Tulip Close Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire

27 addresses across 1 postcode (SG18), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25201972.

  • Sales: 85 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £335,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 E; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Biggleswade, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ivel Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20261£335,000£335,000£335,000
20252£291,000£290,000£292,000
20224£293,688£285,000£335,000
20201£250,000£250,000£250,000
20191£240,000£240,000£240,000
20181£240,000£240,000£240,000
20171£245,000£245,000£245,000
20161£225,000£225,000£225,000
20142£186,500£173,000£200,000
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
20114£149,000£148,000£151,250
20092£155,000£154,000£156,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 85)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 202616 SG18 8TRTerraced£335,000
27 Aug 202512 SG18 8TRTerraced£290,000
23 Jun 202511 SG18 8TRTerraced£292,000
19 Aug 202226 SG18 8TRTerraced£335,000
27 May 202225 SG18 8TRTerraced£285,000
11 Mar 202224 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£285,000
1 Feb 20221 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£302,375
30 Apr 202015 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£250,000
19 Jul 201912 SG18 8TRTerraced£240,000
21 Mar 201812 SG18 8TRTerraced£240,000
11 Jan 201812 SG18 8TRTerraced£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jan 201724 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£245,000
11 Mar 201625 SG18 8TRTerraced£225,000
14 Nov 201415 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£200,000
28 Aug 201425 SG18 8TRTerraced£173,000
27 May 20146 SG18 8TRTerraced£166,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 20127 SG18 8TRTerraced£155,000
25 Nov 201120 SG18 8TRTerraced£148,000
21 Oct 20119 SG18 8TRTerraced£151,250
19 Aug 201115 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£150,000
30 Jun 201120 SG18 8TRTerraced£148,000
25 Sep 200910 SG18 8TRTerraced£156,000
28 Aug 20092 SG18 8TRTerraced£154,000
30 Jun 200822 SG18 8TRTerraced£175,500
4 Sep 20076 SG18 8TRTerraced£163,500
5 Jul 200726 SG18 8TRTerraced£172,000
20 Jun 20077 SG18 8TRTerraced£163,500
28 Mar 200722 SG18 8TRTerraced£158,500
27 Nov 200614 SG18 8TRTerraced£120,000
18 Sep 200618 SG18 8TRTerraced£153,000
25 May 200624 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£159,000
28 Apr 200625 SG18 8TRTerraced£147,000
5 Aug 20052 SG18 8TRTerraced£149,000
25 Feb 20056 SG18 8TRTerraced£145,000
4 Feb 20058 SG18 8TRTerraced£153,000
6 Dec 200426 SG18 8TRTerraced£153,000
12 Mar 200411 SG18 8TRTerraced£135,000
30 Jan 20046 SG18 8TRTerraced£127,000
4 Dec 200314 SG18 8TRTerraced£134,500
7 Jul 20038 SG18 8TRTerraced£133,995
28 Mar 200318 SG18 8TRTerraced£127,000
24 Mar 200311 SG18 8TRTerraced£130,000
21 Mar 200314 SG18 8TRTerraced£130,000
14 Feb 200310 SG18 8TRTerraced£132,500
22 Nov 20027 SG18 8TRTerraced£120,000
30 Aug 20025 SG18 8TRTerraced£115,995
28 Aug 200221 SG18 8TRTerraced£114,000
30 May 200216 SG18 8TRTerraced£112,000
7 May 200227 SG18 8TRSemi-detached£112,000
27 Mar 20022 SG18 8TRTerraced£105,000

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 March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 1996-2002 (16); 2003-2006 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (32% of about 900 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 31 October 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 addresses are about 40 m above sea level.

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
SG18 8TR100%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 stationsBiggleswade 895,000 journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Sandy 679,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Arlesey 688,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Yorkshire Grey Biggleswade130 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Biggleswade860 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN24.5 km (15 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ivel Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jardines Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Victoria Place Dental Practice Limited1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBiggleswade Hospital Spring House1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationBiggleswade Police Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Biggleswade Saxon Centre, 6 Kingsfield Road200 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha300 m
Play area14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²40 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha250 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Stratton Park moated enclosure and associated manorial earthworks, a scheduled monument, 840 m (0.5 miles) east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stratton Park moated enclosure and associated manorial earthworksScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) east
A ringwork and bailey castle, ring ditch and enclosures east of Brookland FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) west
Holme Mill Iron BridgeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ash CovertWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Dunton FenWood3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
The BeltWood3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Bunker's HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) north
Topler's HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) south
Sandy WarrenWood4.1 km (2.5 miles) north

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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, 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 552627

1 of the street's 27 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Biggleswade AcademyPrimary2–11390 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stratton SchoolSecondary11–18450 m (0.3 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
Lawnside AcademyPrimary5–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Edward Peake CofE VC School Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Quantum Care SG18 8EXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
TGF Pizza SG18 8ATTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m1 Major improvement necessary13 Jan 2026
The Yorkshire Grey SG18 8ELPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Oriental Express SG18 8ATTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Saxon Fish & Chips SG18 8ATTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
Co-operative Group SG18 8ATRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Busy Bees at Biggleswade Saxon Centre SG18 8ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
The Willow Branch SG18 8YZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Pizza Hot SG18 8JRTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Mead End Fish Bar SG18 8JRTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Londis Biggleswade SG18 8EJRetailers - other370 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Mead End Stores SG18 8JRRetailers - other370 m4 Good5 Dec 2025
Biggleswade Academy - Years 3 - 8 SG18 8JUSchool/college/university390 m4 Good1 May 2026
Stratton Upper School SG18 8JBSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting37
Violence and sexual offences9
Anti-social behaviour6
Robbery2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Public order1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (44); On or near Tulip Close (6); On or near Lilac Grove (3); On or near Buttercup Mead (3); On or near Swanbourne Close (1).

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: 338 residents in 131 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)37%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away25%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • SG18 8TR: 27 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Snowdrop Walk · Lavender Way · Poppy Field · Lilac Grove · Kingsfield Road · York Close · Buttercup Mead · Chambers Way · Swanbourne Close · Cardamon Street · Rosemary Close · Sorrell Way

All the streets in SG18 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.