Spring Grove Sandy, Central Bedfordshire

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (SG19), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25200095.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £243,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 7).
  • 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 Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandy, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 26 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandy Health Centre, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 94 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
20261£243,000£243,000£243,000
20242£345,000£250,000£440,000
20221£306,000£306,000£306,000
20201£236,000£236,000£236,000
20171£229,995£229,995£229,995
20151£170,000£170,000£170,000
20073£174,000£157,000£183,000
20062£165,750£154,000£177,500
20021£124,995£124,995£124,995
20013£88,995£59,995£90,000
19971£46,000£46,000£46,000
19962£48,500£45,000£52,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jul 202616 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£243,000
21 Feb 202410 SG19 1EUTerraced£250,000
8 Jan 20241A SG19 1EUDetached£440,000
13 Oct 202212 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£306,000
20 Nov 202018 SG19 1EUTerraced£236,000
24 Nov 20177 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£229,995
9 Sep 20157 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£170,000
29 Aug 20079 SG19 1EUTerraced£183,000
20 Aug 20074 SG19 1EUFlat or maisonette£174,000
19 Jul 200713 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£157,000
3 Nov 200618 SG19 1EUTerraced£154,000
26 Oct 200612 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£177,500
6 Sep 200220 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£124,995
18 Sep 200119 SG19 1EUTerraced£59,995
14 Sep 20013 SG19 1EUTerraced£88,995
20 Apr 200117 SG19 1EUTerraced£90,000
4 Sep 19973 SG19 1EUTerraced£46,000
29 Aug 199620 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£52,000
6 Jul 19968 SG19 1EUSemi-detached£45,000

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 January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1950-1966 (15); 1967-1975 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 820 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 8 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 20 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 low and 0 very low.

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
SG19 1EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG19 1ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 8 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 26 addresses are between 23 m and 24 m above sea level (24 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
SG19 1ET100%100%100%0%
SG19 1EU100%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 stationsSandy 679,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Biggleswade 895,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–2511.6 km (7.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Path Sandy110 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Biggleswade5.6 km (3.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN28.8 km (18 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandy Health Centre700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Britannia Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cloves Dental Practice590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBiggleswade Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationBiggleswade Police Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Sandy - Bedford Road PFS Cashzone270 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,160 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Swithun, a listed building (Grade II*), 780 m (0.5 miles) east. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St SwithunListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) east
The HazellsRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clon HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Cox HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) east
Quarry HillsHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Dame's OrchardWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Swading HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
College PondsLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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 5910
Under 552526

1 of the street's 26 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Laburnum Primary SchoolPrimary3–11190 m Report card (Nov 2025): 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Robert Peel Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Swithun's Church of England VC Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Sandy Secondary SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Maple Tree Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 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
Kings Arms SG19 1HAPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Laburnum Lower School SG19 1HQSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Amici Coffee Drive Thru SG19 1NARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good24 Jul 2024
Asda Express Sandy - Bedford Road PFS SG19 1NARetailers - other260 m5 Very good7 May 2026
Raymond Price t/a Pippapops SG19 2AGMobile caterer260 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Allison House Older Persons Home SG19 1NEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2026
Manor Farm Day Nursery SG19 1DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good27 May 2025
Bhavin Express SG19 1LGRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 May 2024
Ivory Lounge SG19 1LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Sep 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.

94 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Public order12
Anti-social behaviour10
Shoplifting9
Criminal damage and arson7
Other crime7
Drugs4
Other theft3
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person3
Vehicle crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mcmurdo Court (43); On or near South Road (18); On or near Sandford Rise (7); On or near Poplar Close (7); On or near Church Path (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: 339 residents in 155 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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

Girtford Crescent · Poplar Close · Church Path · McMurdo Court · Queen's Road · Church Path · Laburnum Road · South Road · Harvey Court · Swan Lane · Sandford Rise · Birch Grove

All the streets in SG19 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.