Apple Close Blackburn

17 addresses across 1 postcode (BB2), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2903875.

  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16).
  • 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 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 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Griffin Park, is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 110 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Redlam Surgery, about 380 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 4% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 111 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 October 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1983-1990 (6); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

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 (96% of about 1,050 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.

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 1 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.

© 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 17 addresses are between 107 m and 110 m above sea level (108 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 1WA100%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 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Blackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 64 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lancaster Street Wensley Fold40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Blackburn Town Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks7 Mill Lane Parking1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN46.4 km (29 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redlam Surgery380 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Montague Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ap Smilecare650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalThe Beardswood Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest EG on the move - West End, Preston New Road Cashzone600 m (0.4 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 Griffin Park 2.4 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Witton Country Park 160 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 680 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Griffin Football Ground 8,840 m²760 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Witton Park Allotments 3.6 ha680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 162 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mark, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) west. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MarkListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) west
Church of St SilasListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Part of Witton Old Hall medieval lordly residence 340m north east of Feniscliffe BridgeScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Queen's Park, BlackburnRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buncer WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) west
Ned Hole WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) west
Ornamental PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Higher Gardens PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Billinge HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Abbott CloughValley4 km (2.5 miles) east

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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
55 to 59160
Under 55117

16 of the street's 17 addresses are 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Ashworth Nursery SchoolNursery3–4460 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademySecondary11–18520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Griffin Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 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: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Witton Park AcademySecondary11–16760 m (0.5 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
St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 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
St Silas's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blackburn College16 plus16–99800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School MuslimSecondary11–18860 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Queen Elizabeth's Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 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: 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
Wensley Mini Market BB2 1QARetailers - other30 m5 Very good13 Jun 2024
Imran Tandoori BB2 1QATakeaway/sandwich shop40 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Jan 2026
Wensley Fold News BB2 1QDRetailers - other80 m1 Major improvement necessary19 Feb 2025
My Roti Ltd BB2 1WDTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Magazin Romanesc BB2 6NSRetailers - other170 m4 Good3 Jun 2025
Lion Hotel BB2 1PXPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good27 Feb 2024
Shad House Tandoori Restaurant BB2 6SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m1 Major improvement necessary26 Feb 2026
Mo Cha BB2 6SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m3 Generally satisfactory6 May 2026
Step Inn BB2 1UNRetailers - other350 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Mar 2026
The Blue Nile BB2 1TNTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Tesco Express BB2 1TARetailers - other380 m5 Very good30 Jun 2025
Hilmas Superstore / Valina’s Food BB2 1UWRetailers - other380 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Five Star Meats BB2 1UNRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Jul 2025
Moorings Trust BB2 1PGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Mar 2026
Bulls Head BB2 1UNPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good28 Feb 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.

111 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Anti-social behaviour19
Other theft8
Public order7
Drugs6
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2
Shoplifting1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holden Street (20); On or near Moulding Close (11); On or near Rawstorne Street (11); On or near Apple Street (10); On or near Bent Gap Lane (9).

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: 238 residents in 152 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 age5440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)4%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented81%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work22%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)15%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%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)14%34%
No qualifications46%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

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.

  • BB2 1WA: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Apple Court · Apple Street · Lund Street · Lancaster Street · Rawstorne Street · Gisburn Place · Saunders Road · Balfour Street · Downham Street · Pleasington Street · Grindleton Road · Garden Street

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.
  • 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.