Needlepin Way Buckingham

65 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK18), about 800 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 1405748.

  • Sales: 136 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £110,000 across 5 sales.
  • Energy: 56 homes have an energy certificate (B: 42, C: 14).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 D; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 95% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverton, about 14.5 km (9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 91 to 101 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 65 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Swan Practice, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 82 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20255£110,000£100,000£515,000
20245£349,995£114,750£350,000
20236£116,250£84,000£251,000
20224£253,500£112,500£445,000
20218£342,498£84,000£425,000
20203£84,000£80,000£230,000
20199£310,000£80,000£415,000
20183£99,000£99,000£324,000
201717£335,995£88,000£416,000
201620£324,995£234,995£495,000
20159£295,000£78,000£375,000
201422£277,495£199,995£407,995
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 136)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Dec 202591 MK18 7RATerraced£290,000
7 Nov 2025139 MK18 7RAOther£609,997Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 202533 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 2025104 MK18 7RBDetached£515,000
8 Aug 202539 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
22 Jul 202574 MK18 7RBFlat or maisonette£106,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 202412 MK18 7RBTerraced£350,000
18 Jul 202492 MK18 7RBTerraced£349,995
10 Jun 2024109 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£114,750Leasehold.
26 Jan 2024113 MK18 7RATerraced£350,000
10 Jan 202479 MK18 7RATerraced£342,000
29 Sep 202337 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£132,500Leasehold.
28 Sep 202331 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 202380 MK18 7RBTerraced£251,000
31 Jul 202329 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
5 May 2023100 MK18 7RBTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 202399 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£84,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 202273 MK18 7RATerraced£355,000
12 Aug 202298 MK18 7RBTerraced£152,000Leasehold.
13 Jul 202226 MK18 7RBDetached£445,000
4 Feb 202237 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£112,500Leasehold.
8 Dec 202122 MK18 7RBTerraced£330,000
13 Aug 202141 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£157,500Leasehold.
30 Jun 202175 MK18 7RATerraced£354,995
22 Jun 202154 MK18 7RBSemi-detached£380,000
17 Jun 20218 MK18 7RBTerraced£245,000
10 Jun 2021108 MK18 7RBDetached£425,000
11 Mar 202144 MK18 7RBFlat or maisonette£84,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 2021110 MK18 7RBDetached£375,000
26 Aug 2020112 MK18 7RBOther£2,200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Aug 202093 MK18 7RATerraced£230,000
30 Jul 2020103 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
26 May 202029 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£84,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 201923 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 201994 MK18 7RBDetached£415,000
18 Oct 201910 MK18 7RBTerraced£317,000
30 Aug 201973 MK18 7RATerraced£310,000
12 Aug 201940 MK18 7RBTerraced£240,000
28 Jun 201939 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
17 May 2019113 MK18 7RATerraced£315,000
3 May 201976 MK18 7RBTerraced£330,000
25 Mar 201933 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 201869 MK18 7RATerraced£324,000
26 Oct 201876 MK18 7RBTerraced£393,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Aug 2018109 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£99,000Leasehold.
2 Jul 201843 MK18 7RAFlat or maisonette£99,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 201756 MK18 7RBSemi-detached£369,995
24 Nov 201774 MK18 7RBFlat or maisonette£88,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 201742 MK18 7RBSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 201760 MK18 7RBDetached£327,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

56 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, detached (16); Flat (15); House, end-terrace (12). Built: 2013 (21); 2012 onwards (9); 2014 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (43 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (24% of about 590 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: 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
MK18 7RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
MK18 7RBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 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 65 addresses are between 91 m and 101 m above sea level (95 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
MK18 7RA100%93%93%0%
MK18 7RB98%95%95%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 stationsWolverton 339,000 journeys in 2024–2514.5 km (9 miles)
Milton Keynes Central 6.1 million journeys in 2024–2514.6 km (9.1 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Benthill Farm Buckingham370 m
Car parksCornwalls Meadow Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN43.4 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesThe Swan Practice1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentistsLion House Dental Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalBuckingham Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationBrackley Police Station12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Buckingham, High Street640 m (0.4 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 950 m²130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 22 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,020 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha120 m
AllotmentsBourton Road Allotments 2.1 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Rumbold's Well, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Rumbold's WellScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The TwinsLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Lower SpinneyWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Holloway SpinneyWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Mill RaceLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Stocking WoodWood3 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Brasses SpinneyWood3.1 km (1.9 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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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: 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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 59110
Under 554865

17 of the street's 65 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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
Lace Hill AcademyPrimary2–11140 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bourton Meadow AcademyPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Buckingham SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Royal Latin SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
George Grenville AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Lidl MK18 7RBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets10 m5 Very good15 Mar 2019
S4A Group Ltd At Lace Hill Academy MK18 7RRSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Fresh Start Catering Ltd At Lace Hill Academy MK18 7RRSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Lace Hill Manor Care Home MK18 7RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Costa Coffee Drive Thru MK18 7RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Shell Buckingham MK18 1SHRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 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.

82 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences41
Anti-social behaviour15
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson8
Other crime4
Public order3
Drugs3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Constance Street (20); On or near Catchpin Street (16); On or near Braid End (9); On or near Honeycomb Way (6); On or near Thimble Close (6).

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: 589 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 streetEngland
Median age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership21%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)36%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

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: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 (road closure) 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.

  • MK18 7RA: 38 addresses of 79 in the postcode
  • MK18 7RB: 27 addresses of 64 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Catchpin Street · Weavers Close · Spindle Mews · Honeycomb Way · Thimble Close · Mayflower Street · Butterfly Close · Marshams Court · Braid End · Lace Lane · Turnpin Close · Turnside Street

All the streets in MK18 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.