Torbay Road Paignton, Torbay

1,127 addresses across 45 postcodes (TQ3,TQ4), about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 40700415.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026 (-3.1% on a year); private rents averaged £924 a month.
  • Energy: 337 homes have an energy certificate (B: 23, C: 105, D: 126, E: 64, F: 13, G: 6).
  • Flood: 21 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 96 times (206 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 40 m from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A3022, carries 14,577 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torquay, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hollicombe Park, is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1,073 of its 1,145 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pembroke Medical Group, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 3,520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 59 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 66 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 15 of them fatal or serious; 21 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

House prices and rents in Torbay

A typical home in Torbay cost £221,469 in August 2026, 3.1% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 25% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£416,968
Semi-detached£271,123
Terraced£212,910
Flat or maisonette£135,892
Bought by a first-time buyer£191,474

Private renters in Torbay paid £924 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£621
Two bedrooms£819
Three bedrooms£1,001
Four or more bedrooms£1,300

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

337 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: Flat (241); Maisonette, mid-terrace (27); House, mid-terrace (21). Built: 1900-1929 (116); 1930-1949 (55); before 1900 (46). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (144); rented (private) (126); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (337 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,905 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% less than the district's 9,410 kWh, and 3,310 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 73% of the homes.

2 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
TQ3 2AH38 6 Economy 71,755 kWh 317,155 kWh
TQ3 3DT15 8 Economy 73,567 kWh 108,182 kWh
TQ3 2BT16 6 Economy 72,627 kWh 1011,275 kWh
TQ3 2HL192,061 kWh 1510,225 kWh
TQ3 2SE162,817 kWh 145,601 kWh
TQ3 2DZ161,893 kWh 165,215 kWh
TQ3 2EP171,554 kWh 185,421 kWh
TQ3 2EZ93,593 kWh 124,718 kWh
TQ3 2HW92,258 kWh under 5
TQ3 3AB111,758 kWh 72,245 kWh
TQ3 2ER112,501 kWh 98,055 kWh
TQ3 2EU63,232 kWh under 5
TQ3 2AL221,803 kWh 236,145 kWh
TQ3 2EY141,319 kWh 154,759 kWh
TQ3 2HN62,340 kWh 65,888 kWh
TQ3 2UB234,254 kWh none recorded
TQ3 2TZ24 18 Economy 72,780 kWh none recorded
TQ3 2DQ131,391 kWh 117,489 kWh
TQ3 2SF152,013 kWh 215,562 kWh
TQ3 2SG54,553 kWh 611,625 kWh
TQ3 2HB52,503 kWh under 5
TQ3 2DN53,917 kWh under 5
TQ3 2AJ52,239 kWh 611,465 kWh
TQ3 2AQ71,361 kWh 63,397 kWh
TQ3 2SD8926 kWh under 5
TQ3 2DP52,153 kWh 58,738 kWh
TQ3 2DS61,831 kWh 67,223 kWh
TQ3 2DT53,939 kWh 513,973 kWh
TQ3 2QZ31 5 Economy 72,269 kWh 256,897 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is TQ3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Torbay in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,647£1,921£2,196£2,470£3,019£3,568£4,117£4,941

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (31% of about 4,110 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 5 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Old Paignton, Polsham (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 38.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Polsham.
  • Tree preservation orders: 71 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

And 8 more.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 12 October 2026 to 13 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 24 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: WALES AND WEST UTILITIES LTD, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 15 September 2026: TORBAY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 3 September 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 16 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 32 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 97 homes the Environment Agency counts, 5 are in areas at high risk, 4 medium, 1 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TQ3 2AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3DTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ3 2BTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ3 2HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
TQ3 2SEnot in 2 or 3 7 / 2 / 3 unlikely
TQ3 2DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
TQ3 2EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7 unlikely
TQ3 2HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2ERnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
TQ3 2ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2HNnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ3 2UBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2TZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3DUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ3 2DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TQ3 3AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ3 2DNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2RYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2DPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2DSnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2TDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3ERnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2JBzone 3 4 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ3 2QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 2TYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ3 3EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ4 5DLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 40 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)60 m
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)60 m
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Durlston Head to Rame Head up to 23 m40 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 96 times, for 206 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Preston Sands (C), English Channel, Cockington Stream to Sea, Cockington Stream.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Preston Green Attenuation Tank South West Water Preston Sands (C) 11 10 360 m
#N/A South West Water Preston Sands (C) 20 8 530 m (0.3 miles)
Clennon Valley Pumping Station South West Water; monitored 81% of the year English Channel 9 1 690 m (0.4 miles)
Old Mill Road South West Water Cockington Stream to Sea 42 125 1 km (0.6 miles)
Paignton (Cockington Lane) Ps South West Water Cockington Stream 6 12 1 km (0.6 miles)
Paignton (Cockington Lane) Ps South West Water Cockington Stream 8 51 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: 1 to 3% (10); 3 to 5% (14); 5 to 10% (13); 10 to 30% (9).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 1,145 addresses are between 5 m and 24 m above sea level (11 m on average); the ground rises about 20 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
TQ3 2AA100%100%92%0%
TQ3 2AG100%100%50%0%
TQ3 2AH100%99%96%0%
TQ3 2AJ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2AL100%89%89%0%
TQ3 2AQ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2BT97%97%94%0%
TQ3 2DJ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DN100%88%88%0%
TQ3 2DP100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DQ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DS100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DT100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DW100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2DZ100%100%97%0%
TQ3 2EP100%100%94%0%
TQ3 2ER95%91%43%0%
TQ3 2EU100%100%90%0%
TQ3 2EY96%96%87%0%
TQ3 2EZ97%93%67%0%
TQ3 2HB100%80%80%0%
TQ3 2HL100%98%98%0%
TQ3 2HN100%100%94%0%
TQ3 2HP100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2HW88%83%75%0%
TQ3 2JB100%100%89%0%
TQ3 2QZ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2RY100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2SA38%38%38%0%
TQ3 2SD100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2SE97%89%89%0%
TQ3 2SF100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2SG100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2TD100%71%71%0%
TQ3 2TY100%0%0%0%
TQ3 2TZ100%100%100%0%
TQ3 2UB100%100%100%0%
TQ3 3AA89%78%78%0%
TQ3 3AB92%77%77%0%
TQ3 3BB100%100%100%0%
TQ3 3DT98%89%89%0%
TQ3 3DU92%58%58%0%
TQ3 3ER100%100%0%0%
TQ3 3EX0%0%0%0%
TQ4 5DL100%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 stationsTorquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Torre 376,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollicombe Park Paignton20 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksColin Road Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT33.1 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL106 km (66 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 (1 mile); nearest Pembroke Medical Group Good Dec 2025640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentistsGreentree Dental & Implant Clinic1.7 km (1 mile)
HospitalPaignton Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes11 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mount Olivet Nursing Home Good Mar 2025220 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Police2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Riviera, 376 - 384 Torquay Road Cashzone160 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollicombe Park 1.9 ha90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Preston Park 36 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,440 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.1 ha1.5 km (1 mile)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,030 m²60 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oldway Mansion, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 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
Oldway MansionRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
The Bishop's Palace, Tower RoadScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hollicombe BeachBeach180 m east
Round HillHill250 m north
Broken CliffCliff or slope520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Ten Acre BrakeWood840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Aptor PoolLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) west
Devil's PointWetland4.6 km (2.8 miles) north-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)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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, 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
75 dB or more470
70 to 742710
65 to 694980
60 to 642050
55 to 59520
Under 55721,145

1,073 of the street's 1,145 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 Torbay: see them on the Torbay page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Preston Primary SchoolPrimary4–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Oldway Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
St Pauls Second Steps Pre School TQ3 2DZ Full day care 26 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m
Preston Community Preschool TQ3 2RB Sessional day care 52 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Kinetic Sports Group - Oldway TQ3 2SY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Torbay Special Needs Playscheme and Saturday Club TQ3 2NA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 57 childminders and 6 home childcarers (nannies) in Torbay. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Londis Riviera Esso Garage TQ3 2DNRetailers - other140 m5 Very good25 Oct 2021
Living Waters Church TQ3 2DQOther catering premises210 mExempt
Mount Olivet Nursing Home TQ3 2DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m4 Good2 Jan 2026
Morrisons Daily Torquay Road TQ3 2BTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Oldway Heights TQ3 2ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Wok's Kitchen TQ3 2BTTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m2 Improvement necessary17 Aug 2026
Sara's on the Beach Takeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good8 Aug 2025
The Coffee Lounge Paignton TQ3 2BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
Yew Tree House TQ3 2ENHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house390 m5 Very good1 Mar 2024
AM Coffee TQ3 2DZTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2026
The Four Seasons Cafe TQ3 2EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Channel View Hotel - Upper Deck Bistro TQ3 2NUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2026
London Fryer TQ3 2NYTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Roy's Restaurant TQ3 2NYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory12 Feb 2026
Grange-Lea RCH TQ3 2RLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jul 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.

59 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour8
Other theft7
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order5
Drugs3
Vehicle crime3
Shoplifting1
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hollacombe Lane (27); On or near Petrol Station (18); On or near Locarno Avenue (6); On or near Great Headland Road (3); On or near St Paul'S Road (3).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

66 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 15 serious and 51 slight, in which 16 people were seriously hurt. 21 involved a pedestrian; 7 involved a cyclist; 19 involved a motorcyclist; 5 involved a child under 16. 27% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021111
2022134
2023214
2024102
2025114
The most recent 10 of 66
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
28 Dec 2025 05:30 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
16 Oct 2025 17:23 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3022, 30 mph Daylight
13 Sep 2025 15:30 Slight 1 person A3022, 30 mph Daylight
24 Aug 2025 16:00 Slight 1 person A3022, 30 mph Daylight
10 Jul 2025 16:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3022, 30 mph Daylight
17 Jun 2025 13:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
4 Jun 2025 21:09 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3022, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
4 Jun 2025 07:52 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B3060, 30 mph Daylight
1 Apr 2025 17:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A3022, 30 mph Daylight
23 Mar 2025 05:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A3022 between A3022 Hyde Rd and A3022 Rathmore Rd, with 14,577 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 30 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A3022 A3022 Commercial Rd to A3022 Hyde Rd 10,245 estimated; counted 2018 1% -10% since 2015 10 m
A3022 A3022 Hyde Rd to A3022 Rathmore Rd 14,577 counted 2025 1% -10% since 2015 30 m
A3022 A379 to A3022 Totnes Rd 12,675 estimated; counted 2018 1% -19% since 2015 100 m
A3022 A3022 Torquay rd to A379 Dartmouth rd 11,873 counted 2025 1% -4% since 2015 160 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 12 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 3,515 residents in 1,710 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%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)21%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 5 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 22 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH WEST WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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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.

  • TQ3 2AH: 106 addresses of 112 in the postcode
  • TQ3 3DT: 101 addresses of 102 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2BT: 60 addresses of 61 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2HL: 58 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2SE: 57 addresses of 58 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2DZ: 52 addresses of 54 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2EP: 52 addresses
  • TQ3 2EZ: 49 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2HW: 44 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • TQ3 3AB: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2ER: 39 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2EU: 34 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2AL: 33 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2EY: 33 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2HN: 33 addresses
  • TQ3 2UB: 33 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2TZ: 32 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2DQ: 29 addresses
  • TQ3 2SF: 29 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2SG: 21 addresses
  • TQ3 3DU: 20 addresses
  • TQ3 2DJ: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2HB: 16 addresses
  • TQ3 2AA: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • TQ3 3AA: 14 addresses
  • TQ3 2DN: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2HP: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2RY: 10 addresses
  • TQ3 2AJ: 9 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2SA: 9 addresses
  • TQ3 2AQ: 8 addresses
  • TQ3 2SD: 8 addresses
  • TQ3 2DP: 7 addresses
  • TQ3 2DS: 7 addresses
  • TQ3 2TD: 7 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2AG: 6 addresses
  • TQ3 2DW: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • TQ3 3ER: 3 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • TQ3 3BB: 2 addresses
  • TQ3 2DT: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2JB: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2QZ: 1 address of 48 in the postcode
  • TQ3 2TY: 1 address
  • TQ3 3EX: 1 address
  • TQ4 5DL: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tarraway Road · Great Headland Road · Hollacombe Lane · St Paul's Road · Bay View · Cedar Road · Great Headland Crescent · Locarno Avenue · Cedar Road · Cockington Lane · Fortescue Road · Torbay Road

All the streets in TQ3, TQ4 and across Torbay.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.