Scott Close Thetford, Breckland

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (IP24), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4001966.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £237,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 3).
  • Flood: 7 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 B; Band D in Breckland costs £2,444 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thetford, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Grove Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 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
20232£237,500£210,000£265,000
20212£217,500£215,000£220,000
20191£215,000£215,000£215,000
20171£185,000£185,000£185,000
20141£180,000£180,000£180,000
20131£133,000£133,000£133,000
20111£138,000£138,000£138,000
20081£145,000£145,000£145,000
20072£151,225£149,950£152,500
20061£150,000£150,000£150,000
20042£125,000£115,000£135,000
20022£85,975£82,000£89,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 May 202312 IP24 1LESemi-detached£210,000
10 Feb 202310 IP24 1LETerraced£265,000
26 Aug 20214 IP24 1LESemi-detached£215,000
25 Jun 20218 IP24 1LETerraced£220,000
23 Oct 20199 IP24 1LESemi-detached£215,000
25 May 20173 IP24 1LETerraced£185,000
1 Aug 20147 IP24 1LESemi-detached£180,000
18 Jan 20136 IP24 1LESemi-detached£133,000
30 Jun 201110 IP24 1LETerraced£138,000
8 Feb 20086 IP24 1LESemi-detached£145,000
20 Jul 200711 IP24 1LESemi-detached£152,500
12 Apr 20076 IP24 1LESemi-detached£149,950
31 Aug 20069 IP24 1LESemi-detached£150,000
19 Aug 20044 IP24 1LESemi-detached£135,000
14 May 200412 IP24 1LESemi-detached£115,000
17 Jun 200211 IP24 1LESemi-detached£89,950
29 May 20021 IP24 1LESemi-detached£82,000
15 Oct 19994 IP24 1LESemi-detached£62,000
11 Jun 19992 IP24 1LESemi-detached£67,000
10 Dec 199812 IP24 1LESemi-detached£56,000
9 Sep 19979 IP24 1LESemi-detached£53,500
15 Nov 199612 IP24 1LESemi-detached£45,000
19 Apr 199611 IP24 1LESemi-detached£45,000

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 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9). Built: 1976-1982 (4); 1967-1975 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Breckland in 2026-27: Band D £2,444 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,629£1,901£2,172£2,444£2,987£3,530£4,073£4,887

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (47% of about 510 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: 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.

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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
IP24 1LEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP24 1LFnot in 2 or 3 6 / 1 / 1 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 13 addresses are between 35 m and 37 m above sea level (36 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
IP24 1LE100%0%0%0%
IP24 1LF100%0%0%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 stationsThetford 306,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Brandon 129,000 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Harling Road 1,770 journeys in 2024–2510.8 km (6.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tennyson Way Thetford100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Thetford1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksThetford Station Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.5 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI45.2 km (28 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN70 km (43 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Grove Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Healthy Living Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Clinic760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHospital Road Site20.9 km (13 miles)
Police stationThetford Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.2 km (0.7 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,680 m²330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,880 m²390 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.4 ha890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is An Iron Age religious site and associated enclosures on Gallows Hill, Thetford, immediately to the north of Fison Way industrial estate, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
An Iron Age religious site and associated enclosures on Gallows Hill, Thetford, immediately to the north of Fison Way industrial estateScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Thetford Cluniac priory including a World War II ‘Blacker Bombard’ spigot mortar emplacementScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Melford BridgeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cedar RowWood690 m (0.4 miles) east
Croxton HillHill780 m (0.5 miles) north
Sandpit PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Butten IslandIsland1.7 km (1 mile) south
Chisley ValeValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
The Nunnery LakesLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) south

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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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 551213

1 of the street's 13 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 Breckland: see them on the Breckland 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
The Thetford AcademySecondary11–19170 m Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Drake Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Admirals AcademyPrimary7–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Raleigh Infant AcademyPrimary3–7530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Norwich Road AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
The Bishop's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Croxton Fish Bar IP24 1TATakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Londis IP24 1TARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m4 Good6 Jan 2026
The Hub IP24 1TARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good6 Aug 2024
Norfolk Terrier IP24 1TAPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
Little Pirates at Drake IP24 1JWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2026
NORSE at Drake Infant School IP24 1JWSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Nov 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour5
Bicycle theft5
Other theft3
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Scott Close (23); On or near Anna Gurney Close (14); On or near Sybil Wheeler Close (7); On or near The Glade (7); On or near Mother Julian Close (5).

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: 605 residents in 254 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Nearby streets

Hardy Close · Wordsworth Green · Eliot Close · The Covert · Anna Gurney Close · The Glade · Byron Walk · Mother Julian Close · Sybil Wheeler Close · Croxton Road · Woodlands Drive · Burns Close

All the streets in IP24 and across Breckland.

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.