LU7 1EA Central Bedfordshire

Streets

• High Street, Leighton Buzzard: 66 addresses

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (31% of about 1,180 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Leighton Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 26.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 1-5, PULFORD ROAD, grade II
• 10 AND 12, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 13, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 14, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 17, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 19, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 21, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 34 AND 36, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 35, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 37, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 38, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 39, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 40, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 41, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 43, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 44, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 45 AND 47, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 46, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 51, HIGH STREET, grade II
• Leighton Buzzard War Memorial, including a pair of stone benches, grade II
• NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, grade II
• RAVENSTONE CHAMBERS, grade II
• THE BLACK LION PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II
• THE GOLDEN BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II
• THE SWAN HOTEL, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• First And Second Floor, Albion Chambers, 1-3 High Street, Leighton Buzzard,, permissioned (110 m)
• Aldi Foord Store Ltd, Vinnie Road, Leighton Linslade: up to 10 homes, permissioned (380 m)
• Land at and to the rear of 72 North Street and 2 Bedford Street, Leighton Buzzard, Not decided (430 m)
• The Ashwell Arms, 12 Ashwell Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU71BG, permissioned (670 m)
• Station Approach, Station Road, Linslade: up to 25 homes, permissioned (880 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 0%, gigabit 0% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 343 residents in 172 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

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Education and languages

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.