Mount Pleasant Square Willowtown, Blaenau Gwent

20 addresses across 1 postcode (NP23), about 200 m long. USRN 3100603.

Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £113,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 3, E: 1, 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 A; Band D in Blaenau Gwent costs £2,531 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Ebbw Vale Town, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 180 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 310 to 313 m above sea level.
Noise: 16 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pen-Y-Cae Surgery, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 100 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£113,000	£113,000	£113,000
2023	2	£107,500	£95,000	£120,000
2021	2	£105,000	£70,000	£140,000
2020	1	£100,000	£100,000	£100,000
2018	1	£58,000	£58,000	£58,000
2017	1	£92,000	£92,000	£92,000
2016	1	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
2010	1	£76,000	£76,000	£76,000
2005	4	£74,750	£65,000	£80,000
2004	1	£49,000	£49,000	£49,000
2003	1	£34,950	£34,950	£34,950
2002	3	£22,500	£11,072	£40,500

Most recent sales (29)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
21 May 2026	4 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£113,000
19 Jun 2025	6 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£60,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Nov 2023	4 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£120,000
30 Jun 2023	13 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£95,000
26 Oct 2021	3 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£140,000
8 Jan 2021	3 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£70,000
10 Jul 2020	5 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£100,000
16 Jul 2018	2 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£58,000
29 Nov 2017	19 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£92,000
7 Nov 2016	11 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£50,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jan 2016	5 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£77,500
5 Mar 2010	8 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£76,000
11 Nov 2005	4 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£76,500
14 Oct 2005	11 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£73,000
18 May 2005	17 NP23 6LF	Semi-detached	£65,000
23 Mar 2005	8 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£80,000
29 Jul 2004	11 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£49,000
30 Jan 2003	4 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£34,950
23 Dec 2002	19 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£11,072
22 Nov 2002	3 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£40,500
4 Oct 2002	18 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£22,500
30 Mar 2001	20 NP23 6LF	Semi-detached	£14,000
10 Nov 2000	19 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£12,500
28 May 1999	8 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£13,500
6 Jul 1998	11 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£14,950
21 Aug 1996	3 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£21,000
31 Jul 1996	13 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£10,000
9 Jun 1995	14 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£19,000
24 Feb 1995	3 NP23 6LF	Terraced	£16,000

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); Bungalow, end-terrace (2); Bungalow, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (5); 1900-1929 (2); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaenau Gwent in 2026-27: Band D £2,531 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
£1,688	£1,969	£2,250	£2,531	£3,094	£3,656	£4,219	£5,063	£5,906

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (41% of about 820 homes).

A41%

B35%

C13%

D7%

E1%

F1%

H0%

I0%

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 30 September 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: of the 22 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk.

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 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 20 addresses are between 310 m and 313 m above sea level (312 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
NP23 6LF	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Ebbw Vale Town 249,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
	Ebbw Vale Parkway 41,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.4 km (2.1 miles)
	Rhymney 123,000 journeys in 2024–25	5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops	3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Ebbw Vale	200 m
Bus or coach station	Tredegar Bus Station Stand 1	2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 50 Harcourt Street Parking	450 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points	9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harcourt Street	430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Cardiff International Airport CWL	44.1 km (27 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pen-Y-Cae Surgery	430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies	5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well	430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Surgery (51 Bethcar Street)	900 m (0.6 miles)
Hospital	Ysbyty Tri Chwm	770 m (0.5 miles)
Police station	Ebbw Vale Police Station	890 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines	Cashpoint® 25 Market Street Lloyds Bank	810 m (0.5 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,320 m²	180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Unnamed 1.4 ha	330 m
Play area	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²	190 m
Playing field	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,370 m²	150 m
Allotments	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,240 m²	90 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bedwellty Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Bedwellty Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape	World Heritage Site	9.5 km (5.9 miles) east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Cwm Nantmelyn	Valley	1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cwm Gwybedog	Valley	2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Carno Reservoir	Lake or reservoir	2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Coed y Rhyd	Wood	3 km (1.9 miles) south
Mynydd Carn-y-cefn	Hill	3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Figyn-fawr Pond	Wetland	4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	6.0	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.2	20	5
Particles (PM10)	8.1	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

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	16	0
Under 55	4	20

16 of the street's 20 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 Blaenau Gwent: see them on the Blaenau Gwent 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Willowtown Primary School English medium	Primary	3–11	410 m (0.3 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Glyncoed Primary English medium	Primary	3–11	820 m (0.5 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
All Saints R.C. Primary School Roman Catholic English medium	Primary	3–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Beaufort Hill Primary English medium	Primary	3–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Ebbw Fawr Learning Community English medium	All-through	3–16	1.6 km (1 mile)	Estyn reports · My Local School
Rhos y Fedwen English medium	Primary	3–11	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Tesco NP23 6TS	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	160 m	3 Generally satisfactory	4 Nov 2025
Tesco Family Dining at Tesco NP23 6TS	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	160 m	5 Very good	6 Aug 2025
Willowtown General Store NP23 6JL	Retailers - other	230 m	5 Very good	8 Jun 2026
Willowtown Constitutional Club NP23 6JL	Pub/bar/nightclub	240 m	4 Good	6 Sep 2023
Gourmet House NP23 6JJ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	340 m	3 Generally satisfactory	9 Jun 2026
Willowtown Community Primary School NP23 6NJ	School/college/university	410 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	23 Jun 2026
BBB Community Shop, Garden & Kitchen NP23 6NJ	Retailers - other	410 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	10 Dec 2025
Best Western Ebbw Vale NP23 6EY	Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house	420 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	26 Feb 2026
RTB Football Club NP23 6ND	Takeaway/sandwich shop	450 m (0.3 miles)	Awaiting inspection
Beaufort Colts FC NP23 6ND	Retailers - other	450 m (0.3 miles)	Awaiting inspection
Masonic Hall NP23 6ES	Pub/bar/nightclub	460 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	11 Apr 2024
Brynteg Youth Centre NP23 6LZ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	480 m (0.3 miles)	4 Good	22 Oct 2025

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.

100 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Shoplifting	30
Violence and sexual offences	22
Anti-social behaviour	17
Vehicle crime	10
Criminal damage and arson	8
Other theft	6
Public order	4
Other crime	2
Burglary	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Clos Trehelyg (55); On or near Council Street (14); On or near John Street (12); On or near Hughes Avenue (5); On or near Mount Pleasant Road (5).

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: 542 residents in 224 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 street	Wales
Median age	35	43
Children under 15	17%	17%
Aged 65 and over	15%	21%

Homes

	Around this street	Wales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	84%	66%
Owned outright	30%	38%
Shared ownership	under 1%	under 1%
Social rented	9%	17%
Private rented	6%	17%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	Wales
Adults (16 and over) in work	68%	54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	19%	25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	14%	26%
Travel to work by car or van	80%	61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	under 1%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	3%
On foot or by bicycle	4%	8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	51%	60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	12%	10%

Education and languages

	Around this street	Wales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	29%	32%
No qualifications	19%	20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	4%	6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)	98%	97%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

NP23 6LF: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Clos Trehelyg · Mount Pleasant Road · Mount Pleasant Road · Hughes Avenue · Council Street · Hughes Avenue · Letchworth Road · Valley Road · Willow Close · Plas Brentwood · Tothill Street · Willow Close

All the streets in NP23 and across Blaenau Gwent.

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.