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IP2 8GX

Last sold £125,000 in August 2017

56, Bruff Road, Ipswich

Property type
Flat
Tenure
Leasehold
Elevation
About 9m

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Price history in context

  • Aug 2017 — £125,000 · +50.6% · 18 pts ahead of the UK market
  • Apr 2010 — £83,000
— sold price – – bank of england base rate £125,000 £83,000 2010 2017

The life around it

  • Stoke High School - Ormiston Academy 18-min walk
  • Hillside Primary School 12-min walk
  • Ipswich station 17-min walk
  • Spring Wood 2.4km
  • The coast (coastline) 537m
  • Lake 528m
  • Pond 686m
  • Minsmere New Cut 36.8km
  • River Orwell 598m
  • Public Park 8m
  • Play Area 165m
  • International Food Store 498m
  • Brooklands (Adj) 161m

Broadband

  • Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 31.6% of premises — not all
  • Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 31.6% of premises — not all
  • Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises

Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data

Commute by train

From Ipswich, 759m away

  • 66 min London
  • 82 min Cambridge

Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.

Schools nearby

Flood risk

Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map

Noise

Rail noise here is mapped at 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a railway close by.

Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.

Sunshine and hills

Sunshine: about 1,690 hours a year — sunnier than 80% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.

Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 5% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.

Planning

  • An Article 4 direction applies here — some permitted development rights are withdrawn.

From planning.data.gov.uk, where the council has published. Not planning advice.

Crime

Above average for England & Wales — 265 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data

Map

Location: approximate (postcode)

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Planning activity nearby

  • Conditions Change of use from a single dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a five-person HMO (Use Class… Oct 2025 source
  • Rejected Change of use from single dwellinghouse (use class C3) to 6 bed, 6 person small HMO (use… Aug 2025 source
  • Permitted Discharge of Conditions 2 (management plan) and 3 (noise assessment) of application… Apr 2026 source
  • Conditions Erection of a single one-bedroom dwelling. Mar 2026 source
  • Permitted Non-material amendment to planning permission 24/00004/FUL (Conversion of building and… Jan 2026 source

Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.

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