Machen Street Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (CF64), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41500595.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 8, E: 4, F: 1).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Vale of Glamorgan costs £2,232 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dingle Road, about 310 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and Alexandra Park (2.9 hectares) is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 20 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stanwell Surgery, about 310 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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
20261£320,000£320,000£320,000
20251£387,500£387,500£387,500
20242£306,250£267,500£345,000
20232£347,500£295,000£400,000
20223£277,000£167,500£315,000
20212£282,500£240,000£325,000
20201£325,000£325,000£325,000
20192£276,250£275,000£277,500
20183£290,000£249,000£354,000
20162£249,500£248,000£251,000
20152£205,000£180,000£230,000
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Mar 202614 CF64 2UBTerraced£320,000
19 Nov 20255 CF64 2UBTerraced£387,500
21 Aug 202417 CF64 2UBTerraced£345,000
8 Apr 20246 CF64 2UBTerraced£267,500
22 Sep 20237 CF64 2UBTerraced£400,000
4 Aug 202320 CF64 2UBTerraced£295,000
26 Aug 202217 CF64 2UBTerraced£277,000
30 Mar 20221A CF64 2UBSemi-detached£167,500
3 Mar 202212 CF64 2UBTerraced£315,000
21 May 20212 CF64 2UBTerraced£325,000
23 Apr 202112 CF64 2UBTerraced£240,000
19 Mar 202122A CF64 2UBFlat or maisonette£182,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Dec 20205 CF64 2UBTerraced£325,000
16 Aug 20199 CF64 2UBTerraced£277,500
30 May 201918 CF64 2UBTerraced£275,000
14 Dec 201810 CF64 2UBTerraced£290,000
2 Nov 20183 CF64 2UBTerraced£354,000
12 Oct 20185 CF64 2UBTerraced£249,000
28 Oct 20167 CF64 2UBTerraced£251,000
9 Sep 201618 CF64 2UBTerraced£248,000
4 Dec 201513 CF64 2UBTerraced£182,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 201513 CF64 2UBTerraced£180,000
28 Sep 20152 CF64 2UBTerraced£230,000
28 Mar 201313 CF64 2UBTerraced£155,000
25 Jun 201211 CF64 2UBTerraced£152,500
16 Dec 20111 CF64 2UBTerraced£98,000
12 Feb 201013 CF64 2UBTerraced£100,000
15 Feb 200822A CF64 2UBFlat or maisonette£132,000Leasehold.
13 Nov 20071A CF64 2UBSemi-detached£130,000
12 Mar 200714 CF64 2UBTerraced£135,000
9 Feb 20079 CF64 2UBTerraced£130,000
11 Apr 200510 CF64 2UBTerraced£165,000
27 Oct 200319 CF64 2UBTerraced£133,000
18 Oct 200215 CF64 2UBTerraced£99,000
24 Jul 20021A CF64 2UBSemi-detached£87,500
23 May 200219 CF64 2UBTerraced£85,000
3 May 20024 CF64 2UBTerraced£83,500
26 Apr 200210 CF64 2UBTerraced£94,000
12 Apr 200215 CF64 2UBTerraced£77,000
15 Feb 200213 CF64 2UBTerraced£83,000
18 Jan 200210 CF64 2UBTerraced£75,000
4 Dec 20011 CF64 2UBTerraced£89,950
26 Jan 200113 CF64 2UBTerraced£55,000
27 Oct 200019 CF64 2UBTerraced£72,000
12 Feb 19992 CF64 2UBTerraced£59,950
15 May 19987 CF64 2UBTerraced£66,500
9 Jul 199721 CF64 2UBTerraced£51,500
8 Dec 199516 CF64 2UBTerraced£43,000

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 June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (3); Flat (2). Built: 1900-1929 (11); before 1900 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of Glamorgan in 2026-27: Band D £2,232 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,488£1,736£1,984£2,232£2,727£3,223£3,719£4,463£5,207

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (37% of about 510 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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

None of the 47 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. 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. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 25 addresses are between 41 m and 44 m above sea level (43 m on average).

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
CF64 2TZ100%100%100%0%
CF64 2UB100%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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDingle Road 162,000 journeys in 2024–25310 m
Penarth 508,000 journeys in 2024–25540 m (0.3 miles)
Cogan 308,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 78 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Joseph's Church Penarth180 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 1 Cardiff Bus Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalPenarth Pier1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations560 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL12.1 km (7.5 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stanwell Surgery310 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Ivor Owen Pharmacy80 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hickman House Dental Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalUniversity Hospital Llandough2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationPenarth Police Station350 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *deposit & Withdrawal* The Cooperative Food Penarth480 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,010 m²110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Alexandra Park 2.9 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²140 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Playing Field 1.0 ha120 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harbour View Allotments 4,740 m²600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alexandra Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 840 m (0.5 miles) east. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) east
St Augustine's Parish ChurchListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Penarth Churchyard Cross (Now in St Augustine's Church)Scheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Italian GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Ely Tidal Harbour Coal Staithe Number OneScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Cogan Deserted Medieval VillageScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The DingleWood750 m (0.5 miles) east
Penarth BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Cefn-y-wrachWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Pop HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Cosmeston LakesLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Cwm CydfinValley3 km (1.9 miles) north-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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 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 59200
Under 55525

20 of the street's 25 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 Vale of Glamorgan: see them on the Vale of Glamorgan page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Victoria Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11100 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Fairfield Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11380 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Stanwell School English mediumSecondary11–19450 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Cogan Primary School English mediumPrimary4–11760 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Albert Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Evenlode Primary School English mediumPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Cyres School English mediumSecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Pen Y Garth Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Joseph's R.C. Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Llandough Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Dinas Powys Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Griff's Deli CF64 2UWRetailers - other80 m4 Good9 Jul 2025
Knights Chemist LTD CF64 2UWRetailers - other90 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Victoria Out of School Club CF64 2UZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good24 Oct 2018
Victoria Primary School CF64 2UZSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Penarth Fish Bar CF64 2UZTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Cornerswell Post Office CF64 2UWRetailers - other110 m5 Very good15 Dec 2022
Wishful House CF64 2UWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m4 Good11 Feb 2025
Griff's Deli CF64 2UWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Mayfair Spar CF64 3LRRetailers - other160 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Feb 2026
Lunch at Twelve Catering - Penarth Masonic Lodge CF64 3LROther catering premises160 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Evenlode Nursery CF64 2ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025
The Meeting Place CF64 2EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Knights Chemist LTD CF64 3XERetailers - other310 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Victoria Private Day Nursery CF64 3ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Star Convenience Store CF64 2RYRetailers - other380 m5 Very good8 Feb 2024

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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime5
Violence and sexual offences5
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson3
Shoplifting1
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wood Street (4); On or near Grove Terrace (4); On or near Ivy Street (3); On or near Coleridge Avenue (2); On or near Meliden Road (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: 545 residents in 231 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 streetWales
Median age4343
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%66%
Owned outright43%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work64%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)22%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)52%26%
Travel to work by car or van33%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus4%3%
On foot or by bicycle10%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)50%32%
No qualifications8%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)97%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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

Rudry Street · Bedwas Place · Ivy Street · Coleridge Avenue · Wood Street · Meliden Lane · Cornerswell Road · Cornerswell Road · Baron Close · Grove Terrace · Meliden Road · Shelley Crescent

All the streets in CF64 and across Vale of Glamorgan.

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.