Constable Close Lowestoft, East Suffolk

19 addresses across 3 postcodes (NR32,NR33), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42500049.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £220,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in East Suffolk costs £2,335 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oulton Broad North, about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Normanston Park, is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 0 to 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bridge Road Surgery, about 420 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20241£220,000£220,000£220,000
20191£128,000£128,000£128,000
20151£68,750£68,750£68,750
20121£111,000£111,000£111,000
20101£137,000£137,000£137,000
20011£60,000£60,000£60,000
20001£53,000£53,000£53,000
19981£41,995£41,995£41,995
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Dec 20248 NR32 2QUTerraced£220,000
4 Apr 20198 NR32 2QUTerraced£128,000
5 Feb 20156 NR32 2QUTerraced£68,750
30 Nov 20125 NR32 2QUTerraced£111,000
4 Jun 20103 NR32 2QUTerraced£137,000
23 Mar 20016 NR32 2QUTerraced£60,000
3 Mar 20006 NR32 2QUTerraced£53,000
28 Jul 19985 NR32 2QUTerraced£41,995

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,335 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,557£1,816£2,075£2,335£2,854£3,372£3,891£4,670

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (50% of about 1,510 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 2 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 August 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 18 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NR32 2QUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NR33 9LZzone 2 0 / 0 / 16 unlikely
NR32 2QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 0 m and 10 m above sea level (5 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
NR32 2QS100%100%100%0%
NR32 2QU100%100%100%0%
NR33 9LZ100%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 stationsOulton Broad North 137,000 journeys in 2024–25390 m
Oulton Broad South 60,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Lowestoft 468,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 23 within 800 m; nearest Lakeland Drive Oulton200 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lowestoft2.1 km
Ferry terminalReedham Ferry South14.6 km
Car parksLowestoft Station Car Park1.8 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station350 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI37.0 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN121.2 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Bridge Road Surgery420 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Holly Pharmacy420 m
NHS dentistsOulton Village Dental Surgery1.8 km
HospitalLowestoft Hospital2.2 km
Police stationLowestoft Police Station2.4 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Lowestoft Cashzone740 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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Normanston Park 16 ha30 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 480 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 9.6 ha80 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,370 m²400 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Belle Vue Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km north-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Belle Vue ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Leathes' HamLake or reservoir350 m east
Lake LothingTidal water580 m south-east
Annabel's SpinneyWood1.7 km west
White Cast MarshesWetland2.1 km south-west
Holly HillHill2.2 km north-west
Kirkley CliffsCliff or slope2.3 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6901
60 to 6403
55 to 5935
Under 551610

3 of the street's 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 9 at 55 dB or more from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Woods Loke Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
East Point AcademySecondary11–161.2 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Limes Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Roman Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oulton Broad Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
East Coast College16 plus16–991.6 km No published inspection
Phoenix St Peter AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Red Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection
Elm Tree Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northfield St Nicholas Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–112.0 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cupcakes From The Hart NR32 2PYOther catering premises230 m5 Very good6 Jun 2014
Londis Oulton Broad NR32 2PYRetailers - other350 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
MFG Greggs Oulton Broad NR32 2PYTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Lilac Lodge NR32 3AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Reade Caterers Ltd NR33 9LZMobile caterer410 m5 Very good28 May 2025
Brenda Taylor Services NR33 9LZMobile caterer410 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Holly Pharmacy NR32 3LJRetailers - other420 mExempt
East Point Fish NR32 3LZRetailers - other430 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
R&J Fresh Fish NR32 3LZMobile caterer430 m5 Very good16 Dec 2024
Jester's Diner NR32 2QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

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

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary2
Other theft1
Drugs1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Constable Close (12); On or near Lakeland Drive (11); On or near Leathes Close (4); On or near A1117 (2); On or near Mutford Close (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 638 residents in 284 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 age4240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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.

  • NR32 2QU: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • NR33 9LZ: 3 addresses of 85 in the postcode
  • NR32 2QS: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lakeland Drive · Mutford Close · Leathes Close · Harbour Road · The Spinney · Marlborough Road · Lothing Street · Normanston Drive · Marlborough Court · George Close · Burgess Close

All the streets in NR32, NR33 and across East Suffolk.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.