Capper Road Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire

115 addresses across 4 postcodes (CB25), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 35302245.

  • Sales: 99 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 101 homes have an energy certificate (A: 3, B: 3, C: 81, D: 13, E: 1).
  • Flood: 18 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 South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Waterbeach, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 2 to 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 115 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Waterbeach And Cottenham Surgeries, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 930 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 59% 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£380,000£380,000£380,000
20259£335,000£230,000£390,000
20247£250,000£225,000£380,000
20235£390,000£354,000£473,000
20221£290,000£290,000£290,000
20204£296,250£106,000£362,000
20195£335,000£210,000£375,000
20181£425,000£425,000£425,000
20161£225,000£225,000£225,000
201518£242,950£242,200£259,950
201423£221,750£171,500£249,950
20134£201,176£194,800£220,850
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 99)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Apr 202625 CB25 9LYTerraced£380,000
19 Dec 202530 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£311,000
29 Aug 202526 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£335,000
27 Aug 20257 CB25 9LYTerraced£390,000
30 Jun 20251, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£246,000New build. Leasehold.
15 May 202526 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Apr 202513 CB25 9LYTerraced£390,000
11 Apr 202523 CB25 9LYTerraced£371,000
27 Mar 202540 CB25 9LYTerraced£355,000
27 Mar 20256, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£230,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Mar 20252, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£247,500New build. Leasehold.
30 Oct 20244, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£250,000New build. Leasehold.
30 Oct 20243, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£250,000New build. Leasehold.
6 Sep 202411 CB25 9LYTerraced£380,000
2 Aug 20247, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£225,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Jul 202441 CB25 9LYTerraced£325,000
24 Jun 20248, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£225,000New build. Leasehold.
3 May 202410, LANCASTER HOUSE CB25 9JSFlat or maisonette£230,000New build. Leasehold.
5 Jan 20245 CB25 9LYTerraced£415,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 202415 CB25 9LYTerraced£415,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 20239 CB25 9LYTerraced£425,000
25 Oct 202317 CB25 9LYTerraced£390,000
24 Aug 202373 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£473,000
12 May 202310 CB25 9LYTerraced£388,000
17 Jan 202337 CB25 9LYTerraced£354,000
24 Aug 202247 CB25 9LYTerraced£290,000
14 Apr 2022THE BEACH HUT CB25 9LYOther£636,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Nov 202087 CB25 9NZFlat or maisonette£106,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 202041 CB25 9LYTerraced£270,000
28 Aug 202029 CB25 9LYTerraced£322,500
24 Jan 202053 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£362,000
20 Dec 201981 CB25 9NZFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 201922 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£335,000
4 Jun 201912 CB25 9LYTerraced£375,000
31 May 201920 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£279,000
7 Mar 201910 CB25 9LYTerraced£335,000
20 Jul 201816 CB25 9LYTerraced£425,000
11 Jul 201877 CB25 9NZFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Aug 201681 CB25 9NZFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 201559 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
26 Aug 201565 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
4 Aug 201569 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£244,950
4 Aug 201551 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
10 Jul 201563 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,200
12 Jun 201528 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
5 Jun 201561 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£259,200
5 Jun 201567 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
5 Jun 201555 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,950
29 May 201526 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£242,200
8 May 201571 CB25 9LYSemi-detached£244,200

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 dates from March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

101 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: Flat (46); House, semi-detached (27); House, mid-terrace (15). Built: 1950-1966 (41); 1967-1975 (32); 2021 (13). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (43); rented (social) (32); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (47 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (48% of about 770 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: CAMBRIDGE WATER COMPANY, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 14 at medium risk and 33 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 94 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 48 low and 1 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB25 9LYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 11 unlikely
CB25 9NZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 12 / 21 unlikely
CB25 9JSnot in 2 or 3
CB25 9LSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 115 addresses are between 2 m and 5 m above sea level (4 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
CB25 9JS100%100%100%0%
CB25 9LS100%100%100%0%
CB25 9LY100%97%97%0%
CB25 9NZ100%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 stationsWaterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fletcher Avenue Waterbeach50 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN43.3 km (27 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waterbeach And Cottenham Surgeries460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waterbeach Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentistsWiese And Associates5.1 km (3.2 miles)
HospitalSpire Cambridge Lea Hospital6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Police stationHiston Police Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Waterbeach Cashzone2.7 km (1.7 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 Unnamed 3,050 m²200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6,850 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²210 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.6 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha950 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Waterbeach Abbey (site of), a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.8 miles) south. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waterbeach Abbey (site of)Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south
Car DykeScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cow Hollow WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Biggin Pin PlantationWood4.3 km (2.7 miles) south
Three Cornered PlantationWood4.5 km (2.8 miles) south
Dickerson's PitLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) south-west
Todd's PitLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) south-west
The WrensWood4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 5910
Under 55114115

1 of the street's 115 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Waterbeach Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd CB25 9LSRetailers - other260 m5 Very good24 Sep 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 offences19
Shoplifting4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fletcher Avenue (10); On or near Harvey Way (9); On or near Kirby Terrace (8); On or near Capper Road (3); On or near Watermans Road (2).

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: 925 residents in 366 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 age3340
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work84%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%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)59%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

Nearby streets

Fletcher Avenue · Dowding Avenue · Kirby Road · Templar Walk · Kirby Road · Bannold Drove · Cammell Walk · Watermans Road · Kirby Terrace · Star Drive · Hop Bine Drive · Dimmock Road

All the streets in CB25 and across South 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.