St Philip's Road Cambridge

104 addresses across 10 postcodes (CB1), about 570 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 5400516.

  • Energy: 69 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 16, D: 37, E: 10, F: 4).
  • Flood: 43 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 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cambridge, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Coldham's Common, is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 104 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mill Road Surgery, about 160 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 70% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 92 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

69 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (32); House, end-terrace (18); Flat (11). Built: 1900-1929 (29); before 1900 (20); 1983-1990 (10). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (35); rented (private) (24); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 1,610 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: yes, Mill Road (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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: 11 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026 to 6 November 2026: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Section 50, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 5 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 21 addresses are in areas at high risk, 22 at medium risk and 45 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
CB1 3AQnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 5 unlikely
CB1 3DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB1 3UXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 3 / 0 unlikely
CB1 3DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CB1 3XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB1 3GQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB1 3UUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
CB1 3AEnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 9 unlikely
CB1 3ASnot in 2 or 3 6 / 0 / 13 unlikely
CB1 3AWnot in 2 or 3 7 / 10 / 17 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 104 addresses are between 10 m and 16 m above sea level (14 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
CB1 3AE100%100%100%0%
CB1 3AQ100%100%100%0%
CB1 3AS100%100%100%0%
CB1 3AW100%100%100%0%
CB1 3DA100%100%100%0%
CB1 3DB88%88%88%0%
CB1 3GQ100%100%100%0%
CB1 3UU100%100%100%0%
CB1 3UX100%100%100%0%
CB1 3XB100%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 11 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Shelford (Cambs) 222,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vinery Road Romsey Town160 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksCambridge Station Car Park870 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sleaford Street760 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN35.4 km (22 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mill Road Surgery160 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mill Road Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brookfields Health Centre310 m
HospitalBrookfields Hospital180 m
Police stationParkside Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Mill Road Cashzone280 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coldham's Common 46 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,260 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Romsey Recreation Ground 2.8 ha240 m
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vinery Road Allotments 1.5 ha230 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 50 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The David Parr House, a listed building (Grade II*), 760 m (0.5 miles) west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The David Parr HouseListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) west
Mill Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Botanic Garden, CambridgeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) west
Cambridge Museum Of Technology (formerly Cheddars Lane Sewage Pumping Station)Scheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Hobson's ConduitScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Giants GraveValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Robinson Crusoe IslandWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Limekiln CloseWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Mill PitLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Castle HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Chesterton FenWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) north

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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 55103104

1 of the street's 104 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), 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
St Philip's CofE Aided Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11380 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ridgefield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary11–16660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Cambridge Maths School16 plus16–19670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Brunswick Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.8 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
St Bede's Inter-Church School Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Fields Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Galfrid SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hills Road Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
Romsey Mill CB1 3BZSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Language Nursery CB1 3UZSchool/college/university150 mAwaiting inspection
TZATZIKI CB1 3NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
The Royal Standard CB1 3NLPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024
The Empress CB1 3AXPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good11 Jun 2025
Subway CB1 3DFTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Premium Foods Stores CB1 3DFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Cb1 Matcha / Cam Matcha CB1 3DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good7 Sep 2026
IMP café CB1 3BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good24 Apr 2026
Salisbury Conservative Club CB1 3NFPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good12 Nov 2015
Cambridge Central Mosque CB1 3DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good27 Sep 2023
Parkview B&B CB1 3DTHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house260 m5 Very good17 Jan 2024
Mill road Supermarket CB1 3NFRetailers - other260 m2 Improvement necessary9 Sep 2025
United Bee LTD CB1 3NFDistributors/Transporters260 mAwaiting inspection
Relevant Record Cafe CB1 3NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good20 Jul 2024

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.

92 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Bicycle theft12
Burglary12
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime10
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft6
Other crime2
Public order2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ross Street (24); On or near St Philips Road (13); On or near Thoday Street (12); On or near Hospital (12); On or near St Philip'S Road (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 7 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,946 residents in 831 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 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle30%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)70%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Section 50, 27 October 2026 to 6 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

Nearby streets

Belgrave Road · Romsey Road · Hemingford Road · Vinery Road · Mill Road · Malta Road · Seymour Street · Cyprus Road · Catharine Street · Madras Road · Danesbury Court · Thoday Street

All the streets in CB1 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.