Chesham Road Ipswich

19 addresses across 1 postcode (IP2), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18200226.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £245,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 3, E: 2).
  • 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 A; Band D in Ipswich costs £2,468 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ipswich, about 280 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Gippeswyk Park, is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Burlington Primary Care, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 101 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£245,000£245,000£245,000
20241£171,000£171,000£171,000
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
20092£101,750£73,500£130,000
20061£80,000£80,000£80,000
20051£114,500£114,500£114,500
20041£137,000£137,000£137,000
20032£68,250£64,500£72,000
20011£44,500£44,500£44,500
20001£60,000£60,000£60,000
19972£48,250£42,500£54,000
19951£25,000£25,000£25,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 20267 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£245,000
10 Oct 20247 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£171,000
22 Nov 20139 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£155,000
16 Dec 200912 IP2 8AYFlat or maisonette£73,500Leasehold.
30 Oct 20097 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£130,000
15 Sep 200614 IP2 8AYTerraced£80,000Leasehold.
8 Nov 20059 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£114,500
12 Nov 20047 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£137,000
18 Jul 200312 IP2 8AYFlat or maisonette£64,500Leasehold.
16 May 20038 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£72,000
28 Nov 200111 IP2 8AYFlat or maisonette£44,500Leasehold.
3 Jul 20003 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£60,000
25 Jul 19977 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£42,500
21 Apr 199710 IP2 8AYSemi-detached£54,000
4 Aug 199512 IP2 8AYFlat or maisonette£25,000Leasehold.

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); Flat (4). Built: 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (4); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,468£3,017£3,565£4,114£4,937

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (44% of about 1,200 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): Article 4 Direction for Small HMOs.
  • 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 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

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.

© 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 19 addresses are between 27 m and 33 m above sea level (31 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
IP2 8AY100%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 stationsIpswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–25280 m
Derby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Willoughby Road Stoke80 m
Bus or coach stationOld Cattle Market Bus Station Ipswich810 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port13.4 km (8.3 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP150 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station220 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN61.8 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.4 km (41 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 Burlington Primary Care1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vision Pharmacy730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists19 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East of England Co-op Vernon Street Cashzone460 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gippeswyk Park 18 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,040 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldBourne Park 26 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5.4 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary at Stoke, a listed building (Grade I), 330 m north-east. 168 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary at StokeListed building, Grade I330 m north-east
Area of Middle and Late Saxon town, off Greyfriars RoadScheduled monument560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Gateway to Wolsey's College of St MaryListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Wolsey's Gate, College StreetScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north
Area of middle and late Saxon town between Turret Lane and Star LaneScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Christchurch MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Chantry ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CutTidal water820 m (0.5 miles) east
Big PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Spinney CovertWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Wherstead OozeWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Bourne HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Stalls ValleyValley4.2 km (2.6 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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
55 to 5980
Under 551119

8 of the street's 19 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 Ipswich: see them on the Ipswich 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
Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11370 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; 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
Stoke High School - Ormiston AcademySecondary11–16700 m (0.4 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Halifax Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, IpswichPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Suffolk New College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ranelagh Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chantry AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's CEVAP School, Ipswich Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Helen's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Willows Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Handford Hall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
The Station Hotel IP2 8ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting inspection
WH Smith IP2 8ALRetailers - other260 m5 Very good28 Nov 2016
Majestic Wine IP1 1UZRetailers - other290 m5 Very good24 Aug 2023
East of England Coop - Ipswich Station IP2 8ALRetailers - other300 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Starbucks IP2 8ALTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good15 Oct 2018
Greggs IP2 8ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Costa Coffee IP2 8ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good23 Jul 2024
Stoke Community Pantry IP2 8DARetailers - other360 m5 Very good12 Mar 2024
Taylorshaw @ Hillside Primary School IP2 8NUSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Mcdonald's IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2024
Stoke Off Licence IP2 8DFRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2024
International Food Store IP2 8DFRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Three Penny Convenience Store IP1 1XHRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Feb 2017
Cineworld Cinemas IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Oct 2023
KFC IP1 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Aug 2018

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.

101 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences61
Criminal damage and arson11
Other theft10
Vehicle crime5
Burglary5
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person2
Public order1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (18); On or near Willoughby Road (15); On or near Selwyn Close (14); On or near B1073 (13); On or near Burrell Road (12).

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: 340 residents in 163 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 159%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented53%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • IP2 8AY: 19 addresses of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Philip Road · Luther Road · Willoughby Road · Burrell Road · Belstead Road · Selwyn Close · Belstead Avenue · Martin Road · Charles English Close · Stoke Hall Road · Rectory Road · Oak Hill Lane

All the streets in IP2 and across Ipswich.

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.