StreetDossier

Corner Close Podington, Bedford

9 addresses across 1 postcode (NN29), about 50 m long. USRN 27302052.

12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £342,000 across 1 sale. 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3, E: 2). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 18 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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£342,000£342,000£342,000
20221£290,000£290,000£290,000
20191£250,000£250,000£250,000
20181£217,500£217,500£217,500
20161£260,500£260,500£260,500
20142£185,000£145,000£225,000
20121£152,500£152,500£152,500
20061£210,000£210,000£210,000
20031£146,000£146,000£146,000
20021£118,000£118,000£118,000
20011£82,000£82,000£82,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Jun 20236 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£342,000
9 Sep 20228 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£290,000
26 Jul 20191 NN29 7HTTerraced£250,000
2 Mar 20184 NN29 7HTTerraced£217,500
25 Nov 20166 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£260,500
5 Dec 20141 NN29 7HTTerraced£225,000
31 Oct 20144 NN29 7HTTerraced£145,000
21 Mar 20126 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£152,500
16 Nov 20061 NN29 7HTTerraced£210,000
19 Dec 20036 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£146,000
7 Oct 20026 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£118,000
1 Oct 20016 NN29 7HTSemi-detached£82,000

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 October 2009 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 92 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (2); owner-occupied (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bedford in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,922£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,943

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 580 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 30 September 2026.

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

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

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
NN29 7HT100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 30 October 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceOfsted
Christopher Reeves CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–1190 m No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 30 October 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
Podington Padel NN29 7HPOther catering premises470 m5 Very good19 Mar 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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime5
Burglary5
Anti-social behaviour3
Violence and sexual offences3
Other theft1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Vicarage Lane (7); On or near Hinwick Road (5); On or near Hornbeam Close (2); On or near High Street (2); On or near Gold Street (1).

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.

  • NN29 7HT: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hornbeam Close · School Lane · Gold Street · Vicarage Lane · High Street · Wymington Road

All the streets in NN29 and across Bedford.

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.
  • Anything about planning applications, roadworks, noise, air quality or council tax yet.

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