Pinecroft Way Needham Market, Mid Suffolk

61 addresses across 1 postcode (IP6), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25500967.

  • Sales: 84 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £190,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Mid Suffolk cost £317,979 in August 2026 (+5.3% on a year); private rents averaged £1,011 a month.
  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 20, D: 15, E: 4).
  • Flood: 38 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 16 times (36 hours) in 2025.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Mid Suffolk costs £2,317 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 36% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Needham Market, about 370 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Needham Market Country Practice, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20253£190,000£158,000£275,000
20243£295,000£285,000£295,000
20233£230,000£200,000£315,000
20224£299,125£260,000£340,000
20213£204,000£200,000£210,000
20201£230,000£230,000£230,000
20191£370,000£370,000£370,000
20181£228,000£228,000£228,000
20172£228,250£205,500£251,000
20162£190,000£125,000£255,000
20153£172,500£100,000£185,950
20141£179,995£179,995£179,995
All 84 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Jan 20231 IP6 8HBDetached£315,000
29 Sep 20031 IP6 8HBDetached£174,000
25 Sep 20092 IP6 8HBDetached£155,000
11 Oct 20022 IP6 8HBDetached£110,000
20 Aug 19963 IP6 8HBDetached£67,500
21 May 20214 IP6 8HBTerraced£210,000
16 Sep 20114 IP6 8HBTerraced£120,000
9 Aug 20245 IP6 8HBDetached£285,000
15 Jul 20089 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£155,000
28 Sep 20049 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£137,500
15 May 200313 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£101,000
11 Mar 201614 IP6 8HBTerraced£125,000
26 Nov 200114 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£55,000
11 Apr 199714 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£33,000
25 Jun 201215 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£135,000
27 Jul 200715 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£145,000
28 Jul 200515 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£116,000
22 Jan 199915 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£51,500
25 Jun 201418 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£179,995
18 Sep 200118 IP6 8HBTerraced£89,995
31 Mar 202520 IP6 8HBTerraced£275,000
16 Sep 202220 IP6 8HBTerraced£283,000
4 Feb 202120 IP6 8HBTerraced£204,000
31 May 200220 IP6 8HBTerraced£99,950
21 Apr 199520 IP6 8HBTerraced£49,950
5 Sep 199722 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£56,500
12 Apr 202223 IP6 8HBDetached£340,000
20 Aug 199624 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£55,000
9 Oct 201925 IP6 8HBDetached£370,000
1 Jul 202226 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£260,000
8 Oct 201026 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£155,000
27 Oct 200626 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£155,995
23 Jan 200426 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£135,500
3 May 202428 IP6 8HBDetached£295,000
22 May 200628 IP6 8HBDetached£164,995
12 Oct 200528 IP6 8HBDetached£152,000
21 Jan 200331 IP6 8HBDetached£198,000
19 Dec 201333 IP6 8HBDetached£186,950
20 Mar 200233 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£102,000
12 Apr 200734 IP6 8HBDetached£250,000
13 May 201336 IP6 8HBDetached£210,000
27 Feb 200436 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£175,000
18 Sep 201537 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£172,500
9 Jun 199537 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£47,950
31 May 201239 IP6 8HBDetached£225,000
31 May 200639 IP6 8HBDetached£215,000
22 Jan 199939 IP6 8HBDetached£87,000
9 Sep 202440 IP6 8HBDetached£295,000
29 Jun 200740 IP6 8HBDetached£239,995
4 May 200140 IP6 8HBDetached£100,000
28 Feb 200341 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£114,950
21 Nov 202542 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£158,000
1 Feb 200842 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£101,000
22 Nov 200242 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£64,950
23 Oct 202043 IP6 8HBTerraced£230,000
24 Sep 201843 IP6 8HBTerraced£228,000
4 Apr 200643 IP6 8HBTerraced£122,000
13 Oct 201544 IP6 8HBTerraced£100,000
20 Jun 200344 IP6 8HBTerraced£69,950
15 Nov 200246 IP6 8HBTerraced£87,500
13 Sep 201747 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£251,000
11 Dec 201547 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£185,950
18 Sep 200247 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£125,000
4 Apr 199747 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£53,250
27 Apr 202348 IP6 8HBTerraced£230,000
6 Jul 202249 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£315,250
1 Jul 201649 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£255,000
11 Dec 200649 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£197,500
7 Aug 199549 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£50,000
15 Dec 202353 IP6 8HBTerraced£200,000
5 Nov 202153 IP6 8HBTerraced£200,000
3 May 200253 IP6 8HBTerraced£85,500
26 May 200053 IP6 8HBTerraced£61,500
27 Mar 200055 IP6 8HBTerraced£53,250
8 Mar 200657 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£126,500
9 Jul 200157 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£70,000
18 Dec 199757 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£45,500
8 Nov 200259 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£129,999
20 Oct 201761 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£205,500
2 Jun 199561 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£42,000
24 Oct 202563 IP6 8HBDetached£190,000
18 Aug 201067 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£135,000
28 Sep 200167 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£74,000
5 Mar 199967 IP6 8HBSemi-detached£52,500

House prices and rents in Mid Suffolk

A typical home in Mid Suffolk cost £317,979 in August 2026, 5.3% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£440,981
Semi-detached£278,154
Terraced£226,023
Flat or maisonette£142,118
Bought by a first-time buyer£260,075

Private renters in Mid Suffolk paid £1,011 a month on average in September 2026, 6.9% more than a year before. That is 40% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£725
Two bedrooms£928
Three bedrooms£1,130
Four or more bedrooms£1,593

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

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (10); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: 1983-1990 (25); 1976-1982 (11); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (40 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,061 kWh of it on average in 2024, 21% less than the district's 8,980 kWh, and 2,953 kWh of electricity, 28% less than the district's 4,105 kWh. There are gas meters for about 96% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is IP6.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,317 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,545£1,802£2,059£2,317£2,832£3,347£3,861£4,634

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 740 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Mid Suffolk Home Solar Scheme Solar farm 4.8 MW Operational Jan 2016 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Masons Power Plant Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 5.5 MW Operational Feb 2008 4.8 km (3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 30 October 2026 to 3 November 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 21 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 18 August 2026 to 25 August 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (standard 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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 24 at medium risk and 17 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 58 homes the Environment Agency counts, 14 are in areas at high risk, 24 medium, 17 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 16 times, for 36 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into The River Gipping Nt, The River Gipping.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Needham Market Water Recycling Cntr Anglian Water The River Gipping Nt 4 9 320 m
Crown Street Cso Anglian Water The River Gipping 12 27 740 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

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.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 61 addresses are between 18 m and 20 m above sea level (19 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IP6 8HB100%36%36%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 stationsNeedham Market 130,000 journeys in 2024–25370 m
Stowmarket 976,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lion Needham Market170 m
Bus or coach stationBarnards Stowmarket5.9 km (3.7 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI60.5 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN63.7 km (40 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Needham Market Country Practice Good May 2018520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Needham Market Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Quintons Court (Dental Practice)390 m
HospitalIpswich Hospital Requires improvement Feb 202614.1 km (8.8 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Uvedale Hall Residential Home Good Mar 2020240 m
Police stationStowmarket Police Station.6.7 km (4.1 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 Unnamed 30 ha110 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,000 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,730 m²810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 93, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 97 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
93, High StreetListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The Bull InnListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The Limes HotelListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Needham LakeLake or reservoir180 m north
Station FieldWood240 m north
Alderson LakeLake or reservoir530 m (0.3 miles) east
BosmereLake or reservoir540 m (0.3 miles) east
Mere PlantationWood550 m (0.3 miles) east
Oak HillHill770 m (0.5 miles) north

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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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
65 to 6902
60 to 6409
55 to 591111
Under 555039

11 of the street's 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 22 from railways, 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 Mid Suffolk: see them on the Mid Suffolk page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Bosmere Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 30% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 440 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Jigsaw Pre-School (Sproughton) at Needham Market IP6 8BB Sessional day care 24 Not inspected yet 440 m (0.3 miles)

Ofsted also registers 229 childminders and 46 home childcarers (nannies) in Suffolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
The Lion Inn IP6 8EHPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Chitty Chitty Bon Bon Limited IP6 8NZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Uvedale Hall Residential Home IP6 8AXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m4 Good24 Mar 2026
East of England Co-operative Society IP6 8ENRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good6 Jul 2017
Finneys IP6 8ETOther catering premises330 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Jul 2026
Olive tree IP6 8ASTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good4 Sep 2026
The Rampant Horse Inn IP6 8AUPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Wongs IP6 8ASTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
AGA IP6 8ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
The Swan IP6 8ALPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Huseyin Kara IP6 8ALTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 May 2026
The Angel Community Cafe IP6 8BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Mar 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft4
Violence and sexual offences3
Burglary3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lion Lane (7); On or near Parking Area (4); On or near Ipswich Road (3); On or near Pinecroft Way (3).

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.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 4 slight. 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202300
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
12 Jun 2024 09:00 Slight 1 person B1078, 30 mph Daylight
1 Jan 2024 13:40 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B1078, 30 mph Daylight
29 Oct 2022 16:48 Slight 1 person: 1 child B1078, 30 mph Daylight
3 Oct 2022 10:18 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 299 residents in 145 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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: BT: New service connection, 30 October 2026 to 3 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: New service connection, 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: ANGLIAN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 3 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • IP6 8HB: 61 addresses of 63 in the postcode

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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.