Rhodfa Bevan Ashvale, Blaenau Gwent

44 addresses across 3 postcodes (NP22), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3100089.

  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 17, F: 1).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blaenau Gwent costs £2,531 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rhymney, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 50 m away, and Parc Bryn Bach (120 hectares) is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 348 to 354 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Health Centre, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 138 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 dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (18); 1930-1949 (9); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (15); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaenau Gwent in 2026-27: Band D £2,531 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,688£1,969£2,250£2,531£3,094£3,656£4,219£5,063£5,906

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (75% of about 710 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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: of the 107 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 12 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 12 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. 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. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
NP22 3HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 8
NP22 3HGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2
NP22 3HJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 2

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 44 addresses are between 348 m and 354 m above sea level (351 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
NP22 3HG100%100%100%0%
NP22 3HH100%100%100%0%
NP22 3HJ100%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 stationsRhymney 123,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ebbw Vale Town 249,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Pontlottyn 32,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brynbach Street Ashvale90 m
Bus or coach stationTredegar Bus Station Stand 11.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL43.4 km (27 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 surgeriesHealth Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tredegar Dental Clinic1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalYsbyty Tri Chwm3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationRhymney Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.3 km (0.8 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 1,890 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Parc Bryn Bach 120 ha140 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²730 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,150 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 120 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sirhowy Ironworks, Site of, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sirhowy Ironworks, Site ofScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Bedwellty ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bryn Bach ParkWood610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bryn-oer PatchHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Rhymni HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Ras Bryn-oerHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Cwm MilgatwValley2 km (1.2 miles) north
Carno ReservoirLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59100
Under 553344

11 of the street's 44 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 Blaenau Gwent: see them on the Blaenau Gwent page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St. Joseph's R.C. Primary Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–11220 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Bryn Bach Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11280 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Glanhowy Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Deighton Junior and Infants English mediumPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
St Josephs R.C Primary School NP22 3RUSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Ashvale Stores Ltd NP22 4AQRetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2025
Brynbach Primary School NP22 3RXSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Ashvale Supper Bar NP22 4AGTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good19 Jan 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.

138 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Public order21
Anti-social behaviour21
Criminal damage and arson16
Burglary8
Other crime8
Vehicle crime7
Other theft6
Drugs6
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bevan Avenue (41); On or near Y Cilgant (17); On or near St Martins Crescent (14); On or near Ffordd Aneurin Bevan (13); On or near Bryn Meadow Close (12).

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: 555 residents in 234 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 streetWales
Median age3743
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%66%
Owned outright24%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented47%17%
Private rented5%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work52%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%26%
Travel to work by car or van75%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle8%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%32%
No qualifications32%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)98%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, mid-terrace (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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

Pembroke Street · Gerddi Griffiths · Brynbach Street · Woodlands · Rhodfa Coed Glas · Bryn Meadow Close · Y Cilgant · Ffordd Aneurin Bevan · Sycamore Avenue · St Martins Crescent · Fair View · Clos Glanllyn

All the streets in NP22 and across Blaenau Gwent.

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.