Lisburne Square Torquay, Torbay

63 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ1), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40701171.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £234,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 11, E: 4, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 D; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 54% to 72% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 2.2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Torwood Gardens, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 49 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 42 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southover Medical Practice, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 112 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
20222£234,000£230,000£238,000
20181£180,000£180,000£180,000
20142£225,975£162,000£289,950
20131£215,000£215,000£215,000
20071£202,500£202,500£202,500
20021£149,950£149,950£149,950
20003£81,000£56,500£122,000
19992£70,500£50,000£91,000
19972£49,875£43,500£56,250
19952£43,250£40,000£46,500
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 20225A TQ1 2PTTerraced£230,000
4 Feb 202218 TQ1 2PTTerraced£238,000
30 Nov 20188 TQ1 2PTDetached£180,000
25 Nov 201418 TQ1 2PTTerraced£162,000
23 Jun 20149 TQ1 2PTDetached£289,950
12 Sep 201317 TQ1 2PTTerraced£215,000
30 Nov 200720 TQ1 2PTTerraced£202,500
18 Jul 20029 TQ1 2PTDetached£149,950
8 Dec 20009 TQ1 2PTDetached£122,000
17 Nov 200011 TQ1 2PTFlat or maisonette£56,500
14 Aug 2000BASEMENT FLAT, 6 TQ1 2PTTerraced£81,000
5 Aug 199912 TQ1 2PTTerraced£50,000
12 Apr 19999 TQ1 2PTDetached£91,000
10 Oct 199720 TQ1 2PTTerraced£56,250
15 Aug 199713 TQ1 2PTTerraced£43,500
25 Sep 199514 TQ1 2PTTerraced£40,000
9 Aug 199518 TQ1 2PTTerraced£46,500

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (21); Flat (12); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1996-2002 (19); before 1900 (8); 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (20% of about 1,100 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: yes, Lincombes (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 20 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 10 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 8 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
TQ1 2PTnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 3 unlikely
TQ1 2PSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 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 63 addresses are between 41 m and 49 m above sea level (45 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
TQ1 2PS100%100%72%0%
TQ1 2PT100%100%54%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lisburne Square Wellswood80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay Harbour Boarding Pontoon1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadfoot Road Car Park600 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT30.9 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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 surgeriesSouthover Medical Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy620 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Crescent House Dental Surgery720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Torquay, Ilsham Rd, Wellswood Cashzone610 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torwood Gardens 1.2 ha230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Manor Gardens 18 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,350 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldStoodley Knowle Playing Field 1.8 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsBen Venue Allotments 3,630 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 1-15, Wellswood Park Road, a listed building (Grade II*), 410 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 170 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
1-15, Wellswood Park RoadListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hatley St GeorgeListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Parish Church of St MatthiasListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Little TheatreListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) south
Castle TorRegistered park or garden, Grade II770 m (0.5 miles) east
Kent's Cavern, TorquayScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Prehistoric field system at Walls HillScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oxlea HillHill420 m (0.3 miles) east
Oxlea CopseWood630 m (0.4 miles) east
Warberry HillHill660 m (0.4 miles) north
Meadfoot BeachBeach790 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Devil's PointWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Blackball RocksCliff or slope1.9 km (1.2 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 69120
60 to 64100
55 to 59190
Under 552163

42 of the street's 63 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ilsham Church of England AcademyPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Old Vienna Restaurant TQ1 2PTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Jia Wang TQ1 2PTTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Babbacombe Convenience Store TQ1 1HNRetailers - other40 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Jul 2025
Burlington Hotel TQ1 1HNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Erith House TQ1 2PXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Yum Sing Cantonese Restaurant TQ1 1PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Somerville Hotel TQ1 1HJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house260 m5 Very good29 Apr 2016
Robin Hill Hotel TQ1 1HFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Gresham Court TQ1 1HGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house330 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
The Shirley TQ1 1HFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house360 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Home Church TQ1 1HGOther catering premises370 mExempt
Cumberland Complex TQ1 1HFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Torquay Museum TQ1 1HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Harbour Heights Guest House TQ1 1HQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Tusker Lodge TQ1 1HQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 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.

112 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson12
Public order11
Burglary4
Other crime4
Other theft3
Possession of weapons3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Torwood Road (51); On or near Higher Erith Road (26); On or near Lower Erith Road (18); On or near Lisburne Square (14); On or near Lisburne Crescent (3).

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: 312 residents in 164 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented52%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 28 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 20 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (road closure) 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.

Nearby streets

Old Torwood Road · Lisburne Crescent · Glenthorne Close · Marlborough Avenue · Babbacombe Road · Lower Woodfield Road · Higher Erith Road · Lower Erith Road · Daphne Close · Lower Warberry Road · Torwood Gardens Road · Stitchill Road

All the streets in TQ1 and across Torbay.

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.