Wayne Close Lowestoft, East Suffolk

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (NR32), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42501543.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £352,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 1, D: 4).
  • Flood: 2 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 Oulton Broad North, about 2.5 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Great Eastern Linear Park, is about 1.3 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 21 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Street Surgery, about 1.8 km away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 77 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
20241£352,000£352,000£352,000
20231£460,000£460,000£460,000
20161£229,950£229,950£229,950
20092£187,750£183,000£192,500
20031£148,000£148,000£148,000
19981£74,950£74,950£74,950
19961£67,000£67,000£67,000
19951£68,950£68,950£68,950
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Feb 20241 NR32 4SXDetached£352,000
22 Nov 20232 NR32 4SXDetached£460,000
15 Jan 20168 NR32 4SXDetached£229,950
12 Nov 20099 NR32 4SXDetached£192,500
29 May 20092 NR32 4SXDetached£183,000
28 Feb 20039 NR32 4SXDetached£148,000
18 Jun 19989 NR32 4SXDetached£74,950
6 Sep 19963 NR32 4SXDetached£67,000
29 Sep 19959 NR32 4SXDetached£68,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

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.

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£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 (27% of about 1,050 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 July 2026 to 7 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 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
NR32 4SXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
NR32 4SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 18 m and 21 m above sea level (19 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
NR32 4SU100%100%100%0%
NR32 4SX100%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 stationsOulton Broad North 137,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Lowestoft 468,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Oulton Broad South 60,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 50 within 800 m; nearest Foxburrow Gunton90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lowestoft2.5 km
Ferry terminalReedham Ferry South14.2 km
Car parksLowestoft Station Car Park2.7 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station510 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNorwich Airport NWI36.5 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN123.1 km

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 surgeriesHigh Street Surgery1.8 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest F P Cross LTD200 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Oulton Village Dental Surgery1.0 km
HospitalLowestoft Hospital2.3 km
Police stationLowestoft Police Station2.5 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Village Rise Supermarket, Weston Road Cashzone200 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 gardenGreat Eastern Linear Park 4.3 ha1.3 km
Play area6 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 330 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha710 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,310 m²1.0 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m north-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*740 m north-east
Belle Vue ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km south-east
St Andrew's Church (remains of)Scheduled monument1.9 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Foxburrow WoodWood220 m north
Gunton DenesBeach1.4 km east
Lowestoft CliffCliff or slope1.5 km east
Leathes' HamLake or reservoir2.1 km south
Lowestoft NessWetland2.6 km south-east
Holly HillHill2.7 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
60 to 6430
55 to 5940
Under 55816

8 of the street's 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and MathematicsSecondary11–16250 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Gunton Primary AcademyPrimary3–11610 m No published inspection
Ormiston Denes AcademySecondary11–161.2 km No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Woods Loke Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Poplars Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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
Northfield St Nicholas Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
East Coast College16 plus16–991.7 km No published inspection
The Limes Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km Good (Feb 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Jenna Graves Independent 1:1 Diet Consultant NR32 4AARetailers - other40 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Beefy Steves NR32 4ABTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Premier Supermarket NR32 4PTRetailers - other190 m5 Very good29 Mar 2019
Village Rise Chemist NR32 4PTRetailers - other190 mExempt
Rawmores NR32 4PTRetailers - other190 m5 Very good1 Jul 2022
Village Rise Fish And Chips NR32 4PTTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Premier Inn Lowestoft NR32 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m2 Improvement necessary16 Jan 2026
Gunton Garage NR32 4AARetailers - other290 m5 Very good15 Oct 2009
Blyford Residential Care Home NR32 4PZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
Chris Fish NR32 4WJMobile caterer410 m5 Very good12 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.

77 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson8
Other crime7
Vehicle crime7
Public order5
Shoplifting3
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Burglary1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stoven Close (19); On or near Blyford Road (18); On or near Uggeshall Close (12); On or near Rumburgh Road (7); On or near Astbury Road (4).

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: 332 residents in 141 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 age4940
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km or more away23%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • NR32 4SX: 15 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • NR32 4SU: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Knightswood · Briar Close · Pleasurewood Close · Village Way · Shadingfield Close · Redisham Close · Blyford Road · Astbury Road · Henham Road · Stoven Close · Uggeshall Close · Yarmouth Road

All the streets in NR32 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.