Hemlin Close Norwich

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (NR5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28900498.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Norwich costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Earlham Park, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 25 to 28 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 Wensum Valley Medical Practice, about 170 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 860 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 108 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
20231£270,000£270,000£270,000
20191£258,000£258,000£258,000
20161£235,000£235,000£235,000
20143£190,000£173,000£195,000
20131£153,500£153,500£153,500
20121£167,400£167,400£167,400
20081£163,000£163,000£163,000
20051£148,000£148,000£148,000
20012£71,448£59,995£82,900
19981£49,000£49,000£49,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jun 20236 NR5 8JBTerraced£270,000
1 Jun 20225 NR5 8JBTerraced£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jun 201910 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£258,000
12 Aug 20163 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£235,000
1 May 20155 NR5 8JBTerraced£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 20146 NR5 8JBTerraced£195,000
20 Jun 20149 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£190,000
4 Apr 20142 NR5 8JBTerraced£173,000
14 Nov 201312 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£153,500
9 Nov 20126 NR5 8JBTerraced£167,400
8 Feb 20083 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£163,000
8 Jun 20052 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£148,000
11 Dec 20017 NR5 8JBSemi-detached£82,900
3 May 20015 NR5 8JBTerraced£59,995
27 Mar 19988 NR5 8JBTerraced£49,000

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 July 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, mid-terrace (4); Flat (2). Built: 1950-1966 (8); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); rented (social) (4); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Norwich in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,060£3,616£4,172£5,007

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (67% of about 580 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
NR5 8JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NR5 8JDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 19 addresses are between 25 m and 28 m above sea level (27 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
NR5 8JB100%100%100%0%
NR5 8JD100%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 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Wymondham 198,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Salhouse 14,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rockingham Road Norwich140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksNRP Car Park2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging pointsShell Recharge Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI5.8 km (3.6 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wensum Valley Medical Practice170 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Earlham West170 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Earlham Dental Health Practice170 m
HospitalSpire Private Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationNorth Earlham Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East of England Co-op Earlham Green Cashzone480 m (0.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Earlham Park 27 ha290 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²280 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8.1 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsBluebell Allotments 9.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 440 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Earlham Hall and Attached OutbuildingsListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Earlham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Eaton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Remains of Bowthorpe ChurchScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long GroveWood300 m south-east
Old House PlantationWood380 m east
Twenty Acre WoodWood530 m (0.3 miles) north
Bunker's HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
University of East Anglia BroadLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Braymeadow BottomValley3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 Norwich: see them on the Norwich 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
West Earlham Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7200 m No published inspection
West Earlham Junior SchoolPrimary7–11200 m No published inspection
City Academy NorwichSecondary11–19560 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Earlham Nursery SchoolNursery2–5800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Norwich Primary AcademyPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bluebell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Henderson Green Primary AcademyPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Valley Primary AcademyPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Colman Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 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
Recreation Road Infant SchoolPrimary5–72 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
The Cake Maid NR5 8ADRetailers - other130 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Rasa NR5 8ADRetailers - other170 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Earlham Shopper NR5 8ADRetailers - other170 m5 Very good1 Dec 2022
Allied Pharmacy Earlham West NR5 8ADRetailers - other170 mAwaiting inspection
Earlham Pizza House NR5 8ADTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Aug 2026
Golden Kitchen (DISH'D) NR5 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good19 May 2025
West Earlham Infant & Junior School - Norse Commercial NR5 8HTSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Rasa's Cafe NR5 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good10 Oct 2025
Earlham Park Cafe NR4 7TQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Mar 2026
Tesco Express Garage NR4 7TFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Dec 2024
Milk And More NR4 7TEDistributors/Transporters470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2024

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.

108 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences59
Anti-social behaviour16
Criminal damage and arson11
Other theft6
Public order4
Drugs3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pitchford Road (25); On or near Rockingham Road (17); On or near Truman Close (14); On or near Friends Road (13); On or near Buttermere Road (9).

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: 858 residents in 288 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 age2440
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • NR5 8JB: 18 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • NR5 8JD: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Edgeworth Road · Rachel Close · Cunningham Road · Keable Close · Richenda Close · Earlham West Centre · Wakefield Road · Wordsworth Road · Buttermere Road · Truman Close · Hanbury Close · Rockingham Road

All the streets in NR5 and across Norwich.

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.