Howards Way Gorseinon, Swansea

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (SA4), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39106770.

Sales: 76 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 4, C: 8, D: 11).
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 B; Band D in Swansea costs £2,238 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Gowerton, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Argyle Gardens, is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 19 to 20 m above sea level.
Noise: 7 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ty'r Felin Surgery, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 38 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£295,000	£295,000	£295,000
2025	1	£180,000	£180,000	£180,000
2023	1	£296,000	£296,000	£296,000
2022	1	£151,000	£151,000	£151,000
2021	2	£177,000	£114,000	£240,000
2019	2	£171,500	£150,000	£193,000
2018	2	£146,250	£120,000	£172,500
2016	1	£108,000	£108,000	£108,000
2015	2	£147,500	£139,999	£155,000
2013	1	£144,000	£144,000	£144,000
2010	2	£103,250	£99,000	£107,500
2009	2	£122,500	£110,000	£135,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 76)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
23 Apr 2026	2 SA4 4PP	Detached	£295,000
11 Apr 2025	25 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£180,000
4 Jan 2023	11 SA4 4PP	Detached	£296,000
11 Nov 2022	21 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£151,000
23 Apr 2021	2 SA4 4PP	Detached	£240,000
8 Jan 2021	14 SA4 4PP	Detached	£114,000
12 Apr 2019	5 SA4 4PP	Detached	£193,000
15 Feb 2019	2 SA4 4PP	Detached	£150,000
11 May 2018	21 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£120,000
23 Mar 2018	1 SA4 4PP	Detached	£172,500
22 Dec 2016	17 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£108,000
10 Sep 2015	15 SA4 4PP	Detached	£155,000
19 Jan 2015	9 SA4 4PP	Detached	£139,999
29 May 2013	7 SA4 4PP	Detached	£144,000
15 Oct 2010	17 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£107,500
13 Jan 2010	25 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£99,000
23 Oct 2009	34 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£135,000
25 Mar 2009	17 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£110,000
31 Aug 2007	40 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£122,000
25 Jun 2007	4 SA4 4PP	Detached	£177,000
24 May 2007	2 SA4 4PP	Detached	£135,000
8 Dec 2006	38 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£101,000
8 Sep 2006	34 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£136,500
1 Sep 2006	16 SA4 4PP	Detached	£172,000
16 Jun 2006	42 SA4 4PP	Detached	£147,000
10 Feb 2006	32 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£121,000
10 Jun 2005	38 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£95,000
4 Mar 2005	21 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£92,000
22 Dec 2004	19 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£95,000
30 Jan 2004	11 SA4 4PP	Detached	£135,000
6 Jun 2003	40 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£75,000
14 Mar 2003	11 SA4 4PP	Detached	£120,000
31 Jan 2003	38 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£62,000
9 Oct 2002	42 SA4 4PP	Detached	£84,000
6 Sep 2002	12 SA4 4PP	Detached	£89,500
3 May 2002	1 SA4 4PP	Detached	£82,000
28 Mar 2002	11 SA4 4PP	Detached	£82,000
28 Mar 2002	21 SA4 4PP	Terraced	£44,000
7 Mar 2002	32 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£62,950
6 Mar 2002	24 SA4 4PP	Detached	£89,000
25 Feb 2002	20 SA4 4PP	Detached	£83,995	New build.
22 Feb 2002	16 SA4 4PP	Detached	£97,995	New build.
18 Jan 2002	11 SA4 4PP	Detached	£82,000
28 Sep 2001	40 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£59,995
30 Aug 2001	6 SA4 4PP	Detached	£97,000
17 Aug 2001	40 SA4 4PP	Semi-detached	£59,000
27 Jun 2001	1 SA4 4PP	Detached	£81,995	New build.
6 Apr 2001	3 SA4 4PP	Detached	£93,995	New build.
15 Dec 2000	22 SA4 4PP	Detached	£78,995	New build.
13 Dec 2000	12 SA4 4PP	Detached	£74,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D11

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, detached (16); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (20); 1991-1995 (3); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Swansea in 2026-27: Band D £2,238 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
£1,492	£1,741	£1,990	£2,238	£2,736	£3,233	£3,730	£4,477	£5,223

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (43% of about 740 homes).

A24%

B43%

C20%

D7%

E4%

F1%

H0%

I0%

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

None of the 71 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

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.

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 35 addresses are between 19 m and 20 m above sea level (20 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
SA4 4PG	100%	100%	100%	0%
SA4 4PP	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Gowerton 159,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
	Llangennech 4,320 journeys in 2024–25	3.7 km (2.3 miles)
	Bynea 2,720 journeys in 2024–25	4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops	1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parc Melin Mynach Gorseinon	170 m
Bus or coach station	Gorseinon Bus Station Stand 3	780 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminal	Swansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal	10 km (6.2 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Gorseinon Car Park	660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points	Gridserve Charging Station	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Cardiff International Airport CWL	56.9 km (35 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ty'r Felin Surgery	400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies	4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tyr Felin Pharmacy	400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	570 m (0.4 miles)
Hospital	Gorseinon Hospital	1 km (0.6 miles)
Police station	Gorseinon Police Station	630 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Select AND Save Gorseinon, Gorseinon Cashzone	570 m (0.4 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Argyle Gardens 8,970 m²	790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²	400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 17 ha	100 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,610 m²	470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Melin Mynach, Gorseinon, a scheduled monument, 240 m west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Melin Mynach, Gorseinon	Scheduled monument	240 m west
Garn Goch Round Barrow	Scheduled monument	1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Roman Practice Camp on Stafford Common	Scheduled monument	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Cwm y Lladron	Valley	1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Tircoed Forest	Wood	2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Penbwl Wood	Wood	2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Tyle-Du	Hill	3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Coed Cwm Penlle'r-gaer	Wood	3.3 km (2 miles) east
Allt-wen Wood	Wood	3.3 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	4.9	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	4.4	20	5
Particles (PM10)	6.8	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	7	0
Under 55	28	35

7 of the street's 35 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 Swansea: see them on the Swansea 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Gorseinon Primary School English medium	Primary	3–11	500 m (0.3 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Penyrheol Comprehensive School English medium	Secondary	11–16	600 m (0.4 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Pontybrenin Primary School English medium	Primary	3–11	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Penyrheol Primary School English medium	Primary	3–11	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Y.g.g. Pontybrenin Welsh medium	Primary	3–11	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Pengelli Primary English medium	Primary	3–11	1.8 km (1.1 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Chloe's Little Treats SA4 4FQ	Retailers - other	470 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	20 May 2026
Ranus Stores SA4 4FQ	Retailers - other	490 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	30 Jul 2026
Toby Carvery SA4 4DJ	Pub/bar/nightclub	500 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	26 Jan 2026
Home Bargains SA4 4DJ	Retailers - other	500 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	6 Oct 2026
Asda Stores SA4 4BZ	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	500 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	16 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	19
Anti-social behaviour	7
Criminal damage and arson	4
Possession of weapons	2
Public order	2
Other theft	1
Burglary	1
Other crime	1
Drugs	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Heol Ffion (12); On or near Heol Eifion (12); On or near Nicholas Court (5); On or near Clos Delyth (4); On or near Ffordd Eira (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: 495 residents in 205 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 street	Wales
Median age	36	43
Children under 15	23%	17%
Aged 65 and over	10%	21%

Homes

	Around this street	Wales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	44%	66%
Owned outright	17%	38%
Shared ownership	under 1%	under 1%
Social rented	46%	17%
Private rented	10%	17%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	Wales
Adults (16 and over) in work	65%	54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	7%	6%
Retired (of adults)	11%	25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	7%	6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	21%	26%
Travel to work by car or van	65%	61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	under 1%
By any public transport, including bus	3%	3%
On foot or by bicycle	10%	8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	80%	60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	6%	10%

Education and languages

	Around this street	Wales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	30%	32%
No qualifications	19%	20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)	98%	97%
Cannot speak English well or at all	1%	under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

SA4 4PP: 34 addresses
SA4 4PG: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Heol y Mynydd · Nicholas Court · Megan Close · Ffordd Eira · Clos Delyth · Heol Eifion · Heol Ffion · Cwrt Rhian · Cae Glas · Cecil Road · Lon y Felin

All the streets in SA4 and across Swansea.

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.