Flodden Drive Reading, West Berkshire

40 addresses across 1 postcode (RG31), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26900739.

  • Sales: 107 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £302,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 12, E: 4).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Theale, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Linear Park, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Westwood Road Surgery, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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£302,500£260,000£345,000
20253£327,500£245,000£330,000
20241£245,000£245,000£245,000
20231£285,000£285,000£285,000
20221£302,500£302,500£302,500
20214£250,000£205,000£270,000
20193£237,000£200,000£240,000
20182£316,250£305,000£327,500
20174£248,250£215,000£275,000
20162£232,500£195,000£270,000
20155£205,000£187,500£247,000
20144£182,500£175,000£225,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 107)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Jun 202623 RG31 7EHTerraced£260,000
12 Feb 202614 RG31 7EHTerraced£345,000
19 Dec 202511 RG31 7EHTerraced£245,000
1 Aug 202520 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£330,000
13 Jun 202535 RG31 7EHTerraced£327,500
8 Feb 202426 RG31 7EHTerraced£245,000
15 Dec 202312 RG31 7EHTerraced£285,000
16 May 202214 RG31 7EHTerraced£302,500
27 Sep 202115 RG31 7EHTerraced£270,000
2 Sep 202111 RG31 7EHTerraced£230,000
26 Jul 20215 RG31 7EHTerraced£270,000
19 Feb 202128 RG31 7EHTerraced£205,000
9 Aug 201937 RG31 7EHTerraced£240,000
28 May 201934 RG31 7EHTerraced£200,000
5 Apr 201923 RG31 7EHTerraced£237,000
28 Sep 201839 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£305,000
27 Jul 201821 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£327,500
15 Dec 201730 RG31 7EHTerraced£215,000
12 Jul 20178 RG31 7EHTerraced£275,000
6 Apr 201720 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£273,500
31 Mar 201726 RG31 7EHTerraced£223,000
16 Mar 201612 RG31 7EHTerraced£270,000
7 Mar 20169 RG31 7EHTerraced£195,000
27 Nov 201526 RG31 7EHTerraced£195,000
21 Oct 201515 RG31 7EHTerraced£247,000
27 Jul 201524 RG31 7EHTerraced£187,500
1 Apr 201523 RG31 7EHTerraced£205,000
27 Mar 201537 RG31 7EHTerraced£220,000
16 Dec 201411 RG31 7EHTerraced£180,000
1 Dec 201414 RG31 7EHTerraced£225,000
15 Jul 201428 RG31 7EHTerraced£175,000
11 Jul 201436 RG31 7EHTerraced£185,000
6 Sep 201334 RG31 7EHTerraced£157,950
1 Nov 201114 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£178,000
21 Oct 20114 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£134,000
17 Oct 201115 RG31 7EHTerraced£179,950
26 Jan 20111 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£224,000
14 Jan 201118 RG31 7EHTerraced£157,000
22 Sep 201030 RG31 7EHTerraced£144,500
28 Oct 200936 RG31 7EHTerraced£147,500
26 May 200926 RG31 7EHTerraced£137,000
15 Aug 200812 RG31 7EHDetached£192,500
8 Aug 20084 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£147,500
17 Apr 200839 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£222,500
15 Feb 200820 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£199,950
30 Jul 200721 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£245,000
27 Apr 20071 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£225,000
19 Feb 20074 RG31 7EHSemi-detached£155,000
8 Dec 200631 RG31 7EHTerraced£169,950
3 Nov 200614 RG31 7EHTerraced£177,500

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

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: House, enclosed end-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (7). Built: 1983-1990 (23); 1976-1982 (6); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (47% 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: 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 6 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 40 addresses are between 49 m and 50 m above sea level (49 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
RG31 7EH100%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 stationsTheale 391,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Reading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Tilehurst 385,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ledbury Drive Beansheaf Estate120 m
Bus or coach stationPurley Social Club Purley on Thames4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksParking space on Warnford Road, RG301.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR40.6 km (25 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 surgeriesWestwood Road Surgery2.1 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesAsda Pharmacy1.9 km (1.2 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Reading Dental Access Centre1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalProspect Park Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationSulhamstead Police Training Centre3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sgn Ltd - Bp Calcot, Calcot520 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Linear Park 39 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsMeadway Allotments 5,830 m²1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Holybrook Cottage, a listed building (Grade II*), 550 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 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
Holybrook CottageListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Calcot CourtListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Prospect ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Curtis's WoodWood680 m (0.4 miles) north
Nabbs HillHill810 m (0.5 miles) north
Oliver's CopseWood810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Mill DamLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south
Appletree EyotIsland3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Parr's GullyValley4.8 km (3 miles) south-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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 5910
Under 553940

1 of the street's 40 addresses is 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 West Berkshire: see them on the West Berkshire 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
Calcot Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Calcot Junior SchoolPrimary7–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kennet Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Churchend Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Springfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Academy ProspectSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birch Copse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Calcot Cottage RG31 7QJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good28 Jul 2010
J's Food & Wine RG31 4UTRetailers - other320 m4 Good22 Oct 2013
Let's Eat Trading Limited T/as The Avenue Deli RG31 4UTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
The Coriander Club RG31 4UTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good8 Sep 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Public order5
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary2
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Langley Hall Drive (12); On or near Kemerton Close (7); On or near Ashmere Close (3); On or near Ledbury Drive (3); On or near Flodden Drive (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: 216 residents in 111 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 age3440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

Nearby streets

Colston Close · Radbourne Road · Hanbury Drive · Knollmead · Kirkstall Court · Ledbury Drive · Fairlop Close · Kemerton Close · Kilburn Close · Pollards Way · Calshot Place · Pemberton Gardens

All the streets in RG31 and across West Berkshire.

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.