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On Geoffrey Watling Way, in City Centre East
What it's like at NR1 1GS: every home that has sold on Geoffrey Watling Way since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
19 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Geoffrey Watling Way; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
22 of the 419 homes on the street are owned by companies (3 overseas).
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Norwich, about a 10-minute walk (850 m), with 4.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Carrow Park, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 32); 10 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
47% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Lionwood Infant and Nursery School, about a 10-minute walk (950 m).
The nearest secondary is Notre Dame High School, Norwich, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 61.3 · 26.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Jane Austen College (1 km).
Few families with young children: only 8% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily Norwich, 450 m away; Norwich Unity Hub At Carrow House (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lakenham Surgery (1.1 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Image Hair Design is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 5.7 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 71 restaurants and cafés and 42 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Norwich City Football Club - Corporate Catering is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and County Hall - Staff Sports And Social Club Bar the nearest pub (650 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 383 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 72% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (City Centre, St Matthews).
There are 269 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (77%).
It's new: 60% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 355 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Old Library Wood, 900 m away; for exercise, Riverside Leisure Centre (450 m).
18 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| K6 Telephone Kiosk outside the entrance of the former mustard seed drying shed | II | 160 m |
| Former Mustard Seed Drying Shed | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Norwich South constituency: Clive Lewis MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,239 (29.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Green Party 18%, Conservative 13%, Reform UK 12%.
26 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near NR1 1GS →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Norwich is 5.7 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 110 km.
Many neighbours rent: 49% of households rent privately and 20% socially.
It's young: 32% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Norwich University of the Arts, 1.6 km away (TEF Gold).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 419 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Whitlingham · about 65 min
Nearest: Sprowston Manor Hotel And Country Club · about 62 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 386 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 386 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 42.9% | 86.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 47.8% | 11.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 8.3% | 1.7% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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