Plover Close Beck Row, West Suffolk

11 addresses across 1 postcode (IP28), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14600543.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £220,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 1, G: 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in West Suffolk costs £2,351 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shippea Hill, about 7.4 km (4.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 5 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 Market Cross Surgery, about 4.3 km (2.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£220,000£220,000£220,000
20251£225,000£225,000£225,000
20241£225,000£225,000£225,000
20182£184,000£148,000£220,000
20141£147,000£147,000£147,000
20102£122,500£110,000£135,000
20091£138,000£138,000£138,000
20072£115,500£110,000£121,000
20042£115,500£111,000£120,000
20021£77,500£77,500£77,500
20011£73,000£73,000£73,000
20001£62,995£62,995£62,995
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Apr 20265 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£220,000
1 Dec 20259 IP28 8HNDetached£225,000
14 Jun 20246 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£225,000
6 Apr 201810 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£220,000
1 Feb 20184 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£148,000
8 Oct 20146 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£147,000
22 Nov 201010 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£135,000
19 Mar 20102 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£110,000
20 Nov 20099 IP28 8HNDetached£138,000
20 Jul 20077 IP28 8HNTerraced£110,000
12 Jun 20073 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£121,000
16 Jul 20045 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£111,000
24 Jun 20043 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£120,000
27 Feb 20023 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£77,500
3 Oct 20016 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£73,000
20 Oct 20002 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£62,995
1 Sep 199910 IP28 8HNDetached£59,000
28 May 19996 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£52,000
30 Nov 19983 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£57,500
7 Aug 19985 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£45,000
9 Apr 19983 IP28 8HNSemi-detached£48,500
6 Dec 199510 IP28 8HNDetached£57,000

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 July 2011 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 61 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (7); House, detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,351 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,568£1,829£2,090£2,351£2,874£3,397£3,919£4,703

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (31% of about 840 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

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 5 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
IP28 8HN100%0%0%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 stationsShippea Hill 80 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Lakenheath 920 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–2510.9 km (6.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rookery Drove Beck Row140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Mildenhall4.4 km (2.8 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN56.9 km (35 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 surgeriesMarket Cross Surgery4.3 km (2.7 miles)
PharmaciesManor Court Pharmacy4.3 km (2.6 miles)
NHS dentistsThe Thatch Dental Practice4.4 km (2.7 miles)
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital14.1 km (8.7 miles)
Police stationSuffolk Police Brandon Police Station13.6 km (8.5 miles)
Cash machinesShell Little Waitrose Barton Mills, Barton Mills1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 3,230 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²330 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,670 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsWest Row Allotments 4.0 ha2.8 km (1.8 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Mildenhall Roman site, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mildenhall Roman siteScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Skelton's PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Nursery PlantationWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Dye's PlantationWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Dragon's PlantationWood4 km (2.5 miles) north
Claypits WaterLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-east
Portway HillHill4.9 km (3.1 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)4.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 551111

None of the street's 11 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 West Suffolk: see them on the West Suffolk 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
Beck Row Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour1
Violence and sexual offences1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kestrel Close (4); On or near Falcon Way (1); On or near Donegal Park (1).

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: 538 residents in 233 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 age3240
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van78%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%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)30%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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.

Nearby streets

Blackbird Road · Heron Close · Rookery Green · Hawk Close · Kestrel Close · Valiant Street · Canberra Close · Harrier Way · Tolly Cobbold Street · Falcon Way · Rookery Drove · Washington Street

All the streets in IP28 and across West Suffolk.

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.