Higher Compton Road Plymouth

1 address across 1 postcode (PL3), about 20 m long. USRN 30205544.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £745,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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 A; Band D in Plymouth costs £2,442 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Plymouth, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thorn Park, is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 86 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 Lisson Grove Medical Ctr., about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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£745,000£745,000£745,000
20111£125,000£125,000£125,000
20001£190,000£190,000£190,000
19971£48,000£48,000£48,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Nov 202385 PL3 5JDDetached£745,000
7 Aug 202082 - 84 PL3 5JDOther£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 201182 - 84 PL3 5JDTerraced£125,000
7 Jul 200085 PL3 5JDDetached£190,000
22 Jul 199782 - 84 PL3 5JDTerraced£48,000

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 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 Plymouth in 2026-27: Band D £2,442 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,628£1,899£2,171£2,442£2,984£3,527£4,070£4,884

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (23% of about 710 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; 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): HMOs Mutley, Greenbank, City Centre and surrounding areas.
  • 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

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 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 address is about 86 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
PL3 5JD100%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 stationsPlymouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Devonport 50,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Dockyard (Devonport) 15,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 62 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Collins Park Compton50 m
Bus or coach stationPlymouth Coach Station Plymouth City Centre2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalPlymouth (Barbican) Landing Stage3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksParking space on Ford Park Road, PL41.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lockington Avenue500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCornwall Airport Newquay NQY62.1 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL124 km (77 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 Lisson Grove Medical Ctr.1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well380 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalMount Gould Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationCrownhill Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chelmsford Star Coop Blackmore, Blackmore360 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thorn Park 8,230 m²690 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.4 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Collings Park Playing Field 2.1 ha70 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Compton Allotments 9,060 m²480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Eggbuckland Keep, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eggbuckland KeepScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Bowden BatteryScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Austin Fort and section of military roadScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Ford Park CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Civic Square, PlymouthRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hartley ValeValley480 m (0.3 miles) north
Blindman's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Drake's Place ReservoirLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Arnold's PointWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
The LairaTidal water2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Teats HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south

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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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 5501

1 of the street's 1 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 Plymouth: see them on the Plymouth 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
Compton CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–1170 m No published inspection
Eggbuckland Community CollegeSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eggbuckland Vale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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
Hyde Park Infants' SchoolPrimary5–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hyde Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
High View SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lipson Vale Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lipson Co-operative AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 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: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Manadon Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Austin Farm AcademyPrimary5–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Widey Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Laira Green Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 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
Little Owls Pre-School Plymouth CIO PL3 5JDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Compton Kitchen PL3 5JBSchool/college/university70 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Greenacres Care Centre PL3 5JFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Greenacres Tea Room PL3 5JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good19 May 2025
The Rising Sun PL3 5JTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
Mannamead News Limited PL3 5HFRetailers - other340 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Bluebird PL3 5JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m4 Good15 Aug 2025
Tesco PL3 5JURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Cater Link at Old Priory Junior School PL7 1QNSchool/college/university380 mAwaiting inspection
Wongs PL3 5ERTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory11 Sep 2025
Morrisons Daily PL3 6QARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Friary Mill Bakery Ltd PL3 6NHRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson8
Violence and sexual offences7
Burglary5
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order3
Drugs3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Briar Road (11); On or near Cranmere Road (6); On or near Pearn Road (4); On or near Widey View (3); On or near Hartley Park Gardens (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: 381 residents in 131 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 age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)89%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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

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.

  • PL3 5JD: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pearn Road · Hartley Court · Reservoir Lane · Widey View · Reservoir Road · Pearn Gardens · Compton Leigh · Fortescue Place · Hartley Avenue · Cranmere Road · Eastfield Crescent · Hartley Park Gardens

All the streets in PL3 and across Plymouth.

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.