Upper Quay Street Gloucester

2 addresses across 1 postcode (GL1), about 80 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 15300542.

  • 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 A; Band D in Gloucester costs £2,356 a year in 2026-27.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gloucester, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Gloucester Park (12 hectares) is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 2 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Severnside Medical Practice, about 150 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 180 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 252 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gloucester in 2026-27: Band D £2,356 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,571£1,832£2,094£2,356£2,879£3,403£3,926£4,712

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (79% of about 1,230 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: yes, City Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 8.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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 12 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. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

No Ofcom coverage figures for these postcodes.

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 stationsGloucester 1.8 million journeys in 2024–25770 m (0.5 miles)
Cheltenham Spa 2.4 million journeys in 2024–2510.9 km (6.8 miles)
Stonehouse 193,000 journeys in 2024–2513.6 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Nicholas' Church Gloucester90 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Hub Gloucester640 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westgate Coach and Car Park220 m
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upper Quayside Street10 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS62.8 km (39 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Severnside Medical Practice150 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Badham Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery150 m
HospitalGloucester Royal Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationGloucester Police Station100 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 3-5 Westgate Street Halifax260 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,190 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Gloucester Park 12 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,110 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Archdeacon Meadow 3.8 ha350 m
AllotmentsDeans Way Allotments 1,480 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 99-101 Westgate Street, Folk of Gloucester, a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m north-west. 359 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 34 of them Grade I and 37 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
99-101 Westgate Street, Folk of GloucesterListed building, Grade II*70 m north-west
Dick Whittington Tavern, 100 Westgate StreetListed building, Grade I70 m north
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade I80 m north
74 and 76 Westgate StreetListed building, Grade II*80 m east
St Mary's gatewayScheduled monument190 m north-east
Little CloisterScheduled monument270 m north-east
Infirmary ArcadeScheduled monument280 m north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria DockLake or reservoir450 m (0.3 miles) south
Barge ArmLake or reservoir560 m (0.3 miles) south
Alney IslandIsland740 m (0.5 miles) west
Richard's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Vale of GloucesterValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Lassington HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) north-west

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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 5910
Under 5512

1 of the street's 2 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 Gloucester: see them on the Gloucester 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
Gloucestershire College16 plus16–99650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kingsholm Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denmark Road High SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Widden Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Tredworth Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Tredworth Infant and Nursery AcademyPrimary2–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Linden Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hatherley Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Janes Pantry GL1 2PERetailers - other60 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Clementine GL1 2NZOther catering premises70 m5 Very good7 Sep 2023
Caterlink At Shire Hall GL1 2TGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
The Folk Cafe GL1 2PGOther catering premises70 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
The Gloucester Refillery GL1 2NZRetailers - other80 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
The Sisters GL1 2PEPub/bar/nightclub80 mAwaiting inspection
Bangkok Canteen GL1 2NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Brimbles Cafe GL1 2NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Burger Master GL1 2PGTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
The Comfy Pew GL1 2NEOther catering premises110 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Mister's Cafe GL1 2NWOther catering premises120 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Keelings Newsagents GL1 2PGRetailers - other120 m4 Good23 Jul 2026
Westgate Pantry GL1 2PERetailers - other120 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Fountain Inn GL1 2NWPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Khaya GL1 2NEOther catering premises130 m5 Very good7 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.

252 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour83
Violence and sexual offences65
Vehicle crime28
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order16
Other theft12
Burglary9
Drugs7
Robbery4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft2
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near College Street (66); On or near Parking Area (51); On or near Lower Quay Street (32); On or near Upper Quay Street (22); On or near Bull Lane (19).

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: 180 residents in 134 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 age4440
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright4%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented69%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle41%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Angel African Kitchen Limited (other catering premises, GL1 2NW) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

  • GL1 2JD: 2 addresses of 170 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bearland · Three Cocks Lane · Berkeley Street · Fountain Square · College Street · Lower Quay Street · Barbican Way · St Mary's Square · Bearland · College Green · Archdeacon Street · Barrack Square

All the streets in GL1 and across Gloucester.

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.