Lancing Close Worcester

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (WR5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000590.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £341,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, F: 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 E; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 17% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 1.4 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cromwell Crescent Park, is about 470 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 39 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice, about 1.3 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20232£341,000£272,000£410,000
20221£370,000£370,000£370,000
20181£210,000£210,000£210,000
20151£193,500£193,500£193,500
20141£175,000£175,000£175,000
20072£194,750£192,500£197,000
20061£204,500£204,500£204,500
20031£249,950£249,950£249,950
20022£109,500£105,000£114,000
20002£86,250£80,000£92,500
19961£64,000£64,000£64,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Nov 20237 WR5 2HTDetached£272,000
11 Oct 20232 WR5 2HTSemi-detached£410,000
7 Oct 202214 WR5 2HTDetached£370,000
9 Mar 20182 WR5 2HTSemi-detached£210,000
16 Oct 20156 WR5 2HTDetached£193,500
19 Dec 20141 WR5 2HTSemi-detached£175,000
24 May 20074 WR5 2HTDetached£197,000
17 Jan 20075 WR5 2HTDetached£192,500
14 Dec 20068 WR5 2HTDetached£204,500
24 Nov 200314 WR5 2HTDetached£249,950
20 Jun 20023 WR5 2HTDetached£105,000Leasehold.
28 May 20025 WR5 2HTDetached£114,000
19 Oct 200014 WR5 2HTDetached£92,500
5 May 20005 WR5 2HTDetached£80,000
15 Nov 19961 WR5 2HTSemi-detached£64,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (4); House, end-terrace (1); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (22% of about 940 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 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 1.0 km

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 1 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
WR5 2HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR5 2HRnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 12 addresses are between 39 m and 45 m above sea level (42 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WR5 2HR100%17%17%0%
WR5 2HT100%0%0%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 stationsWorcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Sebright Avenue Battenhall170 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station1.8 km
Car parksCity Walls Road Parking1.1 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station580 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX43.4 km

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; nearest Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice1.3 km
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Sn Plus770 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest London Road (Dental Surgery)810 m
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital780 m
Police stationWorcester Police Station2.1 km
Cash machinesMFG - Commandery Service Station Cashzone1.0 km

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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Cromwell Crescent Park 1.3 ha470 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 12 ha730 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,140 m²630 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,540 m²1.1 km
Allotments6 within 800 m; nearest Battenhall Road Allotments 4,000 m²360 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battenhall Mount (former St Mary's Convent School), a listed building (Grade II*), 180 m south-west. 76 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battenhall Mount (former St Mary's Convent School)Listed building, Grade II*180 m south-west
Fort RoyalScheduled monument810 m north-west
Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall FarmScheduled monument1.1 km south-east
City walls: section extending 280ft (90m) W and SW of Clare StreetScheduled monument1.1 km north-west
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield1.6 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodside CoppiceWood550 m north-east
Perry WoodWood850 m north-east
Nunnery WoodWood1.6 km north-east
Ketch CoppiceWood1.7 km south-west
Crookbarrow HillHill2.0 km south-east
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir3.7 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, 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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 551012

2 of the street's 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11180 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–16440 m 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Nunnery Wood High SchoolSecondary11–161.0 km Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Worcester Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.3 km No published inspection
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km No published inspection
Whittington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christopher Whitehead Language CollegeSecondary11–182.0 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Black Pepper At Red Hill C Of E Primary School WR5 2HXSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Red Hill C Of E Primary School Breakfast & After School Club WR5 2HXSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Mount Battenhall WR5 2JDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good29 Jul 2022
Chung Ying WR5 2EJTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Apr 2026
Tesco WR5 2ELRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good10 Oct 2023
Lotus House WR5 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good15 Jul 2026
Seacrest Fish Bar WR5 2EDTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good30 Mar 2026
London Road Playgroup & Pre-School WR5 2EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 mExempt
Battenhall Nursery WR5 2HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Red Hill Social Club WR5 2ETPub/bar/nightclub390 mExempt

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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting17
Criminal damage and arson15
Violence and sexual offences15
Burglary5
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near London Road (47); On or near Sebright Avenue (5); On or near Amery Close (2); On or near Midhurst Close (2); On or near Arundel Drive (2).

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: 622 residents in 286 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Goodwood Avenue · Goodwood Close · Midhurst Close · Amery Close · Arundel Drive · Sebright Avenue · Hailsham Close · Battle Road · Camp Hill Avenue · Battenhall Avenue · Camp Hill Road · Pevensey Close

All the streets in WR5 and across Worcester.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.