Steeple Row Ely, East Cambridgeshire

3 addresses across 3 postcodes (CB7), about 90 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 12003191.

No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in East Cambridgeshire costs £2,485 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 77% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Ely, about 930 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Palace Green, is about 50 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. The nearest GP surgery is St Mary's Surgery, about 350 m away. About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 19% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 328 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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in East Cambridgeshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,485 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,657£1,933£2,209£2,485£3,037£3,590£4,142£4,970

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 840 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: yes, Ely (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 12 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
CB7 4ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CB7 4JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CB7 4LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 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.

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
CB7 4EL100%100%100%0%
CB7 4JU100%80%80%0%
CB7 4LB100%77%77%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 stationsEly 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25930 m
Littleport 252,000 journeys in 2024–257.9 km
Soham 66,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 38 within 800 m; nearest Market Street Ely110 m
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Forehill Car Park360 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest Barton Road Car Park360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN57.3 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest St Mary's Surgery350 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots170 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Chequer Hall Dental Practice80 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital1.8 km
Police stationEly Police Station250 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Cashpoint® Minster Place Lloyds Bank40 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 garden7 within 800 m; nearest Palace Green 4,150 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 2.9 ha290 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,100 m²430 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.2 ha860 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha570 m

Within 800 m: 7 parks and gardens, 9.0 hectares in all.

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)12.04015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Ely CollegeSecondary11–18900 m No published inspection
Lantern Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m No published inspection
Ely St John's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Spring Meadow Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Isle of Ely Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km No published inspection
Ely St Mary's CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.4 km Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Street Cafe CB7 4LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Tonys CB7 4LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m4 Good13 Jan 2026
Caffe Nero CB7 4LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
The Minster Tavern CB7 4ELPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good15 Jul 2026
Lamb Hotel CB7 4EJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
King's Ely Sixth Form CB7 4EWSchool/college/university70 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
Gail's Ely CB7 4LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Millennium Pizza CB7 4LNTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good3 Jun 2025
Hadi's CB7 4EGRetailers - other80 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Limora CB7 4LNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good15 Jun 2026
Wildwood CB7 4LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Spar CB7 4LQRetailers - other90 m5 Very good7 Feb 2022
Tom's Cakes CB7 4LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good1 Jul 2026
Marmalade & Jam CB7 4LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good9 Dec 2024
The Ladz Ely CB7 4LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025

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.

328 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences110
Anti-social behaviour104
Criminal damage and arson28
Shoplifting26
Public order12
Theft from the person9
Burglary8
Other crime7
Other theft7
Possession of weapons5
Drugs4
Vehicle crime4
Bicycle theft4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (122); On or near Market Street (64); On or near Steeple Row (36); On or near Chantry Lane (30); On or near High Street (25).

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: 290 residents in 174 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 age3640
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)19%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented61%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Eel & Apple (retailers - other, CB7 4NB) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Co-op (retailers - other, CB7 4EY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 19 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Lamb Hotel (hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house, CB7 4EJ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 31 October 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.

  • CB7 4EL: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
  • CB7 4JU: 1 address of 42 in the postcode
  • CB7 4LB: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Minster Place · Chequer Lane · High Street · Chantry Lane · Lynn Road · Chantry Lane · Palace Green · High Street Back · High Street Passage · Butchers Row · Market Street · Firmary Lane

All the streets in CB7 and across East Cambridgeshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.