Clifton Close Paignton, Torbay

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ3), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40700084.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 5, 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 B; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 77% to 85% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Paignton, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 72 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Old Farm Surgery, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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£265,000£265,000£265,000
20241£290,000£290,000£290,000
20222£273,975£249,950£298,000
20211£284,950£284,950£284,950
20191£200,000£200,000£200,000
20171£180,000£180,000£180,000
20161£195,000£195,000£195,000
20132£160,600£160,000£161,200
20121£171,750£171,750£171,750
20091£169,000£169,000£169,000
20081£222,000£222,000£222,000
20074£178,500£172,000£182,950
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Feb 202616 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£265,000
12 Jul 202413 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£279,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jan 20247 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£290,000
4 Aug 202216 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£298,000
25 Feb 20225 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£249,950
27 Oct 202116 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£284,950
14 Jun 201912 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£200,000
31 Jul 201713 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£180,000
30 Sep 20161 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£195,000
29 Nov 20131 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£160,000
3 Apr 201319 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£161,200
6 Mar 201219 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£171,750
1 Dec 20091 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£169,000
29 Feb 20088 TQ3 3LRDetached£222,000
4 Dec 20077 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£177,000
30 Nov 200710 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£180,000
14 Sep 200716 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£182,950
12 Mar 20073 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£172,000
11 Jan 200621 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£167,000
8 Apr 200519 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£172,000
19 Dec 200316 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£148,000
31 Oct 20038 TQ3 3LRDetached£182,500
27 Nov 200235 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£103,500
25 Jul 20029 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£125,500
18 Jul 200221 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£112,500
11 Apr 200215 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£101,500
15 Feb 200225 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£93,000
17 Jan 200229 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£96,500
23 Nov 200114 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£98,500
9 Jul 200129 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£89,950
2 Apr 200119 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£87,000
20 Dec 19998 TQ3 3LRDetached£93,000
30 Oct 199815 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£56,000
1 May 19989 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£77,000
15 Aug 199714 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£56,000
24 Oct 19969 TQ3 3LRSemi-detached£60,000

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (45% of about 670 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TQ3 3LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ3 3LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 28 addresses are between 72 m and 81 m above sea level (76 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
TQ3 3LR100%85%85%0%
TQ3 3LS100%92%77%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 stationsPaignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 68 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clifton Road Paignton70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay4.9 km (3 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT35.4 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL108 km (67 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 Old Farm Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest South Devon Dental850 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalPaignton Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Foxholes Cashzone740 m (0.5 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 740 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 720 m²240 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha230 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,720 m²390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Bishop's Palace, Tower Road, a scheduled monument, 930 m (0.6 miles) east. 67 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Bishop's Palace, Tower RoadScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) east
Bishops Palace Walls and TowerListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) east
Kirkham HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) east
Parish Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) east
Oldway MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Primley WoodWood360 m south
Clennon HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Paignton SandsBeach1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Broken CliffCliff or slope3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Aptor PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Mill PointWetland4.9 km (3.1 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)5.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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 552728

1 of the street's 28 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Paignton AcademySecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Hayes SchoolPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Kings Ash AcademyPrimary2–11880 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England AcademyPrimary2–11950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Curledge Street AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Oldway Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Collaton St Mary Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Roselands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2020, 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
Carters TQ3 3QHRetailers - other90 m5 Very good8 Nov 2024

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour5
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Copley Close (11); On or near Elm Park (9); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5); On or near Westleat Avenue (4); On or near Waterleat 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: 289 residents in 125 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)21%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification12%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

Elm Park · Greenlands Avenue · Treesdale Close · Westleat Avenue · Waterleat Avenue · Foxhole Road · Copley Close · Swincombe Drive · Waterleat Close · Greenlands Avenue · Barton Avenue · Foxhole Road

All the streets in TQ3 and across Torbay.

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.