Soper Drive Caterham, Tandridge

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (CR3), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39500946.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £850,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 1, 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 D; Band D in Tandridge costs £2,595 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Caterham, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and Westway Common (4.5 hectares) is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 184 to 186 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 Old Coulsdon Medical Practice, about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£850,000£850,000£850,000
20202£740,000£715,000£765,000
20191£730,000£730,000£730,000
20161£635,000£635,000£635,000
20141£610,000£610,000£610,000
20111£470,000£470,000£470,000
20101£550,000£550,000£550,000
20091£499,999£499,999£499,999
20073£430,000£380,000£451,500
20051£295,000£295,000£295,000
20032£400,000£390,000£410,000
19978£199,950£145,950£209,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Aug 20247 CR3 5EYDetached£850,000
10 Dec 20207 CR3 5EYDetached£765,000
27 Mar 20209 CR3 5EYDetached£715,000
4 Nov 20194 CR3 5EYDetached£730,000
31 Oct 20165 CR3 5EYDetached£635,000
21 Mar 20144 CR3 5EYDetached£610,000
24 Jan 20113 CR3 5EYDetached£470,000
10 Dec 20107 CR3 5EYDetached£550,000
21 Oct 20097 CR3 5EYDetached£499,999
5 Dec 20073 CR3 5EYDetached£430,000
27 Nov 20071 CR3 5EYDetached£380,000
3 Jan 20079 CR3 5EYDetached£451,500
25 Nov 20052 CR3 5EYDetached£295,000
25 Nov 20034 CR3 5EYDetached£390,000
13 Nov 20037 CR3 5EYDetached£410,000
12 Sep 19978 CR3 5EYDetached£209,950New build.
29 Aug 19979 CR3 5EYDetached£209,950New build.
29 Aug 19977 CR3 5EYDetached£209,950New build.
11 Jun 19975 CR3 5EYDetached£199,950New build.
30 May 19974 CR3 5EYDetached£199,950New build.
30 May 19973 CR3 5EYDetached£145,950New build.
30 May 19971 CR3 5EYDetached£145,950New build.
23 May 19972 CR3 5EYDetached£145,950New build.

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 2010 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 143 m². Most common: House, detached (6). Built: 1996-2002 (5); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Tandridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,595 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,730£2,018£2,307£2,595£3,171£3,748£4,325£5,190

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (32% of about 1,170 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: in a protected area: St. Lawrences Hospital Coulsdon Road Caterham.
  • 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

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street 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 184 m and 186 m above sea level (185 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
CR3 5EX100%100%100%0%
CR3 5EY100%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 stationsCaterham 585,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Whyteleafe South 115,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Upper Warlingham 851,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hambledon Road Caterham30 m
Bus or coach stationWhyteleafe South - Main Road2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nelson Road200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW16.6 km (10 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 surgeriesOld Coulsdon Medical Practice2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caterham Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Townend Dental Practice610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalCaterham Dene Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationCaterham Police Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Caterham - Townend Road, Townend Road Cashzone610 m (0.4 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.2 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Westway Common 4.5 ha160 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,440 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,750 m²380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Spigot Mortar Emplacement at RAF Kenley, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) north. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spigot Mortar Emplacement at RAF KenleyScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dean HillHill860 m (0.5 miles) west
Stites Hill WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Coulsdon CommonWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Happy ValleyValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Heronswood MereLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Spynes MereWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) south-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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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 6410
55 to 5950
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 Tandridge: see them on the Tandridge 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
Hillcroft Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–11550 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
de Stafford SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Audley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy CoulsdonSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Caterham Arms Bar CR3 5NFPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good5 Jan 2026
The New Caterham Arms CR3 5NFFarmers/growers80 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Costercut CR3 5TQRetailers - other80 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
My Village Café CR3 5TQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good5 Jun 2026
Westhill Care Home CR3 5TQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Sweet & Silk CR3 5GYOther catering premises270 mExempt
Priyas News CR3 5PHRetailers - other330 m5 Very good21 May 2024
Perfect Kebab CR3 5NUTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Royal Tandoori CR3 5NUTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Royal Pizza CR3 5NUTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Sharps's Traditional Fish & Chips CR3 5NUTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Nov 2023
China Chef CR3 5NUTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Aspens @ Hillcroft Primary School CR3 5PGSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Cafe 181 at Oakhall Church CR3 5PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jun 2025
Cr3 Youth Project Skaterham The Tuck Shop CR3 5XLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Mar 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Other theft12
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime5
Drugs2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Francis Road (26); On or near Soper Drive (19); On or near Clifton Close (6); On or near Bunce Drive (5); On or near Gibson Way (4).

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: 393 residents in 183 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 age3440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented40%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Nearby streets

Hambledon Road · Christie Walk · Francis Road · St Lawrence Way · Pye Close · Drew Place · Clifton Close · Bunce Drive · Livingstone Road · Howe Drive · Marcuse Road · William Road

All the streets in CR3 and across Tandridge.

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.