Heol y Pentref Sandfields, Neath Port Talbot

1 address across 1 postcode (SA12), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 47708222.

  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Neath Port Talbot costs £2,541 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Baglan, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fairfield Medical Centre, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 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 13 October 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 Neath Port Talbot in 2026-27: Band D £2,541 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,694£1,977£2,259£2,541£3,106£3,671£4,236£5,083£5,930

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (68% of about 630 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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: of the 32 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 9 m above sea level.

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
SA12 7DA100%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 stationsBaglan 35,000 journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Port Talbot Parkway 612,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Briton Ferry 42,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pentre Afan Baglan20 m
Bus or coach stationPort Talbot Bus Station 12.5 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Car parksPort Talbot Car Park (Hollywood Park), Port Talbot1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL40.4 km (25 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 Fairfield Medical Centre540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Port Talbot Centre540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Port Talbot Resource Centre540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNeath Port Talbot Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationNeath Police Station6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.1 km (0.7 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 gardenUnnamed 3,340 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²380 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Port Talbot Town Cricket Club 2.3 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moor Road Allotments 8,680 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ruins of St Baglan's Church, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ruins of St Baglan's ChurchScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Plas BaglanScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Aberavon SandsBeach1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Cwm BaglanValley1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Mynydd DinasHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Daren WenHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Cefn-cwrt ReservoirLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Shelone WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north

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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Ysgol Bae Baglan English mediumAll-through3–16310 m Estyn reports · My Local School
St Therese's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
YGG Rhosafan Welsh mediumPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Baglan Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Awel Y Mor Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Josephs Catholic Junior School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Joseph's RC School and 6th Form Centre Roman Catholic English mediumSecondary11–191.8 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Sandfields Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Blaenbaglan Primary School English mediumPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Tywyn Primary School English mediumPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Mandy's Cupcakes SA12 7BNRetailers - other90 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Sandfields Youth Club SA12 7BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good8 May 2014
Ysgol Bae Baglan SA12 7BLSchool/college/university240 m4 Good13 Jan 2026
Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Dur SA12 7BLSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good10 Jan 2024
Nikas Buffets & Treats SA12 7LWRetailers - other270 m5 Very good16 Aug 2021
Dreamz Funhouse SA12 7BRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m4 Good27 May 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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences33
Public order8
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Afandale (42); On or near Village Gardens (5); On or near Pentre Afan (4); On or near Village Road (2).

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: 391 residents in 164 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 streetWales
Median age5443
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over31%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%66%
Owned outright46%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented13%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work53%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)27%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%26%
Travel to work by car or van68%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle7%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%32%
No qualifications28%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)99%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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.

  • SA12 7DA: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pentre Afan · Afandale · Village Gardens · Seaway Parade · Southdown View · Windsor Village · Daffodil Close · Brooklyn Gardens · Seaway Parade · Poppy Close · Chapel Close · Iris Close

All the streets in SA12 and across Neath Port Talbot.

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.