Townsend Close Basingstoke

72 addresses across 3 postcodes (RG21), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2105179.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £332,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 65 homes have an energy certificate (C: 52, D: 13).
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Basingstoke and Deane costs £2,255 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Basingstoke, about 1.1 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 220 m away, and Glebe Gardens (2.2 hectares) is about 650 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 98 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 72 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bramblys Grange Medical Practice, about 1.1 km away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 147 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
20251£332,000£332,000£332,000
20071£194,000£194,000£194,000
20042£151,975£139,000£164,950
20031£139,000£139,000£139,000
19981£71,500£71,500£71,500
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 202563 RG21 8AYTerraced£332,000
1 Aug 200760 RG21 8AYTerraced£194,000
9 Dec 200460 RG21 8AYTerraced£164,950
13 Feb 200466 RG21 8AYSemi-detached£139,000
18 Dec 200366 RG21 8AYSemi-detached£139,000
15 Jan 199866 RG21 8AYSemi-detached£71,500

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

65 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (26); Bungalow, mid-terrace (20); Bungalow, end-terrace (12). Built: 1967-1975 (49); 1976-1982 (15); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (50); rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Basingstoke and Deane in 2026-27: Band D £2,255 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,503£1,754£2,005£2,255£2,756£3,258£3,759£4,510

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (51% of about 730 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): Basingstoke Town and Chineham and the surrounding villages of Old Basing, Oakley and Sherborne St John..
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 15 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
RG21 8AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RG21 8AXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 0 unlikely
RG21 8XDnot 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 72 addresses are between 95 m and 98 m above sea level (97 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
RG21 8AX100%100%100%0%
RG21 8AY100%100%100%0%
RG21 8XD100%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 stationsBasingstoke 4.8 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Bramley (Hampshire) 265,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km
Hook 488,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 27 within 800 m; nearest Westdeane Court Brookvale220 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basingstoke1.1 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Castons Car Park770 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station420 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU39.0 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR50.2 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 Bramblys Grange Medical Practice1.1 km
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest S R Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Claremont Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalBasingstoke And North Hampshire Hospital2.3 km
Police stationBasingstoke Police Station1.2 km
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Basingstoke Kings Road, South Ham Cashzone940 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; nearest Unnamed 2,320 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 mGlebe Gardens 2.2 ha650 m
Play area9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 540 m²140 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest King George V Playing Fields 1.3 ha450 m
Allotments4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,440 m²270 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 4.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade I), 840 m north-east. 29 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade I840 m north-east
Holy Ghost ChapelScheduled monument1.1 km north-east
Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House): roof gardens and perimeter landscapingRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km north-east
Winklebury campScheduled monument2.0 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Common PlantationWood2.0 km east
Ructstall's HillHill2.1 km east
Black DamLake or reservoir2.2 km east
Upper Fish PondLake or reservoir2.4 km east
Mill HeadLake or reservoir2.4 km east
White Hill DellValley4.4 km south

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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 557172

1 of the street's 72 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
Basingstoke College of Technology16 plus16–99340 m No published inspection
Kings Furlong Infant School and NurseryPrimary2–7360 m Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kings Furlong Junior SchoolPrimary7–11460 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
CranbourneSecondary11–16650 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Fairfields Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Mary's College16 plus16–191.0 km No published inspection
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Blue Coat School BasingstokeSecondary11–161.4 km Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Costello SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oakridge Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Winklebury Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 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
Barchester Health Care At Ashcombe House Nursing Home RG21 8YUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Worting Road Newsagents RG21 8TXRetailers - other220 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Happy House Chinese Takeaway RG21 8TXTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Premier RG21 8TXRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jan 2025
Advance Housing & Support RG21 8TPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good3 Jan 2025
Taste At BCOT RG21 8TNSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
BCOT Nursery RG21 8TNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
The Restaurant At Basingstoke College Of Technology RG21 8TNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
S R Pharmacy RG21 8YTRetailers - other390 mExempt
Jaybees RG21 8YTRetailers - other390 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Kings Furlong Takeaway RG21 8YTTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
Spices And Spirits RG21 8YTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Morrisons RG21 8BJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
B And M Stores RG21 8BJRetailers - other400 m5 Very good11 Apr 2025
Basingstoke Conservative Club RG21 3DDPub/bar/nightclub440 m5 Very good14 May 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.

147 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences76
Anti-social behaviour15
Burglary11
Other theft9
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order7
Drugs6
Vehicle crime5
Possession of weapons5
Robbery2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Goodman Close (65); On or near Knight Street (12); On or near Lawrencedale Court (12); On or near Padwick Close (12); On or near Fletcher Close (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 555 residents in 236 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Stukeley Road · Fletcher Close · Longmoor Road · Downsland Road · Knight Street · Hamelyn Close · Bowyer Close · Fabian Close · Westdeane Court · Hamelyn Road · Winchcombe Road · Worting Road

All the streets in RG21 and across Basingstoke and Deane.

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.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.