Retrieving street imagery…

Checking sold prices…

Comparing asking price…

Reading energy performance…

Counting recorded crime…

Checking flood warnings…

Checking mining risk…

Checking heritage status…

Looking for planning applications…

Finding nearby schools…

Locating public transport…

Checking broadband coverage…

Checking mobile signal…

Finding nearest railway line…

Reading strategic noise maps…

Checking major road proximity…

Checking electricity infrastructure…

Checking public rights of way…

Searching historic landfill records…

Checking permitted waste sites…

Reading long-term flood zones…

Reading modelled air quality…

Checking indicative radon potential…

Checking aircraft noise and airport access…

Searching mapped culverts…

Checking utility street works…

Checking nearby roadworks…

Looking for flood and drainage schemes…

What this is and isn't

The Postcode Brief is an informational aid assembled from UK government open data. Every briefing describes the area around a postcode, not one identified address: a postcode typically covers around fifteen homes, so treat all of this as the ground a house stands on rather than a report on the house itself. It is not a substitute for a solicitor's searches, a survey, a mortgage valuation, or the official long-term flood risk checker, and it cannot tell you whether a home is in a school's catchment. Data is only as current as its publisher: sold prices lag completion by weeks, crime figures by a month or two, and certificates by years. Use it to know what to ask, not as the answer.