Polyear Close Polgooth, Cornwall

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (PL26), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31402473.

  • Sales: 72 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £317,500 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 3).
  • Flood: 5 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 D; Band D in Cornwall costs £2,591 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 15% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St Austell, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 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 St Austell Health Group, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 3 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

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£317,500£310,000£350,000
20241£300,000£300,000£300,000
20231£381,500£381,500£381,500
20221£309,200£309,200£309,200
20214£302,500£260,000£379,500
20202£267,500£225,000£310,000
20191£300,000£300,000£300,000
20182£194,000£178,000£210,000
20172£290,000£225,000£355,000
20162£182,000£158,000£206,000
20153£200,000£190,000£220,000
20143£217,500£177,000£229,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 72)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 202552 PL26 7BHDetached£310,000
17 Mar 20254 PL26 7BHDetached£317,500
10 Jan 202532 PL26 7BHDetached£350,000
30 May 202428 PL26 7BHDetached£300,000
7 Dec 202312 PL26 7BHDetached£381,500
15 Jul 202229 PL26 7BHDetached£309,200
16 Dec 20215 PL26 7BHDetached£379,500
15 Dec 202117 PL26 7BHDetached£280,000
30 Jul 202120 PL26 7BHDetached£325,000
8 Jan 20217 PL26 7BHDetached£260,000
22 Sep 202040 PL26 7BHDetached£310,000
4 Aug 202014 PL26 7BHDetached£225,000
23 Aug 20192 PL26 7BHDetached£300,000
9 Nov 201812 PL26 7BHDetached£210,000
17 Jan 201811 PL26 7BHDetached£178,000
6 Oct 201724 PL26 7BHDetached£225,000
28 Jul 201747 PL26 7BHDetached£355,000
28 Jul 201747 PL26 7BHOther£355,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 201614 PL26 7BHDetached£158,000
12 Oct 201610 PL26 7BHDetached£206,000
12 Jun 201533 PL26 7BHDetached£190,000
9 Apr 201532 PL26 7BHDetached£220,000
13 Jan 201516 PL26 7BHDetached£200,000
3 Sep 201420 PL26 7BHDetached£177,000
4 Apr 201445 PL26 7BHDetached£229,000
31 Jan 201439 PL26 7BHDetached£217,500
4 Oct 201334 PL26 7BHDetached£182,000
15 Aug 201245 PL26 7BHDetached£216,000
6 Aug 201246 PL26 7BHSemi-detached£215,000
26 Feb 201032 PL26 7BHDetached£164,000
5 Dec 200819 PL26 7BHDetached£215,000
20 Jun 20087 PL26 7BHDetached£200,000
9 Aug 200719 PL26 7BHDetached£236,950
1 May 200729 PL26 7BHDetached£187,000
28 Jul 200622 PL26 7BHDetached£203,000
27 Mar 200635 PL26 7BHDetached£225,000
24 Feb 200631 PL26 7BHDetached£188,000
25 Jul 200543 PL26 7BHDetached£197,500
6 May 200545 PL26 7BHSemi-detached£216,000
4 Mar 200524 PL26 7BHDetached£200,000
31 Mar 200415 PL26 7BHDetached£180,000
19 Feb 200443 PL26 7BHDetached£184,000
5 Dec 200324 PL26 7BHDetached£173,500
2 Dec 200336 PL26 7BHDetached£197,500
18 Oct 200222 PL26 7BHDetached£142,500
6 Jul 200137 PL26 7BHDetached£98,000
11 Jun 200135 PL26 7BHDetached£95,500
17 Nov 200032 PL26 7BHDetached£84,950
8 Nov 200010 PL26 7BHDetached£79,000
18 Oct 200017 PL26 7BHDetached£84,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 146 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1996-2002 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cornwall in 2026-27: Band D £2,591 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,727£2,015£2,303£2,591£3,167£3,742£4,318£5,182

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 830 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 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PL26 7BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PL26 7BHnot in 2 or 3 2 / 3 / 3 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 15 addresses are between 71 m and 80 m above sea level (74 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
PL26 7BH100%15%15%0%
PL26 7BL100%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 stationsSt Austell 526,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Bugle 6,530 journeys in 2024–258.8 km (5.5 miles)
Par 223,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coliza Hill Trelowth180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station St Austell2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Ferry terminalMevagissey Ferry Landing6.7 km (4.1 miles)
Car parksCo-op Westhill Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsEvolt Network2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCornwall Airport Newquay NQY17.9 km (11 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL158 km (98 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 surgeriesSt Austell Health Group5 km (3.1 miles)
PharmaciesBoots2.6 km (1.6 miles)
NHS dentistsTruro Road Dental Practice2.5 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalSt. Austell Community Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationSaint Austell Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Westhill - St. Austell, Westhill Cashzone2.4 km (1.5 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,850 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,140 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,390 m²350 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,660 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sticker Camp later Prehistoric-Roman round, a scheduled monument, 810 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sticker Camp later Prehistoric-Roman roundScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Part of a mining complex at South Polgooth MineScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sticker DownHill800 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Hill's QuarryLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Paramoor WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Wood OrchardWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Gover ValleyValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Carnjewey BeachBeach4 km (2.5 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)2.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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 Cornwall: see them on the Cornwall 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
St Mewan Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Pondhu Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 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
Meezees Snack Shack PL26 7BAMobile caterer380 m5 Very good21 May 2019
Averlea Care Home PL26 7BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Polgooth Post Office & Stores PL26 7BPRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Sep 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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Meadow (3).

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: 358 residents in 154 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 age5340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%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 away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • PL26 7BL: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • PL26 7BH: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Polyear Close · The Meadow · Springfield Close · Chapel Green · Trelowth Road · Coliza Hill · Tre-Pol · Trebullan · Trelowth Road · Crosspark · Woodgrove Park · Bosinver Lane

All the streets in PL26 and across Cornwall.

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.