Fordwell Close Coventry

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (CV5), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9500872.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £152,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 2, E: 4).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Coventry costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Canley, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hearsall Common, is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 89 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broomfield Park Med.ctr., about 360 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 81 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
20261£152,000£152,000£152,000
20251£130,000£130,000£130,000
20191£138,500£138,500£138,500
20181£150,000£150,000£150,000
20171£135,000£135,000£135,000
20151£105,000£105,000£105,000
20143£142,000£120,000£232,000
20101£120,000£120,000£120,000
20081£120,000£120,000£120,000
20072£126,500£103,000£150,000
20052£120,750£86,500£155,000
20041£48,000£48,000£48,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jul 202610 CV5 8NHTerraced£152,000
10 Feb 20254 CV5 8NHTerraced£130,000
1 Feb 201914 CV5 8NHTerraced£138,500
12 Jan 201820 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£150,000
6 Nov 201710 CV5 8NHTerraced£135,000
3 Aug 20152 CV5 8NHTerraced£105,000
19 Dec 201434 CV5 8NHDetached£232,000
20 Nov 201430 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£142,000
19 Sep 201410 CV5 8NHTerraced£120,000
10 Sep 20105 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£120,000
3 Oct 200810 CV5 8NHTerraced£120,000
8 May 20072 CV5 8NHFlat or maisonette£103,000
20 Apr 200724 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£150,000
30 Sep 200538 CV5 8NHDetached£155,000
4 Mar 20052 CV5 8NHFlat or maisonette£86,500
2 Mar 20041 CV5 8NHDetached£48,000
13 Aug 20036 CV5 8NHTerraced£67,000
26 Apr 20029 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£90,000
30 Nov 20006 CV5 8NHTerraced£43,000
20 Sep 199920 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£82,000
28 Jun 199936 CV5 8NHDetached£86,950
19 Oct 199828 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£59,500
24 Jul 19982 CV5 8NHFlat or maisonette£36,000
25 Jun 199811 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£42,187Leasehold.
27 May 199822 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£65,000
17 Jan 199720 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£62,000
22 Nov 199616 CV5 8NHSemi-detached£34,000

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 September 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 51 m². Most common: House, enclosed end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1976-1982 (5); 1983-1990 (3); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Coventry in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,957£2,237£2,517£3,076£3,635£4,195£5,033

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (54% of about 1,560 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Chapelfields Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO - 30.9.23.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 September 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 2 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CV5 8NHnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CV5 8BUnot 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 29 addresses are between 84 m and 89 m above sea level (86 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
CV5 8BU100%100%100%0%
CV5 8NH100%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 stationsCanley 453,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Coventry 6.8 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Tile Hill 542,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Craven Street Spon End150 m
Bus or coach stationCoventry Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksNCP1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points107 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Farman Road, Coventry370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX15.5 km (9.6 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broomfield Park Med.ctr.360 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chapelfields Dental Practice380 m
HospitalWalsgrave Hospital6.5 km (4 miles)
Police stationCoventry Central Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Costcutter, Earlsden Cashzone490 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hearsall Common 29 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sovereign Park 7,770 m²380 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sherbourne Valley Allotments 3.9 ha200 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 50 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 119-123, Upper Spon Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 660 m (0.4 miles) east. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
119-123, Upper Spon StreetListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) east
Cast iron single-span bridge 110m WNW of Sherbourne HouseScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Site of Cloister, Chapter House and Undercrofts of Coventry PrioryScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Cook Street GateScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Lady Herbert's GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) east
Stoney Road AllotmentsRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swanswell PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Stivichall GroveWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Stivichall CommonWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Quinton PoolLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Primrose HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Limbrick WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5910
Under 552629

3 of the street's 29 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 Coventry: see them on the Coventry 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
Spon Gate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Souls' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hearsall Community AcademyPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moseley Primary SchoolPrimary2–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Osburg's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Earlsdon Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Barr's Hill SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coundon Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Christopher Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Radford Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ The King Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Whoberley Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Four Provinces CV5 8BUPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good2 Mar 2023
The Craven Club (2019) LTD CV5 8DSPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Familywenji Ltd CV1 3HETakeaway/sandwich shop220 mAwaiting inspection
Signal Corner CV5 6HFRetailers - other240 mAwaiting inspection
Pickles Restaurant CV1 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Pickles grill restaurant CV1 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection
The Nursery Tavern CV5 8DAPub/bar/nightclub240 mAwaiting inspection
Davey B's CV1 3JQMobile caterer250 m5 Very good18 Nov 2024
Italian Breakfast Corner CV1 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
spon end breakfast corner CV1 3HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good17 Jul 2025
Bengali Bites CV5 8DUTakeaway/sandwich shop270 mAwaiting inspection
Hearsall Inn CV5 8DSPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good6 Dec 2019
Balti Hut CV5 6JFTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Kids Planet Chapelfields CV5 8DESchool/college/university290 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
McDonalds Restaurants Ltd CV5 8BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025

Crime within 250 m

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

81 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences39
Shoplifting9
Vehicle crime7
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson6
Burglary4
Other crime3
Other theft2
Robbery2
Possession of weapons1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rushmoor Drive (31); On or near Maplebeck Close (21); On or near Sunnyside Close (12); On or near Duke Street (11); On or near Kilburn Drive (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 559 residents in 292 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 age3740
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • CV5 8NH: 27 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • CV5 8BU: 2 addresses of 86 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kilburn Drive · Rushmoor Drive · Maplebeck Close · Allesley Old Road · Cricket Close · Spon End · Duke Street · Prince of Wales Road · Moseley Avenue · Craven Street · Lake View Road · Sunnyside Close

All the streets in CV5 and across Coventry.

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.