Slimbridge Close Worcester

10 addresses across 1 postcode (WR5), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000957.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2016 the median was £183,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 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 B; Band D in Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Shrub Hill, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Power Park, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice, about 2.7 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20161£183,500£183,500£183,500
20151£225,000£225,000£225,000
20111£153,000£153,000£153,000
20101£162,000£162,000£162,000
20061£187,500£187,500£187,500
20031£148,500£148,500£148,500
20021£132,500£132,500£132,500
20011£103,500£103,500£103,500
20002£98,225£88,950£107,500
19971£60,000£60,000£60,000
19952£55,125£54,000£56,250
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 20238 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jun 201614 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£183,500
14 Aug 20154 WR5 3SHDetached£225,000
18 Oct 20118 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£153,000
6 Aug 20103 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£162,000
16 Feb 20062 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£187,500
29 May 200314 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£148,500
11 Oct 200214 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£132,500
4 Jun 20014 WR5 3SHDetached£103,500
15 Dec 20002 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£107,500
1 Sep 20003 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£88,950
27 Jun 199712 WR5 3SHTerraced£60,000
25 Aug 19951 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£54,000
28 Apr 19953 WR5 3SHSemi-detached£56,250

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (34% of about 610 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 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 10 addresses are between 28 m and 30 m above sea level (29 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
WR5 3SH100%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 stationsWorcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Worcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (2 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broomhall Green St Peter the Great80 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksCity Walls Road Parking2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX44.4 km (28 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 surgeriesSpring Gardens Group Medical Practice2.7 km (1.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Peters Chemist280 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbotsbury Court Dental Practice320 m
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationWorcester Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Commandery Service Station Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Power Park 5.0 ha140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 12 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,300 m²80 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,750 m²220 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,320 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall Farm, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north-east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated monastic grange and fishpond complex at Middle Battenhall Farm, 450m north of Upper Battenhall FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield1 km (0.6 miles) west
Motte castle, moated site, and medieval agricultural remains at Crookbarrow FarmScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ketch CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Crookbarrow HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Woodside CoppiceWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Kempsey GroveWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Perry WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir4.1 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 5960
Under 55410

6 of the street's 10 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 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
Whittington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood High SchoolSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nunnery Wood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Costa Coffee At Tesco WR5 3SWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Tesco WR5 3SWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good14 Nov 2023
Yo! Sushi Store At Tesco WR5 3SWTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
St Peters Village Hall WR5 3TAOther catering premises240 mExempt
St Peters Fish Bar WR5 3TYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Chee Wei Chinese Take Away WR5 3TYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m2 Improvement necessary3 Sep 2026
Eden Coffee Shop WR5 3TZOther catering premises380 m5 Very good3 Apr 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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting18
Violence and sexual offences13
Other theft6
Burglary5
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (34); On or near Ravenshill Close (4); On or near Stoneleigh Close (3); On or near Broomhall Green (3); On or near Waseley Close (2).

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: 254 residents in 117 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 age4640
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%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)37%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • WR5 3SH: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ravenshill Close · Batsford Road · Stoneleigh Close · Dinmore Close · Norton Road · Alton Road · Queenswood Drive · Broomhall Green · Brimstone Close · Waseley Close · Westonbirt Close · Hidcote Close

All the streets in WR5 and across Worcester.

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.