Fitzwilliam Street Cambridge

36 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB2), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5400223.

  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, 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 C; Band D in Cambridge costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 60% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and Cambridge University Botanic Garden (16 hectares) is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trumpington Street Medical Practice, about 290 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,870 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 13% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 73 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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 202318 CB2 1QHOther£1,900,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 June 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 201 m². Most common: House, detached (1); Flat (1). Built: before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 730 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: yes, Historic Core (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 12.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
CB2 1QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB2 1QAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CB2 1QZnot in 2 or 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 11 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
CB2 1QA100%86%86%0%
CB2 1QH100%60%60%0%
CB2 1QZ100%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 stationsCambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge110 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge600 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grand Arcade car park370 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN36 km (22 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Trumpington Street Medical Practice290 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fitzwilliam Pharmacy30 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery180 m
HospitalNuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station720 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 32-33 Petty Cury Halifax540 m (0.3 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 garden12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.0 ha250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cambridge University Botanic Garden 16 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUniversity Rugby Ground 3.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsEmpty Common Allotments 1.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 12 parks and gardens, 58 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 31, Trumpington Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 555 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 57 of them Grade I and 29 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
31, Trumpington StreetListed building, Grade II*40 m
Fence Along Street Frontage of the Main Block of the Fitzwilliam MuseumListed building, Grade I60 m west
Fitzwilliam Museum and boundary wall, plinths and gates to the north-eastListed building, Grade I80 m south-west
Cambridge Judge Business SchoolListed building, Grade II*100 m south-east
Hobson's ConduitScheduled monument300 m south-east
Emmanuel CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Queens' CollegeRegistered park or garden, Grade II500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Cambridge Castle moundScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Robinson Crusoe IslandWood340 m south-west
Mill PitLake or reservoir390 m west
The BacksLake or reservoir460 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Castle HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Giants GraveValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Chesterton FenWetland4.6 km (2.8 miles) north-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)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 553436

2 of the street's 36 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 Cambridge: see them on the Cambridge 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
St Alban's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Pauls CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Parkside Community CollegeSecondary11–16700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Newnham Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Street CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cambridge Maths School16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Brunswick Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hills Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Chesterton Community CollegeSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Pages CB2 1QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good6 Nov 2025
Browns Restaurant CB2 1QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Little Rose CB2 1QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good1 Aug 2024
North Star Restaurant CB2 1QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Hotel Du Vin & Bistro CB2 1QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Dept of Biochemstry - Coffee Bar CB2 1QWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
Department of Pathology (Molteno Lab CB2 3EESchool/college/university150 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Little St Marys Church CB2 1QGOther catering premises190 m4 Good10 Dec 2019
Peterhouse College CB2 1RDSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
The Pitt Building Conference Centre CB2 1RPSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good1 Sep 2023
Pembroke College CB2 1RFSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Café '84 CB2 1RFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 mAwaiting inspection
Dept of Biochemistry - Sanger Bldg CB2 1GARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good4 Nov 2024
Hot Numbers Coffee Ltd CB2 1QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Trockel CB2 3QYTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good19 Feb 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.

73 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour15
Other theft11
Bicycle theft10
Public order5
Theft from the person4
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs3
Burglary2
Robbery1
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (30); On or near Little St Mary'S Lane (14); On or near Grove Lane (9); On or near Tennis Court Road (8); On or near Fitzwilliam Street (7).

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: 1,870 residents in 72 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 age2240
Children under 15under 1%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented71%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work15%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)77%32%
Travel to work by car or van2%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualificationsunder 1%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

  • CB2 1QH: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • CB2 1QA: 3 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • CB2 1QZ: 1 address of 2 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tennis Court Terrace · Grove Lane · Trumpington Street · Little St Mary's Lane · Pembroke Street · Tennis Court Road · Trumpington Street · Botolph Lane · Granta Place · Mill Lane · Downing Street · Free School Lane

All the streets in CB2 and across Cambridge.

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.