Grovedale Close Norwich, South Norfolk

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (NR5), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36000761.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 6).
  • 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 C; Band D in South Norfolk costs £2,483 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 6.2 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bowthorpe Park, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 25 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beechcroft And Old Palace, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 13 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
20211£375,000£375,000£375,000
20172£225,000£205,000£245,000
20161£177,000£177,000£177,000
20151£220,000£220,000£220,000
20131£290,000£290,000£290,000
20121£168,500£168,500£168,500
20102£220,000£205,000£235,000
20082£283,000£256,000£310,000
20072£251,500£173,000£330,000
20052£140,000£135,000£145,000
20042£167,750£157,500£178,000
20031£140,000£140,000£140,000
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Apr 20255 NR5 0HTDetached£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jul 202111 NR5 0HTDetached£375,000
2 Oct 201712 NR5 0HTSemi-detached£205,000
16 Aug 20171A NR5 0HTDetached£245,000
19 Feb 20163 NR5 0HTDetached£177,000
22 Dec 20156 NR5 0HTDetached£220,000
25 Jan 201314 NR5 0HTDetached£290,000
20 Jul 20122 NR5 0HTDetached£168,500
10 Aug 20109 NR5 0HTDetached£205,000
12 Feb 201011 NR5 0HTDetached£235,000
12 Nov 200818 NR5 0HTDetached£256,000
7 Nov 200820 NR5 0HTDetached£310,000
12 Jul 200720 NR5 0HTDetached£330,000
5 Apr 20072 NR5 0HTDetached£173,000
29 Apr 20052 NR5 0HTDetached£145,000
21 Jan 200512 NR5 0HTSemi-detached£135,000
2 Jul 20041 NR5 0HTDetached£157,500
21 May 20049 NR5 0HTDetached£178,000
7 May 20039 NR5 0HTDetached£140,000
18 Oct 20024 NR5 0HTSemi-detached£125,550
2 Aug 20021 NR5 0HTDetached£117,000
15 Feb 20023 NR5 0HTDetached£102,500
6 Apr 200114 NR5 0HTDetached£127,000
29 May 19982 NR5 0HTDetached£44,500
16 Mar 199818 NR5 0HTDetached£81,800
5 Sep 199716 NR5 0HTDetached£98,750
7 Nov 19964 NR5 0HTSemi-detached£58,900
22 Sep 199516 NR5 0HTDetached£85,000

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 March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1950-1966 (3); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Norfolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,483 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,655£1,931£2,207£2,483£3,035£3,586£4,138£4,966

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (50% of about 720 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.

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 31 October 2026

  • 15 February 2027 to 12 March 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

© 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 19 addresses are between 25 m and 39 m above sea level (32 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
NR5 0HS100%100%100%0%
NR5 0HT100%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 stationsNorwich 4.6 million journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
Wymondham 198,000 journeys in 2024–2511.6 km (7.2 miles)
Salhouse 14,000 journeys in 2024–2511.9 km (7.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Three Mile Lane New Costessey90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksCostessey Park And Ride2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN108 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. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechcroft And Old Palace410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechcroft Pharmacy410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upper Stafford Avenue (Dental Surgery)320 m
HospitalHellesdon Hospital2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationNorth Earlham Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesAsda Norwich - Dereham Road Pfs, New Costessey860 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bowthorpe Park 3.8 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha190 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.9 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Bowthorpe Church, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Bowthorpe ChurchScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Costessey HengeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Earlham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bunkers HillHill240 m north-east
East HillsWood380 m north-west
Carr's HillsWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Green HillsWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Bloods DaleValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Costessey PitsLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 551819

1 of the street's 19 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 South Norfolk: see them on the South Norfolk 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
Costessey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Victory AcademySecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Michael's VA Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Chapel Break Infant SchoolPrimary4–71 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Costessey Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Valley Primary AcademyPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 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
Cascade (Hurst House) NR5 0HZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Stafford Stores & Post Office NR5 0ABRetailers - other230 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Wolfys NR5 0RRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
China China NR5 0ABTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good12 Sep 2025
Avenue Chippy NR5 0ABTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Orchard Rooms Luncheon Club NR5 0QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2026
Ormiston Victory Academy NR5 0PXSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Costessey Primary School NR5 0RRSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 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.

13 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft2
Public order2
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grove Avenue (7); On or near Upper Breckland Road (3); On or near Farmland Road (1); On or near Valley View Crescent (1); On or near Highlow Road (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 578 residents in 259 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 age5440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CADENT GAS LIMITED: Utility asset works, 15 February 2027 to 12 March 2027 (give and take) found 3 November 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.

Nearby streets

Valley View Crescent · Highlow Road · Farmland Road · Dereham Road · Upper Breckland Road · West Close · Grove Avenue · Wood View Court · Breckland Road · Rowan Court · Upper Stafford Avenue · Hill Crest

All the streets in NR5 and across South Norfolk.

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.