Forster Road Salcombe, South Hams

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ8), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35501210.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £750,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 4, E: 2).
  • 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 B; Band D in South Hams costs £2,615 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 16% to 31% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ivybridge, about 19.5 km (12 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jubilee Gardens, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Redfern Health Centre, about 330 m away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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
20251£750,000£750,000£750,000
20242£1,067,500£985,000£1,150,000
20212£1,490,667£1,225,000£1,756,333
20181£575,000£575,000£575,000
20171£967,500£967,500£967,500
20162£535,000£455,000£615,000
20141£499,500£499,500£499,500
20131£681,000£681,000£681,000
20121£600,000£600,000£600,000
20101£645,000£645,000£645,000
20091£451,600£451,600£451,600
20071£750,000£750,000£750,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 2025HILLCROFT TQ8 8EBTerraced£750,000
29 Nov 2024SUNNYHILL TQ8 8EBDetached£1,150,000
27 Sep 2024ST MALO TQ8 8EBTerraced£985,000
26 Nov 20213, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£1,225,000
8 Oct 2021SWISS COTTAGE TQ8 8EBDetached£1,756,333
29 Nov 2018SCOBLE HOUSE TQ8 8EBSemi-detached£575,000
27 Oct 2017WINDCHIMES 4, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£967,500
24 Aug 2016ALMA VILLA TQ8 8EBTerraced£455,000
24 Mar 2016COMBE HOUSE TQ8 8EBDetached£615,000
9 Apr 2014ST MALO TQ8 8EBTerraced£499,500
15 Feb 20131, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£681,000
16 Mar 2012SWISS COTTAGE TQ8 8EBDetached£600,000
4 Jun 20102, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£645,000
30 Oct 2009THE END HOUSE TQ8 8EBTerraced£451,600
11 May 20073, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£750,000
26 Oct 20062, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£715,000
23 Jun 20061, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£755,000
30 Sep 2003ORCHARD HOUSE TQ8 8EBDetached£430,000
12 Sep 2002THE END HOUSE TQ8 8EBTerraced£291,500
6 Sep 20022, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£440,000
11 Apr 2002SANDPIPERS TQ8 8EBDetached£334,000
4 Dec 2001SLADE TQ8 8EBSemi-detached£325,000
17 Oct 20011, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£330,000New build.
20 Oct 20004, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£195,000New build.
1 Sep 2000ALMA VILLA TQ8 8EBSemi-detached£135,000
21 Jul 20002, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£180,000New build.
17 Jul 20003, FORSTERS REACH TQ8 8EBTerraced£180,000New build.
4 May 2000MERLINS TQ8 8EBSemi-detached£185,000
27 Nov 1997COMBE HOUSE TQ8 8EBDetached£181,000
20 Aug 1997THE END HOUSE TQ8 8EBTerraced£122,500
7 Jan 1997SPINDRIFT TQ8 8EBDetached£119,500
12 Jul 1996SUNNYHILL TQ8 8EBDetached£55,000

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

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 153 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1996-2002 (4); 1976-1982 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Hams in 2026-27: Band D £2,615 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,743£2,034£2,325£2,615£3,196£3,778£4,359£5,230

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (19% of about 1,390 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 11 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
TQ8 8EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ8 8EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 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 21 addresses are between 31 m and 46 m above sea level (39 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
TQ8 8EA82%31%31%0%
TQ8 8EB84%16%16%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 stationIvybridge 137,000 journeys in 2024–2519.5 km (12 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shadycombe Road Salcombe260 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Kingsbridge4.8 km (3 miles)
Ferry terminalSalcombe Ferry Landing630 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT60.7 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL132 km (82 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redfern Health Centre330 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmaderma LTD Salcombe540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Salcombe Dental Practice390 m
HospitalSouth Hams Hospital5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Police stationKingsbridge Police Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Cash machinesAsda Kingsbridge - Ilbert Road PFS, Kingsbridge Cashzone4.8 km (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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jubilee Gardens 2,550 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Park 2,680 m²370 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²320 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Twomeads 9,810 m²350 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,020 m²150 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Porch House, a listed building (Grade II*), 330 m east. 69 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Porch HouseListed building, Grade II*330 m east
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*390 m east
The GrangeListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Snapes ManorListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Fort CharlesScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Medieval settlement, site of quadrangular castle and relict garden between Ilton Farm and Ilton Castle FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Overbecks (Sharpitor)Registered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snapes PointHeadland900 m (0.6 miles) east
Small's CoveBay920 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Mill BayBay1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Ditch EndWetland1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Collaton WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
CombeValley2 km (1.2 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)2.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.7205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 5910
Under 552021

1 of the street's 21 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 South Hams: see them on the South Hams 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
Salcombe Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11250 m 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
Salcombe Church Of England Primary School TQ8 8AGSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Co-op Salcombe TQ8 8FNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Crab Shed Salcombe TQ8 8DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Devon Rum Company TQ8 8FEPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
The Salcombe Meat Company TQ8 8NARetailers - other360 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Spar TQ8 8NARetailers - other360 m5 Very good13 Dec 2023
Wild Oats Kitchen TQ8 8NARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Rockfish Salcombe TQ8 8DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Caldo & Fred TQ8 8DPTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Primo Pizzeria TQ8 8FETakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Salcombe Original Takeaway TQ8 8DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Sep 2025
Sea N Shore Ltd TQ8 8ALRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Yeoward Boatyards TQ8 8DPRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jul 2025
Salcombe Distilling Company Ltd TQ8 8DPManufacturers/packers430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Yes Burger TQ8 8BSTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Public order2
Shoplifting2
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bonfire Hill (5); On or near Parking Area (5); On or near Croft Road (4); On or near Ember Road (2); On or near Frobisher Lane (2).

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: 408 residents in 184 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Pasty Shack (retailers - other, TQ8 8BY) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 30 September 2026) found 3 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.

Nearby streets

Coronation Road · Bonfire Hill · Shadycombe Court · Onslow Road · Onslow Road · Drake Road · Cabourg Close · Bonaventure Road · Bonaventure Close · Frobisher Lane · Salcombe Heights Close · Mcilwraith Road

All the streets in TQ8 and across South Hams.

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.