Cover Green Worcester

25 addresses across 1 postcode (WR4), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000454.

Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £385,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 7).
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 B; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Elbury Park, is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 59 to 66 m above sea level.
Noise: 12 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Elbury Moor Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 49 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2023	1	£385,000	£385,000	£385,000
2022	1	£460,000	£460,000	£460,000
2018	1	£380,000	£380,000	£380,000
2017	1	£402,500	£402,500	£402,500
2015	1	£270,000	£270,000	£270,000
2013	1	£205,500	£205,500	£205,500
2008	1	£315,000	£315,000	£315,000
2007	1	£308,500	£308,500	£308,500
2006	4	£273,000	£232,000	£339,995
2004	1	£300,000	£300,000	£300,000
2003	3	£207,500	£160,000	£237,500
2002	5	£215,000	£157,500	£270,000

Most recent sales (37)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
28 Jan 2026	5 WR4 0JF	Semi-detached	£300,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 2023	2 WR4 0JF	Detached	£385,000
21 Mar 2022	20 WR4 0JF	Detached	£460,000
16 Mar 2018	18 WR4 0JF	Detached	£380,000
14 Jul 2017	10 WR4 0JF	Detached	£402,500
23 Mar 2015	4 WR4 0JF	Detached	£270,000
23 Jul 2013	7 WR4 0JF	Detached	£205,500
14 Jul 2008	20 WR4 0JF	Detached	£315,000
2 Feb 2007	18 WR4 0JF	Detached	£308,500
19 Dec 2006	25 WR4 0JF	Detached	£271,000
15 Dec 2006	10 WR4 0JF	Detached	£339,995
16 Jun 2006	5 WR4 0JF	Semi-detached	£275,000
31 Jan 2006	15 WR4 0JF	Detached	£232,000
16 Apr 2004	16 WR4 0JF	Detached	£300,000
27 Jun 2003	4 WR4 0JF	Detached	£207,500
11 Apr 2003	11 WR4 0JF	Detached	£160,000
14 Jan 2003	5 WR4 0JF	Semi-detached	£237,500
4 Nov 2002	20 WR4 0JF	Detached	£270,000
4 Oct 2002	18 WR4 0JF	Detached	£224,950
19 Jul 2002	6 WR4 0JF	Detached	£215,000
10 Apr 2002	5 WR4 0JF	Semi-detached	£190,000
8 Mar 2002	19 WR4 0JF	Detached	£157,500
3 Dec 2001	21 WR4 0JF	Detached	£170,000
12 Oct 2001	25 WR4 0JF	Detached	£165,000
4 Oct 2001	18 WR4 0JF	Detached	£204,950
6 Sep 2001	27 WR4 0JF	Detached	£210,000
12 Jul 2001	1 WR4 0JF	Detached	£144,000
5 Jul 2001	7 WR4 0JF	Detached	£124,250
16 Feb 2001	4 WR4 0JF	Detached	£127,500
31 Mar 2000	4 WR4 0JF	Detached	£128,500
28 May 1999	6 WR4 0JF	Detached	£123,000
16 Oct 1998	11 WR4 0JF	Detached	£86,000
28 Jul 1998	20 WR4 0JF	Detached	£155,000
5 Mar 1998	7 WR4 0JF	Detached	£84,000
30 Oct 1997	2 WR4 0JF	Detached	£95,500
26 Sep 1997	4 WR4 0JF	Detached	£96,750
29 Aug 1996	15 WR4 0JF	Detached	£88,000

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 October 2012 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 136 m². Most common: House, detached (12). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1991-1995 (4); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,604	£1,871	£2,138	£2,406	£2,940	£3,475	£4,010	£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (24% of about 1,050 homes).

A3%

B24%

C24%

D20%

E16%

F12%

G1%

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: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

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

Former Club House, Tolladine Golf Course: up to 16 homes, permissioned (300 m)
Commandery Coach Depot, Tolladine Road: up to 7 homes, not permissioned (910 m (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.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

28 October 2026 to 2 November 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the verge (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 3 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 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.

© 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 25 addresses are between 59 m and 66 m above sea level (63 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
WR4 0JF	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	Worcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
	Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
	Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–25	5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops	9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Home Meadow Warndon Villages	170 m
Bus or coach station	Worcester Bus Station	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks	Worcester Shrub Hill Station Car Park	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points	4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station	1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	41 km (25 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	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elbury Moor Medical Centre	1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies	5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy	310 m
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lyppard Dental Centre	420 m (0.3 miles)
Hospital	Worcester Royal Infirmary	830 m (0.5 miles)
Police station	Worcester Police Station	2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Elbury Park Service Station Cashzone	380 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 Elbury Park 4.2 ha	460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²	200 m
Playing field	Unnamed 4,210 m²	900 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments	Langdale Drive Allotments 1,910 m²	1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, Worcester, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) south-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Civil War fieldwork at Tamar Close, Worcester	Scheduled monument	1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Spetchley Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II*	2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642	Registered battlefield	4 km (2.5 miles) south-west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Leopard Hill	Hill	280 m south-west
Gorse Hill	Hill	920 m (0.6 miles) west
Tolladine Wood	Wood	930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Nunnery Wood	Wood	1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Warndon Wood	Wood	1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
The Lake	Lake or reservoir	2.7 km (1.7 miles) north

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)	7.6	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.5	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.4	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	6	0
55 to 59	6	0
Under 55	13	25

12 of the street's 25 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
The Lyppard Grange Primary School	Primary	4–11	430 m (0.3 miles)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery School	Primary	3–11	900 m (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
Carnforth School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Report card (Mar 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hollymount School	Primary	2–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy Warndon	Primary	2–11	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Worcester Roman Catholic	Primary	2–11	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	No published inspection
Nunnery Wood Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.7 km (1.1 miles)	Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worcester Sixth Form College	16 plus	16–19	1.7 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection
Cranham Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection
Nunnery Wood High School	Secondary	11–16	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	Good (Mar 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
Tesco WR4 0UJ	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	290 m	5 Very good	25 Jan 2024
Costa Coffee At Tesco WR4 0UJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	290 m	5 Very good	28 Jan 2026
Yo! Sushi Store At Tesco WR4 0UJ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	290 m	5 Very good	26 Aug 2026
The Virgin Tavern WR4 9BJ	Pub/bar/nightclub	370 m	5 Very good	24 Jul 2025
Elbury Park Servce Station WR4 9BA	Retailers - other	390 m	5 Very good	2 Feb 2023
Lyppards Fryer WR4 0DZ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	410 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	12 Nov 2024
Ankerage Green Morrisons Daily	Retailers - other	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	24 Feb 2026
Happylands Private Day Nursery WR4 0DZ	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	7 May 2026
Lyppard Grange Community Centre WR4 0DZ	Other catering premises	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	30 Jun 2022
Aspens Services At Lyppard Grange Primary School WR4 0DZ	School/college/university	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	25 Feb 2025
Wok N Roll Takeaway WR4 0DZ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	21 Jul 2025
The Den WR4 0DZ	School/college/university	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	13 Jul 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.

49 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	18
Anti-social behaviour	9
Vehicle crime	7
Other crime	3
Criminal damage and arson	3
Other theft	3
Burglary	2
Public order	2
Bicycle theft	1
Possession of weapons	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Vetch Field Avenue (11); On or near Spring Meadow (6); On or near White Hill (5); On or near Cover Green (5); On or near Hock Coppice (4).

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: 443 residents in 172 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	40	40
Children under 15	19%	17%
Aged 65 and over	16%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	80%	61%
Owned outright	41%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	9%	17%
Private rented	9%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	63%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	6%	6%
Retired (of adults)	20%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	38%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	49%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	11%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	67%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	9%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	41%	34%
No qualifications	10%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	94%	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: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 to 2 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 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.

WR4 0JF: 25 addresses

Nearby streets

Hay Close · White Hill · Daty Croft · Hock Coppice · Nine Acres Green · Vetch Field Avenue · Seven Acres · Greenfield Close · Bramhope Close · Snowberry Avenue · Threshfield Drive · Spring Meadow

All the streets in WR4 and across Worcester.

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.