West Berkshire

28 addresses across 1 postcode (RG31), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26901982.

13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 7, E: 1). 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in West Berkshire costs £2,505 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Reading Green Park, about 2.5 km away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 50 m away, and Linear Park (39 hectares) is about 540 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 47 to 49 m above sea level. 2 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is The Potteries, about 2.0 km away. About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 82 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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (5); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1976-1982 (8); 1967-1975 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Berkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,505 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,670£1,949£2,227£2,505£3,062£3,619£4,176£5,011

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (45% of about 660 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): Fords Farm Estate.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 4 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 21 August 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 28 addresses are between 47 m and 49 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
RG31 7YX100%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 stationsReading Green Park 221,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Reading West 482,000 journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Tilehurst 385,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m, 41 within 800 m; nearest Swanholm Gardens Fords Farm60 m
Bus or coach stationReading Rail Station - buses4.2 km
Car parksAsda Tilehurst Car Park870 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR39.5 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 surgeriesThe Potteries2.0 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Asda Pharmacy870 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Adp Dental Co LTD Dental Surgery1.1 km
HospitalProspect Park Hospital1.2 km
Police stationThames Valley Police3.7 km
Cash machinesPayzone1.0 km

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 4,750 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 mLinear Park 39 ha540 m
Play area6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 610 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha580 m
AllotmentsLower Southcote Allotments 1.9 ha1.0 km

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 44 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Calcot Court, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m north-west. 10 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Calcot CourtListed building, Grade II*650 m north-west
Holybrook CottageListed building, Grade II*860 m south-west
Prospect ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Churchend CopseWood1.1 km north-west
Mill DamLake or reservoir1.3 km south-west
Curtis's WoodWood1.4 km north-west
The RookeryWood1.4 km north-east
Nabbs HillHill1.5 km north-west
Fobney IslandIsland2.6 km east

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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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 5920
Under 552628

2 of the street's 28 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
Kennet Valley Primary SchoolPrimary4–11230 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Academy ProspectSecondary11–18880 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Churchend Primary AcademyPrimary3–11920 m Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km No published inspection
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km No published inspection
Moorlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southcote Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.6 km No published inspection
Calcot Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.7 km Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Calcot Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km No published inspection
Ranikhet AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: 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
Charles Clore Court at A2dominion RG30 3NTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good26 Jun 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.

82 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Shoplifting15
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft8
Robbery6
Public order5
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sharnwood Drive (39); On or near Bayford Drive (21); On or near Holymead (5); On or near Seton Drive (4); On or near Carters Rise (4).

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: 274 residents in 126 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 age3640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work81%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • RG31 7YX: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

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All the streets in RG31 and across West Berkshire.

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.