Vine Road Torquay, Torbay

19 addresses across 3 postcodes (TQ2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40701341.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £290,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: 6 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 Torbay costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 83% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Torre, about 360 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 160 m away, and Chapel Hill Pleasure Grounds (3.6 hectares) is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Croft Hall Medical Practice, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 670 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 338 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
20251£290,000£290,000£290,000
20152£320,000£268,000£372,000
20101£265,000£265,000£265,000
20081£227,500£227,500£227,500
20042£272,250£249,500£295,000
19991£84,000£84,000£84,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Sep 2025FAIRDALE TQ2 5BGSemi-detached£290,000
16 Nov 2015THORNDALE TQ2 5BGDetached£372,000
5 Nov 2015FAIRDALE TQ2 5BGSemi-detached£268,000
26 Feb 2010HARLEY DENE TQ2 5BGDetached£265,000
13 Jun 2008ST HELENS TQ2 5BGTerraced£227,500
24 Sep 2004HARLEY DENE TQ2 5BGDetached£249,500New build.
16 Apr 2004THORNDALE TQ2 5BGDetached£295,000
7 May 1999FAIRDALE TQ2 5BGSemi-detached£84,000

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.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 122 m². Most common: Flat (4); House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (4); 1900-1929 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (2).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (36% of about 1,820 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, Torre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 7 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
TQ2 5BGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 0 unlikely
TQ2 5LLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TQ2 5LQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 7 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 19 addresses are between 16 m and 18 m above sea level (18 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
TQ2 5BG100%100%100%0%
TQ2 5LL100%83%83%0%
TQ2 5LQ100%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 stationsTorre 376,000 journeys in 2024–25360 m
Torquay 508,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Paignton 707,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avenue Road Torre60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Paignton4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTorquay - North Quay1.7 km (1 mile)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa200 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea790 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT30.7 km (19 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL104 km (65 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Hall Medical Practice700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sherwell Valley Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Millbrook Villas Dental Practce310 m
HospitalMount Stuart Hospital540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationTorquay Police Station240 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Torquay Sherwell Valley R690 m (0.4 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,760 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Chapel Hill Pleasure Grounds 3.6 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torre Valley North Playing Field 2.4 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsCricketfield Community Garden 4,180 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 9.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade II*), 470 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 101 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) south-east
St Michael's Chapel, Chapel HillScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Torre AbbeyListed building, Grade I750 m (0.5 miles) south
Parish Church of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) east
The Spanish Barn, Torre AbbeyListed building, Grade I820 m (0.5 miles) south
Torre AbbeyScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) south
Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Barton Road Cemetery, TorquayRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tor HillHill450 m (0.3 miles) east
Shiphay PlantationWood530 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Torre Abbey SandsBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Broken CliffCliff or slope2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Petit Tor PointWetland2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Bickley PondLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6430
55 to 5910
Under 551419

5 of the street's 19 addresses are 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), 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
Cockington Primary SchoolPrimary5–11380 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Torre Church of England AcademyPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 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
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 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
Torquay Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Torquay AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Torquay Boys' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ellacombe Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sherwell Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The Spires CollegeSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Homelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Marmalade TQ2 5LGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house30 m5 Very good28 Jun 2024
Harmony Hotel TQ2 5LGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house40 mAwaiting inspection
Kingston House TQ2 5LLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m5 Very good8 May 2026
The Glenorleigh Hotel TQ2 5BEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m4 Good14 May 2025
Garway Lodge TQ2 5LLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house70 m5 Very good2 May 2024
Achieve Together TQ2 5BEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m5 Very good13 Oct 2025
Carlton Court Hotel TQ2 5BEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good10 Sep 2024
Bentley Lodge TQ2 5BQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house130 m5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Abbey Service Station TQ2 5LGRetailers - other130 m5 Very good3 Nov 2025
Abingdon House TQ2 5LFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good29 May 2024
Southbourne Villa TQ2 5BDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good23 May 2018
Cranmore Guest House TQ2 5LHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house170 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
The Cleveland Guest House TQ2 5BDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good23 May 2018
Ashwood Grange TQ2 5BZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good15 Dec 2015
Purple Tree Guest House TQ2 5BZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good3 May 2024

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.

338 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences157
Drugs45
Public order29
Criminal damage and arson26
Anti-social behaviour25
Other theft16
Vehicle crime13
Shoplifting7
Possession of weapons7
Other crime5
Burglary4
Theft from the person3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (172); On or near Rillage Lane (67); On or near Petrol Station (19); On or near Crownhill Rise (17); On or near Lansdowne Road (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 665 residents in 301 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 age4740
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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.

  • TQ2 5BG: 16 addresses
  • TQ2 5LL: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • TQ2 5LQ: 1 address of 75 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rillage Lane · Crownhill Rise · Cleveland Road · Tor Park Road · Avenue Road · Lansdowne Road · Vansittart Road · Lansdowne Lane · Mill Lane · East Street · Pilmuir Avenue · Newton Road

All the streets in TQ2 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.