Forge Close Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (DN16), about 30 m long. USRN 46102582.

  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7).
  • Flood: 12 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 A; Band D in North Lincolnshire costs £2,348 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Scunthorpe, about 230 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Festival Gardens, is about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Oswald Road Medical Surgery, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 95 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2023 (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Lincolnshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,348 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,566£1,827£2,088£2,348£2,870£3,392£3,914£4,697

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (96% of about 850 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.

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

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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 14 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
DN16 1BWnot in 2 or 3
DN16 1SPnot in 2 or 3 5 / 7 / 14 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 8 addresses are between 37 m and 38 m above sea level (37 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
DN16 1BW100%100%100%0%
DN16 1SP100%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 stationsScunthorpe 379,000 journeys in 2024–25230 m
Althorpe 3,820 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Crowle 15,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (7 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wortley House Hotel Frodingham10 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Scunthorpe610 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park480 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY19.8 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA73.8 km (46 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Oswald Road Medical Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parkview Dental Practice520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalScunthorpe General Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationScunthorpe Police Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest H&S Foods Cashzone330 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Festival Gardens 1.8 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Queen's Gardens 18 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 650 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rowland Road Playground 1.3 ha130 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Lawrence, a listed building (Grade I), 520 m (0.3 miles) west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St LawrenceListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) west
Brumby HallListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) west
Former Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Central ParkWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Brumby WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Rowmills PlantationWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Cliff PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Brat HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) south-east
Clapgate ReservoirLake or reservoir4.9 km (3 miles) east

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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
60 to 6410
Under 5578

1 of the street's 8 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 North Lincolnshire: see them on the North Lincolnshire 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
Frodingham Infant SchoolPrimary3–7130 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Engineering UTC Northern LincolnshireSecondary13–19750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bushfield Road Infant SchoolPrimary3–7750 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Scunthorpe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Academy BrumbySecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Junior Academy BrumbyPrimary7–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy Henderson AvenuePrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The St Lawrence Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Crosby Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lincoln Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Leggott Sixth Form College16 plus14–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Frodingham Fun Club DN16 1STRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good28 Feb 2022
The Ark Day Nursery Ltd DN16 1STSchool/college/university20 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Frodingham Infants Kitchen by Compass Group DN16 1STSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Wortley House Hotel DN16 1SUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good3 Jul 2024
Day Lewis Pharmacy DN16 1LERetailers - other170 mExempt
Cottage Beck Stores Ltd / Go Local DN16 1LERetailers - other190 m2 Improvement necessary19 Aug 2025
Cottage Beck Corner Shop DN16 1DYRetailers - other250 m5 Very good6 Jun 2023
Red Everywhere DN15 6JHSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
VKD Stores DN16 1LQRetailers - other290 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Spar DN16 1UERetailers - other290 m5 Very good21 Dec 2023
Talbot Inn DN16 1EEPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Early Til Late DN16 1TARetailers - other330 m4 Good27 Sep 2022
Excel Fisheries DN16 1TATakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Golden Dragon Chinese Takeaway DN16 1DZTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Cottage Beck Deli DN16 1UBOther catering premises350 m4 Good7 Aug 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.

95 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Public order11
Burglary10
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft7
Vehicle crime5
Drugs4
Possession of weapons3
Anti-social behaviour3
Robbery2
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Close (30); On or near Crown Green Court (21); On or near Montrose Street (16); On or near Station Road (15); On or near The Crofts (9).

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: 355 residents in 142 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 age3340
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)6%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Food hygiene ratings VKD Stores (retailers - other, DN16 1LQ) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 16 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Frodingham Infants Kitchen by Compass Group (school/college/university, DN16 1ST) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Glenny's Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, DN16 1UB) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 26 October 2026) found 31 October 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.

Nearby streets

Crown Green Court · Redbourn Way · The Crofts · The Close · Montrose Street · Hallgarth Avenue · Karen Court · Abercorn Street · Corporation Road · Percy Street · Cemetery Road · Wortley Street

All the streets in DN16 and across North Lincolnshire.

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.