Alderney Close Blackburn

23 addresses across 1 postcode (BB2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2903461.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £143,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 3, E: 2).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 106 times (392 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 3.2 km (2 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mill Hill (Lancs), about 610 m (0.4 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 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 116 to 120 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bentham Road Health Centre, about 210 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20251£143,000£143,000£143,000
20241£152,000£152,000£152,000
20191£118,500£118,500£118,500
20181£91,000£91,000£91,000
20152£150,750£150,000£151,500
20141£148,500£148,500£148,500
20131£121,000£121,000£121,000
20071£114,000£114,000£114,000
20061£130,000£130,000£130,000
20041£157,500£157,500£157,500
20031£67,950£67,950£67,950
20022£63,725£62,950£64,500
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Mar 20253 BB2 4QESemi-detached£143,000Leasehold.
7 Jun 202414 BB2 4QESemi-detached£152,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 202414 BB2 4QESemi-detached£170,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 201914 BB2 4QESemi-detached£118,500Leasehold.
20 Sep 201817 BB2 4QESemi-detached£91,000Leasehold.
2 Dec 201522 BB2 4QEDetached£150,000
10 Aug 201516 BB2 4QEDetached£151,500Leasehold.
5 Sep 201410 BB2 4QEDetached£148,500
20 Dec 201318 BB2 4QEDetached£121,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 200717 BB2 4QESemi-detached£114,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 20065 BB2 4QESemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 200422 BB2 4QEDetached£157,500Leasehold.
11 Jul 200317 BB2 4QESemi-detached£67,950Leasehold.
27 Mar 200220 BB2 4QEDetached£62,950Leasehold.
8 Feb 20021 BB2 4QEDetached£64,500Leasehold.
15 Mar 200123 BB2 4QEDetached£73,500
26 Nov 199915 BB2 4QESemi-detached£36,000Leasehold.
26 May 199515 BB2 4QESemi-detached£37,950Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (6); 1976-1982 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,621 kWh of it on average in 2024, 19% less than the district's 11,941 kWh, and 2,446 kWh of electricity, 23% less than the district's 3,176 kWh. There are gas meters for about 95% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BB2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (64% of about 740 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 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Blackburn with Darwen 10/22/1006 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2023 3.2 km (2 miles)
Withnell LFS Landfill Gas 2.3 MW Operational Jan 1996 3.7 km (2.3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 2 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 106 times, for 392 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Darwen, Unnamed Trib of River Darwen, Trib River Darwen.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Aqueduct Road Cso United Utilities River Darwen 53 335 820 m (0.5 miles)
Bolton Road Combined Sewer Overflow United Utilities Unnamed Trib of River Darwen 45 46 830 m (0.5 miles)
Cherry Tree Works Site United Utilities Trib River Darwen 8 11 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 23 addresses are between 116 m and 120 m above sea level (118 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
BB2 4QE100%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 stationsMill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.7 miles)
Blackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 63 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kings Road Jersey St Mill Hill130 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Carrington Avenue590 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN44.9 km (28 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bentham Road Health Centre Good Jul 2017210 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bentham Road Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mill Hill Dental Practice320 m
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital Good Feb 20192.7 km (1.7 miles)
Care homes8 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Branch Court Care Home Requires improvement May 2025230 m
Police stationBlackburn Police2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Livesey Branch Road, Livesey Road Cashzone230 m

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,780 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.4 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²310 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Feniscliffe Playing Field 3.8 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leyburn Road Allotments 3,710 m²570 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Part of Witton Old Hall medieval lordly residence 340m north east of Feniscliffe Bridge, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Part of Witton Old Hall medieval lordly residence 340m north east of Feniscliffe BridgeScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*3 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bunker's Hill WoodWood940 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Cockridge WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Fernhurst WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Bunker's HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Ornamental PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Stanworth ValleyValley3.2 km (2 miles) south-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)7.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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
Under 552323

None of the street's 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Meadowhead Community Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7270 m No published inspection
Meadowhead Junior SchoolPrimary7–11280 m Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England AcademyPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, BlackburnPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, BlackburnSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Griffin Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Longshaw Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Longshaw Community Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Longshaw Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Witton Park AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.3 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 340 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
School's Out Holiday Squad BB2 4TT Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 340 m
Livesey Children's Centre BB2 4NT Sessional day care 38 Outstanding (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 440 m (0.3 miles)
Tudor House Day Nursery @ Mill Hill BB2 4DT Full day care 53 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 450 m (0.3 miles)
Greenview Nursery BB2 4SR Full day care 59 Outstanding (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
Kids Planet Nook Barn BB2 4SN Full day care 55 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 950 m (0.6 miles)
Cherry Tree Preschool Playgroup BB2 2TZ Sessional day care 40 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Kids Planet Blackburn BB2 4JJ Full day care 96 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Out of School Experience @ Redeemer BB2 4JJ Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Tudor House Day Nursery @ Hancock St BB2 2LZ Full day care 60 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
The Old Vicarage BB2 1UY Full day care 62 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Mill Hill Working Mens Club BB2 4EZPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good9 Mar 2014
Lloyds Pharmacy BB2 4PNRetailers - other200 mExempt
Livesey Pharmacy BB2 4QLRetailers - other210 mExempt
Andrews Court Care Home BB2 4QRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Meadowhead Infant School BB2 4TTSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good10 Mar 2025
Navigation Inn BB2 4DLPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Motala Grocers BB2 4QLRetailers - other270 m5 Very good29 Mar 2025
Lord Raglan Hotel BB2 4PYPub/bar/nightclub270 m4 Good6 Mar 2024
Livesey Superstore BB2 4QRRetailers - other280 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 2023
Branch Court Care Home BB2 4QRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good15 May 2026
112 Pizza BB2 4NYMobile caterer290 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Merlwood Care Home BB2 4EGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Steak Boys BB2 4DYMobile caterer320 mAwaiting inspection
Blackburn Bargains BB2 4DYRetailers - other320 mAwaiting inspection
Spice Manzil BB2 4DYTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m2 Improvement necessary9 Sep 2026

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.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences51
Anti-social behaviour30
Criminal damage and arson19
Other crime7
Public order7
Drugs3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary3
Shoplifting2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dorothy Street (21); On or near Moorgate Street (19); On or near Full View (17); On or near Kingsbridge Wharf (11); On or near Jersey Street (7).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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 street's postcodes are in: 353 residents in 138 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van74%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

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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

Plantation Road · Bentham Close · Jersey Street · Tresco Close · Tresco Close · Kingsbridge Wharf · King's Bridge Street · Beverley Street · St Helier Close · King's Road · Full View · Livesey Branch Road

All the streets in BB2 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.