Severn Drive Northampton

62 addresses across 5 postcodes (NN5), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28701511.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £248,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 26, D: 15, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 79 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 62 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queensview Medical Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 150 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
20261£248,000£248,000£248,000
20251£250,000£250,000£250,000
20232£210,500£200,000£221,000
20192£190,500£173,000£208,000
20173£183,000£175,000£195,000
20163£144,000£125,000£167,000
20141£123,000£123,000£123,000
20131£108,000£108,000£108,000
20121£100,000£100,000£100,000
20111£46,500£46,500£46,500
20101£101,000£101,000£101,000
20072£118,750£114,000£123,500
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jul 202662 NN5 7LWSemi-detached£248,000
5 Sep 202547 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£250,000
30 Jun 202319 NN5 7LPTerraced£221,000
6 Jun 202352 NN5 7LWTerraced£200,000
1 Oct 202145 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£202,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 201939 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£173,000
24 May 201946 NN5 7LWTerraced£208,000
15 Dec 201737 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£195,000
18 Sep 201748 NN5 7LWTerraced£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 201746 NN5 7LWTerraced£183,000
7 Jul 201744 NN5 7LWTerraced£175,000
16 Sep 201645 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£167,000
17 Jun 201660 NN5 7LWSemi-detached£144,000
14 Mar 201640 NN5 7LWTerraced£125,000
19 Dec 20141 NN5 7LPTerraced£123,000
12 Apr 201337 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£108,000
23 Aug 201239 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£100,000
6 Dec 201122 NN5 7LWFlat or maisonette£46,500Leasehold.
23 Apr 201044 NN5 7LWTerraced£101,000
22 Jun 200719 NN5 7LPTerraced£114,000
23 Apr 200746 NN5 7LWTerraced£123,500
3 Feb 200636 NN5 7LWTerraced£109,000
13 Dec 200546 NN5 7LWSemi-detached£119,995
16 Sep 200519 NN5 7LPTerraced£95,000
25 Aug 200542 NN5 7LWSemi-detached£111,000
23 Mar 200430 NN5 7LWFlat or maisonette£49,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 20041 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£87,000
26 Sep 200348 NN5 7LWTerraced£89,000
1 Sep 20037 NN5 7LPTerraced£57,000
14 Jul 200311 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£52,000
27 May 200346 NN5 7LWSemi-detached£107,000
6 Sep 200236 NN5 7LWTerraced£84,995
16 Nov 20011 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£59,000
17 Nov 200045 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£63,500
23 Mar 20009 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£44,500
25 Feb 20001 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£42,500
1 Oct 199930 NN5 7LWFlat or maisonette£15,500Leasehold.
10 Apr 199531 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£22,000
23 Feb 19951 NN5 7LPSemi-detached£34,000

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 August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: Flat (17); House, semi-detached (11); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1950-1966 (30); 1967-1975 (11); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (social) (18); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (82% of about 740 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands), Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 13 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands), Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 0 at medium risk and 6 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
NN5 7LWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN5 7LPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN5 7JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN5 7NQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
NN5 7NXnot 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 62 addresses are between 79 m and 96 m above sea level (89 m on average); the ground rises about 17 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
NN5 7JG100%100%100%0%
NN5 7LP100%100%100%0%
NN5 7LW100%100%100%0%
NN5 7NQ100%100%100%0%
NN5 7NX100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2512 km (7.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nene Walk Kings Heath140 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bizspace Northampton KG House Car Park700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN57.1 km (36 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queensview Medical Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Square Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Silver Pepper Clinic1.4 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBerrywood Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesOne Stop Northampton, Main Road Duston1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 19 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²340 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.3 ha190 m
AllotmentsGlebelands Allotments 2,150 m²830 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade I), 930 m (0.6 miles) east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I930 m (0.6 miles) east
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hoppinghill SpinneyWood870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Ryehill SpinneyWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Heath SpinneyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Dallington HeathWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Brampton HillHill4.3 km (2.6 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 556062

2 of the street's 62 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Kings Heath Primary AcademyPrimary2–11390 m Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsthorpe Village Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Camrose Early Years Centre for Children & FamiliesNursery0–51.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Earl Spencer Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chiltern Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Kingsthorpe Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Hopping Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Whitehills Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Whitehills Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Lyncrest Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Strong 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
Park Square Pharmacy NN5 7LQRetailers - other390 mExempt
Purple Onion NN5 7LQTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good26 Apr 2021
Londis NN5 7LQRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Divine NN5 7LQRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Feb 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.

150 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences65
Anti-social behaviour52
Criminal damage and arson9
Other theft8
Vehicle crime6
Public order5
Possession of weapons2
Burglary2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nene Place (39); On or near Swale Drive (38); On or near Welland Walk (21); On or near Kennet Green (14); On or near Severn Drive (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,469 residents in 574 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 age3540
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)21%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • NN5 7LW: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • NN5 7LP: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • NN5 7JG: 1 address of 53 in the postcode
  • NN5 7NQ: 1 address of 66 in the postcode
  • NN5 7NX: 1 address of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wharf Green · Swale Drive · Nene Walk · East Oval · Ribble Close · Nene Drive · East Oval · Park Crescent East · Welland Walk · Welland Green · Humber Close · Nene Place

All the streets in NN5 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.