Read Street Coventry

9 addresses across 3 postcodes (CV1), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9501863.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 A; Band D in Coventry costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Coventry, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, East Street Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 77 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park House, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 404 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 Coventry in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,957£2,237£2,517£3,076£3,635£4,195£5,033

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (62% of about 2,160 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): HMO - 30.9.23.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CV1 5PZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CV1 5PRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CV1 5PTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 9 addresses are between 77 m and 81 m above sea level (78 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
CV1 5PR100%100%100%0%
CV1 5PT100%100%100%0%
CV1 5PZ100%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 stationsCoventry 6.8 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Canley 453,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Coventry Arena 135,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest All Saints Square Gosford Green160 m
Bus or coach stationPool Meadow Bus Station Coventry680 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest RCP Parking - Far Gosford380 m
EV charging points114 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hood street150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX17.8 km (11 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park House540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vantage Chemist220 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bupa Dental Care Coventry320 m
HospitalWalsgrave Hospital4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationCoventry Central Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sue's Off Licence & Newsagent, Hill Field700 m (0.4 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East Street Park 1,910 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.5 ha350 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha380 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seagrave Road Allotments 550 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Whitefriars Museum, a listed building (Grade I), 610 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 65 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 12 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whitefriars MuseumListed building, Grade I610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Coventry city wallsScheduled monument620 m (0.4 miles) west
Medieval Basement Below Site of 38 and 39 Bayley StreetListed building, Grade I730 m (0.5 miles) west
Cathedral of St MichaelListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) west
Medieval Stone BuildingListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Site of Cloister, Chapter House and Undercrofts of Coventry PrioryScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) west
Lady Herbert's GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II840 m (0.5 miles) west
Cook Street GateScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) west
London Road Cemetery, CoventryRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Primrose HillHill410 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Swanswell PoolLake or reservoir700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Quinton PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Stivichall GroveWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Rock SpinneyWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Wyken SloughWetland4.8 km (3 miles) north-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)14.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 5980
Under 5519

8 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 Coventry: see them on the Coventry page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Southfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11120 m Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sidney Stringer AcademySecondary11–18480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillfields Nursery SchoolNursery2–5610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Sidney Stringer Primary AcademyPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gosford Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Coventry College16 plus16–99700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Eden Girls' School, Coventry MuslimSecondary11–18820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Frederick Bird AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Gulson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Southfields Primary School CV1 5LSSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Get Fruity CV1 5LSMobile caterer80 m5 Very good20 Aug 2025
Fabti limited Unique African Store CV1 5LSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 mAwaiting inspection
Masala Mix Catering CV1 5PROther catering premises100 m4 Good19 Mar 2026
Iron Bite Ltd CV1 5DWTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good4 Dec 2025
MannaHaus Cuisine, Bar & Grill CV1 5PQTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good13 May 2025
Asian Mart Ltd CV1 5DZRetailers - other180 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Fargo Cafe CV1 5DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting inspection
AGG CV1 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 mAwaiting inspection
African, Arab and Afghan Supermarket CV1 5DZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Jubilee Christian Centre [RCCGJCC] CV1 5LSRetailers - other190 mAwaiting inspection
Sweet Spot CV1 5DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
Hadramud Mindi Restaurant LTD CV1 5PWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good16 Mar 2026
Gosford Arms CV1 5DTPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good8 Jan 2020
Far Gosford Mini Market CV1 5DWRetailers - other190 m5 Very good18 Jan 2024

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.

404 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences174
Drugs34
Burglary29
Vehicle crime27
Other theft24
Public order22
Criminal damage and arson20
Anti-social behaviour14
Robbery14
Possession of weapons13
Shoplifting13
Bicycle theft7
Theft from the person7
Other crime6

Most of these are attached to: On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (91); On or near Far Gosford Street (42); On or near Alma Street (38); On or near Parking Area (31); On or near Harnall Row (28).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,460 residents in 191 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 age2040
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented69%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work22%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)40%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van25%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus30%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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.

  • CV1 5PZ: 6 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • CV1 5PR: 2 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • CV1 5PT: 1 address

Nearby streets

Napier Street · South Street · West Street · Oxford Street · Harnall Row · All Saints Lane · Binley Road · Spring Close · Hood Street · Winchester Street · Days Close · East Street

All the streets in CV1 and across Coventry.

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.