Forest Road Bracknell Forest

32 addresses across 11 postcodes (RG42,SL5), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 3800474.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £925,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, D: 9, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 E; Band D in Bracknell Forest costs £2,265 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Martins Heron, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 64 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Green Meadows Surgery, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,160 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20241£925,000£925,000£925,000
20211£1,290,000£1,290,000£1,290,000
20202£1,362,500£525,000£2,200,000
20181£517,500£517,500£517,500
20171£636,000£636,000£636,000
20161£775,000£775,000£775,000
20144£447,500£326,000£980,000
20113£410,000£282,500£621,500
20091£800,000£800,000£800,000
20081£690,000£690,000£690,000
20071£1,080,000£1,080,000£1,080,000
20051£385,000£385,000£385,000
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jul 2024KINGSMEAD RG42 7NXDetached£925,000
27 Oct 2021KEEPERS COTTAGE SL5 8QUDetached£1,290,000
3 Feb 2021RONANS RG42 7QBOther£2,500,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Dec 2020RONANS LODGE RG42 7QBDetached£525,000
8 Oct 2020NURSERY HOUSE SL5 8QUDetached£2,200,000
29 Apr 2020THE SPINNEY SL5 8QUOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 20182, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£517,500
16 Jun 20171, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£636,000
23 Sep 2016KINGSMEAD RG42 7NXDetached£775,000
29 Feb 2016KINGSMEAD RG42 7NXDetached£850,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Nov 2015THE SPINNEY SL5 8QUOther£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Dec 2014MAGNOLIA HOUSE RG42 7PYDetached£980,000
27 Aug 20142, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£455,000
9 Jun 2014HENSON HOUSE RG42 7NPTerraced£326,000
10 Mar 20141, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£440,000
21 Dec 2011HENSON HOUSE RG42 7NPTerraced£282,500
26 Sep 20111, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£621,500
25 Jul 20112, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£410,000
19 Oct 2009TILES COTTAGE RG42 7NRDetached£800,000
26 Sep 2008KINGSMEAD RG42 7NXDetached£690,000
10 Jul 2007RICHMOND IN THE WOOD SL5 8QUDetached£1,080,000
2 Aug 20053, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£385,000
10 Oct 2003MAGNOLIA HOUSE RG42 7PYDetached£645,000
8 Aug 20033, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£375,000
8 Jul 2003RICHMOND IN THE WOOD SL5 8QUDetached£720,000
6 Jun 2003HENSON HOUSE RG42 7NPTerraced£238,000
12 Sep 20022, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£310,000
30 Aug 2002KINGSMEAD RG42 7NXDetached£410,000
6 Aug 20011, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRDetached£300,000
21 Jun 20003, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£285,000
14 Oct 19992, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£245,000
5 May 19991, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRDetached£240,000
20 Apr 19991, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£207,500
19 Nov 1998RICHMOND IN THE WOOD SL5 8QUDetached£425,000
15 May 19982, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£177,000
15 Apr 19982, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£176,000
6 Oct 19973, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£186,000
26 Aug 19971, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£185,000
9 Jan 19971, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£155,000
13 Dec 19963, LAVENDER COTTAGES RG42 7NPDetached£165,000
30 Aug 1996HENSON HOUSE RG42 7NPTerraced£90,000
23 Jul 19961, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRDetached£165,000
13 Oct 19952, SOMERTON COTTAGES RG42 7NNSemi-detached£120,000
28 Apr 19952, PROVIDENCE COTTAGES RG42 7NRSemi-detached£129,000

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (6); 1900-1929 (3); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bracknell Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,265 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,510£1,762£2,013£2,265£2,768£3,271£3,775£4,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 1,110 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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: yes, Bracknell Forest.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 September 2026: BRACKNELL FOREST COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RG42 7NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 7NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 7NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 7QBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 7NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 7PYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 6PAnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 5 unlikely
RG42 7NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
RG42 6JRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG42 6NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SL5 8QUnot in 2 or 3 2 / 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 32 addresses are between 64 m and 73 m above sea level (70 m on average); the ground rises about 9 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
RG42 6JR100%50%50%0%
RG42 6NJ100%100%100%0%
RG42 6PA100%100%100%0%
RG42 7NJ100%50%50%0%
RG42 7NN100%100%100%0%
RG42 7NP100%100%100%0%
RG42 7NR100%100%100%0%
RG42 7NX100%100%100%0%
RG42 7PY100%67%67%0%
RG42 7QB100%0%0%0%
SL5 8QU88%38%38%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 stationsMartins Heron 433,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Ascot (Berks) 947,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bracknell 1.8 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Forest Road - St Mary's School Winkfield230 m
Bus or coach stationBracknell Bus Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR17.6 km (11 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 surgeriesGreen Meadows Surgery2.7 km (1.7 miles)
PharmaciesDavid Pharmacy1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentistsAscot Dental Surgery1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalHeatherwood Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationAscot Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - East Berks BP Connect Cashzone2.6 km (1.6 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 gardenUnnamed 280 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²300 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha120 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,710 m²370 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ascot Place, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.2 km (0.8 miles) east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ascot PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Moated site at Winkfield LaneScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CovertWood680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Weycroft CopseWood740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Round CopseWood840 m (0.5 miles) east
Slade PondLake or reservoir860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The DellValley1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Windmill HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69400
60 to 641600
55 to 59700
Under 5553232

27 of the street's 32 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 Bracknell Forest: see them on the Bracknell Forest 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
Winkfield St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11250 m No published inspection
Ascot Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitegrove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) 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
Row Farm Shop RG42 6NGRetailers - other180 m4 Good17 Feb 2010

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (thames-valley).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,158 residents in 446 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 age4540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%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)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 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.

All the streets in RG42, SL5 and across Bracknell Forest.

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.