Smithfields Totnes, South Hams

70 addresses across 3 postcodes (TQ9), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35500866.

  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 25, D: 21, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 B; Band D in South Hams costs £2,615 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Totnes, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Heath's Garden, is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 70 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leatside Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (21); House, mid-terrace (21); House, semi-detached (13). Built: 1930-1949 (46); 1950-1966 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (30); rented (social) (18); rented (private) (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Hams in 2026-27: Band D £2,615 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,743£2,034£2,325£2,615£3,196£3,778£4,359£5,230

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (46% of about 710 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 25 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
TQ9 5LWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ9 5LNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ9 5GBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 70 addresses are between 13 m and 35 m above sea level (21 m on average); the ground rises about 22 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
TQ9 5GB100%95%95%0%
TQ9 5LN100%100%100%0%
TQ9 5LW100%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 stationsTotnes 797,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–2511.5 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smithfields Totnes80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton9.3 km (5.8 miles)
Ferry terminalTotnes Ferry Landing1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Ashburton Road610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT39.2 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL110 km (68 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 Leatside Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Lodge Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalTotnes Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationTotnes Police Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone540 m (0.3 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 Heath's Garden 540 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Leechwell Garden 3,030 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,900 m²80 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.5 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Totnes Castle, a scheduled monument, 480 m (0.3 miles) east. 237 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade I and 24 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Totnes CastleScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) east
The CastleListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) east
55, High StreetListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) east
43, Butterwalk (See details for further address information)Listed building, Grade I610 m (0.4 miles) east
39 AND 41, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)Listed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) east
Leechwell holy well, 350m south west of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument620 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Immersion bath associated with Leechwell holy well, 40m north east of Leechwell CottageScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Dartington HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Harper's HillHill750 m (0.5 miles) south
Snipe IslandIsland1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Vire IslandIsland1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Peek PlantationWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
St Peter's Quay PoolLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The GutWetland4.4 km (2.7 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)3.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.84015

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 64124
55 to 5902
Under 556944

1 of the street's 70 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 26 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

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
King Edward VI Community CollegeSecondary11–18670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Grove SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Totnes St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, 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
Community of St. Antony & St.Elias TQ9 5LJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 mExempt
The Great Grubb TQ9 5LXOther catering premises250 m5 Very good23 Mar 2025
Luna's Bakehouse TQ9 5PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Jan 2026
Earth.Food.Love.Ltd TQ9 5PFRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Sep 2024
Bay Horse Inn TQ9 5SPPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2026
Wine & Greene TQ9 5PBRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Cafe Mumbai TQ9 5SNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Joejoes TQ9 5PBTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Tamarind Tree Totnes LTD TQ9 5PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 May 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Other theft3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kellock Drive (10); On or near Collapark (7); On or near Paige Adams Road (5); On or near Fallowfields (2); On or near Smithfields (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: 332 residents in 118 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • TQ9 5LW: 38 addresses
  • TQ9 5LN: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • TQ9 5GB: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Smithfields · Birchwood Close · Paige Adams Road · Broomborough Drive · Kellock Drive · Paige Adams Road · Fallowfields · Copland Meadows · Jellicoe Villas · Sparrow Road · Lower Collapark · Barracks Hill

All the streets in TQ9 and across South Hams.

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.