Staddon Gardens Torquay, Torbay

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ2), about 70 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 40703321.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £200,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 7).
  • Flood: 13 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 B; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 82% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torre, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chilcote Practice, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 159 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
20252£200,000£200,000£200,000
20203£168,000£165,000£175,000
20161£148,000£148,000£148,000
20151£145,000£145,000£145,000
20132£149,000£148,000£150,000
20073£155,000£153,500£172,500
20064£148,750£145,000£154,000
20052£154,000£152,000£156,000
20042£91,493£50,986£132,000
20032£116,000£115,000£117,000
20023£85,000£82,000£97,950
20014£86,500£85,000£86,950
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 20251 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£200,000
28 Feb 20252 TQ2 8BBTerraced£200,000
9 Oct 20208 TQ2 8BBTerraced£165,000
17 Jul 202015 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£175,000
8 Jan 20203 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£168,000
25 Jan 201917 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£102,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Oct 201614 TQ2 8BBTerraced£148,000
2 Mar 20153 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£145,000
27 Sep 20137 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£150,000
4 Sep 201311 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£148,000
21 Aug 200714 TQ2 8BBTerraced£155,000
14 Jun 200712 TQ2 8BBTerraced£153,500
23 Apr 20071 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£172,500
20 Dec 20069 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£154,000
12 Oct 200614 TQ2 8BBTerraced£151,000
28 Apr 200617 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£145,000
10 Feb 200616 TQ2 8BBTerraced£146,500
30 Sep 20057 TQ2 8BBTerraced£156,000
30 Sep 20059 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£152,000
2 Dec 20046 TQ2 8BBTerraced£50,986
5 Mar 200416 TQ2 8BBTerraced£132,000
12 Nov 200315 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£115,000
14 Jun 200310 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£117,000
15 Aug 200216 TQ2 8BBTerraced£97,950
27 Mar 200218 TQ2 8BBTerraced£85,000
11 Feb 200221 TQ2 8BBTerraced£82,000
17 Dec 200111 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£85,000
7 Dec 200110 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£86,500
19 Oct 20017 TQ2 8BBTerraced£86,500
16 Aug 200112 TQ2 8BBTerraced£86,950
30 Jun 200021 TQ2 8BBTerraced£65,950New build.
27 Jun 200015 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£73,675New build.
26 Jun 200020 TQ2 8BBTerraced£65,950New build.
23 Jun 20009 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£69,950New build.
21 Jun 200019 TQ2 8BBTerraced£69,950New build.
16 Jun 20002 TQ2 8BBTerraced£72,950New build.
16 Jun 200018 TQ2 8BBTerraced£69,950New build.
31 May 200014 TQ2 8BBTerraced£62,410New build.
30 May 200012 TQ2 8BBTerraced£66,450New build.
26 May 200016 TQ2 8BBTerraced£69,950New build.
26 May 200011 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£66,450New build.
25 May 200017 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£69,950New build.
19 May 20001 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£65,075New build.
19 May 20003 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£64,550New build.
28 Apr 20005 TQ2 8BBSemi-detached£64,550New build.
17 Mar 20008 TQ2 8BBTerraced£61,700New build.
10 Mar 20006 TQ2 8BBTerraced£62,650New build.
25 Feb 20004 TQ2 8BBTerraced£62,650New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 1983-1990 (6); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (10); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (67% of about 640 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: 4 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

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, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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: of the 43 homes the Environment Agency counts, 13 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 5 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
TQ2 8BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ2 8BRnot in 2 or 3 13 / 0 / 6 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 21 addresses are between 71 m and 73 m above sea level (72 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
TQ2 8BB100%100%100%0%
TQ2 8BR100%82%82%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 stationsTorre 376,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Newton Abbot 1.3 million journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Easterfield Lane Watcombe100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton6.8 km (4.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksChilcote Close Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT28.2 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL102 km (63 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chilcote Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Watcombe Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barton Dental Surgery740 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalTorbay Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationTorquay Police Station2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM740 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,360 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.8 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,390 m²190 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Field 5.0 ha300 m
AllotmentsBeechfield Avenue Allotments 3,960 m²930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor Farmhouse Including Remains of Linhay at Rear, a listed building (Grade II*), 810 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 30 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Manor Farmhouse Including Remains of Linhay at RearListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Watcombe Park and Brunel ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II880 m (0.5 miles) north
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mincent HillHill420 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Lummaton HillHill570 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Shag CliffCliff or slope1 km (0.6 miles) east
Petit Tor BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Daison WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Petit Tor PointWetland1.3 km (0.8 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)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

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 552021

1 of the street's 21 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay 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
Watcombe Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert Mayne School Roman Catholic/Church of EnglandSecondary11–18820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lift Barton HillPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, TorquayPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): 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
Torquay AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
E & M Store TQ2 8BJRetailers - other130 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Dec 2025
Lucky Chef TQ2 8BJTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Silwal's kitchen TQ2 8BJTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Watcombe Pharmacy TQ2 8BPRetailers - other170 mExempt
Watcombe Chippy TQ2 8BPTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Spar - Gilletts of Callington TQ1 4SWRetailers - other350 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Watcombe Service Station TQ1 4SWRetailers - other360 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

159 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences76
Anti-social behaviour40
Criminal damage and arson11
Public order8
Other crime6
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Possession of weapons3
Drugs2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pavor Road (21); On or near Pafford Close (20); On or near Staddon Gardens (20); On or near Bellrock Close (20); On or near Pafford Avenue (15).

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: 599 residents in 252 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • TQ2 8BB: 20 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • TQ2 8BR: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sutherland Drive · Sovereign Mews · Medway Road · Roberts Close · East Pafford Avenue · Fore Street · Cornfield Green · Cornfield Green · Pavor Road · Idewell Road · Pafford Close · Easterfield Lane

All the streets in TQ2 and across Torbay.

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.