Stores Street Brandon, West Suffolk

8 addresses across 3 postcodes (IP27), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14600639.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2003 the median was £97,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1).
  • Flood: 32 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 A; Band D in West Suffolk costs £2,351 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 59% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brandon, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Orchard, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Forest Surgery, about 140 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 40% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 112 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
20031£97,500£97,500£97,500
20021£75,000£75,000£75,000
19961£36,500£36,500£36,500
19951£36,000£36,000£36,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Aug 20036 IP27 0AESemi-detached£97,500
28 Mar 20026 IP27 0AESemi-detached£75,000
29 Nov 19964 IP27 0AETerraced£36,500
20 Nov 19954 IP27 0AETerraced£36,000

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 April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (1). Built: Pre-1900 (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,351 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,568£1,829£2,090£2,351£2,874£3,397£3,919£4,703

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (62% of about 1,200 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: yes, Brandon (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the footway (minor works)
  • 8 October 2026: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 24 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 14 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
IP27 0AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
IP27 0AAnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 1 unlikely
IP27 0ELnot in 2 or 3 17 / 8 / 13 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 8 addresses are between 10 m and 11 m above sea level (10 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
IP27 0AA88%59%59%0%
IP27 0AE100%100%100%0%
IP27 0EL100%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 stationsBrandon 129,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Lakenheath 920 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Thetford 306,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Forge Court Brandon70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Thetford9 km (5.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brandon Station Car Park790 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI51.5 km (32 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN67.9 km (42 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 Forest Surgery140 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots140 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harold Smith Dental Practice160 m
HospitalSwaffham Community Hospital23.2 km (14 miles)
Police stationSuffolk Police Brandon Police Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM470 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Orchard 5,080 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5,280 m²310 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²380 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.3 ha2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha710 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oak House, a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m north. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oak HouseListed building, Grade II*310 m north
Middle Saxon occupation on Chequer MeadowScheduled monument340 m north-west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Roman building E of Fengate FarmScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Pepper Hill bowl barrow, 400m north east of Mill FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waterworks CovertWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Poors PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Mount PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
White HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Home WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Session HeathWood2.2 km (1.4 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)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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
70 to 7410
55 to 5940
Under 5538

5 of the street's 8 addresses are 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 West Suffolk: see them on the West Suffolk 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
Forest AcademyPrimary3–1160 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Glade AcademyPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Breckland SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Hyams Bakery IP27 0AAManufacturers/packers70 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Flintknappers IP27 0AAPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good12 Jul 2017
Peach Bower Chinese Restaurant And Takeaway IP27 0AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good19 Sep 2026
Forest Academy IP27 0FPSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good2 Jul 2026
Dominos Pizza IP27 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Azure IP27 0AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 mUnknown10 Oct 2026
El Greco IP27 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Apr 2026
Boots IP27 0BURetailers - other140 mExempt
China Garden Brandon Ltd IP27 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2026
Breakfast and After School Club IP27 0FPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good13 Jan 2022
Brandon Baptist Church IP27 0AQOther catering premises160 mExempt
Pagoda House IP27 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Kings Garden IP27 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
GoldenFriedChicken IP27 0AQTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Aug 2026
Centre cafe and restaurant IP27 0AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good23 Jul 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.

112 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Criminal damage and arson12
Drugs8
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order7
Other crime5
Other theft5
Vehicle crime4
Burglary4
Robbery3
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stores Street (34); On or near Lode Street (26); On or near Parking Area (11); On or near Whitehart Lane (9); On or near George Street (9).

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: 535 residents in 285 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)40%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 19 October 2026 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 8 October 2026 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Azure (restaurant/cafe/canteen, IP27 0AQ) now Unknown, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 10 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

School Lane · Market Hill · Coulson Lane · Beavor Lane · Suffolk Court · Cinema Lane · Gentle Court · Astor Court · Leamon Court · London Road · Lode Street · Braundon Court

All the streets in IP27 and across West Suffolk.

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.