Walker Street Bristol

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS2), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4575212.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2014 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 1).
  • 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 Bristol, City of costs £2,714 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Redland, about 840 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, and Cotham Gardens (1.2 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Family Practice, about 360 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 170 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
20141£295,000£295,000£295,000
20081£235,000£235,000£235,000
20031£197,500£197,500£197,500
20021£159,950£159,950£159,950
20011£162,500£162,500£162,500
19974£80,350£78,500£82,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jul 20147 BS2 8HETerraced£295,000
2 Jul 20085 BS2 8HETerraced£235,000
12 May 20037 BS2 8HESemi-detached£197,500
31 Jan 20023 BS2 8HETerraced£159,950
19 Jun 20019 BS2 8HETerraced£162,500
22 May 19977 BS2 8HESemi-detached£82,000New build.
14 May 19971 BS2 8HESemi-detached£81,200New build.
7 Apr 19973 BS2 8HETerraced£78,500New build.
24 Mar 19979 BS2 8HETerraced£79,500New build.

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 October 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (57% of about 1,750 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, Kingsdown (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Ashley Ward, Cabot Ward, Clifton East Ward, Cotham Ward and Lawrence Hill Ward (1999 ward boundary).
  • 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

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 on this street 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 7 addresses are between 71 m and 72 m above sea level (72 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
BS2 8HD100%100%100%0%
BS2 8HE100%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 stationsRedland 230,000 journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Clifton Down 818,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Montpelier 252,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 69 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsdown Parade80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol450 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalBristol City Centre Ferry Landing1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Rupert Street550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS11.9 km (7.4 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Family Practice360 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stokes Croft Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists24 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsdown Dental Practice220 m
HospitalSt Michaels Hospital190 m
Police stationThe Bridewell Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines10 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food High Kingsdown, High Kingsdown180 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,880 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cotham Gardens 1.2 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 62 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 850 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cotham Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m north-west. 726 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 20 of them Grade I and 68 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cotham ChurchListed building, Grade II*290 m north-west
Numbers 65 and 67 and Attached Front Garden and Entrance RailingsListed building, Grade II*290 m south
Western HouseListed building, Grade II*340 m north-west
Front Wall and Gates to Colston's AlmshousesListed building, Grade I350 m south
St Mary-le-Port ChurchScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Cellared remains of Simon Oliver's house on the north side of the Church of St PeterScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Vault in High StreetScheduled monument880 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Goldney HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Bristol University Botanic Gardens and Rayne ThatchRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brandon HillHill930 m (0.6 miles) south-west
New CutLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south
Observatory HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
BellevueHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Walcombe SladeValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Rownham PlantationWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-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)17.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
Under 5577

None of the street's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Bristol, City of: see them on the Bristol, City of 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
Cotham SchoolSecondary11–18360 m No published inspection
Willow Park CofE Primary School Church of England/United Reformed ChurchPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ss Peter and Paul RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cotham Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
E-ACT Montpelier High SchoolSecondary11–18950 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Pauls Nursery School & Children's CentreNursery3–51 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bristol Cathedral Choir School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cathedral Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
City of Bristol College16 plus16–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cabot Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Rosemary Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–51.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 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
Parsons Bakery BS2 8HDRetailers - other50 m5 Very good5 Apr 2022
The Green Man BS2 8HDPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good14 Jul 2025
Khao Kaeng Je Jean’s BS2 8BUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Chris and Jo's Kitchen BS2 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good12 Jun 2026
Fresh Roast Bristol BS2 8BUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory13 May 2026
Chaya Canteen BS2 8BUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Kingsdown Vaults BS6 5UEPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Twoday Coffee Roasters BS2 8BSRetailers - other170 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
Mocha Mocha BS2 8BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good1 Nov 2024
White Bear BS2 8BSPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good27 Mar 2026
Metro Convenience Store BS2 8DARetailers - other180 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Co-op BS2 8DDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good21 Jul 2025
UHBW Bristol Hospitals BS2 8EGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
bristol born burgers BB3 BS6 5UERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Monika's BS6 5TZRetailers - other200 m4 Good11 Mar 2025

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.

170 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting31
Vehicle crime30
Violence and sexual offences30
Criminal damage and arson17
Burglary16
Other theft13
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order8
Bicycle theft7
Drugs3
Robbery3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (32); On or near Cotham Road (24); On or near Clarence Place (22); On or near Henrietta Street (11); On or near Cotham Road South (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 264 residents in 118 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 age2840
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented40%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van17%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle34%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%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)57%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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 Bad Squirrel Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, BS2 8DB) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was Awaiting inspection (rated 9 October 2026) found 1 November 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.

  • BS2 8HE: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • BS2 8HD: 1 address of 81 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Alfred Place · Southwell Street · Little Paul Street · Henrietta Street · Montague Place · Kingsdown Parade · Alfred Hill · Myrtle Road · Horfield Road · St Michaels Hill · Paul Street · Marlborough Hill

All the streets in BS2 and across Bristol, City of.

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.