Gatekeeper Close Winchester

26 addresses across 1 postcode (SO23), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44302973.

  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 1).
  • 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 Winchester costs £2,360 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Winchester, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 76 to 80 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Clements Partnership, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 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 July 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (13); House, end-terrace (8); House, enclosed end-terrace (3). Built: 1991-1995 (24). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (17); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Winchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,360 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,573£1,835£2,098£2,360£2,884£3,409£3,933£4,720

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (34% of about 820 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 29 September 2026 to 1 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (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

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 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.

© 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 26 addresses are between 76 m and 80 m above sea level (78 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
SO23 8SU100%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 stationsWinchester 4.6 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Shawford 140,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Chandlers Ford 158,000 journeys in 2024–2510.7 km (6.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turnpike Down Winnall40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Winchester860 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn Winchester Car Park560 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU13.2 km (8.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR74 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Clements Partnership1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Street (Dental Surgery)620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSerenity Path Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM690 m (0.4 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 Unnamed 4.6 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,190 m²40 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,140 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St John's Croft, a listed building (Grade II*), 550 m (0.3 miles) west. 75 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St John's CroftListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) west
24 and 25, St John's StreetListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) west
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) west
1 Chesil StreetListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
City Bridge at the junction of High Street and Bridge StreetScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) west
Round barrow cemetery on Magdalen Hill DownScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) east
Wolvesey PalaceScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Magdalen Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tumbling BayLake or reservoir730 m (0.5 miles) west
Winnall Down CopseWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
St Catherine's HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Deacon HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Tops and Bottoms PlantationWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Temple ValleyValley4.5 km (2.8 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)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
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 5920
Under 552426

2 of the street's 26 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 Winchester: see them on the Winchester 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
Winnall Primary SchoolPrimary4–11230 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Bede Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Peter Symonds College16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 miles) 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
The Golden Lion SO23 0JZPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
Happy Pizza/Mermaids Fish And Chips SO23 0NYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good27 Mar 2025
Tesco One Stop Winnall SO23 0NYRetailers - other240 m5 Very good9 Mar 2020
Wok Panda SO23 0NYTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Dungaroos Preschool Ltd AKA Dungaroos Winchester Ltd SO23 0NYSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Brendoncare- St Giles View SO23 0JSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
The Community Food Pantry (Unit 12) SO23 0LDRetailers - other350 m5 Very good16 Aug 2024
Integr8 Dance SO23 0LDOther catering premises350 m4 Good18 Aug 2026
Myndful Mushrooms Limited SO23 0LDManufacturers/packers350 mAwaiting inspection
Dessert Dudes SO23 0LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mAwaiting inspection
Boka SO23 0LNDistributors/Transporters370 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
Breakfast And Beyond Winchester SO23 0NYOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Marshall Mercedes-Benz Winchester SO23 7RRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Alfred's Brewery SO23 0HAManufacturers/packers480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Public order2
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Longhouse Green (10); On or near Baigent Close (8); On or near Limetree Walk (8); On or near Gatekeeper Close (6); On or near Roundhuts Rise (6).

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: 231 residents in 120 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 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented40%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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.

  • SO23 8SU: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Longhouse Green · Roundhuts Rise · Firmstone Road · Baigent Close · Peacock Place · Fairdown Close · Turnpike Down · Ringlet Way · Limetree Walk · Winnall Manor Road · Northbrook Close · Spitfire End

All the streets in SO23 and across Winchester.

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.