Carter Street Sandy, Central Bedfordshire

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (SG19), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25201792.

  • Sales: 80 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £254,750 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 15, E: 2).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandy, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandy Health Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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
20242£254,750£233,500£276,000
20233£282,000£240,000£365,000
20224£277,000£230,000£290,000
20214£259,500£209,950£355,000
20202£199,500£184,000£215,000
20192£218,750£200,000£237,500
20182£219,000£203,000£235,000
20171£362,500£362,500£362,500
20164£213,725£203,000£220,000
20143£210,000£160,000£245,000
20131£135,000£135,000£135,000
20124£132,250£125,000£157,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 80)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jul 202432 SG19 1BTTerraced£276,000
5 Jan 202424 SG19 1BTTerraced£233,500
20 Dec 20237 SG19 1BTTerraced£240,000
20 Oct 202321 SG19 1BTDetached£365,000
3 Feb 20236 SG19 1BTTerraced£282,000
6 Dec 202230 SG19 1BTTerraced£285,000
22 Sep 20228 SG19 1BTTerraced£230,000
4 Aug 202234 SG19 1BTTerraced£290,000
24 Jun 20222 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£269,000
28 Sep 20213 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£280,000
17 Sep 202122 SG19 1BTTerraced£239,000
31 Aug 202117 SG19 1BTDetached£355,000
28 Jun 202132 SG19 1BTTerraced£209,950
31 Jan 20207 SG19 1BTTerraced£184,000
20 Jan 20202 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£215,000
31 May 201930 SG19 1BTTerraced£237,500
7 May 201912 SG19 1BTTerraced£200,000
20 Jul 20185 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£203,000
29 Jun 201822 SG19 1BTTerraced£235,000
1 Sep 201715 SG19 1BTDetached£362,500
12 Dec 201622 SG19 1BTTerraced£203,000
28 Jun 201630 SG19 1BTTerraced£220,000
21 Jun 201634 SG19 1BTTerraced£219,950
29 Mar 201628 SG19 1BTTerraced£207,500
22 Dec 20141 SG19 1BTDetached£210,000
19 Dec 201436 SG19 1BTDetached£245,000
9 Jun 201424 SG19 1BTTerraced£160,000
14 Jun 201310 SG19 1BTTerraced£135,000
19 Oct 201234 SG19 1BTTerraced£157,000
15 Oct 201230 SG19 1BTTerraced£125,000
28 Sep 201212 SG19 1BTTerraced£132,000
1 Mar 201222 SG19 1BTTerraced£132,500
25 Nov 201116 SG19 1BTTerraced£129,500
10 Nov 201124 SG19 1BTTerraced£132,000
21 Jan 201134 SG19 1BTTerraced£130,000
1 Sep 201026 SG19 1BTTerraced£151,000
13 Nov 200916 SG19 1BTTerraced£140,000
14 Mar 20086 SG19 1BTTerraced£145,000
29 Feb 200824 SG19 1BTTerraced£152,000
23 Nov 200724 SG19 1BTTerraced£161,000
13 Mar 200715 SG19 1BTDetached£245,000
12 Oct 200624 SG19 1BTTerraced£125,000
27 Sep 200630 SG19 1BTTerraced£144,000
13 Sep 200621 SG19 1BTDetached£220,000
13 Jul 20064 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£169,000
26 Nov 20038 SG19 1BTTerraced£101,000
19 Jul 200322 SG19 1BTTerraced£125,000
7 May 200326 SG19 1BTTerraced£116,750
24 Apr 200328 SG19 1BTTerraced£117,000
20 Mar 200310 SG19 1BTSemi-detached£89,050

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

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (7); House, detached (6). Built: 1900-1929 (9); before 1900 (7); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 1,710 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: 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.

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, 2 at medium risk and 7 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
SG19 1BTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG19 1BUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 6 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 32 addresses are between 24 m and 25 m above sea level (24 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SG19 1BT100%100%100%0%
SG19 1BU100%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 stationsSandy 679,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Biggleswade 895,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
St Neots 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (6.9 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carter Street Sandy90 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Biggleswade6.2 km (3.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN29.5 km (18 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 Sandy Health Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Britannia Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cloves Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBiggleswade Hospital5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Police stationBiggleswade Police Station6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesAsda Sandy - Bedford Road PFS Cashzone920 m (0.6 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 gardenUnnamed 8,160 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Hazells, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km (1.5 miles) east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The HazellsRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cox HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Clon HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Dame's OrchardWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Ash PlantingWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Hanging CroftWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
College PondsLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) south

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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6430
55 to 59120
Under 551632

16 of the street's 32 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Sandy Secondary SchoolSecondary11–18560 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Maple Tree Primary SchoolPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Robert Peel Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Laburnum Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Swithun's Church of England VC Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
John Donne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Central Oriental Superstore SG19 1DHRetailers - other190 m5 Very good28 Nov 2023
Tajmahal Restaurant SG19 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 mAwaiting inspection
The Golden Chef SG19 1BSTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2025
Sandy Supermarket SG19 1BNRetailers - other250 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Manor Farm Day Nursery SG19 1DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good27 May 2025
Bhavin Express SG19 1LGRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 May 2024
Busy Bees at Sandy SG19 1THHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour10
Public order3
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime2
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Belam Way (13); On or near Carter Street (9); On or near Western Way (7); On or near Rowan Court (6); On or near Georgetown Road (5).

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: 683 residents in 304 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 age4440
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 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

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.

  • SG19 1BT: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • SG19 1BU: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Carter Street · London Road · Pym's Way · Engayne Avenue · Belam Way · Western Way · Rowan Court · Bickerdikes Gardens · Manor Road · Nursery Drive · Oak Close · Talisman Close

All the streets in SG19 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.