Gorse Close Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire

22 addresses across 1 postcode (DN16), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 46104147.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £175,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 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 A; Band D in North Lincolnshire costs £2,348 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Scunthorpe, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Beckside Linear Park (14 hectares) is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 22 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cambridge Avenue & Messingham Mc, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 94 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
20261£175,000£175,000£175,000
20253£173,500£129,000£200,000
20241£187,500£187,500£187,500
20232£168,250£164,000£172,500
20213£160,000£135,000£218,000
20193£139,000£138,000£152,950
20181£121,000£121,000£121,000
20171£130,000£130,000£130,000
20131£109,000£109,000£109,000
20111£115,000£115,000£115,000
20082£115,498£114,995£116,000
20071£157,000£157,000£157,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 54)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 May 202614 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£175,000
28 Feb 202515 DN16 3ULDetached£200,000
26 Feb 202520 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£129,000
13 Jan 20259 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£173,500
26 Sep 20244 DN16 3ULDetached£187,500
17 Jul 20237 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£172,500
22 Mar 202314 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£164,000
24 Jun 202111 DN16 3ULDetached£218,000
20 May 202118 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£135,000
19 Feb 20219 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£160,000
5 Jul 20193 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£139,000
6 Feb 201914 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£138,000
11 Jan 20197 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£152,950
13 Mar 20187 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£121,000
15 Nov 201716 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£130,000
7 Jun 20139 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£109,000
25 Feb 201116 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£115,000
29 Jul 20087 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£116,000
27 Jun 200816 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£114,995
26 Jan 200712 DN16 3ULDetached£157,000
31 Mar 20065 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£117,500
16 Feb 20065 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£115,000
28 Oct 20059 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£106,000
18 Aug 20056 DN16 3ULDetached£130,000
7 Jun 200519 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£117,000
9 Jul 200417 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£116,000
15 Aug 20037 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£88,000
17 Jan 20036 DN16 3ULDetached£100,000
9 Jul 200216 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£69,250
31 May 200217 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£67,500
7 May 20029 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£66,300
3 May 200218 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£57,500
2 Nov 200112 DN16 3ULDetached£70,000
29 Jun 20013 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£55,000New build.
28 Jun 20012 DN16 3ULDetached£78,500New build.
22 Jun 20016 DN16 3ULDetached£78,500New build.
8 Jun 20014 DN16 3ULDetached£72,500New build.
9 Mar 200116 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£62,500New build.
1 Dec 200018 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£54,500New build.
6 Oct 200023 DN16 3ULDetached£70,500
7 Jul 200012 DN16 3ULDetached£70,500New build.
30 Jun 200014 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£62,500New build.
30 Jun 200020 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£54,500New build.
2 Jun 20008 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£62,500New build.
26 May 200015 DN16 3ULDetached£70,500New build.
26 May 200010 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£62,500New build.
18 Feb 20007 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£62,500New build.
10 Dec 199919 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£61,250New build.
10 Dec 199917 DN16 3ULSemi-detached£61,250New build.
26 Nov 199921 DN16 3ULDetached£61,995New 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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (5). Built: 1996-2002 (11); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Lincolnshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,348 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,566£1,827£2,088£2,348£2,870£3,392£3,914£4,697

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (94% of about 660 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

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

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 22 addresses are between 22 m and 24 m above sea level (23 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
DN16 3UL100%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 stationsScunthorpe 379,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Althorpe 3,820 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Kirton Lindsey 740 journeys in 2024–258.8 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Irvine Street Ashby140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Scunthorpe3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksAshby High Street Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY19.1 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA75.7 km (47 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cambridge Avenue & Messingham Mc1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashby Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bottesford Dental Practice570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalScunthorpe General Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationScunthorpe Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank Cash Machine150 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,580 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Beckside Linear Park 14 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,930 m²260 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brat HillHill850 m (0.5 miles) east
Holme WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Skegs PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Rowmills PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Emanuel StripWood2 km (1.2 miles) east
Gull PondsLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) south-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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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 North Lincolnshire: see them on the North Lincolnshire 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
Frederick Gough SchoolSecondary11–16340 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Grange Primary SchoolPrimary3–11380 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holme Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lincoln Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bottesford Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.5 km (0.9 miles) 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
Bottesford Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Willoughby Road Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Leys Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Jet Grange Lane Service Station/Nisa Local DN16 3BJRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 2025
Ashby Bowl DN16 3BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
The Grange Primary Kitchen by Compass Group DN16 3AWSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good18 Jul 2024
Taylorshaw @ Frederick Gough School DN16 3NGSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good22 May 2024
Edmund House DN16 3EBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good12 Aug 2025
Holme Valley Primary School DN16 3SLSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Premier Stores DN16 2QBRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Jul 2024
Great China DN16 2QBTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 2025
Pizza Hot DN16 2QBTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Nov 2025
Slimming World DN16 3NSRetailers - other490 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.

94 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Anti-social behaviour19
Public order9
Shoplifting5
Other crime5
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs4
Burglary3
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (20); On or near Holly Close (14); On or near Somervell Road (13); On or near Foxglove Close (12); On or near Marshfield Road (11).

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: 298 residents in 128 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 age3640
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)13%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Holme Valley Primary School (school/college/university, DN16 3SL) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DN16 3UL: 22 addresses of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Burnet Drive · Holly Close · Burdock Road · Plantain Close · Irvine Road · Somervell Road · Bilberry Close · Grammar School Walk · Alpina Close · Mallory Road · Marshfield Road · Clematis Way

All the streets in DN16 and across North Lincolnshire.

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.