Chiltern View Reading, West Berkshire

24 addresses across 3 postcodes (RG8), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26900413.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £280,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 12, D: 2).
  • 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 F; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tilehurst, about 1.3 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Arthur Newbery Park, is about 1.3 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 39 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tilehurst Village Surgery, about 2.1 km away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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
20242£280,000£250,000£310,000
20232£317,500£260,000£375,000
20191£285,000£285,000£285,000
20161£275,000£275,000£275,000
20132£212,500£196,000£229,000
20121£167,000£167,000£167,000
20071£202,000£202,000£202,000
20061£168,500£168,500£168,500
20041£155,000£155,000£155,000
20033£150,000£128,000£150,000
20012£124,000£124,000£124,000
20001£115,000£115,000£115,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Dec 202420 RG8 8TFTerraced£310,000
20 Nov 202414 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£250,000
7 Dec 20235 RG8 8TFTerraced£260,000
21 Aug 20237 RG8 8TFTerraced£375,000
27 Jun 202220 RG8 8TFTerraced£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Feb 201917 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£285,000
22 Jul 201615 RG8 8TFTerraced£275,000
26 Jul 201315 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£196,000
17 Jun 20137 RG8 8TFTerraced£229,000
14 Aug 20129 RG8 8TFTerraced£167,000
14 Dec 20073 RG8 8TFTerraced£202,000
14 Dec 20063 RG8 8TFTerraced£168,500
5 Aug 200417 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£155,000
22 Dec 200312 RG8 8TFTerraced£150,000
12 Dec 20039 RG8 8TFTerraced£128,000
11 Jul 200315 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£150,000
27 Jul 200119 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£124,000
28 Mar 200115 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£124,000
28 Jul 20002 RG8 8TFTerraced£115,000
1 Nov 199915 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£103,000
28 Oct 19992 RG8 8TFTerraced£96,950
22 Feb 199919 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£87,000
16 Sep 19981 RG8 8TFTerraced£75,000
14 Mar 199712 RG8 8TFTerraced£64,000
4 Oct 19961 RG8 8TFTerraced£59,950
18 Apr 199618 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£59,995
9 Feb 199614 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£54,000
24 Nov 19954 RG8 8TFSemi-detached£57,000
10 Nov 19953 RG8 8TFTerraced£58,000

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

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (4); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (4); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (34% of about 580 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 57 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 62 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 5 medium, 57 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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RG8 8TFzone 2 0 / 0 / 21 unlikely
RG8 8TEzone 2 0 / 2 / 15 unlikely
RG8 8TQzone 2 0 / 3 / 21 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 39 m and 42 m above sea level (40 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
RG8 8TE100%100%100%0%
RG8 8TF100%100%100%0%
RG8 8TQ100%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 stationsTilehurst 385,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Pangbourne 374,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km
Reading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 27 within 800 m; nearest Colyton Way Purley on Thames180 m
Bus or coach stationPurley Social Club Purley on Thames1.0 km
Car parksRecreation Road Car Park2.3 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR40.5 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 surgeriesTilehurst Village Surgery2.1 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Overdown Pharmacy1.1 km
NHS dentistsThe Triangle Dental Practice2.4 km
HospitalProspect Park Hospital3.9 km
Police stationThames Valley Police2.7 km
Cash machinesMidcounties Co-Op Reading, Tilehurst Cashzone1.1 km

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 gardenArthur Newbery Park 10 ha1.3 km
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 200 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Bucknells Meadow 1.5 ha430 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha820 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 170 m east. 30 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*170 m east
Purley ParkListed building, Grade II*240 m south
The Old Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*700 m north-east
Church of St Margaret and Bardolf AisleListed building, Grade I730 m north-east
Purley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pike ShawWood580 m south-west
Kentwood DeepsLake or reservoir1.2 km south-east
Park WoodWood1.3 km north-east
Roundabout PlantationWood1.5 km north-east
Sandy HillHill1.7 km east
Poplar IslandIsland1.9 km south-east

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)7.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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
Purley CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11510 m Report card (Apr 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westwood Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11720 m Report card (Jul 2026): 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westwood Farm Infant SchoolPrimary3–7720 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Long Lane Primary SchoolPrimary4–11740 m No published inspection
Downsway Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km No published inspection
Denefield SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km Good (Nov 2023, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Purley Park Social Club RG8 8BGPub/bar/nightclub380 m4 Good9 Nov 2012
The Mad Duck Cafe RG8 8BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Barn Owl Day Nursery RG31 6UTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m5 Very good13 May 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour3
Possession of weapons3
Other theft2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chiltern View (6); On or near Thames Reach (6); On or near Huckleberry Close (4); On or near Waterside Drive (4); On or near Primrose Close (3).

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: 329 residents in 121 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 age3740
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • RG8 8TF: 21 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • RG8 8TE: 2 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • RG8 8TQ: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Mary's Avenue · Thames Reach · Lilac Close · Oak Tree Walk · Church Mews · St Mary's Avenue · Park Walk · The Short · Waterside Drive · Primrose Close · Huckleberry Close · Brading Way

All the streets in RG8 and across West Berkshire.

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.