Riverside Way Leicester

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE4), about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) long. USRN 23104407.

  • Flood: 46 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 A; Band D in Leicester costs £2,529 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 99% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leicester, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Belgrave Gardens, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 52 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 Broadhurst Street Medical Practice, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 63 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 Leicester in 2026-27: Band D £2,529 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,686£1,967£2,248£2,529£3,091£3,653£4,215£5,058

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (47% of about 1,350 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: 16.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 63 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 44 at medium risk and 37 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 65 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 29 medium, 29 low and 0 very low.

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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
LE4 5FPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LE4 5HHzone 2 2 / 44 / 37 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 2 addresses are between 50 m and 52 m above sea level (51 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
LE4 5FP100%100%100%0%
LE4 5HH100%99%99%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 stationsLeicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Syston 213,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Sileby 153,000 journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Road Belgrave230 m
Bus or coach stationSt Margaret's Bus Station Leicester2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Space Centre Coach Parking550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA23.6 km (15 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadhurst Street Medical Practice710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alpharm Chemist270 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalTowers Hospital (Daisy Peake Building)2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationMansfield House Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone600 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Belgrave Gardens 1.8 ha70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 10 ha220 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²230 m
Playing fieldRushey Fields Recreation Ground 8.8 ha870 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beaumanor Road Allotments 6,660 m²370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 160 m north-east. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*160 m north-east
Belgrave House, Railings and Piers in Front of Belgrave HouseListed building, Grade II*160 m north
Belgrave HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II190 m north
Belgrave Hall and railings and gates in front of the HallListed building, Grade II*210 m north-east
Monument to Edward Holdsworth at East End of Garden at Belgrave Hall Including Statue of ReligionListed building, Grade II*270 m north-east
The 'Roman' bridge, BelgraveScheduled monument370 m north
Leicester abbey and 17th century mansion and ornamental gardensScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Abbey ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hermitage WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Old Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Birstall HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Old Mill RaceLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Cliff SpinneyWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Bennion PoolsLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west

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)14.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
Under 5522

None of the street's 2 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 Leicester: see them on the Leicester 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
Belgrave St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Abbey Mead Primary AcademyPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mellor Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Wolsey House Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rushey Mead Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Rushey Mead AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Catherine Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodstock Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Soar Valley CollegeSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Catherine Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wyvern Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 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: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Naaz Ka Dhaba LE4 5PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good8 Aug 2025
CRAVE CULTURE LE4 5PHTakeaway/sandwich shop240 mAwaiting inspection
Loaded Bunz LE4 5LHTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Sweet Toofz LE4 5LHTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Diu Portugal Bar and Restaurant LE4 5LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Daas Convenience LE4 5LHRetailers - other250 m4 Good1 Oct 2024
Nityam Superstore LE4 5LHRetailers - other250 mAwaiting inspection
Antalya Bbq Kitchen LE4 5LGTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good18 Apr 2024
Belgrave General Store LE4 5LGRetailers - other270 m4 Good3 Apr 2025
Alpharm Chemist LE4 5LGRetailers - other270 mExempt
SK Food Junction LE4 5LGTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Mar 2024
Abhinay Express LE4 5LGRetailers - other280 m2 Improvement necessary14 May 2024
Pearl of Ceylon LE4 5LRTakeaway/sandwich shop290 mAwaiting inspection
Bharuchis LE4 5LRTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good13 Jun 2024
Kadirs LE4 5LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good27 Mar 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.

63 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour9
Vehicle crime6
Burglary5
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Bicycle theft2
Other theft2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Robbery1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shirley Street (18); On or near Vicarage Lane (16); On or near Belgrave Avenue (15); On or near Elmdale Street (14).

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: 1,208 residents in 381 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 age3040
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)62%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 4 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.

  • LE4 5FP: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • LE4 5HH: 1 address of 248 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Road · Vicarage Lane · Belgrave Avenue · Elmdale Street · Mill Hill · Church Road · The Conery · Shirley Street · Talbot Street · Vann Walk · Palmer Street · Roughton Street

All the streets in LE4 and across Leicester.

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.