Cypress Close Torquay, Torbay

23 addresses across 1 postcode (TQ2), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40702640.

  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 2).
  • Flood: 15 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 Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Abbey Park (3.1 hectares) is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Croft Hall Medical Practice, about 90 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 12% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 564 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (6); 1996-2002 (5); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (67% of about 1,050 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: yes, Abbey Road (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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: in a protected area: Belgrave Road, Torquay.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (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

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 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 23 addresses are between 24 m and 26 m above sea level (25 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
TQ2 5PF100%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Road Health Centre Torquay60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay940 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Town Hall Car Park330 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station70 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT30.9 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Hall Medical Practice90 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellbeing Pharmacy90 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest My Dentist310 m
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM370 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 garden12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,690 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Abbey Park 3.1 ha310 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,540 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torre Valley North Playing Field 2.4 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsBen Venue Allotments 3,630 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 12 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Luke, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m south-east. 170 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St LukeListed building, Grade II*220 m south-east
Parish Church of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade II*260 m north-east
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade II*290 m north-west
Torre AbbeyListed building, Grade I540 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
St Michael's Chapel, Chapel HillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tor HillHill370 m north-west
Stentiford HillHill550 m (0.3 miles) east
Torre Abbey SandsBeach600 m (0.4 miles) south
Shiphay PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Broken CliffCliff or slope1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Devil's PointWetland2.5 km (1.5 miles) east

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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, 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
Under 552323

None of the street's 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Cockington Primary SchoolPrimary5–11690 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Torquay AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Margaret's AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Torquay Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Devon Court Hotel TQ2 5UEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Riviera Lodge Hotel TQ2 5UEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Howden Court Hotel TQ2 5UDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
The Cimon TQ2 5NPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Torcroft Hotel TQ2 5UEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Ashley Court Hotel TQ2 5NPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Dec 2025
Turkish Kebab & Pizza TQ2 5RFTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Lindum Lodge TQ2 5NPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house130 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Tasty House TQ2 5RFTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good4 Sep 2025
The Base TQ2 5RFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Ascot House Hotel TQ2 5URHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house190 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jul 2025
Tor Hill Road Convenience Store TQ2 5RARetailers - other200 m2 Improvement necessary29 Jul 2026
TCDT Community Help Hub TQ2 5PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Mr C's TQ2 5NYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
Buzz Bingo TQ2 5PURetailers - other210 m5 Very good4 Sep 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.

564 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences220
Anti-social behaviour120
Other theft46
Public order26
Drugs25
Criminal damage and arson24
Shoplifting23
Vehicle crime18
Theft from the person17
Burglary15
Possession of weapons12
Robbery10
Other crime7
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Factory Row (116); On or near Parking Area (62); On or near Morgan Avenue (42); On or near Higher Union Lane (41); On or near Madeira Place (40).

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: 230 residents in 123 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 age4840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)12%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented48%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work28%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)26%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van30%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • TQ2 5PF: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Croft Hill · Croft Road · Abbey Road · Madeira Place · Tor Church Road · Matlock Terrace · St Lukes Road · Temperance Street · Factory Row · Higher Union Lane · Scarborough Road · Scarborough Place

All the streets in TQ2 and across Torbay.

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.