Milk Street Bath

71 addresses across 4 postcodes (BA1), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47901064.

  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 11, D: 9, E: 8).
  • Flood: 17 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 A; Band D in Bath and North East Somerset costs £2,383 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 50% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bath Spa, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 170 m away, and Royal Victoria Park (23 hectares) is about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 71 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Widcombe Surgery, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 6% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,231 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: Flat (23); Maisonette, end-terrace (4); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (17); 2016 (15). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (17).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bath and North East Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,383 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,589£1,854£2,119£2,383£2,913£3,443£3,972£4,767

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (46% of about 1,030 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: yes, Bath (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 9 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 23 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 18 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 18 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BA1 1BSzone 2 0 / 0 / 15 unlikely
BA1 1UTzone 2 8 / 9 / 1 unlikely
BA1 1AGzone 2 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BA1 2DAzone 2 0 / 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 addresses are about 19 m above sea level.

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
BA1 1AG0%0%0%0%
BA1 1BS100%0%0%0%
BA1 1UT0%0%0%0%
BA1 2DA67%50%50%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 stationsBath Spa 6.5 million journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Oldfield Park 386,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Freshford 55,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops29 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 80 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avon Street Bath City Centre50 m
Bus or coach stationBroad Quay Bath City Centre390 m
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsmead Square Car Park110 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claverton Street Car Park GeniePoint800 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS24.6 km (15 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 Widcombe Surgery800 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lifestyle Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Green Park Dental Surgery280 m
HospitalRoyal United Hospital Bath2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationBath Police Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest City of Bath NatWest290 m

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 garden10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Royal Victoria Park 23 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,590 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Common Allotments 3.4 ha720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 10 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Rosewell House, a listed building (Grade I), 100 m north. 1,190 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 76 of them Grade I and 68 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rosewell HouseListed building, Grade I100 m north
3, Kingsmead StreetListed building, Grade II*100 m north
Chandos HouseListed building, Grade II*110 m east
Former St John's Hospital (including Chapel Court House)Listed building, Grade I150 m east
City of BathWorld Heritage Site220 m west
The Roman Baths and site of Roman town, BathScheduled monument240 m east
Bath City WallsScheduled monument310 m east
The Eastgate, BathScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Parade Gardens, BathRegistered park or garden, Grade II490 m (0.3 miles) east
Royal Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lyncombe ValeValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Great DellHollow1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Smallcombe ValeValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Smallcombe WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Weston CutLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
High Barrow HillHill2.7 km (1.6 miles) south-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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 59130
Under 555871

13 of the street's 71 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 Bath and North East Somerset: see them on the Bath and North East Somerset 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
Bath College16 plus16–99120 m No published inspection
Hayesfield Girls SchoolSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Widcombe Infant SchoolPrimary5–7790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Widcombe CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11830 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Andrew's Church School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beechen Cliff SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldfield Park Infant SchoolPrimary5–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St John's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorlands Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldfield Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Bathwick St Mary Church School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorlands Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Nisbets BA1 2BXRetailers - other20 mExempt
The Trinity Pub BA1 2DAPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good27 Sep 2023
Istanbul International Food Centre BA1 1UNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets40 m1 Major improvement necessary24 Mar 2026
Trinity Close Supported Living BA1 1USHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 mExempt
Starbucks Coffee BA1 1UNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good18 May 2026
Apex City Of Bath Hotel BA1 2DAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Aug 2026
Dough Pizzeria BA1 2ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
The Dark Horse BA1 2ABPub/bar/nightclub60 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Oct 2025
Society Cafe BA1 2ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
Blended Kitchen BA1 1UNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Sports Direct BA1 1EBRetailers - other80 mExempt
Pipp And Co BA1 2AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Tasty Kitchen BA1 2AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Jan 2026
Friends Takeaway BA1 2AFTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jul 2025
Odeon Cinema BA1 2BXRetailers - other80 m5 Very good7 Jul 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.

1,231 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences361
Anti-social behaviour223
Shoplifting217
Public order129
Other theft97
Criminal damage and arson69
Robbery25
Vehicle crime25
Burglary24
Drugs18
Possession of weapons12
Bicycle theft11
Theft from the person11
Other crime9

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kingsmead Square (208); On or near James Street West (146); On or near Parking Area (112); On or near Westgate Street (107); On or near Kingsmead North (93).

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: 413 residents in 108 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 age2240
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)6%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented78%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work26%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)25%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van23%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle45%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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: BT: New service connection, 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

  • BA1 1BS: 47 addresses
  • BA1 1UT: 19 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • BA1 1AG: 4 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • BA1 2DA: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kingsmead Terrace · Kingsmead North · New Street · New Street · Trinity Close · Riverside Gardens · Kingsmead Square · Westgate Buildings · Kingsmead Square · Monmouth Street · Avon Street · Chandos Buildings

All the streets in BA1 and across Bath and North East Somerset.

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.