Herbert Street Blaengarw, Bridgend

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (CF32), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47600800.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £90,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 15, E: 9).
  • 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 A; Band D in Bridgend costs £2,478 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maesteg (Ewenny Road), about 4.9 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Parc Calon Lan, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 200 to 214 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 37 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cwm Garw Practice, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 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£90,000£90,000£90,000
20241£67,000£67,000£67,000
20221£92,000£92,000£92,000
20213£79,950£74,200£81,000
20182£72,500£70,000£75,000
20172£77,000£62,000£92,000
20161£68,000£68,000£68,000
20151£51,000£51,000£51,000
20141£50,000£50,000£50,000
20132£42,000£32,000£52,000
20121£40,000£40,000£40,000
20111£78,000£78,000£78,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 202614 CF32 8AFTerraced£90,000
22 Aug 202439 CF32 8AFTerraced£67,000
27 Jan 202317 CF32 8AFTerraced£58,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 202236 CF32 8AFTerraced£92,000
19 Oct 20217 CF32 8AFFlat or maisonette£79,950
7 Apr 202121 CF32 8AFTerraced£74,200
12 Jan 202110 CF32 8AFTerraced£81,000
28 Sep 201836 CF32 8AFTerraced£75,000
21 Sep 201832 CF32 8AFTerraced£70,000
17 Mar 201713 CF32 8AFTerraced£92,000
10 Feb 201726 CF32 8AFTerraced£62,000
28 Jan 201632 CF32 8AFTerraced£68,000
19 Mar 201528 CF32 8AFTerraced£51,000
12 Dec 201420 CF32 8AFTerraced£50,000
5 Sep 201420 CF32 8AFTerraced£75,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Nov 201312 CF32 8AFTerraced£32,000
30 May 201322 CF32 8AFTerraced£52,000
7 Sep 201237 CF32 8AFTerraced£40,000
20 Apr 201132 CF32 8AFTerraced£78,000
12 Nov 201034 CF32 8AFTerraced£71,000
30 Sep 20108 CF32 8AFTerraced£85,000
27 Aug 201038 CF32 8AFTerraced£63,500
7 May 201020 CF32 8AFTerraced£77,000
23 Dec 200910 CF32 8AFTerraced£82,000
18 Dec 200934 CF32 8AFTerraced£47,000
19 May 200932 CF32 8AFTerraced£50,000
25 Apr 200836 CF32 8AFTerraced£87,000
16 Apr 200838 CF32 8AFTerraced£67,000
30 Nov 200719 CF32 8AFTerraced£87,000
23 Nov 200723 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£93,000
25 May 200717 CF32 8AFTerraced£65,000
13 Apr 20067 CF32 8AFFlat or maisonette£73,000
20 Dec 200536 CF32 8AFTerraced£35,500
19 Aug 200512 CF32 8AFTerraced£40,000
9 Mar 200523 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£67,000
27 Oct 200419 CF32 8AFTerraced£67,500
21 Sep 200436 CF32 8AFTerraced£43,750
26 Jun 200335 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£35,107
24 Jan 200333 CF32 8AFTerraced£36,000
10 Jan 200339 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£27,000
18 Oct 200216 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£28,000
13 Jun 200233 CF32 8AFTerraced£12,000
9 Aug 200130 CF32 8AFTerraced£24,000
19 May 200033 CF32 8AFTerraced£9,000
23 Jan 199835 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£35,000
20 Oct 199722 CF32 8AFTerraced£30,000
8 Apr 199711 CF32 8AFTerraced£35,000
17 May 199635 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£34,500
26 May 199511 CF32 8AFTerraced£38,000
21 Apr 199535 CF32 8AFSemi-detached£30,000

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

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (23); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1900-1929 (22); before 1900 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (8); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bridgend in 2026-27: Band D £2,478 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,652£1,927£2,203£2,478£3,029£3,579£4,130£4,956£5,782

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (73% of about 860 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Listed buildings

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 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: of the 84 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
CF32 8AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2
CF32 8AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0

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.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 200 m and 214 m above sea level (210 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
CF32 8AA100%100%100%0%
CF32 8AF100%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 stationsMaesteg (Ewenny Road) 17,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Garth (Bridgend County) 22,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Maesteg 156,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blaengarw Hotel130 m
Bus or coach stationMaesteg Bus Station Stand 15.3 km (3.3 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL30.5 km (19 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 Cwm Garw Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pontycymmer Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalMaesteg General Hospital6 km (3.7 miles)
Police stationCaerau Police Station5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM110 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parc Calon Lan 5.5 ha220 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,170 m²1.5 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Round Barrow on the Werfa, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round Barrow on the WerfaScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Mynydd Caerau Round CairnsScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Carn y Hyrddod & Neighbouring CairnScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cwm Nant-hirValley470 m (0.3 miles) east
Mynydd LlangeinwyrHills640 m (0.4 miles) north
Darren FawrHill760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
CwmgwinauValley930 m (0.6 miles) west
Cwm GwynValley1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Cymer ForestWood1.7 km (1 mile) 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)4.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.7205
Particles (PM10)7.24015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 6420
55 to 59350
Under 55239

37 of the street's 39 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 Bridgend: see them on the Bridgend page.

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
Blaengarw Primary English mediumPrimary3–11210 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Ffaldau English mediumPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
WEXA Club CF32 8ADPub/bar/nightclub60 m4 Good10 Dec 2025
Golden Valley CF32 8AATakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
The Blaengarw Hotel CF32 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Mar 2026
Strand News Retailers - other130 m4 Good6 Aug 2026
Blaengarw Primary School Canteen CF32 8BASchool/college/university210 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Blaengarw Working Mens Club CF32 8AWPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good18 Aug 2025
Awen Cultural Trust CF32 8AWPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good15 Jan 2018

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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Public order7
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft2
Other crime2
Burglary2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mount Pleasant (9); On or near Marian Street (5); On or near Katie Street (5); On or near Heol William Trigg (5); On or near Forest View (4).

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: 290 residents in 130 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 age4243
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%66%
Owned outright44%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented32%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work55%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)24%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%26%
Travel to work by car or van68%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus11%3%
On foot or by bicycle4%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)18%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%32%
No qualifications22%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)98%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

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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.

  • CF32 8AF: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • CF32 8AA: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bryn-Bedw Street · The Strand · Marian Street · The Strand · Mount Pleasant · David Street · Queen Street · Heol William Trigg · Bridge Street · Gwendoline Street · Gwendoline Street · Katie Street

All the streets in CF32 and across Bridgend.

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.