Spring Gardens Swindon

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (SN1), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 83876718.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £114,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 2, E: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Swindon costs £2,438 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Swindon (Wilts), about 660 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 60 m away, and The Lawn (36 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 102 to 103 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whalebridge Practice, about 220 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 519 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20171£114,000£114,000£114,000
20082£67,750£66,500£69,000
20072£75,250£66,500£84,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jan 201818, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Sep 201715, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£114,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 200816, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£66,500New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 200820, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 200714, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£66,500New build. Leasehold.
17 Aug 200718, PARAMOUNT SN1 2SAFlat or maisonette£84,000New build. Leasehold.

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: Flat (18). Built: 2003-2006 (12); 2007-2011 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (10); rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Swindon in 2026-27: Band D £2,438 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,625£1,896£2,167£2,438£2,980£3,522£4,064£4,876

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 1,730 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 2 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.

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 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are 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
SN1 2SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN1 2JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SN1 2BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN1 2JGnot 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.

© 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 25 addresses are between 102 m and 103 m above sea level (103 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
SN1 2BF100%100%100%0%
SN1 2JG100%100%100%0%
SN1 2JY100%100%100%0%
SN1 2SA100%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 stationSwindon (Wilts) 3.2 million journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Bus stops30 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 78 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Princes Street Swindon140 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Beckhampton Street, SN130 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Premier Inn Swindon Temple Street GeniePoint340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS68.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whalebridge Practice220 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swindon Health Ctre Pharmacy LTD220 m
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Islington Street (Dental Surgery)220 m
HospitalRidgeway Hospital4 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationWiltshire Police670 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Groundwell Road Cashzone290 m

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,790 m²60 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Lawn 36 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Swindon County Ground 2.7 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsShrivenham Road Allotments 2.5 ha890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 42 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Queen's Park, Swindon, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 470 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 94 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Queen's Park, SwindonRegistered park or garden, Grade II470 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Health Hydro (former GWR Medical Fund Baths and Dispensary)Listed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) west
The Mechanics' InstituteListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) west
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south
Villetts HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
Remains of Holy Rood Church, The Lawn, Old TownScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Town Gardens, SwindonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bruddel WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Great CopseWood2 km (1.3 miles) south
Shaftesbury LakesLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Toot HillHill3.7 km (2.3 miles) west
Wanborough MarshWetland4.9 km (3 miles) east
Coombe BottomValley4.9 km (3.1 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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5910
Under 552425

1 of the street's 25 addresses is 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 Swindon: see them on the Swindon page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11330 m Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Drove Primary SchoolPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King William Street Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lainesmead Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
UTC SwindonSecondary14–191 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lethbridge Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Robert Le Kyng Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Lawn Manor AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gorse Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mountford Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Cafe Booth SN1 2BFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Travelodge Swindon Central SN1 2DFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Meca SN1 1PRPub/bar/nightclub110 m4 Good13 Jun 2025
Popeyes SN1 2NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Serco PECS SN1 2JBOther catering premises150 mExempt
Solid Ground Coffee SN1 2SGMobile caterer180 m5 Very good23 Apr 2025
New Spice Village Ltd SN1 2DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good22 Oct 2025
Zehras Desserts / Kaspas Desserts SN1 2DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good23 Apr 2026
Redline Racing SN1 1QNPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Taccs 'N' Dawgs SN1 1QNTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Prime Theatre (HAF) SN1 1QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 mAwaiting inspection
Street Grill SN1 1QNTakeaway/sandwich shop270 mAwaiting inspection
Dosahut SN1 1QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
Robert Dyas SN1 1JQRetailers - other280 mExempt
Quick Stop Regent Ltd SN1 1PNRetailers - other280 mAwaiting inspection

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.

519 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour168
Violence and sexual offences151
Criminal damage and arson37
Drugs31
Public order30
Shoplifting24
Other theft22
Vehicle crime14
Theft from the person10
Possession of weapons8
Other crime7
Bicycle theft7
Burglary6
Robbery4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (98); On or near Spring Close (85); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (74); On or near Princes Street (53); On or near Gordon Gardens (45).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 948 residents in 372 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented63%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van27%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)53%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Real Store (retailers - other, SN1 1SD) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 9 September 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Lishkara (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SN1 1SD) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 22 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Young Swindon And Wiltshire / Solid Ground (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SN1 1QG) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 21 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Swindon And Wiltshire Pride Hub/Swindon Wiltshire Pride (retailers - other, SN1 1LF) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 30 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Costa Ltd (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SN1 1BA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 12 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • SN1 2SA: 21 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • SN1 2JY: 2 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • SN1 2BF: 1 address of 2 in the postcode
  • SN1 2JG: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Spring Close · Beckhampton Street · Gordon Road · Euclid Street · Fleming Way · Fleming Way · Islington Street · Newcastle Street · Medgbury Road · The Terrace · Lincoln Street · Leicester Street

All the streets in SN1 and across Swindon.

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.