Foster Close Kettering, North Northamptonshire

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN15), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18750043.

24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £278,000 across 1 sale. 8 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 3). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Kettering, about 920 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 88 to 91 m above sea level. 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Headlands Surgery, about 1.2 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 43 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
20181£278,000£278,000£278,000
20172£248,500£232,000£265,000
20142£230,000£217,500£242,500
20092£182,000£164,000£200,000
20061£193,000£193,000£193,000
20041£154,500£154,500£154,500
20022£135,475£131,000£139,950
20002£118,450£103,950£132,950
19991£95,950£95,950£95,950
19989£91,950£76,950£117,500
19971£73,000£73,000£73,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Mar 20183 NN15 7NYDetached£278,000
24 Aug 20178 NN15 7NYDetached£265,000
21 Jun 20176 NN15 7NYDetached£232,000
1 Aug 20144 NN15 7NYDetached£242,500
16 Apr 20145 NN15 7NYDetached£217,500
23 Oct 20091 NN15 7NYDetached£164,000
21 Jul 200912 NN15 7NYDetached£200,000
27 Jul 20065 NN15 7NYDetached£193,000
12 Jan 20041 NN15 7NYDetached£154,500
29 Nov 20026 NN15 7NYDetached£139,950
26 Jul 20021 NN15 7NYDetached£131,000
7 Jul 20002 NN15 7NYDetached£103,950
19 May 20009 NN15 7NYDetached£132,950
18 Feb 19993 NN15 7NYDetached£95,950New build.
26 Oct 199812 NN15 7NYDetached£117,500New build.
23 Oct 19981 NN15 7NYDetached£76,950New build.
1 Oct 19987 NN15 7NYDetached£101,950New build.
18 Sep 19985 NN15 7NYDetached£89,950New build.
28 Aug 19989 NN15 7NYDetached£106,950New build.
29 May 19988 NN15 7NYDetached£91,950New build.
3 Apr 19982 NN15 7NYDetached£91,950New build.
20 Mar 199810 NN15 7NYDetached£99,950New build.
13 Mar 19984 NN15 7NYDetached£91,950New build.
28 Nov 19976 NN15 7NYDetached£73,000New build.

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1996-2002 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 850 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 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 on this street 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 12 addresses are between 88 m and 91 m above sea level (89 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
NN15 7LX100%100%100%0%
NN15 7NY100%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 stationsKettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25920 m
Wellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km
Corby 561,000 journeys in 2024–2511.5 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 26 within 800 m; nearest Bignal Court Kettering70 m
Car parksKetteringParking.Co.Uk1.0 km
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station130 m
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA62.9 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Headlands Surgery1.2 km
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Kettering Pharmacy1.2 km
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Shires Dental Care1.2 km
HospitalKettering General Hospital1.3 km
Police stationKettering Police Station1.5 km
Cash machinesYorkshire Bank1.4 km

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8.2 ha170 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 450 m²430 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha580 m
AllotmentsNorthfield Avenue Allotments 1.8 ha1.0 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 8.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wicksteed Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.7 km east. 5 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wicksteed ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The GorseWood1.4 km west
Coppicemoor SpinneyWood1.9 km south
Middle Ground SpinneyWood2.0 km south
Breakmill SpinneyWood2.0 km west
Three Corner SpinneyWood2.3 km east
Cransley ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km west

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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)15.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 and PM10 are 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 551112

1 of the street's 12 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
Hall Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11710 m No published inspection
Bishop Stopford School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.4 km No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hawthorn Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenfields Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.5 km Outstanding (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southfield School for GirlsSecondary11–181.9 km Good (Apr 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Exhausted Parrot T/a Feather & Fern Botanicals NN15 7LYMobile caterer80 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Wok Inn NN15 7RHTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Central England Cooperative Society NN15 7RHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good4 Jan 2024
The Trading Post NN15 7RHPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good20 May 2024
So Thai NN15 7RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Bignal Fish and Chips NN15 7RHTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good29 May 2024
Impact Food Group T/A Dolce @Hall Meadow Primary School NN15 7RPSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good22 Jun 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour10
Vehicle crime8
Drugs4
Public order3
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Backley Close (24); On or near Hodge Court (6); On or near Moorhouse Way (5); On or near Supermarket (4); On or near Mead Road (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: 296 residents in 112 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

Nearby streets

Moorhouse Way · Bignal Court · Lake Avenue · Lonsborough Drive · Goodhew Close · Backley Close · Wells Close · Hodge Court · Mead Road · Davies Close · Packer Road · Northampton Road

All the streets in NN15 and across North Northamptonshire.

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, in England only.

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