Chestnut Road Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (HP27), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45500204.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £470,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5).
  • 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 D; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Princes Risborough, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 124 to 134 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Cross Keys Practice, about 390 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 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
20241£470,000£470,000£470,000
20201£400,000£400,000£400,000
20171£404,000£404,000£404,000
20151£420,000£420,000£420,000
20132£257,475£249,950£265,000
20071£258,000£258,000£258,000
20061£246,000£246,000£246,000
20041£227,000£227,000£227,000
20001£137,000£137,000£137,000
19982£112,000£106,000£118,000
19962£86,000£85,000£87,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Nov 20244 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£470,000
6 Mar 20205 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£400,000
13 Jan 20175 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£404,000
6 Nov 20152 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£420,000
17 Jul 201310 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£249,950
8 Mar 20132 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£265,000
2 Apr 20076 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£258,000
28 Nov 20061 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£246,000
3 Aug 20045 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£227,000
9 Oct 200011 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£137,000
30 Apr 19988 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£118,000
7 Apr 19986 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£106,000
26 Jul 19962 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£85,000
31 May 19969 HP27 0BNSemi-detached£87,000

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 January 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (52% of about 640 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): Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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 on this street 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 15 addresses are between 124 m and 134 m above sea level (129 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
HP27 0BN100%100%100%0%
HP27 0BP100%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 stationsPrinces Risborough 513,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Monks Risborough 21,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Little Kimble 8,930 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chestnut Road Princes Risborough40 m
Car parksParking space on Station Road, HP271 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN36 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Cross Keys Practice390 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bank House Dental Centre390 m
HospitalPaddocks Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationWendover Police Station7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Princes Risborough Bell S310 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,250 m²250 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,580 m²290 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha360 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,670 m²2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Market House, a listed building (Grade II*), 520 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 45 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Market HouseListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Manor House and Attached Garden Walls (North West Wall Incorporated Into the Forge and the Coach House)Listed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-west
The MountScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hill figure on Whiteleaf Hill, known as the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Cross dyke on Whiteleaf Hill, 165m south east of the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brush Hill PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Windsor HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Winchester WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Whiteleaf HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Deep Pit PondLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
Happy ValleyValley3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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, 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 5920
Under 551315

2 of the street's 15 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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
Princes Risborough SchoolSecondary11–18130 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Princes Risborough Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Monks Risborough CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Risborough Youth Club HP27 0BTRetailers - other160 mExempt
Impact Food Group At Princes Risborough School HP27 0DRSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Rowlands Pharmacy HP27 0AWRetailers - other290 mExempt
Marks & Spencer Simply Food HP27 0AWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good1 Sep 2016
Morrisons Daily HP27 0AWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good30 Jul 2024
Asda Express Bell PFS Retailers - other300 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Flame & Stone Pizza HP27 0AXTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Sep 2026
Costa Coffee HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
The Co-Op HP27 0ZZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Connexions Cafe HP27 0DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good27 Nov 2025
The Bell Public House HP27 0DEPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good17 Sep 2019
Villa Bianca HP27 0DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good20 Mar 2026
Icknield Court HP27 0HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Crumbs Too HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Cinnamon Lounge HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good23 May 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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2
Burglary2
Public order2
Other theft2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Upper Icknield Way (14); On or near Merton Road (9); On or near Lime Road (9); On or near Woodlands (6); On or near Oak Road (3).

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: 545 residents in 235 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 age4940
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Beech Road · Forest Close · Lime Road · Oak Road · Hawthorn Road · Ash Road · Upper Icknield Way · New Road · Elm Road · Bell Close · Bell Lane · Woodlands

All the streets in HP27 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.