Sheraton Drive Reading, West Berkshire

40 addresses across 1 postcode (RG31), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26901681.

  • Sales: 62 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 17, E: 4).
  • 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 D; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tilehurst, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Arthur Newbery Park, is about 920 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 83 to 91 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tilehurst Village Surgery, about 650 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 190 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 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£375,000£375,000£375,000
20251£415,000£415,000£415,000
20241£355,000£355,000£355,000
20232£482,000£469,000£495,000
20221£352,500£352,500£352,500
20202£380,000£310,000£450,000
20184£403,250£340,000£515,000
20171£341,000£341,000£341,000
20162£387,500£350,000£425,000
20153£365,000£315,000£375,000
20133£275,000£250,000£300,000
20122£255,000£230,000£280,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 62)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jan 202632 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£375,000
28 Mar 202515 RG31 5UZDetached£415,000
26 Mar 202410 RG31 5UZDetached£355,000
12 Jul 202328 RG31 5UZDetached£469,000
14 Feb 202339 RG31 5UZDetached£495,000
11 Mar 202212 RG31 5UZDetached£352,500
10 Sep 202024 RG31 5UZDetached£450,000
12 Aug 202020 RG31 5UZDetached£310,000
12 Dec 201826 RG31 5UZDetached£515,000
12 Dec 201814 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£361,500
19 Oct 20188 RG31 5UZDetached£340,000
23 Mar 201825 RG31 5UZDetached£445,000
12 Sep 201734 RG31 5UZDetached£341,000
22 Aug 201614 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£350,000
21 Jun 201633 RG31 5UZDetached£425,000
4 Mar 201622 RG31 5UZDetached£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jul 20156 RG31 5UZDetached£315,000
3 Jul 201531 RG31 5UZDetached£375,000
26 Mar 201541 RG31 5UZDetached£365,000
22 Nov 20131 RG31 5UZDetached£250,000
18 Oct 20137 RG31 5UZDetached£300,000
26 Jul 201327 RG31 5UZDetached£275,000
23 Mar 201233 RG31 5UZDetached£280,000
4 Jan 201214 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£230,000
26 May 200919 RG31 5UZTerraced£235,000
30 Apr 200827 RG31 5UZDetached£286,000
5 Sep 200634 RG31 5UZDetached£220,000
1 Sep 200618 RG31 5UZDetached£228,000
3 Aug 20063 RG31 5UZDetached£242,000
23 Mar 200626 RG31 5UZDetached£297,500
12 Jul 200532 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£214,950
6 May 200522 RG31 5UZDetached£243,950
18 Feb 200536 RG31 5UZDetached£130,000New build.
27 Aug 20046 RG31 5UZDetached£212,500
9 Jul 200431 RG31 5UZDetached£249,950
14 May 200427 RG31 5UZDetached£223,500
5 Dec 200334 RG31 5UZDetached£245,000
17 Oct 200322 RG31 5UZDetached£225,000
12 Aug 200311 RG31 5UZTerraced£197,000
30 May 200335 RG31 5UZDetached£244,000
9 Aug 200241 RG31 5UZDetached£214,000
27 Jun 200219 RG31 5UZTerraced£184,950
11 Jan 200234 RG31 5UZDetached£202,500
19 Jul 200126 RG31 5UZDetached£226,000
5 Jul 20013 RG31 5UZDetached£188,500
29 Mar 200123 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£168,367
5 Jun 200018 RG31 5UZDetached£139,950
30 Sep 199932 RG31 5UZSemi-detached£139,950
3 Aug 19997 RG31 5UZDetached£143,950
25 Mar 19998 RG31 5UZDetached£102,000

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

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (16); Bungalow, detached (6); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (21); 1976-1982 (2); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 580 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: 4 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 40 addresses are between 83 m and 91 m above sea level (87 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
RG31 5UZ100%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 stationsTilehurst 385,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Theale 391,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Pangbourne 374,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cromer Close Tilehurst110 m
Bus or coach stationPurley Social Club Purley on Thames2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks Limited800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR41.1 km (26 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tilehurst Village Surgery650 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Triangle Pharmacy840 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chapel Hill (Dental Surgery)580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalProspect Park Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesMidcounties Co-Op The Triangle, Tilehurst Cashzone880 m (0.5 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 gardenArthur Newbery Park 10 ha920 m (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cornwell Recreation Ground 1.0 ha120 m
AllotmentsArmour Hill Allotments 2.4 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Purley Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Purley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cornwell CopseWood230 m north-west
Clay CopseWood380 m west
Barefoots CopseWood490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Nabbs HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Kentwood DeepsLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Poplar IslandIsland2.2 km (1.4 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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 553940

1 of the street's 40 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 West Berkshire: see them on the West Berkshire 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
Birch Copse Primary SchoolPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Lane Primary SchoolPrimary5–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Heath SchoolSecondary11–18840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Springfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Downsway Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Blagrave Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denefield SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westwood Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westwood Farm Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Meadow Park AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 Royal Oak RG31 5NWPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Acorn Kitchen RG31 5NWPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
The Snaffle Cafe RG31 5UBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good18 Jun 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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour2
Public order1
Other theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Ridings (4); On or near Sheraton Drive (2); On or near Cromer Close (2); On or near Home Croft (1); On or near Clements Mead (1).

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: 187 residents in 73 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 age4540
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 10 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band E, house, detached (lodged 20 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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

The Ridings · Westwood Glen · Cromer Close · Home Croft · Clements Mead · Five Acre · Welland Close · Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill · Ivybank · Childrey Way · Elder Close

All the streets in RG31 and across West Berkshire.

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.