Kingfisher Close Wheathampstead, St Albans

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (AL4), about 420 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 37309535.

Sales: 61 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £420,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 9).
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 G; Band D in St Albans costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Harpenden, about 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Railway Sidings, is about 50 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 80 to 87 m above sea level.
Noise: 12 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Elms Medical Practice, about 4 km (2.5 miles) away.
People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 24 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
2025	1	£420,000	£420,000	£420,000
2023	1	£418,000	£418,000	£418,000
2022	3	£700,000	£436,000	£855,000
2021	1	£385,000	£385,000	£385,000
2020	1	£415,000	£415,000	£415,000
2019	2	£495,139	£310,278	£680,000
2018	1	£680,000	£680,000	£680,000
2016	3	£430,000	£345,100	£540,000
2015	2	£513,750	£312,500	£715,000
2012	1	£460,000	£460,000	£460,000
2011	1	£233,500	£233,500	£233,500
2009	1	£220,000	£220,000	£220,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 61)
Date	Address	Type	Price
11 Mar 2025	23 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£420,000
28 Jul 2023	22 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£418,000
2 Dec 2022	32 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£436,000
21 Jun 2022	14 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£700,000
7 Jan 2022	5 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£855,000
28 May 2021	29 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£385,000
11 Dec 2020	27 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£415,000
1 Oct 2019	4 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£680,000
23 Apr 2019	22 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£310,278
19 Dec 2018	5 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£680,000
13 Oct 2016	33 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£540,000
25 Apr 2016	28 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£430,000
29 Jan 2016	35 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£345,100
19 Jun 2015	36 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£312,500
23 Apr 2015	3 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£715,000
3 Jul 2012	18 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£460,000
24 Jun 2011	35 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£233,500
2 Jul 2009	36 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£220,000
4 Apr 2008	27 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£249,999
12 Mar 2008	22 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£235,000
14 Sep 2007	37 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£340,000
20 Jan 2006	36 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£210,000
16 Jan 2006	7 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£355,000
21 Oct 2005	9 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£485,000
21 Jul 2005	30 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£330,000
27 Jun 2005	29 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£197,500
9 Dec 2004	6 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£425,000
29 Jul 2004	29 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£190,000
6 Feb 2004	26 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£188,000
19 Sep 2003	36 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£187,000
25 Oct 2002	5 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£330,000
19 Sep 2002	22 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£181,000
20 Aug 2002	37 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£226,500
18 Apr 2002	3 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£325,000
12 Apr 2002	6 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£335,000
8 Mar 2002	15 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£285,000
27 Feb 2002	12 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£240,000
18 Dec 2001	24 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£160,000
18 May 2001	36 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£150,000
9 Apr 2001	26 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£128,000
23 Mar 2001	14 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£249,000
24 Jul 2000	30 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£238,000
8 Mar 2000	29 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£139,000
18 Feb 2000	19 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£240,000
2 Dec 1999	18 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£225,000
2 Dec 1999	28 AL4 8JJ	Semi-detached	£167,500
23 Sep 1999	7 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£215,000
16 Jul 1999	20 AL4 8JJ	Detached	£179,000
9 Oct 1998	29 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£102,500
3 Aug 1998	25 AL4 8JJ	Terraced	£131,000

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 September 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C12

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, detached (11); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1983-1990 (14); 1996-2002 (2); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in St Albans in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,613	£1,882	£2,150	£2,419	£2,957	£3,494	£4,032	£4,838

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (42% of about 600 homes).

A2%

B2%

C2%

D10%

E10%

F18%

G42%

H15%

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: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
Green belt: no.

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

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: of the 37 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 7 very low.

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.

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 38 addresses are between 80 m and 87 m above sea level (82 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
AL4 8JJ	100%	92%	92%	0%
AL4 8JZ	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	Harpenden 2.8 million journeys in 2024–25	3.9 km (2.4 miles)
	Welwyn Garden City 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25	6.4 km (4 miles)
	Welwyn North 387,000 journeys in 2024–25	7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops	6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rose Lane Wheathampstead	60 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Welwyn Garden City	6.4 km (4 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East Lane Car Park	270 m
EV charging points	Apcoa Charging Station	4 km (2.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Luton Airport LTN	8.4 km (5.2 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	Elms Medical Practice	4 km (2.5 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Pharmacy	230 m
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	230 m
Hospital	Harpenden Memorial Hospital	4 km (2.5 miles)
Police station	Harpenden Police Station	4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines	The Cooperative Food Harpenden - Southdown Road	3.5 km (2.2 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	6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Sidings 4,250 m²	50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Unnamed 2.0 ha	400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²	190 m
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rectory Meadow 7,530 m²	180 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hitchens Allotments 3.5 ha	680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Helen, a listed building (Grade I), 270 m south. 49 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Church of St Helen	Listed building, Grade I	270 m south
Wheathampstead earthwork incorporating Devils Dyke and the Slad	Scheduled monument	1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Rectory Copse	Wood	200 m south
Ba Wood	Wood	1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Lower Gustard Wood	Wood	1.6 km (1 mile) north
Hillgate Spring	Wood	1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Kents Dell	Valley	2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Southdown Ponds	Lake or reservoir	3.9 km (2.5 miles) 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)	8.2	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.2	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.1	40	15

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways	Aircraft
65 to 69	1	0	0
60 to 64	2	0	0
55 to 59	9	0	0
Under 55	26	38	38

12 of the street's 38 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 St Albans: see them on the St Albans page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
St Helen's Church of England Primary School	Primary	4–11	450 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Beech Hyde Primary School and Nursery	Primary	3–11	930 m (0.6 miles)	Good (Sep 2022, 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Marley's AL4 8BU	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	100 m	5 Very good	23 Nov 2024
Village Store - Premier AL4 8BU	Retailers - other	110 m	3 Generally satisfactory	8 Apr 2026
Brimarks AL4 8DT	Retailers - other	150 m	5 Very good	17 Oct 2026
Le Moulin AL4 8DT	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	150 m	4 Good	14 Aug 2025
Loafing AL4 8AA	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	180 m	5 Very good	12 Aug 2025
Miller & Carter - Wheathampstead AL4 8BS	Pub/bar/nightclub	200 m	5 Very good	24 Jan 2026
Manor Pharmacy Wheathampstead AL4 8AA	Retailers - other	210 m	Exempt
Yellow Star Day Nursery AL4 8AA	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	210 m	5 Very good	14 Jul 2026
Wheathampstead Fryer AL4 8AA	Takeaway/sandwich shop	210 m	4 Good	23 Sep 2025
Culinera @ St Albans High School AL4 8DJ	School/college/university	220 m	5 Very good	13 Apr 2026
IBC Simply AL4 8BB	Distributors/Transporters	250 m	Exempt
Tesco Express AL4 8BB	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	270 m	4 Good	1 Jun 2026
Dildar II Tandoori Restaurant AL4 8BB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	270 m	5 Very good	27 Apr 2026
The Reading Rooms AL4 8AA	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	270 m	5 Very good	6 Jun 2024
The Golden Elephant AL4 8BD	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	310 m	4 Good	14 Apr 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Anti-social behaviour	8
Violence and sexual offences	4
Other theft	4
Public order	3
Criminal damage and arson	2
Burglary	1
Vehicle crime	1
Other crime	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Place Farm (9); On or near Abbot John Mews (7); On or near Station Road (3); On or near King Edward Place (2); On or near Lower Luton Road (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: 349 residents in 156 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	England
Median age	58	40
Children under 15	11%	17%
Aged 65 and over	40%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	94%	61%
Owned outright	70%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	1%	17%
Private rented	5%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	41%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	8%	6%
Retired (of adults)	47%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	60%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	32%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	5%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	81%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	7%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	57%	34%
No qualifications	7%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	3%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

AL4 8JJ: 37 addresses of 38 in the postcode
AL4 8JZ: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Heron Close · Station Road · Garden Court · Mill Walk · Mount Road · Abbot John Mews · King Edward Place · High Street · Place Farm · Pikes Leap · Palmerston Drive · Melbourne Mews

All the streets in AL4 and across St Albans.

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.