Combe Road Portishead, North Somerset

28 addresses across 3 postcodes (BS20), about 140 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 47805994.

Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £200,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 5, 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.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in North Somerset costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Avonmouth, about 5.2 km (3.2 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 340 m away, and Lake Grounds (10 hectares) is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 7 to 13 m above sea level.
Noise: 7 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Portishead Medical Group, about 200 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 201 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£200,000	£200,000	£200,000
2023	5	£199,950	£185,000	£230,000
2011	1	£460,000	£460,000	£460,000
2002	2	£260,000	£230,000	£290,000

Most recent sales (12)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
2 Apr 2026	LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC BS20 6BJ	Other	£500,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Aug 2025	FLAT 5, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£200,000	Leasehold.
21 Jul 2023	FLAT 1, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£192,000	Leasehold.
28 Apr 2023	FLAT 5, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£199,950	Leasehold.
27 Apr 2023	FLAT 4, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£225,000	Leasehold.
17 Feb 2023	FLAT 3, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£185,000	Leasehold.
13 Feb 2023	FLAT 2, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Flat or maisonette	£230,000	Leasehold.
29 Oct 2021	FLAT 2, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Other	£315,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jan 2018	FLAT 2, COMBE HOUSE, 3 BS20 6BJ	Other	£230,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jan 2011	FLAT, LLOYDS TSB BANK BS20 6BJ	Semi-detached	£460,000
30 Aug 2002	4 BS20 6BJ	Semi-detached	£230,000
21 Feb 2002	ST. VINCENT HOUSE, 8 - 10 BS20 6BJ	Detached	£290,000

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 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Flat (10); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 2022 (5); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,661	£1,938	£2,214	£2,491	£3,045	£3,598	£4,152	£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 740 homes).

A9%

B19%

C43%

D22%

E5%

F1%

H0%

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: 6 protected trees on or by this street.
Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Combe House Combe Road Portishead, permissioned (30 m)
62B High Street Portishead, permissioned (110 m)

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

31 October 2026 to 1 November 2026: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY, New service connection, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)
31 October 2026 to 1 November 2026: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY, New service connection, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
2 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West), New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026: WALES AND WEST UTILITIES LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
3 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: WESSEX WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)

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 6 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 20 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 4 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
BS20 6BJ	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 4	unlikely
BS20 6BH	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 2	unlikely
BS20 6EN	zone 2	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 7 m and 13 m above sea level (10 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
BS20 6BH	100%	100%	100%	0%
BS20 6BJ	100%	100%	100%	0%
BS20 6EN	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Avonmouth 171,000 journeys in 2024–25	5.2 km (3.2 miles)
	Portway Park and Ride 59,000 journeys in 2024–25	5.7 km (3.5 miles)
	St Andrews Road 82,000 journeys in 2024–25	6 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops	18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Combe Road Portishead	10 m
Ferry terminal	Portishead Pier Portishead Harbour	1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Portishead Car Park	390 m
EV charging points	3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station	360 m
Airport with scheduled flights	Bristol Airport BRS	11.9 km (7.4 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portishead Medical Group	200 m
Pharmacies	3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portishead Pharmacy	200 m
NHS dentists	7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Combe Road Dental	40 m
Hospital	Bft Southmead Clevedon Hospital	7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Police station	Avon And Somerset Police HQ	190 m
Cash machines	1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fryers Superstore, Shirehampton	360 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha	340 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Lake Grounds 10 ha	430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²	560 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,730 m²	630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beach Hill Allotments 5,400 m²	540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 420 m (0.3 miles) south. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Peter	Listed building, Grade I	420 m (0.3 miles) south
Medieval Cross 5 Yards From South Porch in St Peter's Churchyard	Listed building, Grade II*	430 m (0.3 miles) south
Court House Farmhouse	Listed building, Grade II*	460 m (0.3 miles) south
The Grange	Listed building, Grade II*	860 m (0.5 miles) south
Parts of a minor Romano-British villa and later medieval barn 545m south east of St Mary's Well	Scheduled monument	1 km (0.6 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Welly Bottom	Valley	310 m west
Ilmer Upper Ditch	Lake or reservoir	670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Fore Hill	Hill	760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Woodhill Bay	Bay	1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
East Wood	Wood	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Nelson Point	Wetland	4.4 km (2.8 miles) 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	8.1	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	8.8	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
60 to 64	3	0
55 to 59	4	0
Under 55	21	28

7 of the street's 28 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 North Somerset: see them on the North Somerset 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
St Peter's Church of England Primary School	Primary	4–11	450 m (0.3 miles)	Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Portishead Primary School	Primary	4–11	590 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
Gordano School	Secondary	11–18	1 km (0.6 miles)	Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School Church of England/Methodist	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
High Down Junior School	Primary	7–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	No published inspection
High Down Infant School	Primary	3–7	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Good (Nov 2022, 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Shanicatti Shakes BS20 6EL	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	20 m	4 Good	20 Nov 2025
The Settle Inn BS20 6EL	Pub/bar/nightclub	40 m	5 Very good	24 Jul 2025
Venga Portishead BS20 6EN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	40 m	5 Very good	7 Nov 2025
Wan Tu BS20 6EN	Takeaway/sandwich shop	40 m	4 Good	28 Nov 2024
Domino's Pizza BS20 6EN	Takeaway/sandwich shop	40 m	5 Very good	29 Apr 2025
Beacon Hub Cafe (The) BS20 6EN	Retailers - other	60 m	4 Good	25 Sep 2026
Coffee #1 BS20 6AB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	60 m	5 Very good	25 Apr 2025
Parsons Bakery Ltd BS20 6AH	Retailers - other	70 m	5 Very good	22 Sep 2026
Blossom Tree Nursery BS20 6BQ	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	70 m	5 Very good	10 Mar 2026
Costa Coffee BS20 6EL	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	70 m	4 Good	10 Jun 2025
Sports Direct BS20 6AB	Retailers - other	70 m	5 Very good	24 Sep 2026
Iceland Foods Ltd BS20 6AH	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	70 m	5 Very good	7 Mar 2024
Somerset Hall BS20 6AH	Other catering premises	70 m	5 Very good	19 May 2025
Portishead Brewing Co Ltd BS20 6AH	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	90 m	5 Very good	15 Jan 2025
Vilasa BS20 6AH	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	90 m	5 Very good	21 Oct 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.

201 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Shoplifting	88
Violence and sexual offences	35
Anti-social behaviour	23
Criminal damage and arson	15
Public order	12
Other theft	9
Burglary	7
Vehicle crime	4
Robbery	4
Drugs	3
Bicycle theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (113); On or near Rose Mews (28); On or near Cabstand (15); On or near Combe Road (11); On or near Ferndale Road (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 804 residents in 409 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 street	England
Median age	49	40
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	29%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	67%	61%
Owned outright	41%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	15%	17%
Private rented	16%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	54%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	34%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	34%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	45%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	18%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	50%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	4%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	36%	34%
No qualifications	19%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	97%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Roadworks Street works permit: National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West): New service connection, 2 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY: New service connection, 31 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: BRISTOL WATERWORKS COMPANY: New service connection, 31 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings Beacon Hub Cafe (The) (retailers - other, BS20 6EN) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Ghandi Tandoori Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, BS20 6AG) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 28 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

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.

BS20 6BJ: 26 addresses of 27 in the postcode
BS20 6BH: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
BS20 6EN: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Combe Road · Stoke Road · Slade Road · Ferndale Road · Rose Mews · Clockhouse Mews · Orchard Close · Cabstand · Brampton Way · Downside · Combe Fields · Victoria Court

All the streets in BS20 and across North Somerset.

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.