School Lane Toft, South Cambridgeshire

68 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB23), about 590 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 35301773.

  • Sales: 49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £520,000 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8, D: 25, E: 8, F: 4).
  • Flood: 2 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 E; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shepreth, about 8.3 km (5.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 25 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 68 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Comberton Surgery, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 52% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 4 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20254£520,000£375,000£570,000
20242£485,000£425,000£545,000
20222£547,500£410,000£685,000
20212£434,000£298,000£570,000
20202£496,500£425,000£568,000
20192£670,000£510,000£830,000
20182£416,000£270,000£562,000
20173£370,000£336,520£495,000
20163£465,000£328,000£505,000
20151£320,000£320,000£320,000
20142£254,000£240,000£268,000
20131£325,000£325,000£325,000
Most recent sales (49)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 202533 CB23 2REDetached£570,000
18 Jul 202511 CB23 2RESemi-detached£475,000
28 Mar 20255 CB23 2REDetached£565,000
10 Feb 202522 CB23 2RESemi-detached£375,000
30 Jul 202457 CB23 2REDetached£545,000
18 Jun 202424 CB23 2RESemi-detached£425,000
18 Feb 202258 CB23 2REDetached£685,000
20 Jan 202213 CB23 2RESemi-detached£410,000
17 Dec 202170 CB23 2REDetached£570,000
7 May 202118 CB23 2RESemi-detached£298,000
18 Dec 202055 CB23 2REDetached£425,000
23 Jun 202068 CB23 2REDetached£568,000
27 Jan 202055A CB23 2REOther£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jul 201955 CB23 2REDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 201941 CB23 2REDetached£830,000
21 Feb 201935 CB23 2RESemi-detached£510,000
9 Nov 201838 CB23 2REDetached£562,000
5 Mar 201817 CB23 2RESemi-detached£270,000
31 Oct 201713 CB23 2RESemi-detached£370,000
5 Oct 201736 CB23 2REDetached£495,000
24 Jan 201732 CB23 2REDetached£336,520
14 Jul 201672 CB23 2REDetached£505,000
10 Jun 20169 CB23 2RESemi-detached£465,000
23 Feb 201613 CB23 2RESemi-detached£328,000
18 Sep 201516 CB23 2RESemi-detached£320,000
25 Apr 201416 CB23 2RESemi-detached£240,000
28 Feb 201442A CB23 2REDetached£268,000
22 Mar 201358 CB23 2REDetached£325,000
6 Aug 201023 CB23 2RESemi-detached£205,000
15 Jul 201027 CB23 2RESemi-detached£210,000
2 Mar 20109 CB23 2RESemi-detached£280,000
20 Aug 200741 CB23 2REDetached£395,000
27 Oct 200644 CB23 2REDetached£248,995
9 Sep 200538 CB23 2REDetached£315,000
12 Nov 200415 CB23 2RESemi-detached£232,000
7 Oct 200272 CB23 2REDetached£335,000
6 Jun 200219 CB23 2RESemi-detached£130,000
12 Apr 200262 CB23 2REDetached£210,000
10 Jul 200066 CB23 2REDetached£198,000
25 Oct 199964 CB23 2REDetached£187,000
9 Oct 19985 CB23 2REDetached£179,000
9 Mar 19985 CB23 2REDetached£138,000
19 May 199719 CB23 2RESemi-detached£70,000
14 Mar 199738 CB23 2REDetached£133,500
6 Mar 199745 CB23 2REDetached£135,000
31 May 199670 CB23 2REDetached£122,500
15 Jan 199662 CB23 2REDetached£85,000
29 Sep 199540 CB23 2REDetached£92,000
30 Jun 19955 CB23 2REDetached£86,000

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

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: House, detached (16); House, semi-detached (14); Bungalow, detached (9). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1967-1975 (11); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (32); rented (social) (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (23% of about 1,360 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Toft (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 8.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026: TRUESPEED COMMUNICATIONS LTD, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)

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, 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB23 2REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
CB23 2RJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB23 2SAnot 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 68 addresses are between 25 m and 36 m above sea level (32 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
CB23 2RE100%100%100%0%
CB23 2RJ100%100%100%0%
CB23 2SA100%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 stationsShepreth 110,000 journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.2 miles)
Foxton 99,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–2510.3 km (6.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beldam's Close Toft140 m
Bus or coach stationThe Busway Trumpington Park-and-Ride8.4 km (5.2 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN37.4 km (23 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 surgeriesComberton Surgery2.3 km (1.4 miles)
PharmaciesJardines Pharmacy5.4 km (3.4 miles)
NHS dentistsThe Appletree Dental Practice2 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalNuffeild Health Cambridge Hospital9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station10 km (6.2 miles)
Cash machinesATM3.9 km (2.4 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 gardenUnnamed 4,200 m²1.5 km (1 mile)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,710 m²140 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2,100 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,020 m²1.7 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade II*290 m east
Dovecote 50m north east of Manor Farm HouseScheduled monument450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Moated site at Moat House FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Claypit HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Toft PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Hardwick WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Bath SpinneyWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Mitchel's WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Johnston's PondLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5920
Under 556668

2 of the street's 68 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire 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
Comberton Village CollegeSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; 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
The Schoolroom Community Cafe CB23 2RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good10 Nov 2021
Home Meadow CB23 2RYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good20 Jun 2026
Toft Village Store CB23 2RLRetailers - other350 m5 Very good14 May 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.

4 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near School Lane (2); On or near Brookside (1); On or near Beldam'S Close (1).

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: 570 residents in 222 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 age5640
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)52%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • CB23 2RE: 66 addresses of 72 in the postcode
  • CB23 2RJ: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
  • CB23 2SA: 1 address of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Beldams Close · Pinford Well Lane · Beldam's Close · High Street · Green Lane · Brookside · St Andrews Cottages · Toft Road · Church Road · The Mount · Canners Close · Comberton Road

All the streets in CB23 and across South Cambridgeshire.

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.