Lopes Close Wiltshire
9 addresses across 2 postcodes (SN12), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44201284.
- Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £490,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Wiltshire cost £328,102 in August 2026 (+1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,091 a month.
- Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6).
- Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are 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.
- Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Tip at Hack Farm, is 390 m away.
- Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Melksham, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 950 m (0.6 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 43 to 50 m above sea level.
- Noise: 8 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spa Medical Centre, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
- People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.
- Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | £490,000 | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | £495,000 | £495,000 | £495,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | £265,000 | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | £322,000 | £322,000 | £322,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | £277,500 | £260,000 | £295,000 |
| 2018 | 2 | £320,000 | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | £336,500 | £308,000 | £365,000 |
| 2016 | 11 | £284,995 | £249,995 | £394,995 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2023 | 1 SN12 7GT | Detached | £495,000 | |
| 27 Jul 2016 | 1 SN12 7GT | Detached | £394,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 3 Aug 2018 | 2 SN12 7GT | Detached | £320,000 | Leasehold. |
| 3 Aug 2018 | 2 SN12 7GT | Detached | £320,000 | |
| 28 Jun 2016 | 2 SN12 7GT | Detached | £279,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 29 Feb 2024 | 3 SN12 7GT | Detached | £490,000 | |
| 6 May 2020 | 3 SN12 7GT | Detached | £322,000 | |
| 30 Jun 2016 | 3 SN12 7GT | Detached | £265,000 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 29 Oct 2019 | 4 SN12 7GT | Detached | £260,000 | |
| 29 Jun 2016 | 4 SN12 7GT | Detached | £249,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 29 Jan 2021 | 5 SN12 7GT | Detached | £265,000 | |
| 29 Jun 2016 | 5 SN12 7GT | Detached | £249,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 30 Aug 2017 | 6 SN12 7GT | Detached | £308,000 | Leasehold. |
| 30 Jun 2016 | 6 SN12 7GT | Detached | £277,000 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 30 Jun 2016 | 7 SN12 7GT | Detached | £389,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 29 Jul 2016 | 8 SN12 7GT | Detached | £288,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 29 Jul 2016 | 9 SN12 7GT | Detached | £284,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 16 Aug 2019 | 10 SN12 7GT | Detached | £295,000 | |
| 9 Aug 2019 | 10 SN12 7GT | Detached | £315,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 26 Aug 2016 | 10 SN12 7GT | Detached | £289,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 30 Sep 2016 | 11 SN12 7GT | Detached | £292,995 | New build. Leasehold. |
| 26 Jun 2017 | 12 SN12 7GT | Detached | £365,000 | New build. Leasehold. |
House prices and rents in Wiltshire
A typical home in Wiltshire cost £328,102 in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £517,138 |
| Semi-detached | £327,224 |
| Terraced | £265,398 |
| Flat or maisonette | £158,339 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £263,201 |
Private renters in Wiltshire paid £1,091 a month on average in September 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £755 |
| Two bedrooms | £981 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,231 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,754 |
Energy performance certificates
7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House (6); House, detached (1). Built: 2015 (7).
Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)
Gas and electricity use
No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 23 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN12 7GT | 12 | 4,707 kWh | none recorded | |
| SN12 7QS | 11 | 4,135 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 SN12.
Council tax
What each band costs in Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,715 | £2,000 | £2,286 | £2,572 | £3,143 | £3,715 | £4,286 | £5,144 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (29% of about 620 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
2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snarlton Farm (Melksham solar farm) Wiltshire 13/06140/FUL | Solar farm | 49.6 MW | Operational Mar 2016 | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
| Bromham House Farm Wiltshire 15/07127/WCM | Anaerobic digestion | 1.5 MW | Operational May 2018 | 4.9 km (3.1 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
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, 3 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| SN12 7GT | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| SN12 7QS | not in 2 or 3 | 2 / 0 / 1 | 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
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 390 m away.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip at Hack Farm Lower Forest, Melksham, Wiltshire | until 1978 | Not recorded | 390 m |
| Brickyard Plantation Brickyard Plantation, Sandridge Hill, Near Melksham, Wiltshire | 1977 to 1984 | Inert, industrial, commercial | 390 m |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's 9 addresses are between 43 m and 50 m above sea level (49 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN12 7GT | 92% | 92% | 92% | 0% |
| SN12 7QS | 100% | 92% | 92% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Melksham 61,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) |
| Chippenham 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25 | 9.2 km (5.7 miles) | |
| Trowbridge 904,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 10.1 km (6.3 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest New Road Melksham | 270 m |
| Bus or coach station | Chapel Knapp Farm | 5.5 km (3.4 miles) |
| Car parks | Bath Road Car Park | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| EV charging points | Source EV Charging Station | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Bristol Airport BRS | 42.5 km (26 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Spa Medical Centre Good Aug 2016 | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Spa Pharmacy | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Bath Road (Dental Surgery) | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| Hospital | Bft Southmead Melksham Hospital | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Care homes | Ordinary Life Project Association - 5 St Margaret's Gardens Requires improvement Aug 2024 | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Police station | Wiltshire police crime numer candy handouts | 3.6 km (2.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Melksham | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 1.2 ha | 950 m (0.6 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 150 m² | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.2 ha | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 400 m² | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
Landmarks
2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Forty Acre Copse | Wood | 270 m north |
| Brickyard Plantation | Wood | 500 m (0.3 miles) east |
| Chapel Plantation | Wood | 580 m (0.4 miles) east |
| Withybed Copse | Wood | 580 m (0.4 miles) north |
| Quarry Plantation | Wood | 790 m (0.5 miles) east |
| Silverlands Lake | Lake or reservoir | 3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.3 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.0 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.5 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 4 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 3 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 1 | 9 |
8 of the street's 9 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 Wiltshire: see them on the Wiltshire page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding | 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 63% in 2023) |
| River Mead School | Primary | 2–11 | 2 km (1.2 miles) | No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding | 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 28% in 2023) |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
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 285 childminders and 38 home childcarers (nannies) in Wiltshire. 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
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Vehicle crime | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Lopes Close (1).
Road safety
2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Aug 2025 15:17 | Slight | 1 person | A3102, 40 mph | Daylight |
| 9 Jun 2024 11:59 | Serious | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | A3102, 40 mph | Daylight |
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 | 41 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 23% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 16% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 80% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 29% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 10% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 70% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 20% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 29% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 64% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 5% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 60% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 14% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 31% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 9% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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
Nearby streets
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.