Crick Road Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (SG18), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6000367.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £87,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Central Bedfordshire cost £355,263 in August 2026 (+0.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,258 a month.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 4).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Dunton Lane - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 2,113 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Biggleswade, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ivel Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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£87,500£87,500£87,500
20191£387,000£387,000£387,000
20161£297,950£297,950£297,950
20151£289,950£289,950£289,950
All 9 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Dec 20152 SG18 8NDSemi-detached£289,950New build.
26 Apr 20164 SG18 8NDDetached£264,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 20235 SG18 8NDFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
26 Apr 20166 SG18 8NDSemi-detached£259,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 20168 SG18 8NDSemi-detached£259,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 201610 SG18 8NDDetached£264,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Oct 201912 SG18 8NDDetached£387,000
27 Sep 201912 SG18 8NDDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Apr 201612 SG18 8NDDetached£297,950New build.

House prices and rents in Central Bedfordshire

A typical home in Central Bedfordshire cost £355,263 in August 2026, 0.1% more than a year before. That is 15% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£603,864
Semi-detached£376,156
Terraced£299,898
Flat or maisonette£173,335
Bought by a first-time buyer£299,948

Private renters in Central Bedfordshire paid £1,258 a month on average in September 2026, 4.4% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£870
Two bedrooms£1,105
Three bedrooms£1,386
Four or more bedrooms£2,057

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, detached (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 2012-2021 (4); 2016 (4); 2019 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,120 kWh of it on average in 2024, 28% less than the district's 9,831 kWh, and 2,781 kWh of electricity, 21% less than the district's 3,502 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SG18 8ND112,052 kWh 117,424 kWh
SG18 8JQ392,519 kWh 406,447 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is SG18.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (40% of about 580 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 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Dunton Lane - Battery Energy Storage System Central Bedfordshire CB/25/00421/REG3 Battery storage 177 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2025 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Langford Wind Farm Central Bedfordshire 09/00118/FULL Wind 10 turbines 20 MW Operational Jan 2014 3.8 km (2.3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 2 at medium risk and 13 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
SG18 8NDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
SG18 8JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 7 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 34 m above sea level.

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
SG18 8JQ100%100%100%0%
SG18 8ND100%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 stationsBiggleswade 895,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Sandy 679,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Arlesey 688,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glebe Road Biggleswade300 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Biggleswade1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksRose Lane Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN25.7 km (16 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ivel Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jardines Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Victoria Place Dental Practice Limited1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBiggleswade Hospital Spring House470 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Penrose Court Good Jul 2025260 m
Police stationBiggleswade Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Biggleswade Saxon Centre, 6 Kingsfield Road1.1 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,150 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²80 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha240 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.8 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cursus and five associated ring-ditches at Biggleswade Common, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cursus and five associated ring-ditches at Biggleswade CommonScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Stratton Park moated enclosure and associated manorial earthworksScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
A ringwork and bailey castle, ring ditch and enclosures east of Brookland FarmScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The BeltWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Dunton FenWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Bunker's HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Waterloo WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Sandy WarrenWood3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
College PondsLake or reservoir4.9 km (3.1 miles) west

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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551112

1 of the street's 12 addresses is 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Edward Peake CofE VC School Church of EnglandSecondary11–16470 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 4% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Stratton SchoolSecondary11–18780 m (0.5 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.5 (38.9 in 2025 and 38.6 in 2024); 35.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 8% AAB or better; progress average
Lawnside AcademyPrimary5–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 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: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published
Biggleswade AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 400 m (0.2 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rainbow Pre-School & Extended Services SG18 8UQ Sessional day care 53 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Busy Bees At Biggleswade SG18 8UQ Full day care 106 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Stagecoach Biggleswade Performing Arts School SG18 0EJ Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 470 m (0.3 miles)
Rising Stars Wrap Around Clubs Ltd SG18 0LX Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 860 m (0.5 miles)
Lawnside Premier Holiday Camp SG18 0LX Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 860 m (0.5 miles)
Busy Bees at Biggleswade Saxon Centre SG18 8AT Full day care 112 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Rainbow Pre-School & Extended Services SG18 0LY Full day care 50 Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ Biggleswade Academy SG18 8JU Out-of-school day care 136 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Theatretrain Biggleswade SG18 8JU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 281 childminders and 49 home childcarers (nannies) in Central Bedfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
The Jerk Hub SG18 8UEMobile caterer140 m4 Good10 Feb 2026
Penrose Court Care Home SG18 8UAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Stratton Way Stores & Post Office SG18 0NSRetailers - other290 m5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Lains Coffee House SG18 8SZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 mAwaiting inspection
Fireaway Pizza SG18 8SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good21 Oct 2025
Sainsbury's SG18 8SXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good18 Aug 2022
Krafty Shed Ltd SG18 8SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Ivel Valley - School Site SG18 0NLSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good26 Jan 2026
Rainbow Pre-School & Extended Services SG18 8UQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good5 Dec 2025
Edward Peake Middle School SG18 0EJSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour10
Violence and sexual offences5
Vehicle crime3
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parry Rise (8); On or near Walker Mead (5); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (2); On or near Compton Mead (1); On or near Sherrington Grove (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 2,113 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 380 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 2,113 counted 2025 0% 380 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 598 residents in 219 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 age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work84%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%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)29%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away28%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 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

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

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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

Sherrington Grove · Maskin Drive · Compton Mead · Finzi Grove · Hunt Road · Evans Grove · Parry Rise · Sullivan Court · Chamberlain Park · Handel Way · Blackburn Way · Davies Croft

All the streets in SG18 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.