Arrow Close Luton

207 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU3), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000060.

  • Sales: 71 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £280,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 83 homes have an energy certificate (C: 57, D: 26).
  • Flood: 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 160 m away, and Leagrave Common (15 hectares) is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 120 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 207 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sundon Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 114 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£280,000£280,000£280,000
20225£227,000£60,400£315,000
20211£233,000£233,000£233,000
20193£140,000£100,000£222,000
20183£222,500£213,000£245,000
20173£217,500£190,000£225,000
20162£183,000£179,000£187,000
20151£160,000£160,000£160,000
20143£137,000£129,000£140,000
20132£115,750£107,000£124,500
20122£128,250£122,500£134,000
20111£100,000£100,000£100,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 71)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Mar 202472 LU3 3LSOther£190,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Sep 202356 LU3 3LRSemi-detached£280,000
31 Oct 2022123 LU3 3LSFlat or maisonette£60,400Leasehold.
19 Aug 202235 LU3 3LRTerraced£250,000
1 Aug 202225 LU3 3LRTerraced£315,000
3 Feb 202220 LU3 3LRTerraced£227,000
26 Jan 202259 LU3 3LRTerraced£190,000
2 Jul 202133 LU3 3LRTerraced£233,000
7 Feb 202037 LU3 3LRTerraced£228,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 201948 LU3 3LRTerraced£100,000
7 Jun 2019125 LU3 3LSFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
15 Feb 201956 LU3 3LRSemi-detached£222,000
27 Nov 201817 LU3 3LRTerraced£213,000
16 Jul 201862 LU3 3LRTerraced£222,500
24 May 201857 LU3 3LRTerraced£245,000
11 Aug 20177 LU3 3LRTerraced£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jul 201733 LU3 3LRTerraced£217,500
14 Jul 201750 LU3 3LRTerraced£225,000
27 Apr 201741 LU3 3LRTerraced£190,000
9 May 201663 LU3 3LRTerraced£187,000
24 Mar 201637 LU3 3LRTerraced£179,000
11 May 201521 LU3 3LRTerraced£160,000
5 Dec 201424 LU3 3LRTerraced£140,000
23 Jun 201411 LU3 3LRTerraced£137,000
28 Mar 201466 LU3 3LRTerraced£129,000
7 Mar 201410 LU3 3LRTerraced£124,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Oct 201334 LU3 3LRTerraced£124,500
22 May 201366 LU3 3LRTerraced£107,000
26 Mar 201221 LU3 3LRTerraced£134,000
13 Jan 20122 LU3 3LRTerraced£122,500
19 Sep 201110 LU3 3LRSemi-detached£100,000
20 Apr 200925 LU3 3LRTerraced£99,995
16 Sep 200820 LU3 3LRTerraced£140,000
27 Jun 200813 LU3 3LRTerraced£122,000
30 Apr 200851 LU3 3LRTerraced£105,675
11 Feb 200826 LU3 3LRTerraced£145,000
20 Jun 200748 LU3 3LRTerraced£120,000
27 Apr 200743 LU3 3LRTerraced£135,000
17 Oct 200613 LU3 3LRTerraced£90,000
8 Sep 200629 LU3 3LRSemi-detached£124,000
22 Aug 200657 LU3 3LRTerraced£125,000
23 Jun 200624 LU3 3LRTerraced£119,950
8 Nov 20058 LU3 3LRTerraced£117,000
14 Jul 200543 LU3 3LRTerraced£124,995
27 Aug 200457 LU3 3LRTerraced£92,000
29 Mar 200466 LU3 3LRSemi-detached£68,000
26 Mar 200434 LU3 3LRTerraced£105,000
1 Sep 200318 LU3 3LRTerraced£101,000
29 Jul 200365 LU3 3LRTerraced£80,000
25 Jul 200317 LU3 3LRTerraced£102,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

83 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (34); Maisonette, mid-terrace (19); House, end-terrace (14). Built: 1967-1975 (73); 1950-1966 (10). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (39); owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (14).

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,898£2,169£2,440£2,982£3,524£4,067£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (56% of about 610 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 30 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
LU3 3LRnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 14 unlikely
LU3 3LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 16 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 207 addresses are between 120 m and 127 m above sea level (124 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
LU3 3LR100%100%100%0%
LU3 3LS100%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 stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Axe Close Marsh Farm140 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Car parksApcoa820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station670 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN7.3 km (4.5 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sundon Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Calverton Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marsh Farm590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM570 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,720 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Leagrave Common 15 ha200 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Purley Centre Seniors Play Area 1,370 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha320 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,710 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's Bank, a scheduled monument, 300 m south-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's BankScheduled monument300 m south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Bramingham WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Bramingham WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Great Bramingham WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Valentine PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Warden HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Smithcombe ValleyValley5 km (3.1 miles) north

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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59400
Under 55203207207

4 of the street's 207 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 Luton: see them on the Luton 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
Waulud Primary SchoolPrimary3–11190 m No published inspection
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Parklea Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Gill Blowers Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lealands High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beechwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Norton Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Pirton Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Top It Off Snack Shack LU3 3LTTakeaway/sandwich shop140 mAwaiting inspection
Nisa Food Store LU3 3LTRetailers - other160 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Gill Blowers Nursery School LU3 3LWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Waulud Primary School LU3 3LZSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Mulberry Court LU3 2TFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jul 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.

114 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences57
Anti-social behaviour15
Vehicle crime9
Other theft8
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson6
Drugs6
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Five Springs (36); On or near Arrow Close (25); On or near Axe Close (22); On or near Spear Close (17); On or near Flint Close (11).

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: 742 residents in 266 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 age3340
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented50%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • LU3 3LR: 139 addresses of 142 in the postcode
  • LU3 3LS: 68 addresses of 71 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Axe Close · Spear Close · Five Springs · Leabank · Alesia Road · Repton Close · Wauluds Bank Drive · Penhill · Tiberius Road · Flint Close · Honiton Mews · Little Wood Croft

All the streets in LU3 and across Luton.

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.