Barton Road Luton

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU3), about 50 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 24003436.

  • Sales: 66 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £885,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 7 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 C; 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 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barton Hills Medical Group, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 136 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20261£885,000£885,000£885,000
20241£860,000£860,000£860,000
20232£345,000£250,000£440,000
20222£632,500£450,000£815,000
20212£700,000£600,000£800,000
20192£540,000£500,000£580,000
20181£500,000£500,000£500,000
20174£640,000£390,000£880,000
20162£737,500£720,000£755,000
20152£435,000£430,000£440,000
20141£370,000£370,000£370,000
20133£630,000£390,000£646,400
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 66)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jan 202644 LU3 2BBDetached£885,000
3 Jul 202468 LU3 2BBDetached£860,000
19 Jul 2023128 LU3 2BDDetached£440,000
16 Mar 2023116 LU3 2BDDetached£250,000
21 Sep 2022140 LU3 2BDDetached£450,000
24 Jun 202220 LU3 2BBDetached£815,000
19 Aug 202146 LU3 2BBDetached£800,000
16 Apr 2021126 LU3 2BDDetached£600,000
6 Sep 201918 LU3 2BBDetached£500,000
25 Jan 201940 LU3 2BBDetached£580,000
3 Aug 20186A LU3 2BBDetached£500,000
22 Sep 201758 LU3 2BBDetached£740,000
30 Jun 201764 LU3 2BBDetached£880,000
19 May 201718 LU3 2BBDetached£540,000
9 Mar 2017130 LU3 2BDDetached£390,000
19 Aug 201684 LU3 2BBDetached£755,000
14 Jan 201668 LU3 2BBDetached£720,000
9 Oct 201538 LU3 2BBDetached£440,000
12 Feb 201590 LU3 2BBDetached£430,000
15 May 201412 LU3 2BBDetached£370,000
19 Jun 2013CHERRY BLOSSOM, 2 LU3 2BBDetached£630,000
8 Apr 201326 LU3 2BBDetached£646,400
23 Jan 201370 LU3 2BBDetached£390,000
28 Nov 201256 LU3 2BBDetached£730,000
21 Sep 201278 LU3 2BBDetached£415,000
30 Nov 20114 LU3 2BBDetached£520,000
28 Jan 201152 LU3 2BBDetached£497,500
1 Dec 2009140 LU3 2BDDetached£220,000
25 Jun 20092 LU3 2BBDetached£500,000
12 Jun 200846 LU3 2BBDetached£430,000
20 Mar 200832 LU3 2BBDetached£535,000
15 Jun 200724 LU3 2BBDetached£450,000
2 May 200748 LU3 2BBDetached£420,000
2 Mar 200750 LU3 2BBDetached£500,000
27 Jul 2006126 LU3 2BDDetached£390,000
21 Jul 200652 LU3 2BBDetached£482,500
22 May 200644 LU3 2BBDetached£415,000
26 Apr 200640 LU3 2BBDetached£410,000
18 Dec 200384 LU3 2BBDetached£455,000
4 Apr 2003118 LU3 2BDDetached£315,000
11 Dec 200256 LU3 2BBDetached£535,000
18 Oct 20022 LU3 2BBDetached£420,000
11 Sep 200246 LU3 2BBDetached£300,000
27 Aug 20026A LU3 2BBDetached£480,000
19 Jul 2002120 LU3 2BDDetached£395,000
19 Apr 2002118 LU3 2BDDetached£174,000
5 Apr 2002116 LU3 2BDDetached£226,000
25 Oct 200144 LU3 2BBDetached£310,000
21 Sep 200156 LU3 2BBDetached£190,000
24 Jan 200168 LU3 2BBDetached£320,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 1,210 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 4 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 2BBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 3 / 4 unlikely
LU3 2BDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 0 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 addresses are about 122 m above sea level.

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 2BB100%100%100%0%
LU3 2BD100%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 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Weybourne Drive Warden Hill60 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksParking available near Luton Airport1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN6.1 km (3.8 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barton Hills Medical Group890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warden Hill Chemist390 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramingham Dental Clinic890 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Luton Cashzone450 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 gardenUnnamed 2,680 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha380 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 4.3 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1Scheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Strip lynchets on Stopsley CommonScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club houseScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warden HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Little Bramingham WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Valentine PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Bramingham WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Great Bramingham WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
Smithcombe ValleyValley4.5 km (2.8 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
70 to 7420
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 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
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary4–7160 m Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warden Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11280 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Grasmere Nursery SchoolNursery3–5370 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Icknield High SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
William Austin Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
William Austin Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 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

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
BP SF Connect -Streatley Service Station LU3 2BLRetailers - other110 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Barton Lodge LU3 2DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Little Peoples Nursery LU3 2DNSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Warden Hill Junior School B'fast & After School Club LU3 2DNSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
St Johns Church LU3 2DNOther catering premises180 m5 Very good21 Aug 2018
Warden Hill Infant Academy LU3 2DNSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Warden Hill Junior School-School Catering Support Ltd t/a Relish LU3 2DNSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
St Johns Preschool LU3 2DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Widecombe Nursing Home LU3 2DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Rowles House Care Home LU3 2BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Barton Road Service Station LU3 2BDRetailers - other360 m4 Good21 Aug 2017
Luton Women and Girls Cricket Club LU2 7ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Warden Hill Chemist LU3 2BERetailers - other380 mExempt
Featherfield Pharmacy LU3 2DQRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Velaa Store LU3 2DQRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Apr 2021

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.

136 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting72
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order9
Other theft9
Robbery5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (105); On or near Welbury Avenue (6); On or near Hill Close (5); On or near Sheringham Close (5); On or near Poplar Avenue (3).

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: 725 residents in 229 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 9 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 2BB: 1 address of 54 in the postcode
  • LU3 2BD: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sheringham Close · Weybourne Drive · Hillview Crescent · Hill Close · Blakeney Drive · Poplar Avenue · Welbury Avenue · Wiveton Close · Kelling Close · Grasmere Road · Hillcrest Avenue · Claydon Close

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.