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On Waun Penlan, in Pontardawe
What it's like at SA8 3BB: every home that has sold on Waun Penlan 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Waun Penlan; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 24 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Waun PenlanDetached | Oct 2002 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £111,000 | 80 m² | £1,388/m² | 1 |
| 3a, Waun PenlanDetached | May 2024 | £290,000 | 135 m² | £2,148/m² | 1 |
| 4, Waun PenlanDetached | Dec 2001 | £92,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £265,000 | 110 m² | £2,409/m² | 1 |
| 10, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Jan 1996 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | May 2000 | £47,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £195,000 | 117 m² | £1,667/m² | 4 |
| 17, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Mar 2002 | £47,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £189,995 | 71 m² | £2,676/m² | 4 |
| 23, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £99,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £115,000 | 91 m² | £1,264/m² | 3 |
| 27, Waun PenlanDetached | Dec 2016 | £75,000 | 106 m² | £708/m² | 1 |
| 30, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Mar 2024 | £200,000 | 108 m² | £1,852/m² | 2 |
| 31, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £153,500 | 117 m² | £1,312/m² | 2 |
| 35, Waun PenlanDetached | Oct 2025 | £247,500 | 101 m² | £2,450/m² | 3 |
| 37, Waun PenlanDetached | Dec 2020 | £189,950 | 107 m² | £1,775/m² | 2 |
| 39, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Jun 2018 | £140,000 | 97 m² | £1,443/m² | 1 |
| 41, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Oct 2003 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 42, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Nov 1998 | £42,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 45, Waun PenlanDetached | Jun 1999 | £58,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, Waun PenlanSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £143,000 | 73 m² | £1,959/m² | 1 |
| 51, Waun PenlanDetached | Mar 2015 | £139,000 | 116 m² | £1,198/m² | 2 |
| 55, Waun PenlanDetached | Sept 2016 | £147,000 | 94 m² | £1,564/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Skewen, a drive away (8.0 km), with 44k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swansea.
The nearest bus stop is Waunsterw, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes BDF1, X26, 905); 2 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Rhydyfro Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cwmtawe Community School, 1.8 km away.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Supermarkets, 1.7 km away, with Baked by Jones closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Pontardawe Primary Care Centre (1.7 km), with Pontardawe Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.7 km).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
The Ponty Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (1.2 km), and Travellers Well the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is King George V Park, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Pontardawe Swimming Pool (1.3 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Cardiff is 50 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 87 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
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.
4 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.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency: David Chadwick MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,472 (3.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 30%, Conservative 26%, Labour 21%, Reform UK 14%.
3 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 SA8 3BB →
On this street: 0 of 15 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.6% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.8% | 3.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 1.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 24 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.