Gresley Way Stevenage

27 addresses across 18 postcodes (SG1,SG2), about 4.9 km (3.1 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 37807398.

  • Flood: 16 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 C; Band D in Stevenage costs £2,392 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knebworth, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 70 m away, and Bandley Hill Park (2.4 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 81 to 137 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Shephall Health Centre, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 5,330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 80 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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Stevenage in 2026-27: Band D £2,392 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,595£1,860£2,126£2,392£2,924£3,455£3,987£4,784

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 6,420 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 9 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 6.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Stevenage.
  • Tree preservation orders: 68 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: yes, East Hertfordshire.

Listed buildings

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 26 November 2026 to 28 November 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 42 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
SG1 4FXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SG2 7DLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
SG1 4FYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 0BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 9DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 7 unlikely
SG2 9NHnot in 2 or 3 7 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SG1 4RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG1 6AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG2 0NZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 7BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG2 7DPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 7DSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 7EWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG2 7QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 8QAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SG2 9NJnot in 2 or 3 3 / 4 / 15 unlikely
SG2 9RXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SG2 9THnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 27 addresses are between 81 m and 137 m above sea level (110 m on average); the ground rises about 56 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
SG1 4FX100%100%100%0%
SG1 4FY100%100%100%0%
SG1 4RB100%0%0%0%
SG1 6AH100%100%100%0%
SG2 0BS100%100%100%0%
SG2 0NZ100%100%100%0%
SG2 7BG100%100%100%0%
SG2 7DL100%100%100%0%
SG2 7DP100%100%100%0%
SG2 7DS100%100%100%0%
SG2 7EW100%0%0%0%
SG2 7QG100%100%100%0%
SG2 8QA100%100%100%0%
SG2 9DA100%100%100%0%
SG2 9NH100%100%100%0%
SG2 9NJ100%100%100%0%
SG2 9RX100%100%100%0%
SG2 9TH100%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 stationsKnebworth 437,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Stevenage 4.7 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Watton-At-Stone 168,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dene Lane Poplars220 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stevenage3.4 km (2.1 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN14.7 km (9.1 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 Shephall Health Centre770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Poplars Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalThe Lister Hospital5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationStevenage Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Shephall, Shephall Cashzone850 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,590 m²70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bandley Hill Park 2.4 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 60 m²120 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ridlins Wood Playing Field 10 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,850 m²470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Church of England), a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Church of England)Listed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
43 and 45, Benington RoadListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Benington LordshipRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oxypiss PondLake or reservoir330 m south-east
Poplars PondLake or reservoir380 m north
Whitney PondLake or reservoir560 m (0.3 miles) east
Ridlins WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Loves WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Oxshott HillHill2.4 km (1.5 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6490
55 to 5960
Under 551127

16 of the street's 27 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 Stevenage: see them on the Stevenage 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
Aston St Mary's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Featherstone Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashtree Primary AcademyPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barnwell SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Peartree Spring Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Longmeadow Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Peartree Way Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Shephalbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marriotts SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Camps Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2024, 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Woodlands View SG2 9RZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
The Coopers Inn SG2 9RZPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Sainsbury's Plc SG2 7DURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets320 m5 Very good30 Jun 2025
Lloyds Chemist SG2 7DURetailers - other320 mExempt
Poplars Fish Bar SG2 9RZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Butchery & Village Store SG2 7EUManufacturers/packers460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Aston St Mary's Cof E SG2 7HASchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 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.

80 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Criminal damage and arson20
Other crime10
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order6
Drugs4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Roundmead (40); On or near Cotney Croft (12); On or near Skylark Corner (9); On or near Fieldfare (7); On or near Lapwing Rise (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 15 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 5,327 residents in 2,153 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 9 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 10 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.

  • SG1 4FX: 4 addresses of 52 in the postcode
  • SG2 7DL: 3 addresses of 92 in the postcode
  • SG1 4FY: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • SG2 0BS: 2 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • SG2 9DA: 2 addresses of 64 in the postcode
  • SG2 9NH: 2 addresses of 92 in the postcode
  • SG1 4RB: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • SG1 6AH: 1 address of 38 in the postcode
  • SG2 0NZ: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • SG2 7BG: 1 address of 76 in the postcode
  • SG2 7DP: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • SG2 7DS: 1 address of 60 in the postcode
  • SG2 7EW: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • SG2 7QG: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • SG2 8QA: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • SG2 9NJ: 1 address of 60 in the postcode
  • SG2 9RX: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • SG2 9TH: 1 address of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Fieldfare · Minsden Road · Lapwing Rise · Skylark Corner · Campkin Mead · Roundmead · Silkin Court · Bittern Close · Sheepcroft Hill · Blackberry Mead · Osprey Gardens · Dene Lane

All the streets in SG1, SG2 and across Stevenage.

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.