Cherrycroft Sandy, Central Bedfordshire

17 addresses across 1 postcode (SG19), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25200114.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £312,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in 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 360 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 910 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandy Health Centre, about 370 m away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 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
20212£312,500£295,000£330,000
20201£259,950£259,950£259,950
20181£294,000£294,000£294,000
20171£279,950£279,950£279,950
20111£157,000£157,000£157,000
20071£135,000£135,000£135,000
20041£134,000£134,000£134,000
20031£145,000£145,000£145,000
20021£105,000£105,000£105,000
20011£83,995£83,995£83,995
19961£55,000£55,000£55,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jul 20211 SG19 1BDSemi-detached£330,000
11 Jun 202110 SG19 1BDTerraced£295,000
22 May 202012 SG19 1BDTerraced£259,950
22 Jun 201815 SG19 1BDSemi-detached£294,000
19 Oct 20171 SG19 1BDSemi-detached£279,950
15 Sep 20119 SG19 1BDSemi-detached£157,000
20 Mar 20072 SG19 1BDTerraced£135,000
21 May 20048 SG19 1BDTerraced£134,000
12 Sep 200313 SG19 1BDTerraced£145,000
15 Feb 200213 SG19 1BDTerraced£105,000
30 Apr 20018 SG19 1BDTerraced£83,995
10 Sep 199612 SG19 1BDTerraced£55,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (5).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 770 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

  • First Floor, Shannon Court, High Street, Sandy, SG19 1AG, permissioned (270 m)
  • Second Floor, Shannon Court, High Street, Sandy,, permissioned (270 m)
  • 13-13A Market Square, Sandy, permissioned (410 m)
  • 13-16A Market Square Sandy, permissioned (420 m)
  • Former Sandy service centre, Awating Decision (660 m)

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 31 m and 34 m above sea level (33 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 1BD100%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 2024–25360 m
Biggleswade 895,000 journeys in 2024–255.0 km
Arlesey 688,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 12 within 800 m; nearest Station Road Sandy140 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Biggleswade5.0 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN28.7 km

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; nearest Sandy Health Centre370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Britannia Pharmacy360 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Practice360 m
HospitalBiggleswade Hospital3.9 km
Police stationBiggleswade Police Station4.9 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Sandy High Street Cashzone360 m

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 m²910 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,430 m²650 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha610 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.6 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Swithun, a listed building (Grade II*), 210 m west. 20 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St SwithunListed building, Grade II*210 m west
Slight univallate hillfort on Galley HillScheduled monument1.5 km south-east
The HazellsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km north-east
Sandy Lodge promontory fortScheduled monument1.8 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clon HillHill470 m east
Quarry HillsHill710 m east
Cox HillHill760 m north-east
Swading HillHill910 m south-east
Dame's OrchardWood1.0 km north-east
College PondsLake or reservoir3.1 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
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 and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5912
Under 551615

1 of the street's 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 at 55 dB or more from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

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
St Swithun's Church of England VC Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m No published inspection
Robert Peel Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m 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 SchoolPrimary3–11800 m 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
Sandy Secondary SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km 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 SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mini Explorers Ltd SG19 1AJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m2 Improvement necessary23 Sep 2026
Sir William Peel SG19 1AGPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
My Island Service Ltd SG19 1AXRetailers - other200 mExempt
St Swithun's CoE VC Primary School SG19 1AXSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Premier Wraparound Club SG19 1BASchool/college/university230 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
The Bell (Food Kitchen) SG19 1AWOther catering premises240 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
The Gandhi in Sandy SG19 1AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
The Town Fryer Ltd SG19 1AGTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Chunky's SG19 1AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Feb 2026
The Four Horsemen SG19 1AGPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good29 Jan 2025
J S Alsford Butchers Ltd SG19 1AGRetailers - other240 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Bee Bubble Tea SG19 1AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Brew and Renew Ltd SG19 1AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Two Little Puddings SG19 1AGTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good15 Oct 2024
The Queens Head SG19 1JEPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good20 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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Drugs16
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (14); On or near Cherrycroft (11); On or near Edward Close (8); On or near Ongley Court (6); On or near Greyhound View (5).

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: 250 residents in 116 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 age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)36%65%
Work 30 km or more away27%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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 1BD: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stonecroft · St Swithun's Way · Cambridge Road · Cambridge Road · Rectory Court · Peel's Place · Ongley Court · Greyhound View · St Swithun's Way · Ivel Road · Brandreth Place · Roman View

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.