Simons Walk Northampton

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (NN1), about 140 m long. USRN 28712276.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £210,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 6, E: 3).
  • Flood: 3 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 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 470 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Victoria Park (13 hectares) is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Mounts Medical Centre, about 360 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 9% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 804 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20221£210,000£210,000£210,000
20141£122,000£122,000£122,000
20082£109,000£98,000£120,000
20051£95,000£95,000£95,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 20227 NN1 2SRTerraced£210,000
22 Oct 202110 NN1 2JGTerraced£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Jul 20147 NN1 2SRTerraced£122,000
2 Sep 200811 NN1 2JGTerraced£120,000
18 Apr 20087 NN1 2SRTerraced£98,000
17 Jan 20057 NN1 2SRTerraced£95,000

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

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1950-1966 (1); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (11); owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (2).

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 (61% of about 940 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
NN1 2SRnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 0 unlikely
NN1 2JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 21 addresses are between 71 m and 72 m above sea level (72 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
NN1 2JG100%100%100%0%
NN1 2SR100%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 2024–25470 m (0.3 miles)
Long Buckby 330,000 journeys in 2024–2514 km (8.7 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Regent Street Northampton100 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange260 m
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chalk Lane Car Park350 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allego Charging Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN54.7 km (34 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Mounts Medical Centre360 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Regent Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castilian Street Dental Practice760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalNorthampton General Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationNorthamptonshire Police530 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest JCR Northampton Bus Station Cashzone290 m

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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 830 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Victoria Park 13 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²50 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Racecourse 48 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a listed building (Grade I), 320 m east. 156 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 8 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy SepulchreListed building, Grade I320 m east
Cromwell HouseListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south
Northampton Castle, remains ofScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
32 and 32A, Market SquareListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I460 m (0.3 miles) south
Saxon palace complex and Saxon and medieval urban deposits in the centre of NorthamptonScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) south
Battle of Northampton 1460Registered battlefield2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Storton's PitsLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Hoppinghill SpinneyWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Hunsbury HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Delapre WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Hunsbury Hill SpinneyWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Ryehill SpinneyWood2.9 km (1.8 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)14.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)14.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5960
Under 551521

6 of the street's 21 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), 1 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
Spring Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–1190 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle AcademyPrimary3–11370 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northampton International AcademyAll-through4–18580 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St James Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 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: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Earl Spencer Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 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
Camrose Early Years Centre for Children & FamiliesNursery0–51.3 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
Vernon Terrace Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Malcolm Arnold Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Stimpson Avenue AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Delapre Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
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 1 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
Ambe Supermarket NN1 2JDRetailers - other100 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Springs Family Centre NN1 2SNRetailers - other110 mAwaiting inspection
The Spring Charity NN1 2JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 mAwaiting inspection
Vintage Retreat NN1 2JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good26 Oct 2021
Nicky’s news (Londis) NN1 2SURetailers - other200 m4 Good21 Mar 2019
Ramgarhia Sikh Temple NN1 2TEOther catering premises230 m5 Very good10 Dec 2021
F F Tees NN1 2NWManufacturers/packers250 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Dec 2025
Impact Food Group @ New Horizons Academy NN1 2NEOther catering premises260 mAwaiting inspection
New Horizons Academy NN1 2NESchool/college/university260 mAwaiting inspection
Northampton Working Mens Club NN1 2LZPub/bar/nightclub260 mAwaiting inspection
Manascrew Ltd NN1 2LZRetailers - other260 m5 Very good4 Dec 2019
Marseille NN1 2NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good4 Dec 2020
Wok Inn Chinese Restaurant NN1 2LZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good14 Nov 2025
IMPACT-NOW NN1 2PNDistributors/Transporters280 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Oriental Garden NN1 2LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m2 Improvement necessary21 Sep 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.

804 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour329
Violence and sexual offences196
Other theft45
Public order43
Drugs40
Vehicle crime33
Criminal damage and arson33
Burglary31
Possession of weapons14
Robbery10
Other crime10
Theft from the person9
Bicycle theft7
Shoplifting4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grafton Street (121); On or near Regent Street (102); On or near Parking Area (70); On or near Upper Bath Street (65); On or near Crispin Street (54).

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: 598 residents in 239 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 age3040
Children under 1530%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)9%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership11%1%
Social rented66%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Dirty Burger & Wings (takeaway/sandwich shop, NN1 1RS) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 30 October 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.

  • NN1 2SR: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • NN1 2JG: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Herbert Street · Crispin Street · Althorp Street · Lady's Lane · Tower Street · Scarletwell Street · Upper Cross Street · Lower Cross Street · Spring Lane · Upper Bath Street · Horse Market · Upper Cross Street

All the streets in NN1 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.