Coley Park Road Reading

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (RG1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31000326.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2010 the median was £337,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Reading cost £350,501 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,582 a month.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Reading Quarry, is 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A329, carries 47,888 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Reading costs £2,613 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Reading West, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Holy Brook Nook, is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Coley Park Surgery, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 166 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20101£337,000£337,000£337,000
20041£75,000£75,000£75,000
19961£99,500£99,500£99,500
All 3 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Aug 20041 RG1 6AHFlat or maisonette£75,000
20 Aug 20103 RG1 6AHSemi-detached£337,000
16 Oct 19963 RG1 6AHSemi-detached£99,500

House prices and rents in Reading

A typical home in Reading cost £350,501 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 10% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£714,640
Semi-detached£443,351
Terraced£353,126
Flat or maisonette£224,077
Bought by a first-time buyer£308,748

Private renters in Reading paid £1,582 a month on average in September 2026, 1.3% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,120
Two bedrooms£1,399
Three bedrooms£1,680
Four or more bedrooms£2,365

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 October 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 129 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (1); 1900-1929 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,524 kWh of it on average in 2024, 13% less than the district's 10,950 kWh, and 3,144 kWh of electricity, 10% less than the district's 3,487 kWh. There are gas meters for about 60% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is RG1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Reading in 2026-27: Band D £2,613 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,742£2,032£2,322£2,613£3,193£3,774£4,355£5,226

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (33% of about 820 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: yes, Russell Street and Castle Hill (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Green Park Wokingham F/2004/1418 Wind 1 turbine 2 MW Operational Oct 2005 3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Reading Quarry West Berkshire 20/02029/COMIND Energy from waste (incinerator) 40 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2022 3.8 km (2.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 59 m above sea level.

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
RG1 6AH100%100%100%0%
RG1 6AQ100%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 stationsReading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
Reading 14 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Reading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coley Avenue200 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park on 122 Castle Street, RG1390 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR36.4 km (23 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Coley Park Surgery490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newdays Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castle Hill Clinic420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalDunedin Hospital310 m
Care homes8 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jigsaw Creative Care Limited - 77 Russell Street Requires improvement Jan 2024380 m
Police stationThames Valley Police560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rontec - Thatcham, Woolhampton250 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Holy Brook Nook 6,650 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 600 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coley Recreation Ground 4.9 ha340 m
AllotmentsColey Park Allotments 1.1 ha880 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Nos 154 to 160 (Even) and Railings to Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m north. 169 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nos 154 to 160 (Even) and Railings to StreetListed building, Grade II*310 m north
Holybrook HouseListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
19 Castle Street and associated front railingsListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
17 Castle Street, front railings and mounting blockListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) north-east
High BridgeScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The Forbury GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Prospect ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holy BrookLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Fobney IslandIsland1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Fry's IslandIsland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Piper's IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
The RookeryWood2 km (1.3 miles) west
Gravel HillHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5535

2 of the street's 5 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 Reading: see them on the Reading page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Coley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11310 m No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
All Saints Church of England Aided Infant SchoolPrimary5–7540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong 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 None published
All Saints Junior SchoolPrimary7–11540 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 100% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 21% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
St Mary & All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 37% in 2023)
Katesgrove Primary SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Oxford Road Community SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 86% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Civitas AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Battle Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
Kendrick SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 82.4 (84.0 in 2025 and 84.4 in 2024); 99.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B+; 51.4% AAB or better; progress below average
The WREN SchoolSecondary11–191.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.2 (44.8 in 2025 and 43.0 in 2024); 33.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 5.7% AAB or better; progress average
The Palmer Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 540 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Berkeley Gardens Day Nursery RG1 6HY Full day care 98 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Fennies Reading RG2 0HP Full day care 130 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 4 areas, Expected standard in 2 650 m (0.4 miles)
Super Strike Katesgrove Holiday Camp RG1 2NL Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 710 m (0.4 miles)
Kennet Day Nursery RG1 2LU Full day care 64 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 5 areas, Expected standard in 1 730 m (0.5 miles)
Little LLamas Montessori Nursery RG1 7RD Full day care 35 Apr 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 730 m (0.5 miles)
Eminent Tutoring RG2 0BN Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
Western Elms Nursery RG30 2AL Full day care 48 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 890 m (0.6 miles)
Pine Rivers Kindergarten Ltd RG30 2AL Full day care 43 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 890 m (0.6 miles)
Teachitright Reading RG1 4SJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Reading Community Learning Centre (RCLC) Creche RG1 4SJ Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 82 childminders and 18 home childcarers (nannies) in Reading. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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 Crescent Hotel RG1 6LLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good30 May 2023
Premier Berkeley Stores (Formerly Costcutter) RG1 6JSRetailers - other160 m1 Major improvement necessary12 May 2026
Asda Express PFS Berkeley RG1 6JERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m4 Good13 Sep 2025
Spire Dunedin Hospital RG1 6NSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
Jigsaw Creative Care Services RG1 7XGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Mar 2025
Tilehurst SF Connect RG1 7TWRetailers - other350 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Berkeley Garden Day Nursery RG1 6HYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
The Castle Tap Public House RG1 7RJPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
The Count Me In Collective RG1 7RJPub/bar/nightclub390 mAwaiting inspection
Coley Park Off Licence RG1 6DJRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
JFC RG1 6DJTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Aug 2026
Morrisons Daily (Account Closed 17.08.2026) RG1 6DJRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Jul 2025
The Salvation Army Church Lunch Club RG1 7JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good5 Jun 2025
Tesco RG1 7TNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Feb 2025
Downshire House RG1 6NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 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.

166 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences69
Anti-social behaviour20
Vehicle crime13
Other theft12
Burglary10
Public order9
Drugs9
Criminal damage and arson7
Shoplifting6
Theft from the person3
Other crime2
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Harrow Court (28); On or near Petrol Station (27); On or near Berkeley Avenue (22); On or near Garnet Hill (18); On or near Castle Crescent (16).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark, and 67% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 Feb 2025 08:50 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
19 Mar 2024 19:58 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A4, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
11 Nov 2023 13:08 Slight 1 person A4, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A329 between A4155W and A33, with 47,888 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 390 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4 A4155 to A33 13,524 estimated; counted 2024 1% -23% since 2015 190 m
A4155 A4 to A329 24,644 estimated; counted 2022 2% +15% since 2015 280 m
A329 A4155W to A33 47,888 estimated; counted 2024 2% -6% since 2015 390 m
A33 A33 split to A329 12,710 estimated 2% -2% since 2015 400 m (0.2 miles)
A33 A33 split to A4 13,568 estimated; counted 2021 1% -21% since 2015 440 m (0.3 miles)
A329 A33 split to A329 15,535 estimated 2% -2% since 2015 450 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 339 residents in 138 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented54%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

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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

Mansfield Road · Castle Crescent · Coley Avenue · Rose Kiln Lane · Garnet Hill · Boston Avenue · Berkeley Avenue · Lower Field Road · Harrow Court · Church Terrace · Coley Hill · Marlborough Court

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.