Oak Drive Portishead, North Somerset

15 addresses across 1 postcode (BS20), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47806048.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £467,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in North Somerset cost £314,307 in August 2026 (+3.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,212 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 1, D: 6, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in North Somerset costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Avonmouth, about 6 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 73 to 80 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Portishead Medical Group, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20252£467,500£420,000£515,000
20241£352,000£352,000£352,000
20191£380,000£380,000£380,000
20171£384,000£384,000£384,000
20151£283,000£283,000£283,000
20121£265,000£265,000£265,000
20102£270,000£250,000£290,000
20091£225,000£225,000£225,000
20041£209,000£209,000£209,000
19992£139,250£128,500£150,000
19981£94,000£94,000£94,000
19971£99,995£99,995£99,995
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jun 20258 BS20 6SSDetached£515,000
18 Mar 20257 BS20 6SSDetached£420,000
25 Mar 20243 BS20 6SSDetached£352,000
18 Dec 201911 BS20 6SSDetached£380,000
4 Oct 201710 BS20 6SSDetached£384,000
18 Dec 201511 BS20 6SSDetached£283,000
22 Jun 201210 BS20 6SSDetached£265,000
10 Dec 20104 BS20 6SSTerraced£290,000
27 Oct 201014 BS20 6SSTerraced£250,000
25 Sep 20092 BS20 6SSTerraced£225,000
18 Jun 200412A BS20 6SSTerraced£209,000
17 Dec 19998 BS20 6SSTerraced£128,500
21 Oct 19999 BS20 6SSTerraced£150,000
6 Feb 199810 BS20 6SSDetached£94,000
20 Jun 19978 BS20 6SSTerraced£99,995
28 Aug 19965 BS20 6SSDetached£86,000

House prices and rents in North Somerset

A typical home in North Somerset cost £314,307 in August 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£536,372
Semi-detached£342,114
Terraced£274,586
Flat or maisonette£169,859
Bought by a first-time buyer£246,206

Private renters in North Somerset paid £1,212 a month on average in September 2026, 3.1% more than a year before. That is 40% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£822
Two bedrooms£1,082
Three bedrooms£1,350
Four or more bedrooms£1,851

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 June 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 114 m². Most common: House, detached (9). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,938£2,214£2,491£3,045£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (33% of about 640 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Height above sea level

The street's 15 addresses are between 73 m and 80 m above sea level (77 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
BS20 6SS100%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 stationsAvonmouth 171,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.8 miles)
Portway Park and Ride 59,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
St Andrews Road 82,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avon Way Portishead300 m
Ferry terminalPortishead Pier Portishead Harbour2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksWaitrose Portishead Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS11.6 km (7.2 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portishead Medical Group940 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Hill Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodburn Cottage Dental Surgery790 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Clevedon Hospital6.5 km (4 miles)
Police stationAvon And Somerset Police HQ810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesFryers Superstore, Shirehampton830 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avon Way Children''s Play Area 830 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,730 m²330 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha80 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 670 m (0.4 miles) east. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I670 m (0.4 miles) east
Medieval Cross 5 Yards From South Porch in St Peter's ChurchyardListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) east
Court House FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) east
Parts of a minor Romano-British villa and later medieval barn 545m south east of St Mary's WellScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The GrangeListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Duck decoy, 250m south of Black Rock VillasScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fore HillHill250 m east
Welly BottomValley770 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Weston Big WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Sugar Loaf BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Nightingale ValleyValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Ilmer Upper DitchLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

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
Under 551515

None of the street's 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Somerset: see them on the North Somerset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
High Down Junior SchoolPrimary7–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
High Down Infant SchoolPrimary3–7600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gordano SchoolSecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Portishead Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Co-Operative BS20 6LTRetailers - other270 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Pizza Picante BS20 6LTTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good28 Apr 2026
Masala Takeaway Portishead BS20 6LTTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good22 Jan 2026
Portishead Community Fridge BS20 6LTRetailers - other270 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Las Vegas Convenience Store BS20 6LTRetailers - other270 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Jan 2026
Appleby's Fish and Chip Shop BS20 6PGTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
Tesco Express BS20 6LRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Hilltop Pre-School - Portishead Playgroups BS20 6LNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Willow Close (21); On or near Lower Down Road (8); On or near Oak Drive (3); On or near Elm Walk (2); On or near Birch Grove (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

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: 362 residents in 139 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 age4240
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%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)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, detached (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

Nearby streets

The Rowans · Cedar Way · Elm Walk · St Mary's Park Road · Willow Close · The Downs · West Hill · Birch Grove · Severn Road · Avon Way · Newlands Hill · Channel View Crescent

All the streets in BS20 and across North Somerset.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.