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On Fore Street, in St Germans & St Mellion
What it's like at PL12 5NS: every home that has sold on Fore Street 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.
Sales and extensions on Fore Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
10 of the 59 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Fore StreetTerraced | Jan 2026 | £290,000 | 89 m² | £3,258/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Cottage, Fore StreetTerraced | Jul 2014 | £342,500 | 119 m² | £2,878/m² | 3 |
| The Old Smithy, Fore StreetDetached | Jan 2021 | £560,000 | 190 m² | £2,947/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is St Germans, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 76k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Plymouth.
The nearest bus stop is Mill Lane, under 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 11A).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 73 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Germans Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 79% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Grammar schools are within reach: Devonport High School for Boys (12 km) and Devonport High School for Girls (12 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The weekly shop is an easy trip: a food store is about 13 minutes away without a car.
The nearest GP surgery is Quay Lane Surgery (750 m).
The nearest full A&E is Derriford Hospital, 14 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 36% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 16 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
The Stables Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Eliot Arms the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 298 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 57% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 23% of homes are bungalows.
A swim is a short trip away: Portwrinkle, 6.1 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 2.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newquay is 48 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 155 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 31% are 65 or over.
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.
7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bonnets | II | 20 m |
| Ty Winch | II | 60 m |
| Sir William Moyle'S Almshouses | II* | 70 m |
| Eliot Terrace | II* | 80 m |
| J and B Hauser | II | 90 m |
| Tighna Dris | II | 110 m |
| Kellow Crafts and House Attached to Right | II | 130 m |
| Craggs South Cottage | II | 150 m |
| the Forge and the Old Tannery the Old Tannery | II | 150 m |
| K6 Telephone Kiosk East of South Cottage and Craggs | 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.
South East Cornwall constituency: Anna Gelderd MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,911 (3.9%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Labour 32%, Conservative 28%, Reform UK 19%, Liberal Democrat 17%.
1 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 PL12 5NS →
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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 59 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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On this street: 0 of 24 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 13 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 5.0% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 9.3% | 4.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 14.2% | 53.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 49.4% | 18.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 22.6% | 20.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 0.5% | 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.