Downs Close Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS22), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47816523.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in North Somerset costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worle, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, and Plumley Park (12 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Cedars Surgery, about 180 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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
20241£270,000£270,000£270,000
20221£235,000£235,000£235,000
20141£165,000£165,000£165,000
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
20081£170,000£170,000£170,000
20051£180,000£180,000£180,000
20031£139,000£139,000£139,000
19961£66,250£66,250£66,250
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Jul 20245 BS22 6YGSemi-detached£270,000
15 Mar 20225 BS22 6YGSemi-detached£235,000
3 Jan 20141 BS22 6YGDetached£165,000
10 Oct 20128 BS22 6YGDetached£155,000
26 Sep 20086 BS22 6YGSemi-detached£170,000
23 Mar 20058 BS22 6YGDetached£180,000
28 Oct 20031 BS22 6YGDetached£139,000
25 Oct 19968 BS22 6YGDetached£66,250

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 April 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (2); 1996-2002 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,938£2,214£2,491£3,045£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (53% of about 680 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: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 10 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 10 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BS22 6YGzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BS22 6YAzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

© 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 6 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
BS22 6YA100%100%100%0%
BS22 6YG100%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 stationsWorle 398,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Weston Milton 107,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Weston-Super-Mare 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 56 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moor Lane Worle100 m
Ferry terminalWeston-super-Mare Knightstone Harbour4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Co-op Worle Car Park440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS14.7 km (9.1 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Cedars Surgery180 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Worle Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ground Floor Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Weston General Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationNorth Somerset Police Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Worle Cashzone690 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Plumley Park 12 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²120 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha90 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Bell House, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Bell HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Church of Saint MartinListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Motte at Castle BatchScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks south of Locking Head FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Worle HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Milton HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) west
Ashcombe WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
The CombeValley4 km (2.5 miles) south
Sand BayBay4.3 km (2.7 miles) west
Bathing CoveWetland4.5 km (2.8 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
55 to 59100
Under 55799

2 of the street's 9 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 North Somerset: see them on the North Somerset page.

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
Mendip Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–11340 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worle Community SchoolSecondary11–16490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Mead Vale Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Becket Primary SchoolPrimary2–11720 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worle Village Primary SchoolPrimary5–11760 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Herons' Moor AcademyPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Martin's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected 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
St Mark's Ecumenical Anglican/Methodist Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Priory Community SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle Batch Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milton Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
St Georges Church School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Worle Football Club BS22 6ANPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good1 Oct 2024
@Worle Cafe BS22 8XXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Ready Steady Go Childcare BS22 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good1 May 2026
A Purr-fect Catch BS22 6AURetailers - other380 mAwaiting inspection
Malthouse (The) BS22 6JERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Muffins Tea Rooms and Restaurant BS22 6JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Rolls R Us BS22 6JDMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Aug 2025
Abra kebabra BS22 6JDMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory21 May 2026
Fairsave Ltd BS22 6JSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 May 2024
Mr Beans BS22 6JSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Jan 2025
Boots UK BS24 7AYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Dec 2025
New Manor Farm Butchers BS22 6JBRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Astills Of Worle BS22 6JARetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Lamb (The) BS22 6JAPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jan 2024
Noble House BS22 6JATakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Mar 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Criminal damage and arson9
Public order4
Burglary3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft2
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Station Road (25); On or near Curlew Gardens (5); On or near Cotman Walk (3); On or near Coralberry Drive (3); On or near New Bristol Road (3).

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: 327 residents in 197 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 age6740
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over53%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work34%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)56%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%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)22%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • BS22 6YG: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • BS22 6YA: 1 address of 3 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sandpiper Drive · Cygnet Crescent · Osprey Gardens · Coralberry Drive · Blueberry Way · New Bristol Road · Mendip Avenue · Lapwing Gardens · Fulmar Road · Cotman Walk · Mulberry Close · Copley Gardens

All the streets in BS22 and across North Somerset.

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.