Switchback Close Maidenhead

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (SL6), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44401507.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £513,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Windsor and Maidenhead costs £1,953 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Furze Platt, about 680 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Linden Medical Centre, about 640 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 93 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
20261£513,500£513,500£513,500
20251£435,000£435,000£435,000
20121£245,000£245,000£245,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20071£305,000£305,000£305,000
20051£220,000£220,000£220,000
20041£200,000£200,000£200,000
20012£182,000£180,000£184,000
19981£117,000£117,000£117,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Feb 202619 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£513,500
12 Sep 20259 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£435,000
23 Nov 201213 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£245,000
15 Apr 201111 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£250,000
24 Aug 200713 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£305,000
8 Jul 200511 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£220,000
20 Dec 20043 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£200,000
31 Aug 200119 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£180,000
27 Apr 200115 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£184,000
22 Jul 19983 SL6 7QDSemi-detached£117,000

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 dates from January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, end-terrace (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 2003-2006 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4); owner-occupied (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Windsor and Maidenhead in 2026-27: Band D £1,953 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,302£1,519£1,736£1,953£2,387£2,820£3,254£3,905

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (30% of about 570 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 1.0 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 2 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
SL6 7QDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SL6 7QBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 45 m and 47 m above sea level (46 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
SL6 7QB100%100%100%0%
SL6 7QD100%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 stationsFurze Platt 178,000 journeys in 2024–25680 m
Maidenhead 4.9 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Cookham 204,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 34 within 800 m; nearest Cannon Court Road Furze Platt60 m
Bus or coach stationCoachway High Wycombe8.8 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Parking space on St. Peters Road, SL6150 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest College Road1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR20.5 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Linden Medical Centre640 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest H A Mcparland LTD470 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Linden Dental Surgery580 m
HospitalSt Mark's Hospital1.4 km
Police stationMaidenhead Police Station2.0 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Shifford, Shifford Crescent Cashzone470 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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,370 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 4,180 m²490 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Switchback Road Play Area 700 m²80 m
Playing fieldOaken Grove Park 8.2 ha820 m
AllotmentsCookham Road Allotment Site 1.8 ha810 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Taplow Court, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.9 km east. 1 listed building is within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Taplow CourtRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beeching-grove WoodWood1.2 km north-west
Summerleaze LakeLake or reservoir1.8 km east
Punt HillHill1.8 km south
Boulter's IslandIsland2.6 km east
Cookham DeanValley3.6 km north
Cock MarshWetland4.2 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
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: 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.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 551214

2 of the street's 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Furze Platt Senior SchoolSecondary11–18300 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Furze Platt Junior SchoolPrimary7–11540 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Furze Platt Infant SchoolPrimary4–7540 m No published inspection
Maidenhead Nursery SchoolNursery2–5750 m No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.0 km No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Alwyn Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.1 km No published inspection
Courthouse Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.2 km Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–112.0 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Wise Owls Club Ltd At St Peters Church SL6 7QUSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good17 Mar 2020
Handmade Cake Company SL6 7TUManufacturers/packers140 m5 Very good5 Dec 2019
St Peters Church SL6 7QUOther catering premises150 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Go Local Extra SL6 7NHRetailers - other150 mAwaiting inspection
McEvoy And Rowley SL6 7NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good7 Dec 2023
Legacy Leisure At Furzeplatt Leisure Centre SL6 7NQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good4 Jul 2019
Accent Catering @ Furze Platt Senior School SL6 7NQSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good9 Sep 2024
Little Fishes Pre School SL6 7NGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good13 Jan 2020
Furze Platt War Memorial Hall SL6 7NGOther catering premises230 mExempt
Los OrigenES SL6 7RNImporters/Exporters240 m5 Very good8 Mar 2024
Tesco SL6 7NFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good10 Aug 2022
Palmieri's SL6 7NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good4 Jan 2022
Moons Deli SL6 7RHOther catering premises350 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Ks Pure Vegetarian SL6 7SDMobile caterer450 mAwaiting inspection
Vinakya Store SL6 7SNRetailers - other470 m5 Very good22 Aug 2022

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.

93 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Vehicle crime11
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson9
Other theft6
Public order6
Other crime4
Shoplifting3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Deansfield Close (55); On or near St Peter'S Road (12); On or near Kensal Green Drive (12); On or near Switchback Road South (8); On or near Switchback Close (6).

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: 385 residents in 146 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

Nearby streets

Cannon Court Road · Switchback Road South · Deansfield Close · The Switchback · Isambard Close · Switchback Road South · Kensal Green Drive · The Chase · Gardner Road · Lindsey Drive · Switchback Road South · Willow Close

All the streets in SL6 and across Windsor and Maidenhead.

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.