Chester Close Hereford

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (HR4), about 20 m long. USRN 23214208.

  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 18, D: 2).
  • Flood: 47 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 B; Band D in Herefordshire, County of costs £2,574 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hereford, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Beaumont Gardens, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hereford Medical Group, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 79 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (11); House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1983-1990 (5); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (13); owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Herefordshire, County of in 2026-27: Band D £2,574 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,716£2,002£2,288£2,574£3,146£3,719£4,291£5,149

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (54% of about 790 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, 41 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 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: of the 57 homes the Environment Agency counts, 40 are in areas at high risk, 6 medium, 2 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
HR4 9LDzone 3 20 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HR4 9LFzone 3 21 / 6 / 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 21 addresses are between 54 m and 55 m above sea level (54 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
HR4 9LD100%100%100%0%
HR4 9LF100%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 stationHereford 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heart of Oak Inn Hereford110 m
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Merton Meadow Car Park260 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS75.7 km (47 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hereford Medical Group560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hereford Pharmacy560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHereford County Hospital940 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationWest Mercia Police910 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Hereford, Holmer Road PFS, Widemarsh 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beaumont Gardens 5,410 m²240 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²220 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Widemarsh Common 2.4 ha200 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,060 m²770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Coningsby Hospital, Including Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 470 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 161 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 21 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coningsby Hospital, Including ChapelListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Preaching Cross in Grounds of Coningsby HospitalListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Blackfriars Friary, preaching cross and cemetery, and hospital and chapel of St John in HerefordScheduled monument520 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Remains of Blackfriars PrioryListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Gate HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) south
Hereford city walls, ramparts and ditchScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) south
Wye BridgeScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Baynton WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Patch HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Dyffryn GwyValley3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Hunderton RoughWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Lyde HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) north-east
Belmont PoolLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 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)7.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 5910
Under 552021

1 of the street's 21 addresses is 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 Herefordshire, County of: see them on the Herefordshire, County of 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
St Thomas Cantilupe CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holmer CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lord Scudamore Primary AcademyPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Francis Xavier's Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hereford Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Herefordshire, Ludlow and North Shropshire College16 plus16–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hereford College of Arts16 plus16–991.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Broadlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Aylestone SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Revive Cafe HR4 9JROther catering premises60 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 2025
The Courtyard Trading Company Ltd HR4 9JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Premier Catering HR4 9JROther catering premises120 m5 Very good27 Sep 2022
Lollipops Nursery & Creche Ltd HR4 9LJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Willow Cafe HR4 9NARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Westfields Football Club HR4 9NARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good15 May 2007
The Welcome Fish Bar HR4 9HETakeaway/sandwich shop290 mAwaiting inspection
Bake and Create, Meals on Wheels HR4 9YJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Hereford Football Club HR4 9JUPub/bar/nightclub360 mAwaiting inspection
The Oxford Arms HR4 9EZPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Play Planet HR4 9HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good22 May 2025
Events By Dough HR4 9SPOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory9 Oct 2025
Busy Bees HR4 9SPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
B & M Home Store HR4 9SARetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good22 May 2012
Home Bargains HR4 9SARetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good1 Jul 2015

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.

79 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson14
Drugs5
Other theft4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Public order2
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (18); On or near Chester Close (16); On or near Newtown Road (13); On or near Keir Hardie Close (12); On or near Nolan Road (9).

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: 308 residents in 129 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 age3540
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented48%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle44%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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.

Nearby streets

Prior Street · Nolan Road · Nolan Road · Millbrook Street · Millbrook Street · Addison Court · Edgar Street · Millbrook Street · Millbrook Street · Moor Street · Moor Street · Newtown Road

All the streets in HR4 and across Herefordshire, County of.

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.