Central Drive Buxton, High Peak

64 addresses across 5 postcodes (SK17), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 17300176.

  • Sales: 81 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £345,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 25, E: 5).
  • 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 High Peak costs £2,385 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 53% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Buxton, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ashwood Park, is about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 321 to 328 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stewart Medical Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 3 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£345,000£345,000£345,000
20252£235,000£220,000£250,000
20241£235,000£235,000£235,000
20232£275,000£255,000£295,000
20226£274,000£258,000£330,000
20213£250,000£218,000£287,000
20203£215,000£85,000£230,000
20192£172,524£165,000£180,048
20182£237,500£235,000£240,000
20173£200,000£141,000£230,000
20162£207,250£189,500£225,000
20153£192,250£190,000£234,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 81)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jun 202635 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£345,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 202522 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
23 May 202555 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£250,000
23 Jan 202412 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£235,000
6 Oct 202320 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£295,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 202373 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£255,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 202219 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£258,000Leasehold.
9 Sep 20221 SK17 9RWSemi-detached£330,000
15 Jun 202218 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£290,000Leasehold.
19 Apr 202241 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£268,000
28 Jan 202245 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£278,000Leasehold.
4 Jan 202251 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£270,000Leasehold.
6 Aug 202131 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£287,000Leasehold.
14 May 202120 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£218,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 202130 SK17 9RUDetached£250,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 202049 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£215,000
21 Aug 20207 SK17 9RWSemi-detached£230,000Leasehold.
26 Mar 202032 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£85,000
16 Aug 20199 SK17 9RWSemi-detached£180,048Leasehold.
29 May 201951 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 20184 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£240,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 201818 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£235,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 201759 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£230,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 201723 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
13 Nov 201724 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£141,000
30 Aug 201627 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£189,500Leasehold.
30 Mar 201671 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 201523 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£192,250Leasehold.
20 Feb 201543 SK17 9RTDetached£234,500Leasehold.
20 Feb 201567 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 201255 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£148,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 201225 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£153,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 201224 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£141,000
20 Jul 20121 SK17 9RWSemi-detached£160,000
3 May 201131 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£167,000Leasehold.
12 Mar 201015 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£115,000
6 Nov 200910 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£138,450Leasehold.
30 Oct 20094 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
25 Jan 200831 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 200859 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 200769 SK17 9RTDetached£227,000Leasehold.
5 Oct 200735 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 200736 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£177,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 20069 SK17 9RWSemi-detached£148,000Leasehold.
8 Jul 200523 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£174,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 200533 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£178,000Leasehold.
11 Feb 200567 SK17 9RTSemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 200543 SK17 9RTDetached£194,950Leasehold.
23 Dec 200416 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£177,500
23 Dec 200416 SK17 9RUSemi-detached£177,500Leasehold.

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (28); Bungalow, detached (4); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (20); 1950-1966 (10); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (28); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in High Peak in 2026-27: Band D £2,385 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,590£1,855£2,120£2,385£2,915£3,445£3,974£4,769

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 900 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 9 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
SK17 9RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SK17 9RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SK17 9RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SK17 9RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SK17 9RZnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 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 64 addresses are between 321 m and 328 m above sea level (324 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
SK17 9RN100%100%100%0%
SK17 9RT100%100%100%0%
SK17 9RU100%100%100%0%
SK17 9RW100%100%100%0%
SK17 9RZ99%53%53%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 stationsBuxton 382,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Dove Holes 10,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Chapel-En-Le-Frith 78,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Drive Buxton150 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN27.7 km (17 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stewart Medical Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fairfield Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Victoria Park Road (Dental Surgery)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBuxton Hospital500 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBuxton Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM750 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 gardenAshwood Park 3.7 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cote Heath Park 2.7 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha690 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Staden earthwork, a scheduled monument, 230 m east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Staden earthworkScheduled monument230 m east
Fox Low bowl barrowScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Cowdale Quarry limestone extraction and processing site 540m north east of Staden ManorScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
The Slopes, BuxtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Pavilion Gardens, BuxtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sherbrook PlantationWood680 m (0.4 miles) west
Ashwood DaleValley860 m (0.5 miles) north
Fern WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Hillside PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Gospel HillocksHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Stanley Moor ReservoirLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 556264

2 of the street's 64 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 High Peak: see them on the High Peak 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
Harpur Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Buxton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Buxton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Buxton Community SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Fairfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Peter's Church of England (VC) Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas More Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 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

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
Tomson Buxton Ltd SK17 9RZRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2026
R G Morris & Son SK17 9RZRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Trackside@Buxton Brewery Ltd SK17 9RZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Sep 2026
Dukes Drive Farm Shop & Golden Roasts SK17 9RPRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cumberland Close (1); On or near Ashbourne Road (1); On or near Central Drive (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 293 residents in 142 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 age5540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright61%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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

Parkville Close · Kelsons Avenue · Ripon Gardens · Cumberland Close · Dorset Close · Amberley Drive · Hereford Close · Hereford Road

All the streets in SK17 and across High Peak.

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.