Champneys Walk Cambridge

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (CB3), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5401164.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £1,300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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 G; Band D in Cambridge costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 77% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lammas Land, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Newnham Walk Surgery, about 350 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 10 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£1,300,000£1,300,000£1,300,000
20251£1,200,000£1,200,000£1,200,000
20241£1,150,000£1,150,000£1,150,000
20231£1,225,000£1,225,000£1,225,000
20201£1,400,000£1,400,000£1,400,000
20191£1,280,000£1,280,000£1,280,000
20161£1,130,000£1,130,000£1,130,000
20151£910,000£910,000£910,000
20102£707,500£630,000£785,000
20091£650,000£650,000£650,000
20071£900,000£900,000£900,000
20051£499,000£499,000£499,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 May 20261 CB3 9AWDetached£1,300,000
15 Oct 202525 CB3 9AWTerraced£1,200,000
4 Oct 20244 CB3 9AWDetached£1,150,000
10 Jul 202314 CB3 9AWTerraced£1,225,000
20 Feb 20205 CB3 9AWSemi-detached£1,400,000
5 Jul 20198 CB3 9AWDetached£1,280,000
22 Jun 201617 CB3 9AWDetached£1,130,000
25 Aug 201518 CB3 9AWDetached£910,000
26 Feb 201027 CB3 9AWTerraced£630,000
24 Feb 201020 CB3 9AWDetached£785,000
21 May 200912 CB3 9AWTerraced£650,000
1 Oct 20078 CB3 9AWDetached£900,000
21 Jul 200525 CB3 9AWTerraced£499,000
15 Aug 200326 CB3 9AWTerraced£490,000
29 Nov 200220 CB3 9AWDetached£540,000
12 Feb 20016 CB3 9AWSemi-detached£445,000
13 Jan 199925 CB3 9AWTerraced£240,000
11 Jan 19995 CB3 9AWSemi-detached£315,000
20 Feb 19982 CB3 9AWDetached£320,000
30 Dec 19973 CB3 9AWDetached£295,000
30 Jun 199727 CB3 9AWTerraced£225,000
2 Oct 199524 CB3 9AWTerraced£179,950
30 Mar 19957 CB3 9AWDetached£246,000

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

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 164 m². Most common: House, detached (8); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (14); 1991-1995 (1); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band G (23% of about 2,340 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, West Cambridge (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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: 49 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 2 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
CB3 9AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB3 9ASnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 2 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 29 addresses are between 10 m and 11 m above sea level (11 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
CB3 9AS100%77%77%0%
CB3 9AW100%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 stationsCambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grange Road Newnham200 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksGrand Arcade car park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN36 km (22 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newnham Walk Surgery350 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jank Nk (Chemist)560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Granta Dental540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationParkside Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesM&S ATM1.2 km (0.8 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lammas Land 5.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Sheep's Green 8.0 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,480 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest University Rugby Ground 3.0 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,990 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Newnham College, Peile Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 130 m north. 164 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 18 of them Grade I and 15 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Newnham College, Peile HallListed building, Grade II*130 m north
Newnham College, Kennedy BuildingsListed building, Grade II*190 m north
Newnham College, Clough HallListed building, Grade II*200 m north-east
Newnham College, Sidgwick HallListed building, Grade II*230 m north-east
Queens' CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
King's CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Hobson's ConduitScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Cambridge Castle moundScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bolton's Pit LakeLake or reservoir510 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Mill PitLake or reservoir720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The GroveWood760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The BacksLake or reservoir770 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Castle HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
Giants GraveValley4.8 km (3 miles) east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 552729

2 of the street's 29 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 Cambridge: see them on the Cambridge 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
Newnham Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Pauls CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Park Street CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkside Community CollegeSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery CB3 9DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m4 Good31 Mar 2026
Barton Road Day Nursery (Pembroke and Queens College) CB3 9JZSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Newnham College CB3 9DFSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Millington Road Nursery School CB3 9HPSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Selwyn College CB3 9DQSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
The Red Bull CB3 9JZPub/bar/nightclub320 m4 Good20 Sep 2025
St Marks Church CB3 9JZOther catering premises340 m4 Good14 Nov 2024
Ridley Hall CB3 9HGSchool/college/university350 m4 Good14 Nov 2024
Buttery Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Wolfson College CB3 9BBSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Derby Stores CB3 9JERetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Feb 2026
Co-Operative CB3 9HYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2023
Maison Clement CB3 9JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Feb 2026
Leckhampton House CB3 9BJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Dec 2024
SHELL NEWNHAM CB3 9EYRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Feb 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.

10 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Champneys Walk (8); On or near Barton Close (1); On or near St Marks Court (1).

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: 1,016 residents in 165 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 age2340
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work25%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)68%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications2%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 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.

  • CB3 9AW: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • CB3 9AS: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Marks Court · Manor Court · Barton Close · Clare Road · King's Road · Sidgwick Avenue · Selwyn Gardens · Archway Court · Kings Road · Newnham Walk · Selwyn Road · Wordsworth Grove

All the streets in CB3 and across Cambridge.

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.