Fortune Way Bassingbourn, South Cambridgeshire

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (SG8), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35304372.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £590,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 9, E: 4).
  • 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 E; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Royston, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Roysia Surgery, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 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
20241£590,000£590,000£590,000
20223£575,000£500,000£650,000
20201£525,000£525,000£525,000
20191£545,000£545,000£545,000
20181£577,000£577,000£577,000
20151£308,000£308,000£308,000
20141£425,000£425,000£425,000
20121£325,000£325,000£325,000
20112£388,500£350,000£427,000
20101£415,000£415,000£415,000
20072£367,500£295,000£440,000
20061£350,000£350,000£350,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Jul 202418 SG8 5YRDetached£590,000
14 Jul 20226 SG8 5YRDetached£650,000
1 Jul 20222 SG8 5YRDetached£575,000
1 Jul 202216 SG8 5YRSemi-detached£500,000
22 May 202020 SG8 5YRDetached£525,000
22 Mar 20198 SG8 5YRDetached£545,000
20 Jul 20187 SG8 5YRDetached£577,000
17 Dec 201516 SG8 5YRSemi-detached£308,000
7 Mar 201419 SG8 5YRDetached£425,000
13 Aug 201222 SG8 5YRDetached£325,000
23 Sep 20112 SG8 5YRDetached£350,000
21 Sep 20119 SG8 5YRDetached£427,000
27 May 20105 SG8 5YRDetached£415,000
12 Dec 200715 SG8 5YRDetached£295,000
2 Jul 20075 SG8 5YRDetached£440,000
28 Sep 20067 SG8 5YRDetached£350,000
8 Mar 20041 SG8 5YRDetached£290,000
11 Sep 20034 SG8 5YRDetached£278,000
12 Jul 200218 SG8 5YRDetached£265,000
17 Oct 20013 SG8 5YRDetached£250,000
10 Apr 20015 SG8 5YRDetached£250,000
18 Jun 199917 SG8 5YRDetached£182,500New build.
27 Apr 199919 SG8 5YRDetached£171,000New build.
8 Apr 199916 SG8 5YRDetached£120,500New build.
26 Mar 19991 SG8 5YRDetached£175,000
25 Mar 199918 SG8 5YRDetached£177,000New build.
25 Mar 199915 SG8 5YRDetached£124,995New build.
30 Dec 199811 SG8 5YRTerraced£110,000New build.
22 Dec 199821 SG8 5YRDetached£178,950New build.
22 Dec 199813 SG8 5YRDetached£119,950New build.
21 Dec 199810 SG8 5YRDetached£115,950New build.
18 Dec 199822 SG8 5YRDetached£166,950New build.
18 Dec 199812 SG8 5YRDetached£107,302New build.
10 Dec 199820 SG8 5YRDetached£172,000New build.
30 Oct 19988 SG8 5YRDetached£188,000New build.
28 Oct 19985 SG8 5YRDetached£191,500New build.
23 Oct 19989 SG8 5YRDetached£170,000New build.
30 Sep 19986 SG8 5YRDetached£187,950
30 Sep 19987 SG8 5YRDetached£178,000New build.
22 Sep 19982 SG8 5YRDetached£166,500New build.
1 Sep 19984 SG8 5YRDetached£148,000New build.
28 Aug 19983 SG8 5YRDetached£167,500New build.
25 Jan 199814 SG8 5YRDetached£157,000New build.

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.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, detached (14). Built: 1996-2002 (11); 1991-1995 (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 700 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: yes, Bassingbourn (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 22 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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
SG8 5YRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG8 5NWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 28 m above sea level.

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
SG8 5NW100%100%100%0%
SG8 5YR100%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 stationsRoyston 1.4 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Meldreth 246,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Ashwell and Morden 173,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park View Bassingbourn190 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Royston4.6 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN29.7 km (18 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 surgeriesRoysia Surgery3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bassingbourn Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery320 m
HospitalRoyston Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationRoyston Police Station4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM4.6 km (2.8 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
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²30 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Willmott Playing Field 2.5 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,430 m²110 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 130 m south. 55 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I130 m south
Bury Yard moated site adjacent to MilldykeScheduled monument210 m west
John o'Gaunt's House: a motte castle and moated site 300m NE of Haygate FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ford WoodWood790 m (0.5 miles) south
Keith WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) south-east
Ash PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Boybridge GroveWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Long's LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Limlow HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

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)5.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5910
Under 552223

1 of the street's 23 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 Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Bassingbourn Village CollegeSecondary11–16530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Bassingbourn Primary SchoolPrimary5–11560 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; 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
The Belle Free House & Restaurant SG8 5NZPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
Spar SG8 5LDRetailers - other320 m5 Very good27 Mar 2021
Hatties SG8 5LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Bassingbourn Community Library Cafe SG8 5LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good18 May 2023
Bassingbourn Community Food Bank SG8 5LDDistributors/Transporters340 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Blue Tree Gifts Ltd SG8 5LERetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Oct 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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour13
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Fillance (14); On or near North End (7); On or near Poplar Farm Close (6); On or near Park View (3); On or near Church Close (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: 301 residents in 116 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)54%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)52%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%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 7 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.

  • SG8 5YR: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • SG8 5NW: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Close · Park Close · Saddleback Lane · Park View · Walnut Tree Close · Poplar Farm Close · The Fillance · Garden Place · Limes Close · High Street · Playles Yard · Mill Lane

All the streets in SG8 and across South Cambridgeshire.

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.