Station Road Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire

83 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB25), about 450 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 35302279.

  • Sales: 114 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £267,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in South Cambridgeshire cost £441,410 in August 2026 (+0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,407 a month.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 21, E: 9, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: 1 recorded flood covered 1 of its 3 postcode centres, most recently in 2001.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 2,449 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in South Cambridgeshire costs £2,536 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Waterbeach, about 200 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 37 of its 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Waterbeach And Cottenham Surgeries, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 9 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20262£267,500£200,000£335,000
20253£550,000£445,000£927,500
20246£530,000£300,000£970,000
20233£420,000£315,000£440,000
20222£330,521£300,000£361,041
20213£395,000£285,000£420,000
20194£411,500£375,000£590,000
20185£350,000£225,000£455,000
20172£320,000£305,000£335,000
20162£301,750£295,000£308,500
20154£263,750£256,000£295,100
20142£266,000£265,000£267,000
All 114 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Jul 20111 CB25 9HTTerraced£190,000
24 Apr 20242 CB25 9HTOther£2,102Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 20153 CB25 9HTTerraced£295,100
23 Jul 20103 CB25 9HTTerraced£202,000
4 Jan 20194 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£415,000
18 Jan 20185 CB25 9HTTerraced£335,000
16 Jul 20045 CB25 9HTTerraced£183,800
16 Aug 20015 CB25 9HTTerraced£125,000
6 Dec 19955 CB25 9HTTerraced£63,500
5 Jan 20186 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£455,000
28 Aug 20086 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£230,000
28 Nov 20036 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£155,000
22 May 20268 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£335,000
23 Aug 20028 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£170,000
18 Sep 201310 CB25 9HTTerraced£250,000
15 Sep 200810 CB25 9HTTerraced£197,000
21 Oct 200310 CB25 9HTTerraced£169,950
17 Aug 199510 CB25 9HTTerraced£64,000
26 Feb 202111 CB25 9HTOther£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 202112 CB25 9HTTerraced£420,000
20 Jul 201812 CB25 9HTTerraced£390,000
5 Jul 200712 CB25 9HTTerraced£223,500
30 Mar 202614 CB25 9HTTerraced£200,000
21 Aug 201414 CB25 9HTTerraced£267,000
30 May 200814 CB25 9HTTerraced£200,000
1 Jul 201516 CB25 9HTTerraced£257,500
19 May 201116 CB25 9HTTerraced£211,000
11 Jul 200816 CB25 9HTTerraced£195,000
1 Jul 200316 CB25 9HTTerraced£155,000
19 Sep 199716 CB25 9HTTerraced£74,950
17 Dec 201918 CB25 9HTTerraced£375,000
19 Aug 200518 CB25 9HTTerraced£179,950
9 Jan 200418 CB25 9HTTerraced£165,000
20 Jul 200118 CB25 9HTTerraced£144,000
20 Oct 200119 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£119,950
8 Jan 202120 CB25 9HTTerraced£395,000
10 Aug 201820 CB25 9HTTerraced£350,000
14 Aug 200920 CB25 9HTTerraced£192,000
19 Apr 200120 CB25 9HTTerraced£116,000
16 Mar 200721 CB25 9HTTerraced£192,250
28 Jul 200021 CB25 9HTTerraced£94,500
15 Nov 199621 CB25 9HTTerraced£52,000
5 Jul 201922 CB25 9HTTerraced£408,000
25 Jul 201422 CB25 9HTTerraced£265,000
1 Sep 201022 CB25 9HTTerraced£205,000
31 Aug 200022 CB25 9HTTerraced£113,000
7 Feb 200123 CB25 9HTTerraced£103,000
14 Aug 199823 CB25 9HTTerraced£71,500New build.
30 Aug 202424 CB25 9HTDetached£970,000
23 Nov 201024 CB25 9HTDetached£575,000
30 Nov 200424 CB25 9HTDetached£495,000
12 Jan 202325 CB25 9HTTerraced£315,000
14 Jan 202125 CB25 9HTTerraced£285,000
5 Dec 201525 CB25 9HTTerraced£270,000
19 Nov 201827 CB25 9HTTerraced£225,000
22 Jul 200727A CB25 9HTDetached£295,000
28 Nov 202529 CB25 9HTDetached£927,500
7 Feb 201929 CB25 9HTDetached£590,000
26 Sep 199629A CB25 9HTSemi-detached£86,000
15 Aug 202329B CB25 9HTSemi-detached£440,000
26 Sep 201129B CB25 9HTSemi-detached£273,000
15 Jan 200429B CB25 9HTSemi-detached£203,000
26 Sep 199730 CB25 9HTDetached£295,000
12 Jul 202431 CB25 9HTTerraced£300,000
23 Oct 200032 CB25 9HTDetached£375,000
20 Feb 201733 CB25 9HTTerraced£305,000
21 Jul 200533 CB25 9HTTerraced£161,500
10 Aug 200133 CB25 9HTTerraced£105,000
30 Apr 199633 CB25 9HTTerraced£57,000
23 Jan 202434 CB25 9HTDetached£540,000
31 Aug 200134 CB25 9HTDetached£129,000
3 Mar 201135 CB25 9HTTerraced£190,000
22 Feb 200835 CB25 9HTTerraced£187,500
24 Oct 200035 CB25 9HTTerraced£95,000
3 Mar 199735 CB25 9HTTerraced£65,000
29 May 202536 CB25 9HTDetached£550,000
7 Sep 202037 CB25 9HTTerraced£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 201637 CB25 9HTTerraced£295,000
6 Oct 201537 CB25 9HTTerraced£256,000
7 Aug 200937 CB25 9HTTerraced£184,950
26 Mar 200437 CB25 9HTTerraced£147,000
25 May 200037 CB25 9HTTerraced£93,000
19 Dec 199537 CB25 9HTTerraced£61,500
19 Jul 202438 CB25 9HTDetached£520,000
4 Jan 200239 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£139,000
6 Sep 202440 CB25 9HTDetached£430,000
12 Sep 202241 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£361,041
1 Jul 201641 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£308,500
18 Aug 200641 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£164,500
21 Oct 200541 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£154,000
15 Jan 200441 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£145,000
1 Aug 200141 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£112,500
27 Jan 202342 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£420,000
22 Oct 201042 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£220,000
18 Nov 200542 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£185,000
15 Jan 200442 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£169,995
5 Nov 199943 CB25 9HTDetached£325,000
20 Jul 200744 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£215,000
14 Mar 202545 CB25 9HTDetached£445,000
1 Mar 201345 CB25 9HTDetached£336,600
29 Jul 200945 CB25 9HTTerraced£250,000
26 Jun 199845 CB25 9HTTerraced£118,500
30 Sep 201146 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£195,000
2 Feb 201748 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£335,000
30 Apr 200448 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£152,000
11 Oct 199648 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£70,000
25 Mar 202249 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£300,000
24 Nov 200849 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£165,000
18 Nov 200549 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£166,000
20 May 200249 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£126,000
1 Nov 199649 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£58,000
15 Jan 200451 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£175,000
23 May 199751 CB25 9HTSemi-detached£72,000
2 Feb 2024SMALL ACRE CB25 9HTDetached£855,000

House prices and rents in South Cambridgeshire

A typical home in South Cambridgeshire cost £441,410 in August 2026, 0.2% more than a year before. That is 12% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£635,858
Semi-detached£406,744
Terraced£331,993
Flat or maisonette£200,909
Bought by a first-time buyer£350,694

Private renters in South Cambridgeshire paid £1,407 a month on average in September 2026, 3% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,010
Two bedrooms£1,280
Three bedrooms£1,531
Four or more bedrooms£2,147

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (12); House, mid-terrace (10). Built: 1900-1929 (23); before 1900 (13); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (33); rented (private) (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (44 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,206 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% more than the district's 11,588 kWh, and 4,365 kWh of electricity, 10% more than the district's 3,966 kWh. There are gas meters for about 85% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CB25 9HT57 21 Economy 72,724 kWh 469,722 kWh
CB25 9HR14 5 Economy 73,576 kWh 1417,149 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CB25.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in South Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,536 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,691£1,973£2,254£2,536£3,100£3,663£4,227£5,073

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 1,240 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, Waterbeach (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 7 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Milton Landfill Site Landfill Gas 2 MW Operational Jul 1993 3.6 km (2.3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 15 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 69 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 12 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CB25 9HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
CB25 9HXzone 2 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
CB25 9HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

1 recorded flood covered 1 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in 2001.

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
2001Not named Not recorded CB25 9HX

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 85 addresses are between 4 m and 7 m above sea level (6 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
CB25 9HR100%100%100%0%
CB25 9HT100%100%100%0%
CB25 9HX100%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 stationsWaterbeach 372,000 journeys in 2024–25200 m
Cambridge North 1.5 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Cambridge 11 million journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lode Avenue Waterbeach70 m
Bus or coach stationDrummer St Bus Station Cambridge8.1 km (5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa220 m
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN42.2 km (26 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waterbeach And Cottenham Surgeries Good Aug 2026830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waterbeach Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentistsWiese And Associates5.2 km (3.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Cambridge Lea Hospital Good Aug 20265.9 km (3.7 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hatley Court Good Dec 2020270 m
Police stationHiston Police Station6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Waterbeach Cashzone3.6 km (2.2 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Green 4,740 m²370 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.6 ha290 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha470 m (0.3 miles)

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John, a listed building (Grade II*), 130 m west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*130 m west
Waterbeach Abbey (site of)Scheduled monument170 m south-west
Car DykeScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Horningsea kilns, site ofScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cow Hollow WoodWood400 m (0.2 miles) south
Biggin Pin PlantationWood3.2 km (2 miles) south
Dickerson's PitLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Todd's PitLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Three Cornered PlantationWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Chesterton FenWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
65 to 6901
60 to 6410
55 to 59366
Under 554878

37 of the street's 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 7 from railways, 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 South Cambridgeshire: see them on the South Cambridgeshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Waterbeach Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 720 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Waterbeach Community Playgroup CB25 9JU Sessional day care 26 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 720 m (0.4 miles)
WASPS (Waterbeach After School Play Scheme) CB25 9JU Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 720 m (0.4 miles)
Premier Wraparound Care at Waterbeach Primary School CB25 9JU Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 720 m (0.4 miles)
Little Stars Day Nursery CB25 9LY Full day care 100 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Herons' Preschool Waterbeach CB25 9PA Sessional day care 48 Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 387 childminders and 88 home childcarers (nannies) in Cambridgeshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
The Salvation Army CB25 9HTOther catering premises200 mExempt
Rosemary Newsagents CB25 9NBRetailers - other220 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Ely Foodbank CB25 9HRRetailers - other290 m5 Very good16 Feb 2023
Pharmacie CB25 9HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
The Sun Inn CB25 9HRPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good28 Jun 2024
Waterbeach Post Office CB25 9HRRetailers - other370 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
The White Horse CB25 9HPPub/bar/nightclub370 m4 Good6 Aug 2025
Hatley Court Haven Care Home CB25 9NDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
One Stop Shop CB25 9HPRetailers - other390 m5 Very good29 Nov 2021
WAY Youth Club CB25 9NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Beach Social Club CB25 9NJPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Nov 2021
Social Grill CB25 9NJMobile caterer460 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Criminal damage and arson2
Anti-social behaviour1
Public order1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Payton Way (3); On or near Whitmore Way (3); On or near St John'S Close (1); On or near Rosemary Road (1); On or near Parking Area (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 5 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 43% happened in the dark, and 14% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202221
202321
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
6 May 2024 08:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
6 Apr 2024 21:18 Slight 1 person: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Oct 2023 15:35 Slight 3 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
12 Feb 2023 22:51 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
18 Sep 2022 22:07 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark
10 Feb 2022 11:54 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
18 Feb 2021 01:45 Slight 2 people: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 2,449 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 90 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 2,449 counted 2025 1% 90 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 650 residents in 295 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 age4140
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)52%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)57%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 8 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, end-terrace (lodged 16 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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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.

  • CB25 9HT: 72 addresses of 74 in the postcode
  • CB25 9HX: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • CB25 9HR: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St John's Close · Lode Avenue · Payton Way · Whitmore Way · Whiterod Close · Rosemary Road · Adams Court · St Andrew's Hill · Burgess Road · Woodpecker Way · Chapel Close · Pieces Terrace

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.