Albert Street Carnforth, Lancaster

16 addresses across 4 postcodes (LA5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19702170.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2000 the median was £67,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Lancaster costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Carnforth, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ash Trees Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 58 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20001£67,000£67,000£67,000
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 20001 LA5 9HPTerraced£67,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: Park home, detached (1); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lancaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,616£4,172£5,006

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (32% of about 770 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
LA5 9DNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LA5 9DPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LA5 9HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LA5 9TSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 20 m and 22 m above sea level (22 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LA5 9DN100%100%100%0%
LA5 9DP100%100%100%0%
LA5 9HP100%100%100%0%
LA5 9TS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCarnforth 196,000 journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Silverdale 48,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canal Turn Carnforth80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal13.7 km (8.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA78.4 km (49 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ash Trees Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital8.1 km (5 miles)
Police stationMorecambe Police Station8 km (5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Carnforth Cashzone530 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.2 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²280 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha20 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Carnforth: the coaling plant, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) north. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Carnforth: the coaling plantListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north
Carnforth: the ash plantListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north
Carnforth: engine shed and associated facilities including the locomotive turntableListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wood Tarn PondLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hunting HillHill700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hagg WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Leapers WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) east
Whorleys MossWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Jenny Brown's PointHeadland4.9 km (3.1 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
Under 551516

1 of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Lancaster: see them on the Lancaster page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Carnforth Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Carnforth Roman CatholicPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Carnforth High SchoolSecondary11–16810 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Pavilion LA5 9EAPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good29 Sep 2024
Asda Express Carnforth PFS LA5 9EARetailers - other60 m4 Good29 Sep 2024
Canal Turn LA5 9EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
T'other Chippy LA5 9DXTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Nippers Childrens Day Nursery LA5 9LEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Carnforth Community Primary School LA5 9LQSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Gravy Train Catering Company Ltd LA5 9URMobile caterer390 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Carnforth Hotel LA5 9LDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house410 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
The County Lodge Hotel LA5 9LDPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary9 Dec 2025
Brief Encounter Bistro & Bar LA5 9ETRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Apr 2025
The Munchbox LA5 9LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Sep 2026
Royal Station Hotel LA5 9BTPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Sep 2025
Salvation Army LA5 9BYOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Christ Church Primary School LA5 9LJSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Whisk and Sugar LA5 9TROther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jan 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

58 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour17
Violence and sexual offences16
Other theft8
Shoplifting6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (18); On or near Petrol Station (8); On or near Albert Street (7); On or near Stanley Street (7); On or near King Street (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 789 residents in 337 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.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Victoria Street · Lancaster Road · Alexandra Road · Queen Street · Grosvenor Court · King Street · Grosvenor Place · Alexandra Road · Grosvenor Court · Towpath Walk · Redruth Drive · Stanley Street

All the streets in LA5 and across Lancaster.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.