Towpath Way Derby

35 addresses across 1 postcode (DE21), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10817192.

  • Sales: 66 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £165,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 26, D: 1).
  • Flood: 3 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 B; Band D in Derby costs £2,306 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Spondon, about 120 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chapel Street Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 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
20253£165,000£148,000£170,000
20233£157,000£144,000£230,000
20221£215,000£215,000£215,000
20212£165,975£132,000£199,950
20202£195,000£185,000£205,000
20191£123,500£123,500£123,500
20184£114,000£109,995£180,000
20171£115,000£115,000£115,000
20163£118,000£110,500£165,000
20155£111,000£109,000£180,000
20144£105,000£103,000£110,000
20127£95,000£90,250£104,950
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 66)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 20251B DE21 7SLTerraced£165,000
25 Jun 20254 DE21 7SLFlat or maisonette£170,000
5 Jun 202537 DE21 7SLFlat or maisonette£148,000
12 Nov 202417 DE21 7SLSemi-detached£234,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 20231 DE21 7SLTerraced£157,000
28 Jul 202322 DE21 7SLTerraced£230,000
16 Jun 20237 DE21 7SLTerraced£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Mar 202337 DE21 7SLFlat or maisonette£144,000
11 Jul 202231 DE21 7SLTerraced£215,000
3 Aug 202111 DE21 7SLTerraced£132,000
25 Mar 202122 DE21 7SLTerraced£199,950
6 Nov 202031 DE21 7SLTerraced£185,000
5 Nov 2020GARAGE ASSOICATED WITH, 31 DE21 7SLOther£185,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Sep 202035 DE21 7SLSemi-detached£205,000
25 Apr 201916 DE21 7SLTerraced£123,500
16 Nov 20181B DE21 7SLTerraced£118,000
5 Jun 201835 DE21 7SLSemi-detached£180,000
9 May 20182 DE21 7SLTerraced£110,000
27 Apr 20184 DE21 7SLFlat or maisonette£109,995
30 Jun 20171 DE21 7SLTerraced£115,000
21 Dec 201612 DE21 7SLTerraced£109,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Oct 201616 DE21 7SLTerraced£118,000
26 Aug 201618 DE21 7SLTerraced£110,500
15 Jul 201622 DE21 7SLTerraced£165,000
12 May 20166 DE21 7SLTerraced£106,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Dec 201515 DE21 7SLTerraced£180,000
1 Dec 20155 DE21 7SLTerraced£111,000
10 Jul 20159 DE21 7SLTerraced£110,000
29 Apr 201516 DE21 7SLTerraced£109,000
27 Apr 201511 DE21 7SLTerraced£113,000
19 Dec 201414 DE21 7SLTerraced£105,000
17 Nov 20148 DE21 7SLTerraced£105,000
10 Oct 20143 DE21 7SLTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 20143A DE21 7SLTerraced£103,000
17 Jan 201410 DE21 7SLTerraced£110,000
28 Sep 20123A DE21 7SLTerraced£95,000New build.
27 Apr 20123 DE21 7SLTerraced£95,000New build.
15 Mar 20121A DE21 7SLTerraced£99,703New build.
17 Feb 20121B DE21 7SLTerraced£104,950New build.
27 Jan 20125 DE21 7SLTerraced£95,000
20 Jan 20129 DE21 7SLTerraced£95,000
19 Jan 20121 DE21 7SLTerraced£90,250New build.
16 Dec 20112 DE21 7SLTerraced£104,950New build.
28 Oct 20117 DE21 7SLTerraced£95,000New build.
17 Jun 201118 DE21 7SLTerraced£94,952New build.
28 Apr 201116 DE21 7SLTerraced£104,950New build.
1 Apr 201120 DE21 7SLTerraced£104,950New build.
28 Mar 201114 DE21 7SLTerraced£104,950New build.
4 Mar 20118 DE21 7SLTerraced£100,000New build.
3 Mar 201112 DE21 7SLTerraced£99,950New build.

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.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, enclosed end-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (8). Built: 2007-2011 (22); 2008 (3); 2007 onwards (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (9); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Derby in 2026-27: Band D £2,306 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,537£1,794£2,050£2,306£2,818£3,331£3,843£4,612

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 1,200 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 35 addresses are between 44 m and 45 m above sea level (45 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
DE21 7SL100%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 stationsSpondon 47,000 journeys in 2024–25120 m
Derby 4.1 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Peartree 5,260 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Moon Spondon110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Derby4.1 km (2.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA10.7 km (6.7 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chapel Street Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chapel Street Dental Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalFlorence Nightingale Community Hospital Cdc3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationChaddesden, Oakwood and Spondon Police SNT1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mpk Garages - Erewash, Spondon370 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 gardenUnnamed 3.9 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²100 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Borrowfield Allotments 1.2 ha780 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Werburgh's Church, Spondon, a scheduled monument, 710 m (0.4 miles) north. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Werburgh's Church, SpondonScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) north
The Homestead with gatepiersListed building, Grade I800 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Pair of Gateways Leading to Spondon School (Upper House) and Adult CentreListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) north
Nottingham Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Elvaston CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Half Moon PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Windmill Hill PlantationWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Mossey Yard PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Brook PlantationWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Castle HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)15.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 5936
Under 553229

3 of the street's 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 6 from railways, 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 Derby: see them on the Derby page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Werburgh's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Park SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Springfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Asterdale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cherry Tree Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Borrow Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Meadow Farm Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chaddesden Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
SK2026 ltd TA The Apple Tree Grill DE21 7NEOther catering premises80 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
The Apple Tree Bar DE21 7NEPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
McDonalds DE21 7LYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good22 Apr 2023
Derbyshire County Cricket Ground DE21 7NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good5 Apr 2024
B & M DE21 7BRRetailers - other320 m5 Very good21 Jun 2023
Spondon Methodist Church DE21 7GDOther catering premises330 mExempt
Cobalicious DE21 7NLTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good15 Sep 2025
Zanfish Spondon DE21 7NLTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good4 Sep 2025
Freddy's Play Kingdom DE21 7NLOther catering premises370 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2026
Erewash PFS DE21 7NLRetailers - other370 mAwaiting inspection
The Laurels DE21 7NGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Oct 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Shoplifting13
Public order11
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons3
Other theft2
Burglary2
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Derwent Road (36); On or near Station Road (12); On or near Towpath Way (11); On or near Willowside Green (5); On or near Oakfields Grove (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: 396 residents in 169 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 age3240
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • DE21 7SL: 35 addresses of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bridgeside Way · Towpath Court · Station Road · Platform Court · Oakfields Grove · Stoney Gate Road · Portia Court · Celanese Road · Derwent Road · Willowside Green · Holme Lane · Greenbank

All the streets in DE21 and across Derby.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

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