Deacon's Lane Ely, East Cambridgeshire

67 addresses across 6 postcodes (CB6,CB7), about 320 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12000489.

  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 12, D: 21, E: 10, G: 2).
  • Flood: 17 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 B; Band D in East Cambridgeshire costs £2,485 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ely, about 1.4 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Mary's Surgery, about 820 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (6); Maisonette, end-terrace (6). Built: 1900-1929 (14); 1976-1982 (12); before 1900 (9). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (21); owner-occupied (20).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,485 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,657£1,933£2,209£2,485£3,037£3,590£4,142£4,970

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (45% of about 1,300 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: yes, Ely (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): 1-55 (odds) Deacons Lane, Ely.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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

  • 23 September 2026: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (minor 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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 22 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
CB7 4PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
CB7 4PTnot in 2 or 3 12 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB7 4DUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 6 unlikely
CB6 1DAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 11 unlikely
CB7 4PQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB7 4REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 67 addresses are between 20 m and 22 m above sea level (21 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
CB6 1DA100%100%100%0%
CB7 4DU100%100%100%0%
CB7 4PQ100%100%100%0%
CB7 4PS100%98%98%0%
CB7 4PT100%0%0%0%
CB7 4RE100%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 stationsEly 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Littleport 252,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–258.8 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 44 within 800 m; nearest Deacon's Lane Ely60 m
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Forehill Car Park700 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km; nearest Newnham Street Car Park230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN57.8 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 St Mary's Surgery820 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots460 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Chequer Hall Dental Practice480 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital1.2 km
Police stationEly Police Station310 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Cashpoint® Minster Place Lloyds Bank550 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 garden5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha350 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 4.6 ha770 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 800 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,710 m²490 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha140 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 9.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sessions House, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m south-west. 177 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 24 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sessions HouseListed building, Grade II*380 m south-west
Nos. 16 and 18 High Street (including Steeple Gate)Listed building, Grade II*520 m south
Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower the Sacristy Gate and Goldsmith's TowerListed building, Grade I520 m south
Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower the AlmonryListed building, Grade I540 m south
Ely Cathedral: claustral buildingsScheduled monument640 m south
'Cherry Hill', castle moundScheduled monument920 m south
Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene, St John's FarmScheduled monument1.0 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roswell PitsLake or reservoir1.2 km east
Redmoor PlantationWood2.9 km north-east
Quanea HillHill3.2 km east
Thorney HillHill3.7 km south-east
Brick HillHill3.8 km north-east
The RookeryWood3.8 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
55 to 5930
Under 556467

3 of the street's 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 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
Lantern Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m No published inspection
Ely CollegeSecondary11–18680 m No published inspection
Spring Meadow Infant SchoolPrimary4–7800 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Isle of Ely Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m No published inspection
Ely St Mary's CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11890 m Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ely St John's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 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: Good

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
Ely Beet Sports & Social Club CB6 1DDOther catering premises130 m5 Very good21 Jan 2022
Lily House CB6 1DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
The Yard By Silver Oak CB7 4PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Ely King CB7 4PNTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good19 May 2025
The Atrium CB7 4PQRetailers - other280 mExempt
The High Flyer CB7 4PQPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
City Of Ely Bowls Club CB7 4PLOther catering premises290 m5 Very good18 Jan 2022
Lunchbox Ely CB7 4PLOther catering premises290 m4 Good9 Jun 2026
Castle Lodge CB7 4PWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good20 Mar 2024
New Barns Convenience Store CB7 4PWRetailers - other300 m5 Very good10 Sep 2023
Labas CB7 4PERetailers - other310 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Dec 2025
Lucky Panda CB7 4PETakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
Waitrose CB7 4QJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Acremont House School CB6 1AESchool/college/university380 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Hand Crafted Cupcakes CB7 4LSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m5 Very good11 Feb 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour7
Violence and sexual offences6
Bicycle theft3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (10); On or near Deacon'S Lane (4); On or near Bell Close (2); On or near Meldon Place (1); On or near John Amner Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 787 residents in 354 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Eel & Apple (retailers - other, CB7 4NB) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 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.

  • CB7 4PS: 49 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • CB7 4PT: 12 addresses
  • CB7 4DU: 3 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • CB6 1DA: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • CB7 4PQ: 1 address of 38 in the postcode
  • CB7 4RE: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Appleby Park · Bell Close · John Amner Close · Lynn Road · Eden Square · Meldon Place · Little London Gardens · Deacons Lane · Dalton Way · St Audreys Way · New Barns Road · St Audrey's Way

All the streets in CB6, CB7 and across East Cambridgeshire.

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.

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