Tramways Torquay, Torbay

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (TQ1), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40700987.

  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 19).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cary Park, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 81 to 84 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Southover Medical Practice, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 162 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 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (7); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1991-1995 (24); 2003-2006 (1); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (24).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (71% of about 580 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 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.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TQ1 4RZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
TQ1 4LRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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.

© 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 28 addresses are between 81 m and 84 m above sea level (83 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
TQ1 4LR100%100%100%0%
TQ1 4RZ100%96%96%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 stationsTorre 376,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Haytor Road Plainmoor80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chilcote Close Car Park630 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT29.6 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL103 km (64 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southover Medical Practice400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well140 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unit 2-3 St. Marychurch Court480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationTorquay Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food St Marychurch, St Marychurch520 m (0.3 miles)

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 Cary Park 2.3 ha290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7.3 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,420 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,510 m²310 m
AllotmentsWindsor Road 8,130 m²820 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman Church of Our Lady, Help of Christians and St Denis, a listed building (Grade I), 530 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 53 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman Church of Our Lady, Help of Christians and St DenisListed building, Grade I530 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Parish Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I770 m (0.5 miles) east
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
St Michael's Chapel, Chapel HillScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Prehistoric field system at Walls HillScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Daison RockHill590 m (0.4 miles) west
Daison WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Stantaway HillHill830 m (0.5 miles) west
Blackball RocksCliff or slope1 km (0.6 miles) east
Oddicombe BeachBeach1 km (0.6 miles) east
Petit Tor PointWetland1.4 km (0.9 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
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
55 to 5910
Under 552728

1 of the street's 28 addresses is 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), 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
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–11220 m 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Margaret's AcademyPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–18420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, TorquayPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert Mayne School Roman Catholic/Church of EnglandSecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) 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
St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Torquay AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Warberry CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Domino's Pizza TQ1 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Morrisons Daily Plainmoor TQ1 3HWRetailers - other100 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
The Crusty Loaf Bakery Plainmoor TQ1 3HWRetailers - other110 m5 Very good24 Aug 2026
Well Pharmacy TQ1 3HPRetailers - other110 mExempt
Green Chillies TQ1 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m4 Good29 Jul 2025
The Chippy TQ1 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Hong kitchen TQ1 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 mAwaiting inspection
Pizza Hut Delivery TQ1 3HPTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
China Garden TQ1 3HPTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Sep 2026
Torquay Thai Restaurant TQ1 3HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Bay Spice Tandoori TQ1 3HPTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jul 2025
The Usual Plaice TQ1 3HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
LG Palk TQ1 3HPRetailers - other150 m5 Very good5 Jun 2026
The York TQ1 3HLPub/bar/nightclub170 mExempt
The John Bull Pub TQ1 4HUPub/bar/nightclub310 mExempt

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.

162 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences69
Shoplifting38
Criminal damage and arson17
Other theft11
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order8
Robbery2
Other crime2
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Edmund'S Road (46); On or near Fortune Way (20); On or near Supermarket (16); On or near St Paul'S Road (14); On or near Daison Crescent (11).

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: 311 residents in 129 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 age3740
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle24%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%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)13%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Haytor Road · St Margaret's Avenue · St Edmund's Road · Fortune Way · Westhill Avenue Close · Daison Crescent · Plainmoor Road · St Margarets Avenue · Westhill Avenue · St Paul's Crescent · Springfield Road · St Edmunds Road

All the streets in TQ1 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.
  • 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.