Broadsman Close Norwich

9 addresses across 3 postcodes (NR1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28910216.

  • Flood: 4 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 Norwich costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 75% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Carrow Park, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 3 to 4 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Norwich Practices Health Centre, about 950 m (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 359 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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 (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Mar 2020S T S TYRE PRO NR1 1WYOther£1,085,007Not 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 Norwich in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,060£3,616£4,172£5,007

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,920 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 2 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): 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 31 October 2026.

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, 4 at medium risk and 18 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 23 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 20 low and 0 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: 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
NR1 1WYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR1 1HSzone 2 0 / 4 / 17 unlikely
NR1 1JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 9 addresses are between 3 m and 4 m above sea level (3 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
NR1 1HS100%100%100%0%
NR1 1JF100%100%100%0%
NR1 1WY100%75%75%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 stationsNorwich 4.6 million journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Brundall Gardens 18,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Salhouse 14,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Big Yellow Storage Norwich80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car Park - Norwich240 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN110 km (68 miles)

Local services

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

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Norwich Practices Health Centre950 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots380 m
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Riverside Dental500 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalColman Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationBethel Street Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesZams Chicken Cashzone820 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carrow Park 5,220 m²140 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carrow Park Community Sports Foundation 2,770 m²180 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,700 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Rosary Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 550 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 140 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 17 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Rosary CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Conservatory at Carrow HouseListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Carrow Priory (ruined portions)Scheduled monument560 m (0.3 miles) south
Carrow AbbeyListed building, Grade I570 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St EtheldredaListed building, Grade I610 m (0.4 miles) west
Music HouseListed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) west
Watergate, The CloseScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Remains of St Leonard's PrioryScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) north
Garden at Ketts Castle VillaRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The WildernessWood570 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bracondale GroveWood600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Trowse EyeTidal water790 m (0.5 miles) east
Whitlingham Little BroadLake or reservoir890 m (0.6 miles) east
St Catherine's HillHill910 m (0.6 miles) west
Whitlingham MarshWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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 6954
60 to 6434
55 to 5901
Under 5500

9 of the street's 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 9 from railways, 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 Norwich: see them on the Norwich page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Lionwood Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Charles Darwin Primary SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Notre Dame High School, Norwich Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lakenham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lionwood Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Free School NorwichPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Trowse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Free School16 plus16–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Jane Austen CollegeSecondary11–191.7 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bignold Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education16 plus16–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Hewett AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Norwich City Football Club - Corporate Catering NR1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Norwich City Football Club - Public Catering NR1 1JETakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Holiday Inn Norwich City NR1 1HUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house220 m5 Very good28 Aug 2025
Morrisons Daily Norwich NR1 1WURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Pret A Manger @ Morrisons Daily Norwich NR1 1WURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 mAwaiting inspection
Marlborough Hotel NR1 1EZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house290 m5 Very good2 Sep 2023
Abbey Guest House NR1 1EZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m4 Good13 May 2019
Revado Hotel NR1 1EZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house330 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
The Norwich Hotel NR1 1RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m4 Good16 Nov 2021
The Norwich Hotel (catering) NR1 1RUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house350 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Costa Coffee NR1 1WRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good24 Jun 2025
Hobbycraft NR1 1WRRetailers - other380 m5 Very good8 Aug 2023
Argos NR1 1WRRetailers - other380 m5 Very good8 Aug 2023
Boots UK Ltd NR1 1WRRetailers - other380 m5 Very good8 Aug 2023
Morrison's Supermarket NR1 1WRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good9 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.

359 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting188
Violence and sexual offences53
Drugs38
Criminal damage and arson23
Anti-social behaviour16
Public order15
Other theft8
Possession of weapons5
Vehicle crime5
Other crime2
Burglary2
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Koblenz Avenue (199); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (60); On or near Clarence Road (50); On or near Kerrison Road (27); On or near Carrow Road (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 418 residents in 230 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 age3440
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented46%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%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)51%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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

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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.

  • NR1 1WY: 7 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • NR1 1HS: 1 address of 31 in the postcode
  • NR1 1JF: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Canary Way · Carrow Road · Kerrison Road · Clarence Road · Koblenz Avenue · Cozens Road · Hardy Road · Cedar Road · Canaryfields · Prospect Terrace · Harbour Road · Geoffrey Watling Way

All the streets in NR1 and across Norwich.

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.