Stantaway Hill Torquay, Torbay

15 addresses across 3 postcodes (TQ1), about 330 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 40703362.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 25% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torre, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Chapel Hill Pleasure Grounds, is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 67 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southover Medical Practice, about 870 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 80 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
20241£400,000£400,000£400,000
20081£240,000£240,000£240,000
20041£239,950£239,950£239,950
20002£129,750£127,000£132,500
19981£100,000£100,000£100,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Nov 2024WOODLANDS TQ1 4ERDetached£400,000
5 Aug 2008WOODLANDS TQ1 4ERDetached£240,000
24 Sep 2004WOODLANDS TQ1 4ERDetached£239,950
11 Jul 2000BIRDSONG TQ1 4ERDetached£132,500
26 Jun 2000WOODLANDS TQ1 4ERDetached£127,000
6 Oct 19983, THE RIDGE TQ1 4ERDetached£100,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (4); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1996-2002 (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 A (28% of about 960 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: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: Teignmouth Road, Torquay.
  • 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 15 addresses are between 54 m and 67 m above sea level (61 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
TQ1 4AW100%100%100%0%
TQ1 4ER100%88%25%0%
TQ1 4ES100%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 stationsTorre 376,000 journeys in 2024–25680 m (0.4 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cricketfield Road Hele190 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa650 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT29.9 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL103 km (64 miles)

Local services

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

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southover Medical Practice870 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shiphay Dental & Torbay Implant940 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital310 m
Police stationTorquay Police Station790 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Torquay Lymington Road Cashzone300 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapel Hill Pleasure Grounds 3.6 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha350 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stantaway Allotments 2,070 m²60 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Michael's Chapel, Chapel Hill, a scheduled monument, 590 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 51 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Michael's Chapel, Chapel HillScheduled monument590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stantaway HillHill150 m south-east
Daison WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Torre Abbey SandsBeach1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Blackball RocksCliff or slope1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Petit Tor PointWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Bickley PondLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) 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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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 551415

1 of the street's 15 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
Torquay AcademySecondary11–18330 m No published inspection
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–11380 m Report card (Jan 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 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
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 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
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert Mayne School Roman Catholic/Church of EnglandSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 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
Torquay Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, TorquayPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Cockington Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; 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
Carisbrooke Nursing Home TQ1 4ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Crusty Loaf Bakery Chatto Road TQ1 4UEDistributors/Transporters270 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Mount Stuart Hospital TQ1 4UPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
SoZa Social TQ1 4HAOther catering premises350 mExempt
Morrisons Daily Lymington Road TQ1 4AURetailers - other370 m4 Good11 Oct 2024
Upton Social Club TQ1 4AXPub/bar/nightclub370 m4 Good27 Jun 2025
Upton Cantonese Takeaway TQ1 4AXTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Mar 2026
Turning Heads Social Supermarket TQ1 4ALOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Newcroft Guest House TQ1 4BAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 May 2025
Fiveways Stores TQ1 4JURetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Oct 2017
Barton Cricket Club TQ2 7NSPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jul 2026
Ellas Mobile Cafe TQ1 4RYTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Jul 2021

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.

80 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Criminal damage and arson12
Anti-social behaviour7
Other crime6
Public order4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chapel Court (32); On or near Parkfield Road (18); On or near Stantaway Park (8); On or near Higher Audley Avenue (7); On or near Wright'S Lane (7).

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: 309 residents in 118 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 age4240
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented29%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • TQ1 4ER: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • TQ1 4AW: 6 addresses
  • TQ1 4ES: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Teignmouth Road · Penny's Hill · Chatto Road · Chapel Court · Teignmouth Road · Parkhurst Road · Wright's Lane · Snowberry Close · Lower Audley Road · St Vincent's Road · Chatto Way · St James Road

All the streets in TQ1 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.