East Hertfordshire

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (SG12), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 12417125.

9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 1, D: 4). 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 C; Band D in East Hertfordshire costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Ware (Herts), about 370 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 730 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 33 to 34 m above sea level. 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Dolphin House Surgery, about 290 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 143 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 dates from March 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 40 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (5); House, semi-detached (2); Bungalow, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (3); 2016 (2); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); owner-occupied (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in East Hertfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 970 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 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 11 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 4 low and 0 very low.

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
SG12 7EGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SG12 7EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 13 addresses are between 33 m and 34 m above sea level (34 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
SG12 7ED100%100%100%0%
SG12 7EG100%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 stationsWare (Herts) 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25370 m
St Margarets (Herts) 351,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km
Hertford East 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m, 33 within 800 m; nearest The Angel PH Ware180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Hertford3.8 km
Car parks2 within 800 m; nearest Ware Station Car Park320 m
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station1.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN19.8 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dolphin House Surgery290 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots350 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest 3 West Street460 m
HospitalHertford County Hospital4.6 km
Police stationHertford Police Station4.1 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Esso Widbury Hill Cashzone340 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha730 m
Play area6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,110 m²640 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest King George's Field 2.3 ha450 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,040 m²310 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 2.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Place House, a listed building (Grade I), 290 m west. 187 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 4 of them Grade I and 15 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Place HouseListed building, Grade I290 m west
The Old StablesListed building, Grade II*310 m west
1, Bluecoat YardListed building, Grade II*310 m west
2, Bluecoat YardListed building, Grade II*310 m west
Ware FriaryScheduled monument630 m west
Gardens to Former Amwell House Including Scott's Grotto and GazeboRegistered park or garden, Grade II*700 m south-west
Section of Ermine Street, N of Hertford Branch RailwayScheduled monument1.0 km west
Fanhams HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km north-east
Bowl barrow near Gallows PlainScheduled monument1.9 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tumbling BayLake or reservoir250 m south-east
The CutLake or reservoir350 m south-west
Peters' WoodWood800 m south-west
Brokengall HillHill1.4 km east
Hag's DellValley3.8 km south-west
Waterford MarshWetland4.7 km west

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 5910
Under 551213

1 of the street's 13 addresses is 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
Christ Church CofE (VA) Primary School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–11140 m No published inspection
Hertford Regional College16 plus16–99600 m No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11660 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Presdales SchoolSecondary11–18920 m Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingshill Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Priors Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Voluntary Controlled Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Catherine's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No published inspection
The Chauncy SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km No published inspection

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
Guideposts Day Services SG12 7AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good8 Jun 2017
Star Food & Wine SG12 7AARetailers - other130 m4 Good25 May 2022
Sainsbury's SG12 7AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Christchurch Jmi School SG12 7BTSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Camp 4 Champs SG12 7BTSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Cafe Play SG12 7BTSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good8 Oct 2024
The Angel SG12 7AQPub/bar/nightclub160 mAwaiting inspection
SMart Cafe SG12 7BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 mAwaiting inspection
The Waterside Inn SG12 9DWPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good21 Aug 2024
Zero Ristorante Pizzeria SG12 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good7 May 2024
Domino's Pizza SG12 9BXTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good16 Mar 2024
The Sea Tree Limited SG12 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Amwell Tandoori SG12 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good19 Oct 2024
Cafe Twelve SG12 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection
The Sea Tree Ware SG12 9BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection

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.

143 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour39
Drugs11
Vehicle crime10
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson7
Burglary6
Public order3
Shoplifting2
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (60); On or near Common Wharf (13); On or near The Close (11); On or near Lygean Avenue (11); On or near Navigation Drive (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: 326 residents in 145 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 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Phem's Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SG12 9BY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection 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.

  • SG12 7EG: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • SG12 7ED: 1 address of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

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All the streets in SG12 and across East Hertfordshire.

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.