Westgate Stevenage

48 addresses across 3 postcodes (SG1), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37821470.

  • Flood: 37 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 B; Band D in Stevenage costs £2,392 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 4% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stevenage, about 340 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Town Centre Gardens, is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 91 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is King George & Manor House Surgeries, about 650 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 64% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 740 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Stevenage in 2026-27: Band D £2,392 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,595£1,860£2,126£2,392£2,924£3,455£3,987£4,784

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (58% of about 1,060 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, Town Square Conservation Area. 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): Stevenage.
  • 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 36 at medium risk and 0 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
SG1 1QRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 32 / 0 unlikely
SG1 1ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SG1 1BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 0 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 91 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
SG1 1AS100%0%0%0%
SG1 1BP100%4%4%0%
SG1 1QR100%0%0%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 stationsStevenage 4.7 million journeys in 2024–25340 m
Knebworth 437,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Hitchin 2.9 million journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stevenage Railway Station260 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stevenage210 m
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stevenage Southgate Long Stay Car Park260 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN11.8 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest King George & Manor House Surgeries650 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy60 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Market Place (Dental Surgery)170 m
HospitalThe Lister Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationStevenage Police Station330 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 103 Queensway Lloyds Bank210 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Town Centre Gardens 4.1 ha210 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Fields 7.9 ha390 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,200 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 5.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Six Hills Roman barrows, a scheduled monument, 470 m (0.3 miles) south. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Six Hills Roman barrowsScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) south
156 High Street, StevenageListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north-west
2, Letchmore RoadListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north
131, High StreetListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) north
94-98, High StreetListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Whomerley Wood moated siteScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Old malt houses and kiln, High StreetScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Towers PondLake or reservoir320 m south-east
Ilett WoodWood890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Whomerley WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Monk's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Almond's HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Langley ValleyValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) 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)13.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59400
Under 55444848

4 of the street's 48 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 Stevenage: see them on the Stevenage 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
Broom Barns Primary SchoolPrimary4–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
North Hertfordshire College16 plus16–99620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Fairlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Letchmore Infants' and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 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
Woolenwick Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woolenwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bedwell Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Thomas Alleyne AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Barclay AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marriotts SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Greggs Bakers SG1 1BPRetailers - other30 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
Starbucks Coffee Co (UK) Ltd SG1 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Noodle Stop SG1 1EETakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Pitta Hub SG1 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Frequency Coffee Stevenage SG1 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
Holland & Barrett SG1 1EERetailers - other40 m5 Very good15 Feb 2021
Subway SG1 1BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
The Cozy Corner SG1 1QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mAwaiting inspection
Wenzels The Bakers SG1 1EERetailers - other50 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Plan Burrito SG1 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 mAwaiting inspection
Pings SG1 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Costa Ltd SG1 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good26 Feb 2021
Superdrug Stores Plc SG1 1DNRetailers - other70 mExempt
Boots UK Ltd SG1 1DNRetailers - other70 m5 Very good16 Mar 2006
Madhatter SG1 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good18 Nov 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.

740 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting184
Anti-social behaviour173
Violence and sexual offences147
Public order75
Other theft30
Criminal damage and arson26
Drugs20
Bicycle theft20
Robbery17
Burglary16
Theft from the person13
Vehicle crime7
Other crime7
Possession of weapons5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (336); On or near Nightclub (96); On or near Parking Area (96); On or near Marshgate (84); On or near Eastgate (50).

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: 384 residents in 231 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 age3240
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work79%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)3%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 van20%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)64%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • SG1 1QR: 46 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • SG1 1AS: 1 address of 57 in the postcode
  • SG1 1BP: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Danestrete · Market Square · Queensway · Town Square · Swingate · Park Place · The Quadrant · Marshgate · Market Place · The Forum · St George's Way · Eastgate

All the streets in SG1 and across Stevenage.

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.