Upton Place Leiston, East Suffolk

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (IP16), about 70 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 38602338.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, E: 5).
  • Flood: 16 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 A; Band D in East Suffolk costs £2,335 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Saxmundham, about 6 km (3.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leiston Surgery, about 230 m away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 118 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
20261£215,000£215,000£215,000
20231£210,000£210,000£210,000
20211£170,000£170,000£170,000
20131£127,250£127,250£127,250
20121£127,000£127,000£127,000
20062£123,500£110,000£137,000
20041£144,995£144,995£144,995
20031£97,500£97,500£97,500
20021£77,500£77,500£77,500
20012£66,250£59,000£73,500
20001£52,000£52,000£52,000
19992£46,325£30,650£62,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 20268 IP16 4DESemi-detached£215,000
9 Jun 20237 IP16 4DESemi-detached£210,000
5 Nov 20215 IP16 4DESemi-detached£170,000
18 Nov 20162 IP16 4DESemi-detached£140,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jul 201312 IP16 4DESemi-detached£127,250
31 Jul 201210 IP16 4DESemi-detached£127,000
15 Jun 200610 IP16 4DESemi-detached£110,000
17 Feb 20067 IP16 4DESemi-detached£137,000
11 Aug 20047 IP16 4DESemi-detached£144,995
5 Feb 20037 IP16 4DESemi-detached£97,500
21 Oct 20028 IP16 4DESemi-detached£77,500
3 Aug 20012 IP16 4DESemi-detached£59,000
8 Jun 20017 IP16 4DESemi-detached£73,500
15 Dec 20003 IP16 4DESemi-detached£52,000
29 Oct 19997 IP16 4DESemi-detached£62,000
27 Apr 199912 IP16 4DETerraced£30,650
20 Nov 19988 IP16 4DESemi-detached£39,000
29 May 199810 IP16 4DESemi-detached£41,000
11 Apr 19973 IP16 4DESemi-detached£24,950
31 Jul 19962 IP16 4DESemi-detached£37,000
4 Jul 19963 IP16 4DESemi-detached£22,000
29 Mar 19966 IP16 4DETerraced£23,500
11 Jan 19952 IP16 4DESemi-detached£32,500

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 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (5); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in East Suffolk in 2026-27: Band D £2,335 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,557£1,816£2,075£2,335£2,854£3,372£3,891£4,670

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (59% of about 940 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, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 11 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
IP16 4DEnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 3 unlikely
IP16 4DDnot in 2 or 3 9 / 3 / 8 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 addresses are about 15 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
IP16 4DD100%100%100%0%
IP16 4DE100%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 stationsSaxmundham 177,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Darsham 68,000 journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.2 miles)
Wickham Market 68,000 journeys in 2024–2513.6 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park Leiston130 m
Ferry terminalWalberswick Ferry Landing13.8 km (8.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI56 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN98.7 km (61 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 Leiston Surgery230 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leiston Pharmacy120 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unit 1 & 3 Alexander Mews [Dental Practice]120 m
HospitalAldeburgh Hospital6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Police stationSuffolk Constabulary220 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,360 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,100 m²180 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha120 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Valley Road Allotments 4.8 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Long Shop, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m north. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Long ShopListed building, Grade II*200 m north
Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) west
Two bowl barrows on Aldringham GreenScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Leiston Abbey (second site) and moated siteScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dunn's HoleWood460 m (0.3 miles) west
Ward HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Sizewell CliffCliff or slope3.1 km (2 miles) east
Lily PondLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Thorpe NessWetland3.6 km (2.3 miles) south-east
The HavenBeach4.4 km (2.8 miles) south-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)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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 551011

1 of the street's 11 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 East Suffolk: see them on the East Suffolk 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
Leiston Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Alde Valley AcademySecondary11–16690 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coldfair Green Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 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
Oh My Pizza Kebab IP16 4BZTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m1 Major improvement necessary12 Mar 2026
Leiston Pharmacy IP16 4BZRetailers - other120 mExempt
Leiston Picture House IP16 4BZRetailers - other120 mExempt
Simply Delicious IP16 4BZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good1 Mar 2024
Cinnamon Indian Restaurant T/A Taj Mahal Suffolk Ltd IP16 4BZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Rosie's Coffee Lounge IP16 4ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good4 Jan 2024
Leiston Newsagent Ltd IP16 4BXRetailers - other130 mExempt
Taste Of China IP16 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Tasty Bites IP16 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good27 Sep 2025
Bushells Bakery IP16 4BXManufacturers/packers130 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
5Project40Seven IP16 4ELRetailers - other140 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Refill IP16 4ELRetailers - other140 m5 Very good11 May 2023
The Royal Standard IP16 4EWPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Tiffins IP16 4EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Leiston Local IP16 4EWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m2 Improvement necessary9 Dec 2022

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.

118 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Shoplifting22
Criminal damage and arson20
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order6
Robbery4
Burglary3
Drugs3
Possession of weapons3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Urban Road (24); On or near Parking Area (21); On or near High Street (14); On or near Park Hill (9); On or near Sizewell Road (7).

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: 287 residents in 132 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4140
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

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

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Cross Street · Platers Walk · Drovers Yard · Park Hill · Old Foundry Place · Mafeking Place · Orchard Road · Sizewell Road · High Street · Neave Road · Central Road · Victory Road

All the streets in IP16 and across East Suffolk.

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.