Plenty Close Ham Marsh, West Berkshire

9 addresses across 3 postcodes (RG14), about 230 m long. USRN 26904646.

  • Flood: 3 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 West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newbury Racecourse, about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eastfield House Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 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
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jul 2018UNIT 6 RG14 5RLOther£14,921,789Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Apr 2018UNIT 6 RG14 5RLOther£118,405Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Nov 2016UNIT 6 RG14 5RLOther£2,697,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 2,030 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.

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, 3 at medium risk and 5 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: at least one 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RG14 5RLzone 3 0 / 3 / 4 unlikely
RG14 5PFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RG14 5SJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 73 m above sea level.

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
RG14 5PF100%100%100%0%
RG14 5RL100%100%100%0%
RG14 5SJ100%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 stationsNewbury Racecourse 115,000 journeys in 2024–25390 m
Newbury 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Thatcham 465,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bone Lane foot Newbury90 m
Bus or coach stationNewbury Wharf1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Newbury, Hectors Way Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points20 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU50.2 km (31 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR59.1 km (37 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eastfield House Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Halo Direct90 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 20/20 Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalWest Berkshire Community Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationNewbury Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.5 km (0.9 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.2 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Shaw House, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.6 km (1 mile) north-west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shaw HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Litten ChapelScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Sandleford PrioryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Battle of Newbury 1643Registered battlefield3.4 km (2.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
GreenhamIsland820 m (0.5 miles) west
Young CopseWood940 m (0.6 miles) south
Clay HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
WellermereLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) east
Thatcham Reed BedsWetland2 km (1.2 miles) east
Drayton's GullyValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) south

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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 5579

2 of the street's 9 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 West Berkshire: see them on the West Berkshire 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
Fir Tree Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Victoria Park Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Willows Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Nicolas C.E. Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Winchcombe SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Trinity SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Speenhamland SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Parsons Down Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Parsons Down Infant SchoolPrimary4–72 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Newbury Kebab House RG14 5DWMobile caterer170 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Wickes RG14 5DWRetailers - other170 m5 Very good26 May 2021
Grays RG14 5DWMobile caterer170 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Compass Group at Stryker (UK) Ltd RG14 5AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
The Crucible Sports & Social Club RG14 5UTPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Alfresco Cuisine Mobile caterer320 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Kestrels RG14 5TAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good19 Mar 2014
Sarah’s Snack Base RG14 5SQRetailers - other370 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
Caffe Pausa At Dunelm Mill RG14 2BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
Lidl RG14 2BPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Apr 2023
Swanbridge SF Connect RG14 2BSRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Oct 2026
The Swan Inn RG14 2DAPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jul 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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Other theft8
Burglary6
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson3
Shoplifting3
Drugs3
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (46); On or near Canal View Road (9); On or near Abex Road (5); On or near Hambridge Road (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: 741 residents in 424 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 age3740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership9%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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.

  • RG14 5RL: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • RG14 5PF: 1 address of 20 in the postcode
  • RG14 5SJ: 1 address of 115 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kingfisher Court · Newbury Trade Park · Abex Road · Canal View Road · Kingman Way · Ham Mill · Newbury Racecourse · Bone Lane

All the streets in RG14 and across West Berkshire.

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.