Glen Road Paignton, Torbay

11 addresses across 3 postcodes (TQ3), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40700162.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £165,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026 (-3.1% on a year); private rents averaged £924 a month.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 1).
  • Flood: 18 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 29 times (9 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 500 m (0.3 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A3022, carries 14,577 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 56% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Paignton, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pembroke Medical Group, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 121 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20211£165,000£165,000£165,000
20201£165,000£165,000£165,000
20121£110,000£110,000£110,000
20101£125,000£125,000£125,000
20091£132,000£132,000£132,000
20063£135,000£127,000£147,000
20052£154,950£149,950£159,950
All 10 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 May 20062 TQ3 2AEDetached£127,000
1 Feb 20122A TQ3 2AEFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
27 May 2020FLAT 1, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£165,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 2005FLAT 1, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£159,950New build. Leasehold.
9 Apr 2010FLAT 2, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
11 Jul 2006FLAT 2, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£147,000New build. Leasehold.
12 Mar 2009FLAT 3, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£132,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 2006FLAT 3, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£135,000New build. Leasehold.
30 Jul 2021FLAT 4, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£165,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 2005FLAT 4, GLEN COURT TQ3 2AYFlat or maisonette£149,950New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Torbay

A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026, 3.1% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 25% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£416,968
Semi-detached£271,123
Terraced£212,910
Flat or maisonette£135,892
Bought by a first-time buyer£191,474

Private renters in Torbay paid £924 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£621
Two bedrooms£819
Three bedrooms£1,001
Four or more bedrooms£1,300

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (4). Built: 2003-2006 (2); 1991-1995 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,102 kWh of it on average in 2024, 14% less than the district's 9,410 kWh, and 2,182 kWh of electricity, 32% less than the district's 3,216 kWh. There are gas meters for about 39% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is TQ3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (56% of about 1,240 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, Polsham (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): Polsham.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 15 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 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
TQ3 2AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2ABnot in 2 or 3 15 / 3 / 5 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 500 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)530 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)530 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Durlston Head to Rame Head up to 36 m500 m (0.3 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 29 times, for 9 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into English Channel, Preston Sands (C).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Clennon Valley Pumping Station South West Water; monitored 81% of the year English Channel 9 1 910 m (0.6 miles)
#N/A South West Water Preston Sands (C) 20 8 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 11 addresses are between 4 m and 6 m above sea level (5 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
TQ3 2AB100%56%56%0%
TQ3 2AE100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2AY100%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 stationsPaignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–25620 m (0.4 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Christ Church Paignton100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton620 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks370 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT34.4 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL108 km (67 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pembroke Medical Group Good Dec 2025700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greentree Dental & Implant Clinic390 m
HospitalPaignton Hospital420 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes19 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pippins Residential Care Home Good Jul 2024110 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest SGN Ltd - Riviera Cashzone130 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 4.9 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Oldway 7.0 ha120 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,980 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queen's Park 2.6 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,050 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oldway Mansion, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 300 m north. 116 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oldway MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II300 m north
Oldway MansionListed building, Grade II*350 m north-west
Kirkham HouseListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Parish Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I480 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Bishop's Palace, Tower RoadScheduled monument550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Bishops Palace Walls and TowerListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paignton SandsBeach620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Preston SandsBeach930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Shorton WoodsWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Round HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Broken CliffCliff or slope1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Aptor PoolLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-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)5.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 551011

1 of the street's 11 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Oldway Primary SchoolPrimary2–11250 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11260 m No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Curledge Street AcademyPrimary2–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
St Michael's Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Hayes SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 21% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 86% in 2023)
Preston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Kings Ash AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Paignton AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.5 (36.9 in 2025 and 37.5 in 2024); 30.1% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 240 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kinetic Sports Group - Oldway TQ3 2SY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 240 m
Torbay Special Needs Playscheme and Saturday Club TQ3 2NA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Mama Bear's Day Nursery TQ4 5BD Full day care 65 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 740 m (0.5 miles)
Preston Community Preschool TQ3 2RB Sessional day care 52 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 830 m (0.5 miles)
Little Thinkers@Curledge Street Academy TQ4 5BA Sessional day care 11 May 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 880 m (0.5 miles)
St Pauls Second Steps Pre School TQ3 2DZ Full day care 26 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 950 m (0.6 miles)
Muddy Wellies Nursery at YMCA TQ4 6ES Full day care 55 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Braeside @ Sunflowers Paignton TQ4 6BX Full day care 69 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kinetic Sports Group - Hayes TQ4 5PJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 57 childminders and 6 home childcarers (nannies) in Torbay. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Preston Bridge School TQ3 2AUSchool/college/university30 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Clydesdale Guest House TQ3 2ADHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house70 m5 Very good7 Aug 2018
House Of Wong TQ3 2AHTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Mirch Masala TQ3 2AHTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Nov 2025
Mikey's Grill TQ3 2AHTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m1 Major improvement necessary6 Nov 2025
Cedar Court TQ3 2ADHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Burnside Court TQ3 2AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Mile Paignton Masonic Hall TQ3 2ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Devonmade TQ3 2AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Pippins TQ3 2ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Waverley Guest House TQ3 2BHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m4 Good26 Sep 2018
Eat that Frog TQ3 2SEOther catering premises240 mExempt
Oatlands Club TQ3 2STPub/bar/nightclub270 mExempt
Victoria Pavilion Takeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
East in the West TQ3 2SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good16 Sep 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.

121 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences51
Anti-social behaviour23
Other theft16
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson5
Burglary4
Drugs4
Possession of weapons3
Shoplifting3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (39); On or near Courtland Road (32); On or near Logan Road (12); On or near Higher Polsham Road (9); On or near Polsham Park (9).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 5 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 3 involved a child under 16. 25% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202352
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Oct 2025 17:23 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3022, 30 mph Daylight
12 Nov 2023 13:00 Slight 1 person A3022, 30 mph Wet road
3 Nov 2023 17:34 Serious 3 people A3022, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Jul 2023 09:03 Serious 2 people: 1 pedestrian, 1 motorcyclist, 1 child A3022, 30 mph Daylight
21 Apr 2023 21:17 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A3022, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Jan 2023 16:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A3022, 30 mph Daylight
12 Dec 2022 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child B3060, 30 mph Wet road
20 Jun 2021 13:46 Slight 3 people B3060, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A3022 between A3022 Hyde Rd and A3022 Rathmore Rd, with 14,577 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 280 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A3022 A3022 Hyde Rd to A3022 Rathmore Rd 14,577 counted 2025 1% -10% since 2015 280 m
A3022 A3022 Commercial Rd to A3022 Hyde Rd 10,245 estimated; counted 2018 1% -10% since 2015 420 m (0.3 miles)
A3022 A3022 Torquay rd to A379 Dartmouth rd 11,873 counted 2025 1% -4% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 387 residents in 211 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 age5540
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work35%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 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

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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

Mead Lane · Polsham Park · Courtland Road · Logan Road · Torquay Road · Barum Close · Mead Close · Wilbarn Road · Cecil Mews · Colley End Road · Cadwell Road · Kings Avenue

All the streets in TQ3 and across Torbay.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.