The Close Sarn, Bridgend

13 addresses across 1 postcode (CF32), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47601440.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £175,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (D: 5).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bridgend costs £2,478 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sarn, about 190 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tynycoed Surgery, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 63 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
20231£175,000£175,000£175,000
20221£106,000£106,000£106,000
20141£98,000£98,000£98,000
20101£100,000£100,000£100,000
20071£88,000£88,000£88,000
20031£72,950£72,950£72,950
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Oct 20236 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£175,000
26 Aug 20226 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£106,000
2 Nov 20169 CF32 9NGOther£5,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Mar 201412 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£98,000
9 Jul 20101 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£100,000
2 Nov 20071 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£88,000
3 Oct 20031 CF32 9NGSemi-detached£72,950

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

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, mid-terrace (1); House, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (3); 1967-1975 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bridgend in 2026-27: Band D £2,478 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,652£1,927£2,203£2,478£3,029£3,579£4,130£4,956£5,782

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 520 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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

None of the 13 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 13 addresses are between 46 m and 50 m above sea level (48 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
CF32 9NG100%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 stationsSarn 57,000 journeys in 2024–25190 m
Tondu 50,000 journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Wildmill 29,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sarn Post Office220 m
Bus or coach stationBridgend Bus Station Stand 113.6 km (2.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sarn Station Park & Ride Car Park250 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL23.4 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tynycoed Surgery420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Village Dental Care520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalGlanrhyd Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationSouth Wales Police - Bridgend Police Station4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sarn Park Amenity, Sarn440 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,740 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.2 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 970 m²300 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.6 ha190 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,300 m²240 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Glan Rhyd Railway Viaduct (partly in Newcastle Higher community), a listed building (Grade II*), 780 m (0.5 miles) south. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Glan Rhyd Railway Viaduct (partly in Newcastle Higher community)Listed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south
Glan Rhyd Railway ViaductListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) south
Remains of Tondu IronworksScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Coytrahen HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) north
Glanrhyd HospitalRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south
Remains of Iron Furnace Near AngletonScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south
Three Pillow Mounds on Cefn HirgoedScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pen-y-fai CommonWood820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Coed-y-wernlysWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Coed-y-waunWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Park PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
Cwm GarwValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Cefn HirgoedHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 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 5910
Under 551213

1 of the street's 13 addresses is 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 Bridgend: see them on the Bridgend page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St. Robert's RC Primary Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Tondu Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen English mediumSecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Bryncethin Primary English mediumPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Brynmenyn Primary English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Penyfai Church in Wales English mediumPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Sarn General Store CF32 9PFRetailers - other240 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Tondu Primary School Canteen (Pandy Site) CF32 9RFSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good19 May 2026
The Fuel Haus CF32 9TFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mAwaiting inspection
Sarn and Bryncwils Social Club CF32 9NYPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good22 May 2015
Well Pharmacy CF32 9SWOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Ty Teulu CF32 9AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Nov 2017
Cylch Meithrin Plant Bach Sarn CF32 9SWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Feb 2026
Valleys Gateway Localised Service CF32 9SWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Paul’s chippy CF32 9ETTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2026
Gk Superstore CF32 9ETRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Mar 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.

63 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson6
Anti-social behaviour6
Burglary4
Drugs3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ffordd Priordy (16); On or near Heolganol (10); On or near Heol Pentyla (8); On or near Heol Llansantffraid (6); On or near Sarn (5).

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: 301 residents in 119 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 streetWales
Median age4243
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over15%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%66%
Owned outright19%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented12%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work49%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)15%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%26%
Travel to work by car or van72%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle8%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%32%
No qualifications34%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)99%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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

Heol Pentyla · Heol Llansantffraid · Heol Pentyla · Lower Llansantffraid Road · Lower Llansantffraid Road · Lower Llansantffraid · Clos King · Lower Llansantffraid Road · Heol Ynysawdre · Wern Ddu · Heol Canola · Sarn Hill

All the streets in CF32 and across Bridgend.

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.