Common Lane Norwich, Broadland

14 addresses across 5 postcodes (NR12,NR7), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local access road. USRN 4600818.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £450,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 B; Band D in Broadland costs £2,438 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Whitlingham Country Park, is about 850 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 2 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is East Norwich Medical Partnership, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 870 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 104 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£450,000£450,000£450,000
20212£252,250£240,000£264,500
20191£370,000£370,000£370,000
20181£370,000£370,000£370,000
20171£325,000£325,000£325,000
20161£213,500£213,500£213,500
20131£160,000£160,000£160,000
20061£245,950£245,950£245,950
20041£166,000£166,000£166,000
20031£133,000£133,000£133,000
20021£175,000£175,000£175,000
20011£110,000£110,000£110,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Feb 202320 NR7 0SDDetached£450,000
29 Oct 20212 NR7 0RBTerraced£240,000
26 Jul 20216 NR7 0RBSemi-detached£264,500
3 May 201918 NR7 0SDDetached£370,000
11 Jun 201818 NR7 0SDDetached£370,000
9 Nov 201720 NR7 0SDDetached£325,000
11 Jan 20161 NR7 0RBDetached£213,500
9 Nov 20131 NR7 0RBDetached£160,000
31 May 200620 NR7 0SDDetached£245,950
4 Oct 20042 NR7 0RBTerraced£166,000
12 Dec 20032 NR7 0RBTerraced£133,000
22 Mar 200218 NR7 0SDDetached£175,000New build.
15 Nov 20011 NR7 0RBDetached£110,000
21 Dec 19951 NR7 0RBTerraced£48,000
31 Aug 19958 NR7 0RBSemi-detached£51,000

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 July 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, detached (2); House, semi-detached (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1900-1929 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Broadland in 2026-27: Band D £2,438 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,625£1,896£2,167£2,438£2,980£3,521£4,063£4,876

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 2,270 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 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, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
NR7 0RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR7 0SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR7 0RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR12 7JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR7 0QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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 14 addresses are between 2 m and 7 m above sea level (4 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
NR12 7JT100%100%100%0%
NR7 0QZ100%100%100%0%
NR7 0RB100%83%83%0%
NR7 0RD100%100%100%0%
NR7 0SD100%0%0%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 stationsNorwich 4.6 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Brundall Gardens 18,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Brundall 103,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Primrose Crescent Thorpe St Andrew50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksRCP Parking - Picnic Site1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN113 km (70 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 surgeriesEast Norwich Medical Partnership1.8 km (1.1 miles)
PharmaciesThorpe Health Centre Pharmacy1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest John G Plummer And Associates470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLittle Plumstead Hospital4 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationSprowston Police Station4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesEast of England Co-op Thorpe ST Andrew, 12 Laundry Lane Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 gardenWhitlingham Country Park 94 ha850 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,650 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sir George Morse Park 8.2 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,270 m²580 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Norwich Second World War IN-Station, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Norwich Second World War IN-StationScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Crown PointRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
The Rosary CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Townpit PlantationWood340 m north
Garglehill PlantationWood590 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Whitlingham MarshWetland1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Whitlingham Great BroadLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
New CutTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Timber HillHill2.9 km (1.8 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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6410
55 to 5932
Under 55812

6 of the street's 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 from railways, 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 Broadland: see them on the Broadland 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
Dussindale Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hillside Avenue Primary and Nursery School, ThorpePrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth FormSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St William's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Thorpe Fish Bar Takeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Broadland View Care Home NR7 0SAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Community Fridge NR7 0SROther catering premises370 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Simply Catering (at Perenco) NR7 0HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Dussindale Park Nursing Home NR7 0UDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Apr 2026
Mary Chapman Court NR7 0UDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Argos Insert At Sainsburys NR7 0SRRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
The Terrace Cafe NR7 0HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Sainsbury's NR7 0SRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Larchwood Nuring And Residential Home NR7 0RFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Aspens Services Ltd At Hillside Avenue Primary School NR7 0QWSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 May 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

104 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting50
Violence and sexual offences23
Criminal damage and arson11
Anti-social behaviour8
Other theft8
Public order2
Burglary1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (76); On or near Primrose Crescent (23); On or near Catherine Gardens (4); On or near Bungalow Lane (1).

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: 866 residents in 396 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%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)39%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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.

Nearby streets

Common Lane · Catherine Gardens · Bungalow Lane · Bungalow Lane · Primrose Crescent · St Andrews Close · Birchwood · Central Avenue · Highfield Close · Griffin Lane

All the streets in NR12, NR7 and across Broadland.

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.