Dodson Vale Kesgrave, East Suffolk

27 addresses across 1 postcode (IP5), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38605199.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £400,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 13, E: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in East Suffolk costs £2,335 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Derby Road (Ipswich), about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Embrace Medical Centre, about 320 m away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£400,000£375,000£425,000
20252£447,500£375,000£520,000
20241£365,000£365,000£365,000
20212£390,000£360,000£420,000
20191£370,000£370,000£370,000
20182£387,000£334,000£440,000
20162£307,500£300,000£315,000
20143£260,000£235,000£277,000
20133£245,000£222,500£250,000
20112£248,500£217,000£280,000
20072£267,998£249,995£286,000
20042£250,750£231,500£270,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Jul 202630 IP5 2GTDetached£375,000
13 Feb 20267 IP5 2GTDetached£425,000
20 Nov 202518 IP5 2GTDetached£520,000
29 Sep 202526 IP5 2GTDetached£375,000
18 Sep 20244 IP5 2GTDetached£365,000
18 Jun 202120 IP5 2GTDetached£420,000
14 May 20217 IP5 2GTDetached£360,000
1 Nov 201922 IP5 2GTDetached£370,000
4 May 201810 IP5 2GTDetached£334,000
22 Feb 20182 IP5 2GTDetached£440,000
2 Sep 20163 IP5 2GTDetached£300,000
8 Jul 201612 IP5 2GTDetached£315,000
15 Jul 20141 IP5 2GTDetached£260,000
27 Feb 201420 IP5 2GTDetached£277,000
10 Jan 20144 IP5 2GTDetached£235,000
3 Dec 201324 IP5 2GTDetached£250,000
24 Jun 201332 IP5 2GTDetached£245,000
10 May 201310 IP5 2GTDetached£222,500
28 Oct 201110 IP5 2GTDetached£217,000
26 Aug 20116 IP5 2GTDetached£280,000
12 Jul 200726 IP5 2GTDetached£249,995
31 May 20078 IP5 2GTDetached£286,000
3 Dec 200420 IP5 2GTDetached£231,500
25 Jun 200416 IP5 2GTDetached£270,000
10 Jul 20035 IP5 2GTDetached£175,000
19 Oct 20014 IP5 2GTDetached£137,500
2 Jan 200132 IP5 2GTDetached£137,000
16 Sep 199926 IP5 2GTDetached£97,000
21 Aug 19986 IP5 2GTDetached£102,250
16 Apr 199817 IP5 2GTDetached£93,500
12 Dec 199714 IP5 2GTDetached£99,950New build.
30 Jun 199718 IP5 2GTDetached£106,500New build.
20 Jun 199716 IP5 2GTDetached£114,000New build.
5 Jun 199724 IP5 2GTDetached£99,650New build.
19 May 19972 IP5 2GTDetached£112,500
11 Apr 199722 IP5 2GTDetached£89,750New build.
3 Apr 199715 IP5 2GTDetached£104,000New build.
23 Dec 199634 IP5 2GTDetached£94,000New build.
19 Dec 199636 IP5 2GTDetached£111,250New build.
12 Nov 199617 IP5 2GTDetached£95,000New build.
1 Nov 199626 IP5 2GTDetached£79,950New build.
28 Oct 199620 IP5 2GTDetached£78,250
28 Aug 199628 IP5 2GTDetached£83,000New build.
10 May 199632 IP5 2GTDetached£84,000New build.
15 Dec 199511 IP5 2GTDetached£94,000New build.
10 Oct 199530 IP5 2GTDetached£74,950New build.
29 Aug 199512 IP5 2GTDetached£84,950
27 Jul 19958 IP5 2GTDetached£109,950New build.
24 Feb 19954 IP5 2GTDetached£85,000New build.
24 Feb 19953 IP5 2GTDetached£79,950New build.

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 August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 110 m². Most common: House, detached (16); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1996-2002 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in East Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,335 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,557£1,816£2,075£2,335£2,854£3,372£3,891£4,670

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (38% of about 580 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor 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 6 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 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
IP5 2GT100%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 stationsDerby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.4 miles)
Woodbridge 229,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dodson Vale Grange Farm50 m
Bus or coach stationMartlesham Park and Ride2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Ferry terminalShotley Point Marina Ferry Landing Shotley Gate11.7 km (7.3 miles)
EV charging pointsFastned Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN66.3 km (41 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN71.8 km (45 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Embrace Medical Centre320 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kesgrave Dental Care590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalNuffield Ipswich Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationSuffolk Constabulary Police Headquarters2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM790 m (0.5 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 10 ha360 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha150 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 670 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 870m south of Lux FarmScheduled monument740 m (0.5 miles) north
Bowl barrow 170m west of Kesgrave High School buildingsScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) north
Bowl barrow on Playford Heath, 625m south of Lux FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black Walk PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Kesgrave WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Brookhill WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Pole HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Lux WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north
Playford MereLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 5920
Under 552527

2 of the street's 27 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 East Suffolk: see them on the East Suffolk 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
Cedarwood Primary SchoolPrimary5–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Heath Primary School, KesgravePrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kesgrave High SchoolSecondary11–18770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gorseland Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Dec 2025): 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

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
Gressland Court (Kesgrave) Management Company Ltd IP5 2HJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Oakwood House IP5 2GDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Brunchouse Cafe IP5 2HUOther catering premises140 m5 Very good23 Dec 2025
Tesco IP5 2FURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Ocean Fish IP5 2ETTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good31 Dec 2024
Trustees Of KWMCC IP5 1JFOther catering premises300 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
1st Kesgrave Scouts IP5 1JFOther catering premises300 m5 Very good22 Sep 2008
Cafe 66 IP5 1JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good15 Aug 2025
Three Bears Playgroup IP5 2ESHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Dec 2017
Cedarwood Breakfast And After School Club IP5 2ESOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Dec 2016
Jigsaw IP5 1JGSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2019
Kitchen At Heath Primary School IP5 1JGSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Nov 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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order3
Other theft1
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mead Drive (9); On or near Cranwell Grove (3); On or near Llewellyn Drift (2); On or near Stollery Close (2); On or near Dawson Drift (2).

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: 340 residents in 137 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (give and take) 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.

  • IP5 2GT: 27 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rayment Drift · Butler Smith Gardens · Rowarth Avenue · Webbs Court · Mead Drive · Webbs Court · Lummis Vale · Adams Place · Kays Close · Sherwood Fields · The Lloyds · Dawson Drift

All the streets in IP5 and across East Suffolk.

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.