Sleetmoor Lane Swanwick, Amber Valley

79 addresses across 8 postcodes (DE55), about 800 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 630357.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Amber Valley cost £232,141 in August 2026 (+2.7% on a year); private rents averaged £807 a month.
  • Energy: 38 homes have an energy certificate (B: 19, C: 6, D: 9, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 11 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 7 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Old Swanwick Colliery Branch Line, is 90 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 79 times (239 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Guilford Europe, Cotes Park Lane - Solar Panels, is 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Amber Valley costs £2,408 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 91% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Alfreton, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 118 to 144 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 29 of its 79 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Somercotes Medical Centre, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,140 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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£320,000£320,000£320,000
20231£276,000£276,000£276,000
20214£310,000£267,500£375,000
20201£700,000£700,000£700,000
20191£148,000£148,000£148,000
20182£287,225£244,450£330,000
20162£260,000£190,000£330,000
20151£245,000£245,000£245,000
20141£195,000£195,000£195,000
20132£147,500£120,000£175,000
20122£202,500£115,000£290,000
20082£199,000£168,000£230,000
All 40 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 1997169 DE55 1RHDetached£93,495New build.
28 Jul 2000171 DE55 1RHDetached£112,500
19 Dec 1997171 DE55 1RHDetached£97,000New build.
22 Feb 2002173 DE55 1RHDetached£97,500
5 Jul 1996173 DE55 1RHDetached£82,495New build.
21 May 2026175 DE55 1RHDetached£320,000
17 May 1996175 DE55 1RHDetached£74,995New build.
26 May 2000177 DE55 1RHDetached£72,000
4 Jun 1996177 DE55 1RHDetached£62,450New build.
3 Apr 2008183 DE55 1RHDetached£230,000
14 May 2021185 DE55 1RHDetached£320,000
9 Jul 1997185 DE55 1RHDetached£97,000
16 Jul 2018191 DE55 1RHDetached£330,000
17 Jun 1996191 DE55 1RHDetached£110,000
29 Apr 2003193 DE55 1RHDetached£185,000
16 Jun 2000197 DE55 1RHDetached£105,000
14 Aug 2002207 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£97,995
11 Jun 2021213 DE55 1RHDetached£375,000
22 Apr 2016213 DE55 1RHDetached£190,000
8 Oct 2015215 DE55 1RHDetached£245,000New build.
2 Jan 2013215 DE55 1RHDetached£175,000
31 May 2007217 DE55 1RHDetached£269,950
28 Oct 2016223 DE55 1RHDetached£330,000
8 Jan 2021225 DE55 1RHDetached£267,500
24 Oct 2008229 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£168,000
15 Feb 1995229 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£53,000
23 Mar 2023235 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£276,000
12 Jan 2018237 DE55 1RHOther£1,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Mar 2013239 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£120,000
28 Jun 2019241 DE55 1RHSemi-detached£148,000
10 Aug 2018243 DE55 1RHDetached£244,450
25 Jul 2014245 DE55 1RHDetached£195,000
19 Sep 2012245 DE55 1RHDetached£115,000
4 Nov 2021247 DE55 1RHDetached£300,000
23 Oct 1997247 DE55 1RHDetached£64,500
12 Nov 2020253 DE55 1RHDetached£700,000
15 Oct 2001265 DE55 1RHDetached£60,000
1 Mar 2012267 DE55 1RHDetached£290,000
8 Jan 2001267 DE55 1RHDetached£185,000New build.
3 Sep 2021SLEETMOOR HOUSE DE55 1RHOther£975,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Amber Valley

A typical home in Amber Valley cost £232,141 in August 2026, 2.7% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£335,368
Semi-detached£219,702
Terraced£174,717
Flat or maisonette£135,362
Bought by a first-time buyer£205,248

Private renters in Amber Valley paid £807 a month on average in September 2026, 5.2% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£589
Two bedrooms£749
Three bedrooms£923
Four or more bedrooms£1,292

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 118 m². Most common: House, detached (25); Bungalow, detached (10); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 2022 (7); 1930-1949 (6); 2021 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (38 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,213 kWh of it on average in 2024, 27% more than the district's 11,204 kWh, and 3,769 kWh of electricity, 20% more than the district's 3,133 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DE55 1RH42 11 Economy 73,248 kWh 4216,760 kWh
DE55 1SJ243,110 kWh 2413,480 kWh
DE55 1SL92,380 kWh 922,467 kWh
DE55 1SG51,963 kWh 55,484 kWh
DE55 1FS74,108 kWh 79,304 kWh
DE55 1RN37 13 Economy 72,337 kWh 3912,160 kWh
DE55 1RQ82,625 kWh 814,238 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DE55.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Amber Valley in 2026-27: Band D £2,408 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,873£2,140£2,408£2,943£3,478£4,013£4,815

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 2,760 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Guilford Europe, Cotes Park Lane - Solar Panels Amber Valley AVA/2022/0894 Solar farm 2.4 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2023 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 10 November 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 1 March 2027 to 31 March 2027: DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway (standard works)
  • 14 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 2 September 2026 to 4 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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
DE55 1RHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DE55 1SJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DE55 1SLnot in 2 or 3
DE55 1SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DE55 1FSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DE55 1RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 6 unlikely
DE55 1RQnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DE55 1SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 79 times, for 239 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tributary of Hartshay Brook, Trib of Alfreton Brook, Tributary of Oakerthorpe Brook, Oakerthorpe Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Delves Farm Cso Severn Trent Water Tributary of Hartshay Brook 31 45 810 m (0.5 miles)
Highfields Pumping Station Severn Trent Water Trib of Alfreton Brook 6 13 910 m (0.6 miles)
Alfreton - Eachwells Lane (So) Severn Trent Water Tributary of Oakerthorpe Brook 1 10 920 m (0.6 miles)
Mortimer Wilson Cso Severn Trent Water Oakerthorpe Brook 41 171 940 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

7 of the street's 8 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 90 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Old Swanwick Colliery Branch Line Off Sleetmoor Lane, Somercotes, Alferton 1979 to 1981 Inert, industrial 90 m
Leabrooks Disposal Tip Swannick Road, Leabrooks, Derby, Derbyshire 1925 to 1975 Industrial, commercial, household, liquid sludge 250 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 79 addresses are between 118 m and 144 m above sea level (135 m on average); the ground rises about 27 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
DE55 1FS100%100%100%0%
DE55 1RH100%91%91%0%
DE55 1RN100%90%100%0%
DE55 1RQ100%100%100%0%
DE55 1SG100%100%100%0%
DE55 1SJ100%100%100%0%
DE55 1SL100%100%100%0%
DE55 1SN100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsAlfreton 383,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Ambergate 39,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
Whatstandwell 28,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bloomfield Road Swanwick100 m
Bus or coach stationAlfreton Bus Station1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA28.2 km (18 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Somercotes Medical Centre Outstanding Mar 20171.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swanwick Pharmacy880 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swanwick Dental Practice880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalRipley Hospital Utc4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Green Gables Requires improvement May 20221.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationHeanor and Langley Mill Police SNT2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Esso Swanwick, Derby Road Cashzone650 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 840 m²200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.7 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²210 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.6 ha370 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 4.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Derwent Valley Mills, a World Heritage Site, 9.6 km (6 miles) south-west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Derwent Valley MillsWorld Heritage Site9.6 km (6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bullock WoodWood200 m south
Sleetmoor WoodWood570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Colliery PlantationWood760 m (0.5 miles) north
Pennytown PondsLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Castle HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Golden ValleyValley3.2 km (2 miles) south-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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)13.04015

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
60 to 6450
55 to 59240
Under 555079

29 of the street's 79 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 Amber Valley: see them on the Amber Valley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Swanwick Hall SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.1 (42.6 in 2025 and 38.9 in 2024); 37.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 5.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Alfreton Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Woodbridge Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Somercotes Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
David Nieper AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.2 (41.0 in 2025 and 38.2 in 2024); 36.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Croft Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Somerlea Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 51% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Swanwick Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
Leys Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Riddings Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–72 km (1.2 miles) 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 None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 700 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Swanwick Kids Club DE55 1BJ Out-of-school day care 30 May 2026: Expected standard in 4 areas 700 m (0.4 miles)
White House Nursery Alfreton DE55 7AT Full day care 82 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Swanwick Pre-School DE55 1BN Sessional day care 26 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Little Sunshines Pre-School (Somercotes) DE55 1LB Full day care 42 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Premier Holiday Club @ David Nieper DE55 7JA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Alfreton DE55 7JA Full day care 72 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 276 childminders and 28 home childcarers (nannies) in Derbyshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 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
Sleetmoor United DE55 1RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good16 Dec 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.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gordon Road (2); On or near Bloomfield Road (2); On or near Sleetmoor Lane (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 25% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202211
202310
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Jun 2024 10:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 Sep 2023 08:40 Slight 1 person B6179, 40 mph Daylight
9 Dec 2022 12:44 Serious 2 people B6179, 40 mph Daylight
22 Oct 2021 06:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 1,138 residents in 510 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 age5140
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Remedial works, 10 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DE55 1RH: 48 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • DE55 1SJ: 19 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • DE55 1SL: 5 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • DE55 1SG: 3 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • DE55 1FS: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
  • DE55 1RN: 1 address of 42 in the postcode
  • DE55 1RQ: 1 address of 11 in the postcode
  • DE55 1SN: 1 address of 3 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gordon Road · Chestnut Way · Bloomfield Road · Laburnum Crescent · Peacock Way · Owen Close · Braybrook Close · Azalea Avenue · Holly Grove · Laurel Close · Old Toll Bar Drive · Brackendale Road

All the streets in DE55 and across Amber Valley.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.