Forest Close Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

7 addresses across 1 postcode (HP27), about 20 m long. USRN 45503235.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £346,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 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 D; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Princes Risborough, about 1.1 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 121 to 124 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Cross Keys Practice, about 310 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 65 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£346,000£346,000£346,000
20221£332,500£332,500£332,500
20151£279,000£279,000£279,000
20111£165,000£165,000£165,000
20031£177,500£177,500£177,500
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Mar 20262 HP27 0BJTerraced£346,000
20 Dec 20222 HP27 0BJTerraced£332,500
14 Jul 20152 HP27 0BJTerraced£279,000
21 Jul 20112 HP27 0BJTerraced£165,000
17 Dec 20032 HP27 0BJTerraced£177,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Bungalow, end-terrace (2); Bungalow, mid-terrace (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (52% of about 640 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): Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

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

Rivers and the sea alone: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 7 addresses are between 121 m and 124 m above sea level (122 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
HP27 0BJ100%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 stationsPrinces Risborough 513,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Monks Risborough 21,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km
Little Kimble 8,930 journeys in 2024–253.7 km
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Chestnut Road Princes Risborough40 m
Car parksParking space on Station Road, HP271.0 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station220 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN36.0 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Cross Keys Practice310 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Rowlands Pharmacy200 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Bank House Dental Centre310 m
HospitalPaddocks Hospital1.0 km
Police stationWendover Police Station7.8 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Princes Risborough Bell S230 m

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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,250 m²240 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,580 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha370 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,670 m²2.1 km

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Market House, a listed building (Grade II*), 440 m north-west. 45 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Market HouseListed building, Grade II*440 m north-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*530 m north-west
Manor House and Attached Garden Walls (North West Wall Incorporated Into the Forge and the Coach House)Listed building, Grade II*550 m north-west
The MountScheduled monument580 m north-west
Hill figure on Whiteleaf Hill, known as the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument1.4 km north-east
Cross dyke on Whiteleaf Hill, 165m south east of the Whiteleaf CrossScheduled monument1.4 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brush Hill PlantationWood1.4 km east
Windsor HillHill1.5 km east
Whiteleaf HillHill1.5 km north-east
Winchester WoodWood1.5 km south-east
Deep Pit PondLake or reservoir3.3 km south-east
Happy ValleyValley3.3 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5567

1 of the street's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Princes Risborough SchoolSecondary11–18190 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Princes Risborough Primary SchoolPrimary2–11900 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Monks Risborough CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Rowlands Pharmacy HP27 0AWRetailers - other210 mExempt
Marks & Spencer Simply Food HP27 0AWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good1 Sep 2016
Morrisons Daily HP27 0AWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good30 Jul 2024
Risborough Youth Club HP27 0BTRetailers - other210 mExempt
Asda Express Bell PFS Retailers - other240 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Impact Food Group At Princes Risborough School HP27 0DRSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Flame & Stone Pizza HP27 0AXTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Sep 2026
Costa Coffee HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
The Co-Op HP27 0ZZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Connexions Cafe HP27 0DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good27 Nov 2025
Crumbs Too HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Cinnamon Lounge HP27 0AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good23 May 2025
K & B Family Butchers HP27 0AXRetailers - other310 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
The Bell Public House HP27 0DEPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good17 Sep 2019
Villa Bianca HP27 0DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good20 Mar 2026

Crime within 250 m

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

65 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Shoplifting16
Public order7
Other theft6
Anti-social behaviour5
Possession of weapons3
Drugs2
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (13); On or near Horns Lane (13); On or near Bell Street (10); On or near Lime Road (9); On or near Woodlands (6).

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: 244 residents in 113 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)37%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%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.

  • HP27 0BJ: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lime Road · Chestnut Road · Ash Road · Beech Road · Elm Road · Bell Close · Oak Road · New Road · Bell Lane · Hawthorn Road · Bell Street · The Crescent

All the streets in HP27 and across Buckinghamshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.