Carleton Rise Welwyn

65 addresses across 5 postcodes (AL6), about 780 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 43003135.

  • Sales: 67 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £757,500 across 7 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Welwyn Hatfield cost £446,043 in August 2026 (+0.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,510 a month.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 21, E: 5).
  • 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.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Fulling Mill Lane, is 280 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band F; Band D in Welwyn Hatfield costs £2,452 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 79% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Welwyn North, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Singlers Marsh, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 74 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 65 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bridge Cottage Surgery, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 750 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 4 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20247£757,500£740,000£1,120,000
20232£623,500£592,000£655,000
20221£802,000£802,000£802,000
20215£775,000£673,850£810,000
20192£778,000£675,000£881,000
20183£700,000£680,000£745,000
20172£656,500£620,000£693,000
20152£650,000£650,000£650,000
20122£515,000£410,000£620,000
20111£385,000£385,000£385,000
20092£429,475£359,000£499,950
20082£461,000£422,000£500,000
All 67 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Nov 20151 AL6 9RPDetached£650,000
11 Aug 19952 AL6 9RADetached£177,000
7 Jan 20213 AL6 9RPDetached£673,850
22 Oct 20025 AL6 9RPDetached£300,000
27 Mar 20266 AL6 9RADetached£693,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 20248 AL6 9RADetached£800,000
13 Aug 19989 AL6 9RPDetached£195,000
15 Jul 202210 AL6 9RADetached£802,000
29 Jan 202111 AL6 9RPDetached£799,000
16 Jul 200711 AL6 9RPDetached£650,000
10 Nov 200311 AL6 9RPDetached£495,000
2 Dec 199811 AL6 9RPDetached£55,000
29 Nov 201912 AL6 9RADetached£675,000
29 Sep 202113 AL6 9RPDetached£810,000
25 Jun 200813 AL6 9RPDetached£422,000
27 May 199914 AL6 9RADetached£218,000
26 Mar 201817 AL6 9RPDetached£700,000
1 Sep 199717 AL6 9RPDetached£210,000
5 May 199522 AL6 9RFDetached£169,950
20 Jun 199523 AL6 9RPDetached£193,000
23 Aug 202424 AL6 9RFDetached£980,000
23 Feb 200725 AL6 9RPSemi-detached£460,000
26 Apr 200125 AL6 9RPSemi-detached£250,000
25 Oct 201926 AL6 9RFDetached£881,000
23 Jun 199526 AL6 9RFDetached£182,500
7 Jun 202427 AL6 9RPDetached£757,500
6 Sep 199629 AL6 9RPDetached£187,500
25 Oct 202432 AL6 9RFDetached£1,120,000
12 Apr 201232 AL6 9RFDetached£620,000
1 Aug 200232 AL6 9RFDetached£410,000
3 Jul 201833 AL6 9RPDetached£745,000
19 Jan 202434 AL6 9RFDetached£740,000
9 Apr 200236 AL6 9RFDetached£475,000
13 Jul 200137 AL6 9RPDetached£320,000
5 Nov 199837 AL6 9RPDetached£215,000
16 Dec 199737 AL6 9RPDetached£195,000
3 Feb 201239 AL6 9RQSemi-detached£410,000
22 Nov 200140 AL6 9RGDetached£350,000
30 Nov 199541 AL6 9RQDetached£125,000
31 Jul 201545 AL6 9RQDetached£650,000
28 Nov 201145 AL6 9RQDetached£385,000
15 Jul 200446 AL6 9RGDetached£450,000
26 Jan 202147 AL6 9RQDetached£753,000
10 Nov 199948 AL6 9RGDetached£262,200
29 Oct 200149 AL6 9RQDetached£287,000
5 Oct 200750 AL6 9RGDetached£579,950
27 Jun 201752 AL6 9RGDetached£620,000
20 Apr 199553 AL6 9RQDetached£168,000
30 Sep 202154 AL6 9RGDetached£775,000
14 Aug 199854 AL6 9RGDetached£203,000
8 Jun 202355 AL6 9RQDetached£655,000
25 Oct 200255 AL6 9RQDetached£325,000
5 Jul 202456 AL6 9RGDetached£753,000
2 Nov 201756 AL6 9RGDetached£693,000
21 Dec 200756 AL6 9RGDetached£530,000
22 Dec 200957 AL6 9RQDetached£499,950
7 Mar 200857 AL6 9RQDetached£500,000
30 May 200257 AL6 9RQDetached£315,000
1 Dec 202358 AL6 9RGDetached£592,000
31 Oct 200058 AL6 9RGDetached£272,000
12 Dec 200159 AL6 9RQDetached£305,000
31 Jan 202460 AL6 9RGDetached£745,000
30 Jul 201860 AL6 9RGDetached£680,000
9 Jul 200460 AL6 9RGDetached£445,000
7 Apr 200962 AL6 9RGDetached£359,000
16 Sep 199662 AL6 9RGDetached£153,500
6 Jan 199564 AL6 9RGDetached£175,000

House prices and rents in Welwyn Hatfield

A typical home in Welwyn Hatfield cost £446,043 in August 2026, 0.7% more than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 13% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£946,848
Semi-detached£525,806
Terraced£406,393
Flat or maisonette£243,974
Bought by a first-time buyer£359,339

Private renters in Welwyn Hatfield paid £1,510 a month on average in September 2026, 3.3% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,061
Two bedrooms£1,373
Three bedrooms£1,645
Four or more bedrooms£2,333

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

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 149 m². Most common: House, detached (32); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (25); 1950-1966 (5); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (30).

Each home's certificates and sales (33 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 20,858 kWh of it on average in 2024, 17% more than the district's 17,766 kWh, and 4,775 kWh of electricity, 5% less than the district's 5,039 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
AL6 9RP173,517 kWh 1919,323 kWh
AL6 9RG145,606 kWh 1420,418 kWh
AL6 9RQ124,344 kWh 1222,589 kWh
AL6 9RF115,068 kWh 1117,607 kWh
AL6 9RA73,814 kWh 721,944 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 AL6.

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 Welwyn Hatfield in 2026-27: Band D £2,452 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,635£1,907£2,180£2,452£2,997£3,542£4,087£4,905

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (33% of about 670 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

  • 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 20 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 14 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - emergency works)
  • 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 30 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 21 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 17 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency 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
AL6 9RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
AL6 9RGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
AL6 9RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
AL6 9RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
AL6 9RAnot 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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 280 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Fulling Mill Lane Welwyn, Hertfordshire 1957 to 1962 Inert 280 m
Fulling Mill Lane Welwyn, Hertfordshire 1957 to 1962 Inert 360 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 65 addresses are between 74 m and 92 m above sea level (84 m on average); the ground rises about 18 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
AL6 9RA100%86%86%0%
AL6 9RF100%100%100%0%
AL6 9RG100%79%79%0%
AL6 9RP100%90%90%0%
AL6 9RQ100%92%92%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 stationsWelwyn North 387,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Welwyn Garden City 2.5 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Knebworth 437,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Vineyards Welwyn90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Welwyn Garden City3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lockleys Drive Car Park510 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN11.4 km (7.1 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. 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Cottage Surgery Good Jun 2016560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barnes Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.4 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalNew Qeii Hospital Cdc6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gombards Good Mar 2020670 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationHertfordshire Constabulary4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Knightsfield, Knightsfield Cashzone2.4 km (1.5 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Singlers Marsh 6.3 ha240 m
Play areaOttway Walk Play Area 2,900 m²800 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldWelwyn Playing Fields 3.6 ha850 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Guessens, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m south. 63 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
GuessensListed building, Grade II*380 m south
Dicket Mead Roman villaScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Lockleys Roman villaScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oakhills WoodWood610 m (0.4 miles) west
Rolls WoodWood820 m (0.5 miles) north
Catchpole WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Stocking SpringWood1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Digswell LakeLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Black Fan ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
60 to 641000
55 to 59800
Under 55466565

19 of the street's 65 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 Welwyn Hatfield: see them on the Welwyn Hatfield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
Welwyn St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Tenterfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Oaklands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Monk's Walk SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.9 (50.8 in 2025 and 50.4 in 2024); 45.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 27% AAB or better; progress 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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 920 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Acorn Playgroup & Pre-School AL6 9FN Full day care 32 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 6 areas 920 m (0.6 miles)
Rising Stars Wrap Around Clubs Ltd AL6 9DJ Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 940 m (0.6 miles)
Meadow View Childcare AL6 0PL Full day care 85 Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (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 6 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
The Wellington AL6 9LZPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Oct 2024
The Rose and Crown AL6 9LXPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Nov 2024
St Marys Church Hall AL6 9LXOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 2010
Rodi Restaurant AL6 9LNTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Sep 2023
The Lemon Plaice AL6 9LNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Katie's Bakery AL6 9EERetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Jun 2026

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.

4 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Roman Way (2); On or near Grange Hill (1); On or near Carleton Rise (1).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 747 residents in 315 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)58%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)52%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - C: Utility repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 19 October 2026 to 22 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: CADENT GAS LIMITED: Utility repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 to 22 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 September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • AL6 9RP: 21 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • AL6 9RG: 14 addresses
  • AL6 9RQ: 12 addresses
  • AL6 9RF: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • AL6 9RA: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Codicote Road · Grange Hill · Codicote Road · Roman Way · Blakes Way · Dewars Close · Riverside · Nathans Close · Kindersley Close · Fulling Mill Lane · B656 · Hensley Close

All the streets in AL6 and across Welwyn Hatfield.

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.