New Town Codicote, North Hertfordshire

81 addresses across 4 postcodes (SG4), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27912179.

  • Sales: 158 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £330,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 50 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 33, E: 10).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 North Hertfordshire costs £2,449 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knebworth, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 840 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 94 to 102 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 81 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bridge Cottage Surgery, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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
20261£330,000£330,000£330,000
20256£332,500£315,000£385,000
20243£346,000£310,000£385,000
20234£314,000£302,000£325,000
20223£360,000£342,500£1,100,000
20212£318,000£305,000£331,000
20203£292,000£268,000£320,000
20194£348,500£290,000£380,000
20184£317,750£297,500£325,000
20175£289,000£232,000£319,000
20162£271,250£237,500£305,000
20152£304,750£266,500£343,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 158)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jul 202610 SG4 8UGTerraced£330,000
12 Dec 202551 SG4 8UQTerraced£315,000
25 Sep 202561 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£385,000
8 Sep 202514 SG4 8UGTerraced£320,000
25 Jul 202548 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£380,000
28 Mar 202547 SG4 8UQTerraced£345,000
18 Mar 202547 SG4 8UQTerraced£360,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 202517 SG4 8UGTerraced£315,000
21 Oct 202424 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£385,000
2 Aug 202471 SG4 8UQTerraced£310,000
10 May 202439 SG4 8UGTerraced£346,000
25 Oct 202373 SG4 8UQTerraced£325,000
25 Aug 202351 SG4 8UQTerraced£310,000
16 Aug 20234 SG4 8UGTerraced£318,000
10 Jul 202331 SG4 8UGTerraced£302,000
27 May 202275 SG4 8UQOther£487,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 May 202263 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£360,000
16 Feb 202243 SG4 8UQTerraced£342,500
1 Feb 202216 SG4 8UQDetached£1,100,000
5 Nov 202148 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£331,000
12 Feb 202112 SG4 8UGTerraced£305,000
1 Oct 20204 SG4 8UGTerraced£320,000
19 Aug 202041 SG4 8UQTerraced£292,000
28 Feb 202032 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£268,000
29 Nov 201945 SG4 8UQTerraced£290,000
26 Sep 201911 SG4 8UGTerraced£325,000
30 Apr 201991 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£380,000
29 Mar 201936 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£372,000
26 Oct 201815 SG4 8UGTerraced£313,000
24 Oct 201865 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£297,500
30 Jul 201847 SG4 8UQTerraced£325,000
11 May 201839 SG4 8UGTerraced£322,500
25 Aug 201743 SG4 8UQTerraced£312,500
27 Jul 201736 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£232,000
21 Jul 201763 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£319,000
7 Jun 201745 SG4 8UQTerraced£289,000
3 Feb 201712 SG4 8UGTerraced£280,000
12 Dec 20164 SG4 8UGTerraced£305,000
11 Oct 201645 SG4 8UQTerraced£237,500
4 Sep 201565 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£266,500
20 Mar 201547 SG4 8UQTerraced£239,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Feb 201514B SG4 8UGSemi-detached£343,000
1 Aug 201448 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£244,000
5 Mar 201453 SG4 8UQTerraced£230,000
20 Dec 20134 SG4 8UGTerraced£237,500
8 Nov 201315 SG4 8UGTerraced£230,000
25 Oct 201323 SG4 8UGTerraced£194,000
16 Aug 201326 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£215,000
3 Jan 201365 SG4 8UQSemi-detached£230,000
20 Dec 20121 SG4 8UGDetached£325,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

50 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 60 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); House, semi-detached (16); House, end-terrace (11). Built: 1900-1929 (30); before 1900 (13); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (35); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,449 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,632£1,904£2,176£2,449£2,993£3,537£4,081£4,897

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 860 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, Codicote (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
SG4 8UQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG4 8UGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG4 8UAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG4 8UBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 81 addresses are between 94 m and 102 m above sea level (98 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
SG4 8UA100%100%100%0%
SG4 8UB100%100%100%0%
SG4 8UG100%100%100%0%
SG4 8UQ100%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 stationsKnebworth 437,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Welwyn North 387,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Welwyn Garden City 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest New Town Codicote50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Welwyn Garden City5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Car parksLockleys Drive Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN9.9 km (6.1 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 surgeriesBridge Cottage Surgery2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Codicote Pharmacy70 m
NHS dentistsKnebworth Dental Surgery3.6 km (2.2 miles)
HospitalNew Qeii Hospital Cdc7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Police stationStevenage Police Station6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Knebworth Cashzone3.9 km (2.4 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 gardenUnnamed 1,400 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,700 m²330 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,270 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Bury, a listed building (Grade II*), 520 m (0.3 miles) north. 39 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The BuryListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) north
Parish Church of St GilesListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) north
Ayot HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
HomewoodRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hollard's SpringWood320 m south-east
First SpringWood440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Longston WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) south
Catchpole WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Lucas Dell HoleHollow3.5 km (2.2 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)7.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74200
55 to 59100
Under 55788181

3 of the street's 81 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 North Hertfordshire: see them on the North Hertfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Codicote Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Premier Store SG4 8UBRetailers - other80 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 2026
Days of Ashwell SG4 8UARetailers - other200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Codicote Spice SG4 8XERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m4 Good28 May 2026
The Goat Inn SG4 8XEPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
BEST KEBAB CODICOTE SG4 8XETakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good10 Sep 2026
J Robarts & Son Ltd SG4 8XQRetailers - other360 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
The Farm Butchery SG4 8XDRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 May 2025
The Red House SG4 8XDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Apr 2026
codicote Pre-school SG4 8XXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jun 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour14
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Other theft3
Public order1
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rabley Heath Road (11); On or near The Opening (6); On or near New Town (5); On or near Valley Road South (5); On or near Poynders Meadow (4).

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: 597 residents in 273 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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

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.

  • SG4 8UQ: 48 addresses
  • SG4 8UG: 31 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • SG4 8UA: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • SG4 8UB: 1 address of 78 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Valley Road South · Mayflower Close · The Opening · The Birches · Winch Close · Cowards Lane · Old Chapel Mews · Cowards Lane · Clements Close · Valley Road · The Close · Poynders Meadow

All the streets in SG4 and across North Hertfordshire.

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.