Forest Close Newport, Isle of Wight

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (PO30), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 82000640.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 2, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Isle of Wight costs £2,626 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ryde Esplanade, about 10.8 km (6.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Newport Health Centre, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20211£300,000£300,000£300,000
20191£205,000£205,000£205,000
20182£232,500£200,000£265,000
20172£209,000£183,000£235,000
20161£285,000£285,000£285,000
20141£145,000£145,000£145,000
20111£242,500£242,500£242,500
20091£173,000£173,000£173,000
20061£152,000£152,000£152,000
20042£134,000£126,500£141,500
20031£80,000£80,000£80,000
20012£85,000£75,000£95,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Sep 202113 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£300,000
20 Feb 201914 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£205,000
5 Oct 201819 PO30 5SFDetached£200,000
17 Apr 20187A PO30 5SFSemi-detached£265,000
30 Nov 201715 PO30 5SFTerraced£183,000
17 Nov 201716 PO30 5SFOther£203,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 201713 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£235,000
10 Oct 20168 PO30 5SFDetached£285,000
28 Jul 201415 PO30 5SFTerraced£145,000
8 Apr 20118 PO30 5SFDetached£242,500
28 Aug 200910 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£173,000
15 Dec 200618 PO30 5SFTerraced£152,000
20 Feb 200418 PO30 5SFTerraced£126,500
13 Feb 200419 PO30 5SFDetached£141,500
17 Apr 200311 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£80,000
9 May 200115 PO30 5SFTerraced£75,000
9 Apr 200112 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£95,000
21 Jun 20008 PO30 5SFDetached£113,000
15 Jan 19995 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£77,500
22 Dec 199820 PO30 5SFTerraced£59,950
13 Nov 199813 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£78,000
22 Dec 19977 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£66,050
5 Dec 199717 PO30 5SFTerraced£55,750
20 May 19972 PO30 5SFDetached£76,000
19 Jun 19961 PO30 5SFDetached£69,000
31 Oct 199520 PO30 5SFTerraced£54,000
1 Jun 199511 PO30 5SFSemi-detached£100,000

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 109 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (3); 1967-1975 (3); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Isle of Wight in 2026-27: Band D £2,626 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,751£2,042£2,334£2,626£3,209£3,793£4,376£5,252

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (50% of about 680 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 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 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, 1 address is 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
PO30 5SFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PO30 5SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 22 addresses are between 31 m and 35 m above sea level (33 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
PO30 5SB100%100%100%0%
PO30 5SF100%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 stationsRyde Esplanade 130,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Ryde St Johns Road 53,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Smallbrook Junction 8,980 journeys in 2024–2510.9 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hampshire Crescent Parkhurst350 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Newport1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Cowes Floating Bridge5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Car parksEuro Car Parks1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU27.1 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW92.8 km (58 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 surgeriesNewport Health Centre1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Time For Teeth Hmps Isle Of Wight440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationNewport Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machinesCash machine 116 High Street Halifax1.3 km (0.8 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 Unnamed 1.4 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 3,260 m²1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,320 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,230 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Newport Roman Villa, a scheduled monument, 2 km (1.2 miles) south-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Newport Roman VillaScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hunny HillHill620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Camp HillHill680 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Noke PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Hurstake HardWetland1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Holme HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Isle of WightIsland4.5 km (2.8 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)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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 5980
Under 551422

8 of the street's 22 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 Isle of Wight: see them on the Isle of Wight 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
Hunnyhill Ormiston AcademyPrimary3–11220 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Isle of Wight College16 plus16–99870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Newport Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carisbrooke CollegeSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nine Acres Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ The King College Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carisbrooke Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Medina CollegeSecondary11–191.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Barton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 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 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
Nicky's Lunch Box PO30 5SFMobile caterer60 m5 Very good17 Aug 2025
Hunnyhill Primary School - Compass PO30 5SHSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
Hunnyhill Pre-School PO30 5SHSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good17 Jun 2024
Forest View Nursey PO30 5NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good6 Jan 2026
Camphill Community Sports Club CIC PO30 5ZAPub/bar/nightclub380 mAwaiting inspection
Island Learning Centre - Compass PO30 5HZSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 May 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Forest Road (13); On or near Standen Avenue (1); On or near Buckingham Crescent (1); On or near Worcester Road (1); On or near Cameron Close (1).

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: 581 residents in 208 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%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)27%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Worcester Road · Argyle Road · Buckingham Crescent · Northumberland Road · Standen Avenue · Sherwood Road · Forest End · Cameron Close · Albany View · Hampshire Crescent · Crossways · Ulster Crescent

All the streets in PO30 and across Isle of Wight.

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.