Longden Common Lane Longden Common, Shropshire
54 addresses across 4 postcodes (SY5), about 740 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 34700635.
- Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £617,500 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Shropshire cost £277,521 in August 2026 (-0.9% on a year); private rents averaged £828 a month.
- Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 3, D: 6, E: 2, F: 2).
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Coal mining: 1 of its postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
- Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Shrewsbury, about 10 km (6.2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 133 to 157 m above sea level.
- Noise: 16 of its 54 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pontesbury & Worthen Medical Practice, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away.
- People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | £617,500 | £617,500 | £617,500 |
| 2022 | 1 | £289,055 | £289,055 | £289,055 |
| 2019 | 1 | £225,000 | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | £212,500 | £190,000 | £235,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | £342,500 | £342,500 | £342,500 |
| 2013 | 1 | £262,000 | £262,000 | £262,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £166,500 | £166,500 | £166,500 |
| 2011 | 1 | £243,500 | £243,500 | £243,500 |
| 2008 | 1 | £194,000 | £194,000 | £194,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | £220,000 | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | £191,000 | £191,000 | £191,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | £143,000 | £143,000 | £143,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2017 | 9 SY5 8AQ | Detached | £235,000 | |
| 31 Oct 2008 | 9 SY5 8AQ | Detached | £194,000 | |
| 29 Sep 2000 | 11 SY5 8AQ | Detached | £160,000 | |
| 19 Sep 1997 | 12 SY5 8AQ | Semi-detached | £84,500 | |
| 3 Mar 1996 | BLENCATHRA SY5 8AQ | Semi-detached | £59,500 | |
| 21 Apr 2023 | BLUE HAZE SY5 8AQ | Other | £725,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 8 Jul 2022 | CEDRIS SY5 8AQ | Semi-detached | £289,055 | |
| 24 Jul 2001 | CONISTON SY5 8AQ | Detached | £143,000 | |
| 10 Mar 1995 | CONISTON SY5 8AQ | Detached | £85,000 | |
| 14 Nov 1995 | DUNELM SY5 8AQ | Detached | £83,500 | |
| 13 Nov 2013 | GREENACRES SY5 8AQ | Detached | £262,000 | |
| 24 Oct 2002 | GREENACRES SY5 8AQ | Detached | £191,000 | |
| 4 May 2012 | HAYSLER SY5 8AQ | Detached | £166,500 | |
| 20 Nov 1997 | OAKVILLE SY5 8AQ | Detached | £77,000 | |
| 13 Jan 2016 | ORCHARD CROFT SY5 8AQ | Detached | £342,500 | |
| 20 Apr 2011 | ORCHARD CROFT SY5 8AQ | Detached | £243,500 | |
| 5 Jan 1999 | ORCHARD CROFT SY5 8AQ | Detached | £97,000 | |
| 26 Jul 2007 | QUINAULT SY5 8AQ | Detached | £220,000 | |
| 25 Sep 2017 | ROSEVILLE SY5 8AQ | Detached | £190,000 | |
| 11 Sep 2019 | SUNDOWN SY5 8AQ | Detached | £225,000 | |
| 21 Jun 2000 | TALLAROOK SY5 8AQ | Detached | £120,000 | |
| 29 Oct 1999 | TUSCAN SY5 8AQ | Detached | £73,500 | |
| 21 Mar 2025 | YEW TREE COTTAGE SY5 8AQ | Detached | £617,500 |
House prices and rents in Shropshire
A typical home in Shropshire cost £277,521 in August 2026, 0.9% less than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 41% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £416,462 |
| Semi-detached | £259,969 |
| Terraced | £208,538 |
| Flat or maisonette | £135,574 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £224,381 |
Private renters in Shropshire paid £828 a month on average in September 2026, 4.8% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £611 |
| Two bedrooms | £773 |
| Three bedrooms | £959 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,406 |
Energy performance certificates
15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 144 m². Most common: House, detached (8); Bungalow, detached (6); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (4); before 1900 (3); 2012 onwards (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).
Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)
- 9, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- 11, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- 13 Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Cedris, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Greenacres, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Haysler, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Oakville, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Orchard Croft, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Quinault, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Roseville, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Tallarook, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- The Laurels, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Tuscan, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Victoria Cottage, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
- Yew Tree Cottage, Longden Common Lane, Longden Common
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 12,881 kWh of it on average in 2024, 22% more than the district's 10,582 kWh, and 4,237 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 4,574 kWh. There are gas meters for about 58% of the homes.
1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY5 8AQ | 35 | 2,917 kWh | 26 | 11,921 kWh |
| SY5 8DE | 10 | 5,330 kWh | none recorded |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is SY5.
Council tax
What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,685 | £1,966 | £2,247 | £2,528 | £3,090 | £3,652 | £4,214 | £5,056 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (24% of about 1,780 homes).
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.
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| SY5 8AQ | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 1 / 1 | unlikely |
| SY5 8DE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| SY5 8AG | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| SY5 8AH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
1 of the street's 4 postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 3 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.
Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.
Radon
The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.
Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 54 addresses are between 133 m and 157 m above sea level (146 m on average); the ground rises about 24 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY5 8AG | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| SY5 8AH | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| SY5 8AQ | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| SY5 8DE | 90% | 90% | 90% | 10% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Shrewsbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25 | 10 km (6.2 miles) |
| Church Stretton 123,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 10.7 km (6.7 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Red Lion PH Longden Common | 610 m (0.4 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Gains Park Way Shelter Bicton Heath | 8.7 km (5.4 miles) |
| EV charging points | Gridserve Charging Station | 6.7 km (4.2 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Birmingham Airport BHX | 75.6 km (47 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Pontesbury & Worthen Medical Practice Good Jan 2026 | 4.8 km (3 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Pontesbury Pharmacy | 4.9 km (3.1 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Minsterley Road Dental Practice | 5.3 km (3.3 miles) |
| Hospital | Shrewsbury Hospital Good Oct 2026 | 7.4 km (4.6 miles) |
| Care homes | Consensus Support Services Limited - Shrewsbury Requires improvement Jul 2023 | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| Police station | West Mercia Police - Pontesbury Police Station | 5.2 km (3.2 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 240 m² | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.8 ha | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Moat Farm moated site, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Moat Farm moated site | Scheduled monument | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| The Gorse | Wood | 680 m (0.4 miles) south |
| Hays Coppice | Wood | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west |
| Meoles Meadow Plantation | Wood | 1.6 km (1 mile) east |
| Broom Hill | Hill | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) west |
| Lingcroft Pool | Lake or reservoir | 2.7 km (1.6 miles) north-west |
| Happy Valley | Valley | 3 km (1.9 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 2.9 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.0 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.0 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 15 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 38 | 54 |
16 of the street's 54 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire page.
Nearest schools
No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 92 childminders and 10 home childcarers (nannies) in Shropshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (west-mercia).
Road safety
No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 52 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 13% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 28% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 82% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 58% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 2% | 17% |
| Private rented | 15% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 60% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 28% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 43% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 53% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 49% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 11% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 41% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 10% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 7 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- SY5 8AQ: 50 addresses of 52 in the postcode
- SY5 8DE: 2 addresses of 22 in the postcode
- SY5 8AG: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
- SY5 8AH: 1 address
All the streets in SY5 and across Shropshire.
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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- 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.