Beech Grove Darwen

33 addresses across 1 postcode (BB3), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901527.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £180,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 12, E: 6).
  • 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 D; 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 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 145 to 149 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hollins Grove Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 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
20223£180,000£171,000£200,000
20211£155,000£155,000£155,000
20191£155,000£155,000£155,000
20183£155,000£150,000£190,000
20171£132,700£132,700£132,700
20162£158,750£157,500£160,000
20152£155,250£137,500£173,000
20133£125,000£112,500£150,000
20081£239,795£239,795£239,795
20051£132,000£132,000£132,000
20043£124,950£105,000£136,000
20031£85,000£85,000£85,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Dec 202212 BB3 0APSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 202227 BB3 0APOther£800Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 202211 BB3 0APSemi-detached£171,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202226 BB3 0APSemi-detached£200,000
30 Jul 202130 BB3 0APSemi-detached£155,000
11 Nov 20193 BB3 0APSemi-detached£155,000
22 Nov 20185 BB3 0APSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 20185 BB3 0APSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 20187 BB3 0APSemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
7 Feb 201825 BB3 0APDetached£190,000Leasehold.
3 May 201714 BB3 0APSemi-detached£132,700Leasehold.
2 Nov 20164 BB3 0APSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 201626 BB3 0APSemi-detached£157,500
10 Jul 20151 BB3 0APSemi-detached£173,000
9 Mar 20156 BB3 0APSemi-detached£137,500Leasehold.
21 Mar 201422 BB3 0APSemi-detached£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Dec 201310 BB3 0APSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 201325 BB3 0APDetached£125,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 201314 BB3 0APSemi-detached£112,500Leasehold.
6 Feb 20082 BB3 0APDetached£239,795
28 Oct 20055 BB3 0APSemi-detached£132,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 20043 BB3 0APSemi-detached£136,000
7 Oct 200414 BB3 0APSemi-detached£124,950Leasehold.
4 Jun 20047 BB3 0APSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 20038 BB3 0APSemi-detached£85,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 200217 BB3 0APSemi-detached£75,000
5 Jun 20029 BB3 0APSemi-detached£74,950Leasehold.
27 Mar 20021 BB3 0APSemi-detached£84,000
7 Jan 200031 BB3 0APDetached£46,000
20 Dec 199914 BB3 0APSemi-detached£44,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 19982 BB3 0APDetached£75,000
18 Sep 19989 BB3 0APSemi-detached£45,000Leasehold.
17 Jul 199824 BB3 0APSemi-detached£54,000
30 Jan 199813 BB3 0APSemi-detached£51,250Leasehold.
30 Apr 199610 BB3 0APSemi-detached£40,000Leasehold.

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

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); Bungalow, detached (3); House, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (13); 1950-1966 (4); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 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 D (50% of about 1,040 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.

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 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, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 33 addresses are between 145 m and 149 m above sea level (147 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
BB3 0AP100%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 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Darwen 346,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beech Drive Bank Hey60 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksParking space on Carrington Avenue1.4 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN43.2 km (27 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 Hollins Grove Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fishmoor Pharmacy1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery940 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationPolice Headquarters3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shell Rising Bridge, Rising Bridge330 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 gardenUnnamed 1.4 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 810 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Darwen Congregational Church Recreation Ground 4.5 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsEwood Allotments 1.2 ha850 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sunnyhurst Woods, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2 km (1.3 miles) south. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sunnyhurst WoodsRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fernhurst WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) north
Fernhurst HillHill740 m (0.5 miles) west
Bunker's HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) west
Winter HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Sunnyhurst CloughValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Fishmoor ReservoirLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 59110
Under 552133

12 of the street's 33 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), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Edward's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 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
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lower Darwen Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Darwen Vale High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Longshaw Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.2 km (0.8 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
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Longshaw Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Avondale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Longshaw Community Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Meadowhead Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Nisa Local Store BB3 0AJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets250 m4 Good1 Jul 2025
Moss Bridge Post Office BB3 0AJRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary17 Jun 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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near B6231 (7); On or near Ashwood Avenue (3); On or near Meadow Vale (3); On or near Parkdale Gardens (2); On or near Bolton Road (2).

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: 315 residents in 130 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications12%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 10 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.

  • BB3 0AP: 33 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Meadow Vale · Ashwood Avenue · Oakmere Close · Bolton Road · The Dell · Cravens Hollow · Sandy Lane · Parkdale Gardens · Lea Drive · Lea Drive · The Shires · The Glen

All the streets in BB3 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.