Impala Drive Cambridge

62 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB1), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35300278.

  • Sales: 105 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20, D: 21).
  • 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 C; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge, about 3.3 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cherry Hinton Community Garden, is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 62 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cherry Hinton Medical Centre, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 58% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 108 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£400,000£400,000£400,000
20251£370,000£370,000£370,000
20233£372,000£250,000£450,000
20221£248,000£248,000£248,000
20211£310,000£310,000£310,000
20204£285,000£235,000£343,700
20191£300,000£300,000£300,000
20181£321,250£321,250£321,250
20172£332,750£320,000£345,500
20164£276,250£216,000£406,000
20152£287,000£240,000£334,000
20141£312,000£312,000£312,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 105)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 202631 CB1 9XJTerraced£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Mar 20263 CB1 9XJDetached£400,000
20 Jun 202535 CB1 9XJTerraced£370,000
6 Sep 202320 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
24 Jul 202358 CB1 9XLDetached£450,000
24 Feb 202314 CB1 9XLTerraced£372,000
26 Oct 202240 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£248,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 202154 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Apr 202149 CB1 9XJTerraced£310,000
11 Sep 202054 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£235,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 202034 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 202011 CB1 9XJSemi-detached£320,000
15 Jan 202041 CB1 9XJTerraced£343,700
29 Jan 201941 CB1 9XJTerraced£300,000
18 Oct 201813 CB1 9XJTerraced£321,250
4 Oct 201719 CB1 9XJSemi-detached£320,000
15 Sep 201729 CB1 9XJSemi-detached£345,500
28 Oct 201614 CB1 9XLTerraced£324,500
1 Sep 20162 CB1 9XLDetached£406,000
31 Mar 201644 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£228,000Leasehold.
19 Feb 201652 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£216,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 201558 CB1 9XLDetached£334,000
5 Feb 201539 CB1 9XJTerraced£240,000
11 Apr 20142 CB1 9XLDetached£312,000
22 Mar 201211 CB1 9XJSemi-detached£219,995
8 Dec 201123 CB1 9XJSemi-detached£265,000
26 Aug 201130 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
13 Oct 201035 CB1 9XJTerraced£215,000
15 Mar 201026 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£147,000Leasehold.
23 Feb 201017 CB1 9XJTerraced£230,000
14 Dec 20076 CB1 9XLTerraced£220,000
28 Sep 200748 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 200730 CB1 9XLDetached£152,000Leasehold.
19 May 200644 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 200638 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£132,000Leasehold.
20 Mar 200636 CB1 9XLTerraced£128,000Leasehold.
12 Jan 200650 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£137,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 200551 CB1 9XJTerraced£170,000
22 Aug 200526 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
21 Apr 200517 CB1 9XJTerraced£165,000
20 Apr 200528 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£129,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 200424 CB1 9XLSemi-detached£132,500Leasehold.
5 Feb 20042 CB1 9XLDetached£198,000
28 Nov 200334 CB1 9XLSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
21 Nov 200335 CB1 9XJTerraced£162,000
15 Sep 200332 CB1 9XLFlat or maisonette£110,500Leasehold.
4 Sep 200342 CB1 9XLDetached£110,000Leasehold.
28 Aug 200314 CB1 9XLTerraced£158,000
27 Mar 20033 CB1 9XJDetached£182,000
6 Dec 200251 CB1 9XJTerraced£147,500

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.

41 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: Flat (16); House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (7). Built: 1983-1990 (23); 1991-1995 (16); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (22); owner-occupied (17); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,310 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB1 9XLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB1 9XJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CB1 9XHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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 62 addresses are between 12 m and 14 m above sea level (13 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
CB1 9XH100%100%100%0%
CB1 9XJ100%100%100%0%
CB1 9XL100%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 stationsCambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Impala Drive Walkway Cherry Hinton130 m
Bus or coach stationHospital Bus Station Addenbrookes3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksCambridge Park and Ride2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leete Road Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN34.6 km (21 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 Cherry Hinton Medical Centre930 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco In-Store Pharmacy840 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cherry Hinton Dental Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalFulbourn Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cherry Hinton Community Garden 180 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²290 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wenvoe Close Allotments 7,150 m²730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade I), 570 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade I570 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Moated site at Manor FarmScheduled monument700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Settlement site by Caudle Corner FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Giants GraveValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Limekiln CloseWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Greenhouse PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Missleton HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Long ReachLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Chesterton FenWetland4.2 km (2.6 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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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 556162

1 of the street's 62 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Bewick Bridge Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cherry Hinton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colville Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Spinney Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Teversham CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Bede's Inter-Church School Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Emma Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 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
Nisa Convenience Store CB1 9GPRetailers - other270 m4 Good18 Jun 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.

108 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft5
Vehicle crime5
Shoplifting5
Bicycle theft5
Other crime5
Public order3
Drugs3
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cherry Hinton Road (47); On or near Dolphin Close (15); On or near Caribou Way (14); On or near Sable Close (13); On or near Impala Drive (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 685 residents in 257 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 age3640
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)58%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 10 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.

  • CB1 9XL: 33 addresses
  • CB1 9XJ: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • CB1 9XH: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Eland Way · Buffalo Way · Caribou Way · Mandrill Close · Panther Way · Antelope Way · The Lynx · Dolphin Close · Lemur Drive · Teversham Drift · Sable Close · Capuchin Court

All the streets in CB1 and across South Cambridgeshire.

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.