Beeching Close Lancaster

11 addresses across 1 postcode (LA1), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19702345.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £165,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4).
  • Flood: 4 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 A; Band D in Lancaster costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lancaster, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Greaves Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queen Square Medical Practice, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 180 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 93 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£165,000£165,000£165,000
20192£115,250£72,500£158,000
20181£124,000£124,000£124,000
20171£135,000£135,000£135,000
20141£143,000£143,000£143,000
20131£118,000£118,000£118,000
20121£125,000£125,000£125,000
20111£69,000£69,000£69,000
20063£120,000£67,500£145,000
20041£55,000£55,000£55,000
20034£61,000£33,500£90,000
20022£29,750£29,500£30,000
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202314 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£165,000
20 Nov 201912 LA1 4JWTerraced£72,500Leasehold.
15 Mar 20194 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£158,000
3 Aug 20188 LA1 4JWTerraced£124,000
24 Feb 20176 LA1 4JWTerraced£135,000
27 Jun 20144 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£143,000
31 Jan 20136 LA1 4JWTerraced£118,000
31 May 201216 LA1 4JWTerraced£125,000
5 Jan 201112 LA1 4JWTerraced£69,000Leasehold.
27 Oct 200612 LA1 4JWTerraced£67,500Leasehold.
20 Oct 20062 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£145,000
5 Apr 20068 LA1 4JWTerraced£120,000
23 Dec 200412 LA1 4JWTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
24 Sep 200314 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£90,000
23 May 20036 LA1 4JWTerraced£86,000
17 Apr 20038 LA1 4JWTerraced£36,000
14 Apr 200310 LA1 4JWTerraced£33,500Leasehold.
14 Jun 20026 LA1 4JWTerraced£29,500New build.
26 Apr 200216 LA1 4JWTerraced£30,000
7 Sep 200118 LA1 4JWTerraced£50,000
25 Aug 200014 LA1 4JWSemi-detached£58,000
5 Dec 199712 LA1 4JWTerraced£25,000Leasehold.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (2); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Lancaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,616£4,172£5,006

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (39% of about 880 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, 4 at medium risk and 3 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 addresses are about 31 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
LA1 4JW100%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 stationsLancaster 2.2 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Morecambe 175,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ripley St Thomas CEHS Lancaster City Centre60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Auction Mart Car Park650 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA77.2 km (48 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 Queen Square Medical Practice750 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Higher Greaves Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morecambe Bay Primary Care Trust190 m
HospitalRoyal Lancaster Infirmary190 m
Police stationLancaster Constabulary740 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM740 m (0.5 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greaves Park 4.4 ha230 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 540 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,000 m²300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 7.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chapel of Ripley St Thomas School, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m west. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapel of Ripley St Thomas SchoolListed building, Grade II*90 m west
Royal Albert Hospital (original part only)Listed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south
Ring O' Bells Public HouseListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) north
Town HallListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) north
Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshopsScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Ashton Memorial Gardens and Williamson ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle HillScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Skerton BridgeScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Lancaster CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Freeman's WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Aldcliffe MarshWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Burrow HeightsHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Langthwaite ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Blea Tarn ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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 6480
Under 55311

8 of the street's 11 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 Lancaster: see them on the Lancaster 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
Ripley St Thomas Church of England AcademySecondary11–18210 m Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bowerham Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong 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
Lancaster Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster Roman CatholicPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lancaster Royal Grammar School ChristianSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, Lancaster Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorside Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Appletree Nursery SchoolNursery0–41.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willow Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 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: Strong 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 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
Bargain Booze LA1 4UDRetailers - other90 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Ripley St Thomas C of E Academy LA1 4RSSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
Spar Greaves LA1 4UWRetailers - other290 m4 Good16 Apr 2026
Lancaster Wine Company LA1 4UWRetailers - other290 m5 Very good23 Oct 2026
Caterplus Ltd LA1 4AROther catering premises310 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Royal Lancaster Infirmary LA1 4RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Bright Horizons LA1 4RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Jun 2025
RVS Cafe LA1 4RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Nazareth House Care Home LA1 5AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good1 Jul 2026
Nazareth House Day Nursery LA1 5AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Jan 2026
The Water Witch LA1 1SUPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Quay's Chippy LA1 1SSTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Nov 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.

93 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Anti-social behaviour14
Burglary9
Public order7
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Other crime1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (11); On or near Beeching Close (10); On or near Greaves Drive (10); On or near Gresley Court (8); On or near Pointer Court (7).

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: 180 residents in 95 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van23%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • LA1 4JW: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Greaves Drive · Gresley Court · Princess Avenue · Sulby Drive · Pointer Court · Greaves Drive · Binyon Court · Graham Street · Percy Road · Vine Street · Brunton Road · Pickard Street

All the streets in LA1 and across Lancaster.

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.