Howlett Drive Norwich

39 addresses across 1 postcode (NR5), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28900528.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 9, 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 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bowthorpe Park, is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 39 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trinity & Bowthorpe Medical Practice, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 98 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
20251£250,000£250,000£250,000
20211£235,000£235,000£235,000
20201£165,000£165,000£165,000
20191£200,000£200,000£200,000
20183£190,000£174,000£208,000
20171£187,500£187,500£187,500
20161£183,000£183,000£183,000
20143£150,000£146,000£155,000
20132£137,000£134,000£140,000
20091£148,000£148,000£148,000
20084£141,250£118,500£168,000
20073£165,000£135,000£168,500
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Feb 202537 NR5 9BZDetached£250,000
1 Nov 202110 NR5 9BZDetached£235,000
27 Jan 202014 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£165,000
24 Jun 201911 NR5 9BZDetached£200,000
16 Feb 201838 NR5 9BZTerraced£190,000
6 Feb 201827 NR5 9BZDetached£208,000
6 Feb 201826 NR5 9BZDetached£174,000
11 Jul 201718 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£187,500
21 Mar 20164 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£183,000
24 Nov 201423 NR5 9BZTerraced£155,000
15 Oct 201414 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£150,000
21 Feb 201413 NR5 9BZDetached£146,000
18 Jun 201338 NR5 9BZTerraced£134,000
8 Feb 20135 NR5 9BZDetached£140,000
6 Nov 200913 NR5 9BZDetached£148,000
24 Sep 20084 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£118,500
17 Apr 20088 NR5 9BZTerraced£147,500
4 Jan 200832 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£135,000
3 Jan 200829 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£168,000
13 Apr 200728 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£168,500
4 Apr 200723 NR5 9BZTerraced£135,000
5 Jan 20079 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£165,000
17 Nov 200612 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£149,999
17 Nov 20062 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£140,000
25 May 20053 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£135,000
17 Dec 200418 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£130,000
6 Jul 20048 NR5 9BZTerraced£118,000
4 Nov 20024 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£85,000
9 Jul 20029 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£90,250
20 Jul 20019 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£65,500
7 Aug 200013 NR5 9BZDetached£77,500
28 Jul 200018 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£59,950
20 Dec 199934 NR5 9BZDetached£65,000
6 Aug 199920 NR5 9BZDetached£46,000
8 Mar 199923 NR5 9BZTerraced£35,000
15 Jan 199910 NR5 9BZDetached£59,950
26 May 199810 NR5 9BZDetached£54,950
1 Aug 199723 NR5 9BZTerraced£35,000
30 May 199720 NR5 9BZDetached£41,000
15 Nov 199634 NR5 9BZDetached£50,000
14 Aug 199620 NR5 9BZDetached£36,000
15 Jul 19963 NR5 9BZSemi-detached£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 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.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (8); House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (3). Built: 1976-1982 (14); 1967-1975 (2); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 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 (74% of about 650 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): 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

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 39 addresses are between 33 m and 36 m above sea level (35 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 9BZ100%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 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Wymondham 198,000 journeys in 2024–2511.2 km (7 miles)
Salhouse 14,000 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bus Shelter Bowthorpe150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre4.8 km (3 miles)
Car parksNRP Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI5.4 km (3.4 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Trinity & Bowthorpe Medical Practice790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bowthorpe Pharmacy790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechcroft Dental Practice900 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalSpire Private Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationNorth Earlham Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mfg - Oval, New Cottessey530 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bowthorpe Park 3.8 ha270 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,890 m²360 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,510 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.9 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Bowthorpe Church, a scheduled monument, 920 m (0.6 miles) south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Bowthorpe ChurchScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Costessey HengeScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Earlham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Norwich City (Earlham Road) CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bunker's HillHill500 m (0.3 miles) south
Bunkers HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north
Twenty Acre WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
East HillsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
University of East Anglia BroadLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Bloods DaleValley3.2 km (2 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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 553839

1 of the street's 39 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
Clover Hill VA Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–7140 m No published inspection
Costessey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's VA Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Valley Primary AcademyPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chapel Break Infant SchoolPrimary4–71 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Norwich Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Earlham Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
West Earlham Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
West Earlham Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ormiston Victory AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Henderson Green Primary AcademyPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
City Academy NorwichSecondary11–192 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, 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
Cloverhill News NR5 9AWRetailers - other130 m4 Good24 Nov 2025
Society Alive Food Hive NR5 9AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good18 Feb 2026
Society Alive Community Cafe NR5 9BNOther catering premises150 m4 Good18 Feb 2026
Leyham Court Social Club NR5 9DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m4 Good15 Jan 2026
Londis Oval Service Station NR5 0SYRetailers - other320 m4 Good9 Oct 2026
Subway NR5 0SYTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good9 Oct 2026
The FDC NR5 9EDPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good26 Mar 2025
Bowthorpe Care Village NR5 9BFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Sep 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.

98 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour12
Other theft7
Burglary6
Bicycle theft6
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Theft from the person2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Humbleyard (27); On or near Drury Close (27); On or near Notykin Street (7); On or near Toftes Place (7); On or near Waldegrave (5).

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: 287 residents in 122 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 age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Londis Oval Service Station (retailers - other, NR5 0SY) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 9 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

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 9BZ: 39 addresses of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Waldegrave · Drury Close · Toftes Place · Morris Close · Skye Close · Cotterall Court · Brampton Court · Fitzhenry Mews · Notykin Street · Bumpstede Court · Mayes Close · Clover Hill 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.