Sarah West Close Norwich

42 addresses across 1 postcode (NR2), about 60 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 28910920.

  • Sales: 87 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £196,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Norwich cost £227,535 in August 2026 (-2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,148 a month.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (C: 31, D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, John Youngs Limited, City Road - Biomass Boiler, is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A147, carries 20,590 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Norwich costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Chapelfield Gardens, is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 42 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Stephens Gate Medical Partnership, about 150 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 63% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 124 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20251£196,000£196,000£196,000
20232£253,500£160,000£347,000
20221£340,000£340,000£340,000
20212£290,500£191,000£390,000
20203£194,500£188,000£365,000
20191£350,000£350,000£350,000
20184£175,000£175,000£250,000
20163£315,000£312,500£355,000
20152£238,000£186,000£290,000
20145£180,000£165,000£284,000
20135£250,000£191,240£270,000
20123£249,500£238,000£250,000
All 87 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Dec 20051 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£171,000New build.
29 Jun 20072 NR2 2TESemi-detached£225,000
14 Jun 20052 NR2 2TESemi-detached£222,950New build.
26 Nov 20143 NR2 2TETerraced£284,000
30 Sep 20113 NR2 2TESemi-detached£239,950
17 Oct 20073 NR2 2TESemi-detached£244,000
24 Jun 20053 NR2 2TESemi-detached£222,950New build.
2 Apr 20134 NR2 2TETerraced£212,500
24 Jun 20054 NR2 2TESemi-detached£219,950New build.
31 May 20225 NR2 2TETerraced£340,000
7 Jun 20055 NR2 2TETerraced£219,950New build.
20 Dec 20126 NR2 2TETerraced£238,000
27 May 20056 NR2 2TETerraced£243,500New build.
25 Aug 20167 NR2 2TETerraced£315,000
24 Jun 20057 NR2 2TETerraced£245,000
7 Mar 20088 NR2 2TETerraced£269,950
30 Nov 20078 NR2 2TETerraced£268,000
7 Jun 20058 NR2 2TETerraced£246,500New build.
5 Nov 20209 NR2 2TETerraced£365,000
23 Aug 20059 NR2 2TETerraced£249,950New build.
5 Oct 200510 NR2 2TETerraced£187,950New build.
7 Dec 201811 NR2 2TETerraced£250,000
31 May 201311 NR2 2TETerraced£191,240
18 Oct 200511 NR2 2TETerraced£189,950New build.
30 Jun 200512 NR2 2TESemi-detached£189,950New build.
27 Sep 200513 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£223,950New build.
20 Dec 201314 NR2 2TESemi-detached£270,000
19 Aug 200514 NR2 2TESemi-detached£223,950New build.
12 Aug 200515 NR2 2TETerraced£223,950New build.
23 Sep 200516 NR2 2TETerraced£249,950New build.
28 Oct 201617 NR2 2TETerraced£355,000
27 Sep 202118 NR2 2TETerraced£390,000
19 Dec 201218 NR2 2TETerraced£249,500
28 Jun 200518 NR2 2TETerraced£246,500New build.
2 Nov 201219 NR2 2TETerraced£250,000
23 Sep 200519 NR2 2TETerraced£244,500New build.
19 Sep 200520A NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£114,940New build. Leasehold.
6 May 200921 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£137,500Leasehold.
9 Dec 200521 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£159,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 202321A NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
6 Oct 200521A NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£119,950New build. Leasehold.
16 Jan 200722 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£173,000Leasehold.
16 Sep 200522 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£158,500New build. Leasehold.
29 Sep 200522A NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£119,950Leasehold.
3 Jan 201823 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 201423 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 201023 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 200623 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£169,950New build. Leasehold.
9 Oct 201424 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£168,750Leasehold.
30 Jun 200524 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£171,950New build. Leasehold.
21 Jan 202525 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£196,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 202025 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£194,500Leasehold.
7 Dec 201825 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 201425 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£165,000Leasehold.
27 May 200525 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£164,950New build. Leasehold.
3 Jan 202026 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£188,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 200526 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£174,950New build. Leasehold.
1 Jun 201827 NR2 2TEDetached£175,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200627 NR2 2TEDetached£156,630Leasehold.
30 Jun 200627 NR2 2TEDetached£150,000Leasehold.
20 May 202128 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£191,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 201528 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£186,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 200628 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£184,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 200528 NR2 2TEFlat or maisonette£174,950New build. Leasehold.
17 Sep 200429 NR2 2TETerraced£240,500New build.
15 May 200930 NR2 2TETerraced£220,000
19 May 200630 NR2 2TETerraced£248,000
10 Sep 200430 NR2 2TETerraced£241,750New build.
1 Oct 201531 NR2 2TETerraced£290,000
23 Dec 200431 NR2 2TETerraced£245,950New build.
6 Sep 201932 NR2 2TEDetached£350,000
1 Nov 201632 NR2 2TEDetached£312,500
24 Sep 200432 NR2 2TEDetached£239,500New build.
27 Apr 200933 NR2 2TEDetached£222,500
22 Oct 200433 NR2 2TEDetached£239,500New build.
8 Oct 200434 NR2 2TETerraced£241,750New build.
29 Jan 201435 NR2 2TETerraced£275,000
11 Oct 201335 NR2 2TETerraced£250,000
17 Sep 201035 NR2 2TETerraced£239,600
30 Jun 200635 NR2 2TETerraced£246,000
15 Oct 200435 NR2 2TETerraced£243,750
11 Dec 202336 NR2 2TETerraced£347,000
1 Oct 201336 NR2 2TETerraced£250,000
25 Sep 200836 NR2 2TETerraced£225,000
29 Mar 200736 NR2 2TETerraced£250,000
30 Nov 200436 NR2 2TETerraced£239,500New build.
29 Oct 200437 NR2 2TETerraced£239,500New build.

House prices and rents in Norwich

A typical home in Norwich cost £227,535 in August 2026, 2% less than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 24% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£460,728
Semi-detached£291,175
Terraced£250,591
Flat or maisonette£143,295
Bought by a first-time buyer£205,202

Private renters in Norwich paid £1,148 a month on average in September 2026, 0.8% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£781
Two bedrooms£976
Three bedrooms£1,144
Four or more bedrooms£1,586

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (16); Flat (12); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2003-2006 (30); 2007 onwards (2); 2007-2011 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (9); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (34 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,954 kWh of it on average in 2024, 16% less than the district's 10,645 kWh, and 3,560 kWh of electricity, 30% more than the district's 2,748 kWh. There are gas meters for about 67% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NR2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Norwich in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,060£3,616£4,172£5,007

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 740 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
John Youngs Limited, City Road - Biomass Boiler Norwich 22/01341/F Biomass 0.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2023 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 31 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
NR2 2TE100%80%80%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsNorwich 4.6 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Brundall Gardens 18,000 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Salhouse 14,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brunswick Road Norwich210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Norwich City Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest RCP Parking - Bignold School150 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN109 km (68 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Stephens Gate Medical Partnership Good Aug 2019150 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Stephens Gate Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Norfolk Dental Specialists330 m
HospitalColman Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bishop Herbert House Good Nov 2018280 m
Police stationBethel Street Police Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 Chapelfield Gardens 3.0 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,010 m²130 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha120 m
AllotmentsLakenham Allotments 4,180 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chapelfield Gardens, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 520 m (0.3 miles) north. 446 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 18 of them Grade I and 26 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapelfield GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II520 m (0.3 miles) north
The Assembly HouseListed building, Grade I550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Old Assembly Rooms and the remains of St Mary's CollegeScheduled monument570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
9, Surrey StreetListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St StephenListed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
St Catherine's CloseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) east
The Plantation Garden, NorwichRegistered park or garden, Grade II700 m (0.4 miles) north
Curat's House, HaymarketScheduled monument760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
City walls and towersScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Heigham GroveWood670 m (0.4 miles) north
St Catherine's HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) east
Lakenham ReservoirsLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
The WildernessWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Bracondale GroveWood1.5 km (1 mile) east
Trowse EyeTidal water2.6 km (1.6 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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
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
55 to 5910
Under 554142

1 of the street's 42 addresses is 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 Norwich: see them on the Norwich page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Bignold Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11210 m Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education16 plus16–99550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 3.4% AAB or better; progress below average
The Free School NorwichPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 46% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form Free School16 plus16–19680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B; 39.9% AAB or better; progress above average
Notre Dame High School, Norwich Roman CatholicSecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 57.0 (61.3 in 2025 and 57.5 in 2024); 64.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 14.7% AAB or better; progress average
Avenue Junior SchoolPrimary7–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Hewett AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.1 (46.5 in 2025 and 46.8 in 2024); 50% grade 5+ in English and maths
Recreation Road Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Jane Austen CollegeSecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.2 (53.7 in 2025 and 49.0 in 2024); 59.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 11.9% AAB or better; progress average
Lakenham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 35% in 2024 and 27% in 2023)
Colman Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 840 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 310 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Egrets Nursery NR2 1SD Sessional day care 14 Not inspected yet 310 m
Chapelfield Children's Day Nursery Ltd NR2 1SF Full day care 50 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Activate NR2 2LR Out-of-school day care 136 Not inspected yet 520 m (0.3 miles)
City College Nursery NR2 2LJ Full day care 55 Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
The Hamlet Centre Children's Service NR2 1SJ Full day care 16 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 560 m (0.3 miles)
Set Your Sights NR1 3NX Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Premier Free School Holiday Club NR1 3NX Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Chestnut Nursery Norfolk Ltd. St. Giles NR2 1LL Full day care 74 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
Barracudas (Norwich) NR2 2HU Out-of-school day care 208 Not inspected yet 800 m (0.5 miles)
Little Squirrels Play Forest NR1 3DD Full day care 34 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 271 childminders and 51 home childcarers (nannies) in Norfolk. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 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
Brunswick General Stores NR2 2HARetailers - other120 m4 Good31 Jan 2026
Red House NR2 2BDTakeaway/sandwich shop180 mAwaiting inspection
Bignold Primary School - The Pantry NR2 2SYSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good14 May 2025
The Rose Tavern NR2 2ATPub/bar/nightclub240 mAwaiting inspection
Flock Coffee House NR1 3SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good18 Sep 2026
Vauxhall Street Phamacy And Post Office NR2 2AARetailers - other270 m5 Very good21 Feb 2022
Alco Stores NR2 2AARetailers - other270 m4 Good29 Apr 2025
New Sole Plaice NR2 2AATakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
The Bread And Roses Community Cafe NR2 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Coachmakers Arms NR1 3SPPub/bar/nightclub280 m2 Improvement necessary30 Sep 2026
Quasar Elite NR1 3SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good25 Oct 2025
The Grill House Restaurant - Inn T/A Al Forno NR1 3SPPub/bar/nightclub280 m4 Good29 May 2025
Good Food Takeaway NR1 3SPTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
No 8 Burgers \& Shakes NR1 3SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good17 Jan 2026
Casbah Cafe And Kitchen NR1 3SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 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.

124 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences35
Anti-social behaviour25
Criminal damage and arson11
Public order9
Vehicle crime9
Other theft7
Bicycle theft6
Drugs5
Other crime5
Burglary4
Robbery3
Shoplifting3
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (32); On or near Union Street (15); On or near Norfolk Street (12); On or near St Stephens Road (11); On or near Thomas Wyatt Close (9).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
6 Sep 2021 14:50 Slight 2 people: 2 cyclists, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A147 between A11 and A147, with 20,590 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 500 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A11 A1056 to A147 17,783 estimated; counted 2018 2% -16% since 2015 210 m
A147 A11 to A147 20,590 estimated; counted 2020 1% -7% since 2015 500 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 343 residents in 166 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 age3440
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented56%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van23%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)63%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Food hygiene ratings KFC (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NR2 1SY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 26 October 2026) found 10 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NR2 2TE: 42 addresses of 43 in the postcode

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.