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 3RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 3WBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL2 3WDnot in 2 or 3
AL2 3YZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL3 4HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL3 7ZRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 0WAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL4 8XGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 1GZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 3ZXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 4ZJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9FPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9FWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9FXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9FYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9GNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL5 9GZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 153 addresses are between 93 m and 96 m above sea level (93 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
AL1 5BB100%100%100%0%
AL1 5DE100%100%100%0%
AL1 5NT100%100%100%0%
AL1 5UB100%100%100%0%
AL1 5UG100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsSt Albans City 6.7 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
St Albans Abbey 149,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Park Street 22,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Russet Drive Hill End80 m
Bus or coach stationParkhouse Bus Station Hatfield4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Elmshall Place, AL160 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG EV Power Charging Station860 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN14.8 km (9.2 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeriesHatfield Road Surgery Good May 20181.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highfield Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colosseum Dental (St Albans)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalSt. Albans City Hospital Requires improvement Jun 20203.2 km (2 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lavender Lodge Good Nov 2018420 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationLondon Colney Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BR Spar St Albans, Jct of Hill End Lane & Highfield Lane Cashzone350 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,750 m²310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Highfield Park 33 ha370 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²230 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Longacres Open Space 4.4 ha320 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Napsbury Hospital, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.8 km (1.7 miles) south. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Napsbury HospitalRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hixberry Lane OrchardWood570 m (0.4 miles) east
Hither WoodWood800 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Cell Barnes PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south
Beech BottomValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Heron IslandIsland3.2 km (2 miles) west
St Julian's HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5920
Under 55147149

2 of the street's 149 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 St Albans: see them on the St Albans page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 63.0 (62.6 in 2025 and 59.0 in 2024); 76.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 25.1% AAB or better; progress above average
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7850 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimary7–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 28% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Cunningham Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11930 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 32% at the higher standard (2025; 88% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary5–7930 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18940 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 55.0 (56.4 in 2025 and 54.4 in 2024); 66.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 13% AAB or better; progress above average
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Samuel Ryder AcademyAll-through4–191.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.4 (56.5 in 2025 and 50.4 in 2024); 50.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 9.8% AAB or better; progress average
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Oaklands College16 plus16–991.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 910 m (0.6 miles); the nearest is 610 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Junior Adventures Group @ Windermere AL1 AL1 5QP Out-of-school day care 45 Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Ladybirds Nursery AL4 0RA Full day care 61 Outstanding (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Highfield Lane Nursery School AL4 0GX Full day care 70 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 760 m (0.5 miles)
Club Excel @ Beaumont School AL4 0XB Out-of-school day care 240 Mar 2026: Strong standard in 4 areas 800 m (0.5 miles)
St Albans Steiner Kindergarten AL1 4LQ Sessional day care 20 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 830 m (0.5 miles)
Brain Up Abacus (St Albans) AL1 4LQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 830 m (0.5 miles)
Fleetville Community Playgroup AL1 4LQ Sessional day care 24 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 830 m (0.5 miles)
Jousters At Oakwood AL4 0XA Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 890 m (0.6 miles)
Stagecoach St. Albans AL1 5QJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 910 m (0.6 miles)
Little Stars Pre-School & Nursery AL1 5QJ Sessional day care 40 Outstanding (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 841 childminders and 251 home childcarers (nannies) in Hertfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 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
Verso Vineyard St Albans AL1 5UGOther catering premises50 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Astute Healthcare AL1 5UGRetailers - other50 mExempt
BATTLEKART AL1 5UGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good15 Aug 2026
Selco Cafe St Albans AL1 5UGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good23 Jan 2026
BSQ Holdings Ltd t/a Love Hemp, Love Health, Love AL1 5UGRetailers - other130 mExempt
Hertfordshire Overnight Ltd t/a Home Counties AL1 5UGDistributors/Transporters130 mExempt
Coffee? AL1 5DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection
Ladybirds Nursery AL4 0RAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Spar AL4 0RARetailers - other390 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
St Cafe AL4 0AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Ab Salute Gym AL4 0DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Psycare, Lavender Lodge AL4 0DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Feb 2025
The Royston Club AL1 5NDPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Apr 2024

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.

125 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour26
Other theft8
Burglary7
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime4
Shoplifting4
Drugs3
Other crime2
Public order1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ashley Road (32); On or near Greensleeves Close (30); On or near Sturmer Close (26); On or near St Edmunds Walk (18); On or near Bramley Way (8).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 5 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202210
202320
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
2 Dec 2024 13:22 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Sep 2023 21:26 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
27 Apr 2023 17:51 Slight 3 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
26 Dec 2022 13:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
2 Nov 2021 17:33 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Apr 2021 13:21 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,310 residents in 520 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - C: Utility repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Hill End Lane · Greensleeves Close · Grenadier Close · Drakes Drive · Sturmer Close · Russet Drive · Ashley Road · Cambridge Road · St Edmunds Walk · Camp Road · Guildford Road · Sovereign Park

All the streets in AL1, AL2, AL3, AL4, AL5 and across St Albans.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.