Squires Close Cambridge

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (CB4), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5403332.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £402,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 22).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in Cambridge costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge North, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Stourbridge Common (18 hectares) is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Nuffield Road Medical Centre, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 3% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 134 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
20231£402,000£402,000£402,000
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Mar 20236 CB4 1DJTerraced£402,000Leasehold.

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 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); Flat (4); House, detached (3). Built: 2015 (22).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cambridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,645£1,919£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,112£4,934

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (56% of about 770 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 7 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
CB4 1DJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 4 / 4 unlikely
CB4 1SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 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 23 addresses are between 7 m and 9 m above sea level (8 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
CB4 1DJ100%100%100%0%
CB4 1SA100%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 stationsCambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Waterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashfield Road Chesterton240 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksCambridge North Station Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN38 km (24 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nuffield Road Medical Centre710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nuffield Pharmacy710 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBrookfields Hospital2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationParkside Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cambridge - Green End Road Cashzone470 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,820 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Stourbridge Common 18 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²110 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,210 m²360 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 990 m²300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chesterton Tower, a listed building (Grade I), 620 m (0.4 miles) south. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chesterton TowerListed building, Grade I620 m (0.4 miles) south
Chesterton AbbeyScheduled monument630 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade I800 m (0.5 miles) south
Cambridge Museum Of Technology (formerly Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station)Scheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Histon Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long ReachLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) east
Chesterton FenWetland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Todd's PitLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Castle HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Arbury OrchardWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Giants GraveValley4.6 km (2.9 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 552223

1 of the street's 23 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 Cambridge: see them on the Cambridge 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
Chesterton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11230 m No published inspection
Shirley Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
North Cambridge AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milton Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Colleges Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kings Hedges Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
King's Hedges Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Arbury Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Cambridge Regional College16 plus14–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Chesterton Community CollegeSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Brunswick Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Cambridge City Foodbank CB4 1RWRetailers - other240 m5 Very good3 Sep 2019
Clarence House Day Nurseries Ltd CB4 1RWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good5 May 2022
banana leaf sweet and savoury CB4 1RNTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good24 Jan 2026
ATHISH FOOD and WINE CB4 1RWRetailers - other260 mAwaiting inspection
Hope Fairbite CB4 1LNRetailers - other270 m5 Very good4 Oct 2022
CB4 Café CB4 1QQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good16 Mar 2026
Shan's Green End Convenience Store CB4 1RNRetailers - other270 m5 Very good29 Nov 2020
Sherbourne Lodge Limited CB4 1RTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good21 Mar 2025
The Mermaid CB4 1RJTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good14 Jun 2025
Cheryls News CB4 1NXRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Tesco CB4 1NXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2022
The Kings Hedges Family Support Pro CB4 1RUOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Peek A Boo Cambridge Nursery LLP CB4 1RUSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Bite street india Ltd CB4 1NSTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory14 Aug 2025
Chesterton Mens Club CB4 1NSPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Nov 2023

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.

134 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences71
Anti-social behaviour12
Criminal damage and arson9
Other crime9
Vehicle crime8
Other theft8
Public order6
Possession of weapons4
Drugs4
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Squires Close (27); On or near Heath House (17); On or near Kendal Way (16); On or near Elmfield Road (13); On or near Dalton Square (12).

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: 458 residents in 176 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 age3540
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)3%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership10%1%
Social rented83%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • CB4 1DJ: 22 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • CB4 1SA: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Eastfield · Chesterfield Road · Dundee Close · Shirley Grove · Lil Speed Walk · Warren Road · Warren Road · Ashfield Road · Evergreens · Southside Court · Heath House · Elmfield Road

All the streets in CB4 and across Cambridge.

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.