Norton Road Worcester

40 addresses across 6 postcodes (WR5), about 440 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000758.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 13, E: 2).
  • Flood: 6 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 C; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Power Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 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
20251£375,000£375,000£375,000
20241£396,000£396,000£396,000
20222£327,000£295,000£359,000
20212£313,750£250,000£377,500
20192£294,000£278,000£310,000
20182£236,850£197,700£276,000
20173£275,000£200,000£347,000
20161£345,000£345,000£345,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20134£220,000£179,950£250,000
20111£225,000£225,000£225,000
20101£161,150£161,150£161,150
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Nov 202532 WR5 3BBDetached£375,000
18 Nov 202419 WR5 3BBDetached£396,000
31 Aug 20222 WR5 3AXDetached£295,000
27 May 20222 WR5 3AXDetached£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Mar 20225 WR5 3BBDetached£359,000
25 Nov 202124 WR5 3BADetached£377,500
29 Sep 202130 WR5 3BBDetached£250,000
29 Nov 201925 WR5 3BBDetached£278,000
15 Feb 201926 WR5 3BADetached£310,000
20 Dec 20187 WR5 3BBDetached£276,000
27 Apr 20188 WR5 3AXSemi-detached£197,700
12 Dec 201726 WR5 3BADetached£275,000
24 Nov 20171 WR5 3AXDetached£200,000
16 Oct 20179 WR5 3BBDetached£347,000
2 Dec 201622 WR5 3BADetached£345,000
22 Oct 201432 WR5 3BBDetached£250,000
6 Dec 20132 WR5 3AXDetached£179,950
16 Jul 201329 WR5 3BBDetached£250,000
16 Jul 201327 WR5 3BBDetached£220,000
15 Feb 201321 WR5 3BBDetached£220,000
5 Oct 201130 WR5 3BBDetached£225,000
24 Nov 201020 WR5 3BADetached£161,150
1 Oct 200913 WR5 3BBDetached£230,000
28 Jul 20092 WR5 3AXDetached£165,000
14 Sep 200713 WR5 3BBDetached£249,950
16 Mar 20076 WR5 3AXSemi-detached£153,000
31 Jul 20062 WR5 3AXDetached£179,950
23 Jul 200431 WR5 3BBDetached£169,950
8 Apr 200427 WR5 3BBDetached£169,000
5 Dec 200324 WR5 3BADetached£160,000
29 Aug 20038 WR5 3AXSemi-detached£125,000
28 Jun 20012 WR5 3AXDetached£100,000
4 May 200110 WR5 3AXSemi-detached£78,000
17 Jul 200031 WR5 3BBDetached£105,000
8 May 200012 WR5 3AXDetached£127,000
13 Dec 1999THE LODGE WR5 3AXDetached£105,000
10 Sep 19998 WR5 3AXSemi-detached£63,000
21 Mar 199928 WR5 3BADetached£78,950
16 Oct 199728 WR5 3BADetached£65,000
19 Apr 19961 WR5 3AXDetached£97,500
15 Mar 199631 WR5 3BBDetached£63,500

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (9); House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (7); 1950-1966 (6); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 1,220 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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

  • 10 February 2027 to 12 February 2027: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (major works, permit applied for)
  • 22 February 2027 to 8 March 2027: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (major (paa) works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 October 2026 to 27 October 2026: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 12 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
WR5 3BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WR5 3AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR5 3BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR5 2PGnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 10 unlikely
WR5 3BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR5 3HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 40 addresses are between 28 m and 35 m above sea level (33 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
WR5 2PG100%94%94%0%
WR5 3AX100%100%100%0%
WR5 3BA100%100%100%0%
WR5 3BB100%100%100%0%
WR5 3BE100%100%100%0%
WR5 3HX100%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 stationsWorcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broomhall Green St Peter the Great70 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksCity Walls Road Parking2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsShell Recharge Charging Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX44.5 km (28 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 surgeriesSpring Gardens Group Medical Practice2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Peters Chemist390 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbotsbury Court Dental Practice430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationWorcester Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Commandery Service Station Cashzone2.2 km (1.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Power Park 5.0 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 12 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,300 m²120 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,750 m²290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,320 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall Farm, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north-east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Motte castle, moated site, and medieval agricultural remains at Crookbarrow FarmScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ketch CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Crookbarrow HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Kempsey GroveWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Woodside CoppiceWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Perry WoodWood2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
60 to 6430
55 to 5960
Under 553040

10 of the street's 40 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whittington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 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
St Peters Village Hall WR5 3TAOther catering premises330 mExempt
Costa Coffee At Tesco WR5 3SWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Tesco WR5 3SWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good14 Nov 2023
Yo! Sushi Store At Tesco WR5 3SWTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
St Peters Fish Bar WR5 3TYTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Chee Wei Chinese Take Away WR5 3TYTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary3 Sep 2026
Eden Coffee Shop WR5 3TZOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Apr 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary2
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ravenshill Close (4); On or near Stoneleigh Close (3); On or near Broomhall Green (3); On or near Heath Drive (2); On or near Dinmore Close (1).

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: 590 residents in 253 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 age4540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 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: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 10 February 2027 to 12 February 2027 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 22 February 2027 to 8 March 2027 (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.

  • WR5 3BB: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • WR5 3AX: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • WR5 3BA: 5 addresses
  • WR5 2PG: 2 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • WR5 3BE: 2 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • WR5 3HX: 1 address of 56 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Broomhall Green · Stoneleigh Close · Slimbridge Close · Dinmore Close · Ravenshill Close · Brimstone Close · Batsford Road · Alton Road · Peacock Close · Heath Drive · Queenswood Drive · Lobelia Close

All the streets in WR5 and across Worcester.

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.