Spitfire Close Ipswich

32 addresses across 1 postcode (IP3), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 18206119.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £255,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 26, D: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Ipswich costs £2,468 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Derby Road (Ipswich), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 90 m away, and Orwell Country Park (95 hectares) is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ravenswood Medical Practice, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 100 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
20262£255,000£230,000£280,000
20252£241,500£210,000£273,000
20241£261,000£261,000£261,000
20231£280,000£280,000£280,000
20221£265,000£265,000£265,000
20211£242,500£242,500£242,500
20201£218,500£218,500£218,500
20171£230,000£230,000£230,000
20161£215,000£215,000£215,000
20152£180,000£175,000£185,000
20142£152,220£132,440£172,000
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 202612 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£280,000
27 Feb 202611 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£230,000
1 Dec 20257 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£273,000
23 May 202517 IP3 9TGTerraced£210,000
8 Mar 202414 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£261,000
24 Feb 20237 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£280,000
11 Jul 202210 IP3 9TGTerraced£265,000
18 Jun 20215 IP3 9TGTerraced£242,500
22 Oct 20204 IP3 9TGTerraced£218,500
11 Jul 201712 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£230,000
14 Oct 201612 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£215,000
11 Dec 20153 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£185,000
15 Oct 201510 IP3 9TGTerraced£175,000
13 Jul 20151 IP3 9TGTerraced£178,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 201511 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£163,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 201415 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£132,440
23 Jan 20147 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£172,000
12 Jan 201212 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£155,000
2 Dec 201114 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£142,000
3 Dec 20103 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£142,000
31 Jan 20082 IP3 9TGTerraced£152,500
4 Jul 200710 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£143,000
3 May 200712 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£147,000
1 Dec 20067 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£152,500
23 Jun 200615 IP3 9TGDetached£149,000
16 Dec 20057 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£140,000
28 Oct 200511 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£129,500
29 Sep 200511 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£133,000
30 Jul 20043 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£135,000
27 Jul 20031 IP3 9TGTerraced£122,500
7 Mar 20039 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£122,000
3 Feb 20037 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£126,000
7 Jan 20032 IP3 9TGTerraced£109,950
5 Jul 20023 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£106,000
9 May 20025 IP3 9TGTerraced£107,000
1 May 20028 IP3 9TGTerraced£80,000
12 Apr 20024 IP3 9TGTerraced£91,500
28 Feb 200211 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£91,000
28 Jul 200012 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£77,000New build.
28 Jul 200014 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£77,000New build.
14 Jul 20002 IP3 9TGTerraced£82,000New build.
30 Jun 200015 IP3 9TGDetached£89,500New build.
30 Jun 200010 IP3 9TGTerraced£81,000New build.
30 Jun 20004 IP3 9TGTerraced£76,500New build.
30 Jun 20006 IP3 9TGTerraced£65,000New build.
30 Jun 20008 IP3 9TGTerraced£65,000New build.
30 Jun 200017 IP3 9TGTerraced£65,000New build.
8 Jun 20009 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£81,000New build.
28 Apr 20007 IP3 9TGSemi-detached£87,000New build.
28 Apr 20005 IP3 9TGTerraced£85,000New 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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: Flat (9); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, semi-detached (4). Built: 1996-2002 (22); 2003-2006 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (11); owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,468£3,017£3,565£4,114£4,937

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 670 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

Roadworks

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

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 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 32 addresses are between 38 m and 39 m above sea level (38 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
IP3 9TG100%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 stationsDerby Road (Ipswich) 95,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ipswich 3.4 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Westerfield 22,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maybury Road Gainsborough90 m
Bus or coach stationIpswich Hospital Copleston2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalShotley Point Marina Ferry Landing Shotley Gate10.4 km (6.5 miles)
Car parksBourne Park car park2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN61.9 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN67.7 km (42 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 Ravenswood Medical Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nacton Road Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hines Road (Dental Surgery)1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationIpswich Police Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greenways Neighbourhood Centre, Nacton Road Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,970 m²90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Orwell Country Park 95 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²200 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,130 m²190 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,500 m²930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 127 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Freston Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.8 km (1.7 miles) south. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Freston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brazier's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Broom HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Black OozeWetland1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Big PondLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
New ChannelTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
The CliffCliff or slope3.1 km (1.9 miles) south

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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
55 to 5930
Under 552932

3 of the street's 32 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 Ipswich: see them on the Ipswich 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
Ipswich AcademySecondary11–18530 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ravenswood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Morland Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Murrayfield Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Piper's Vale Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cliff Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rose Hill PrimaryPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
The Golden Hind Public House IP3 9NFPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good30 Aug 2023
Kingsley Health Care IP3 9QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Inspire Suffolk IP3 9FARetailers - other290 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Caterlink Ltd IP3 9FASchool/college/university290 mAwaiting inspection
Find Ltd IP3 0SPRetailers - other340 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Londis - Nacton IP3 9QSRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Kays Fruit & Veg IP3 9NDRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2016
Mac Market IP3 9QXRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Apr 2018
G-L-C Cafe IP3 9LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Nov 2023
Happy Tots Pre School IP3 9LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 2019
Lunchtime Company Ltd IP3 0SPSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 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.

100 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Criminal damage and arson16
Vehicle crime10
Public order7
Other theft3
Drugs2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2
Burglary1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nacton Road (35); On or near Golden Mews (19); On or near Hurricane Place (7); On or near Wyvern Road (7); On or near Grasmere Close (6).

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: 396 residents in 167 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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.

  • IP3 9TG: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Maryon Road · Hurricane Place · Harrier Close · Boyton Road · Maybury Road · Martinet Green · Ravenswood Avenue · Firefly Way · Golden Mews · Hunter Road · Nacton Road · Shenley Road

All the streets in IP3 and across Ipswich.

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.