Sutherland Drive Guildford

21 addresses across 6 postcodes (GU4), about 690 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16001784.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £800,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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 F; Band D in Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 87% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Guildford), about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Merrow Park Surgery, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 55% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20221£800,000£800,000£800,000
20201£675,000£675,000£675,000
20191£630,000£630,000£630,000
20181£645,000£645,000£645,000
20141£510,000£510,000£510,000
20111£535,000£535,000£535,000
20101£570,000£570,000£570,000
20061£361,000£361,000£361,000
20041£440,000£440,000£440,000
20032£352,250£334,500£370,000
20021£267,600£267,600£267,600
19982£225,000£225,000£225,000
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Apr 20224 GU4 7YJDetached£800,000
3 Apr 202020 GU4 7YJDetached£675,000
20 Aug 201912 GU4 7YJDetached£630,000
15 Jan 201832 GU4 7YJDetached£645,000
26 Sep 20148 GU4 7YJDetached£510,000
12 Aug 201132 GU4 7YJDetached£535,000
29 Jun 20104 GU4 7YJDetached£570,000
30 Jun 200626 GU4 7YJDetached£361,000
21 Dec 200414 GU4 7YJDetached£440,000
22 Aug 200316 GU4 7YJDetached£370,000
28 Jul 200322 GU4 7YJDetached£334,500
1 Jul 20024 GU4 7YJDetached£267,600
11 Dec 19986 GU4 7YJDetached£225,000
20 Nov 199832 GU4 7YJDetached£225,000
11 Jul 19978 GU4 7YJDetached£159,950
9 May 199718 GU4 7YJDetached£195,000
20 Aug 199622 GU4 7YJDetached£139,950
29 Mar 199626 GU4 7YJDetached£137,000
27 Feb 199632 GU4 7YJDetached£170,000
16 Oct 19956 GU4 7YJDetached£147,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2010 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 120 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1983-1990 (6); 1976-1982 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Guildford in 2026-27: Band D £2,547 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,698£1,981£2,264£2,547£3,113£3,679£4,246£5,095

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (30% of about 1,040 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 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

  • 28 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 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
GU4 7YJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU4 7YYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU4 7NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
GU4 7NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU4 7YSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 unlikely
GU4 7YWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 21 addresses are between 38 m and 41 m above sea level (40 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
GU4 7NJ100%97%97%0%
GU4 7NL100%100%100%0%
GU4 7YJ100%93%87%0%
GU4 7YS100%100%100%0%
GU4 7YW100%100%100%0%
GU4 7YY100%97%97%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 stationsLondon Road (Guildford) 869,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Guildford 6.4 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Clandon 166,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Banks Way Burpham70 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksGuildford Park and Ride1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 47 Marlyns Drive330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.7 km (15 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 surgeriesMerrow Park Surgery1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Burpham Dental Care860 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalMount Alvernia Hospital2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationSurrey Police2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Pantiles, 224 London Road Cashzone780 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 37 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,160 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sutherland Memorial Park 6.5 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Burpham Allotments 1.8 ha770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Second World War defences at Thorneycroft Wood, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Second World War defences at Thorneycroft WoodScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Sutton PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Merrow GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Old Manor House (site of) W of Roman Catholic church, Sutton ParkScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merrow CommonWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Jubilee WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Peacock WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Stoke HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Britten's PondLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Walnut Tree BottomValley3 km (1.8 miles) south-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
60 to 6410
55 to 5950
Under 551521

6 of the street's 21 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 Guildford: see them on the Guildford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
George Abbot SchoolSecondary11–18570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Burpham Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Weyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boxgrove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Peter's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Guildford Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merrow Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Christ's College, Guildford Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Anchor & Horseshoes GU1 1XRPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2026
EMPORIA BRANDS GU1 1XRImporters/Exporters470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Sep 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Anti-social behaviour4
Vehicle crime2
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Colburn Crescent (4); On or near Hodgson Gardens (3); On or near Hanson Close (2); On or near Bradfield Close (2); On or near Elder Close (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,318 residents in 563 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)55%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • GU4 7YJ: 15 addresses
  • GU4 7YY: 2 addresses of 64 in the postcode
  • GU4 7NJ: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • GU4 7NL: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • GU4 7YS: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • GU4 7YW: 1 address of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hanson Close · Alford Close · Hodgson Gardens · Bradfield Close · Hurley Gardens · Elder Close · Banks Way · Elkins Gardens · Turner Close · Gatley Drive · Weylea Avenue · Pimms Close

All the streets in GU4 and across Guildford.

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.