Blind Lane Sawtry, Huntingdonshire

7 addresses across 3 postcodes (PE28), about 380 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 17802183.

  • Flood: 2 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 Huntingdonshire costs £2,556 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Huntingdon, about 13.3 km (8.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wellside Surgery, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Mar 20201 PE28 5GESemi-detached£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 Huntingdonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,556 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,704£1,988£2,272£2,556£3,124£3,693£4,261£5,113

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (46% of about 560 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: 6 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 18 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PE28 5UYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely
PE28 5GEzone 2 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
PE28 5GGzone 2 0 / 0 / 12 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 7 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
PE28 5GE100%100%100%0%
PE28 5GG100%100%100%0%
PE28 5UY100%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 stationHuntingdon 1.6 million journeys in 2024–2513.3 km (8.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapel End Sawtry140 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Stations1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN62.8 km (39 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellside Surgery620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots620 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sawtry Dental Surgery670 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalRoyal Papworth Hospital11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Police stationHampton Police Station11.3 km (7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest JR Green Newsagent, Sawtry Cashzone350 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.5 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.2 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,050 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sawtry moat and shrunken medieval village, a scheduled monument, 630 m (0.4 miles) north. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sawtry moat and shrunken medieval villageScheduled monument630 m (0.4 miles) north
Manor House FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) south
Bruce's Castle: moated site immediately east of Bruce's Castle FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High Holborn HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Castle GroveWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Aversley WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Sawtry Field PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Palmer's GroveWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Dell PondLake or reservoir4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-west

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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)14.64015

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
55 to 5920
Under 5557

2 of the street's 7 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 Huntingdonshire: see them on the Huntingdonshire 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
Sawtry Village AcademySecondary11–18100 m No published inspection
Sawtry Infants' SchoolPrimary4–7490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Sawtry Junior AcademyPrimary7–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 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
Pitstop PE28 5TRTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2025
Sawtry & District Bowling Club Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good7 Aug 2023
Lucky Chorizo de Cebu Retailers - other240 mAwaiting inspection
J R Green PE28 5UZRetailers - other350 m5 Very good9 Aug 2023
The Fudge Nook PE28 5XGRetailers - other350 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
Kid Zone Out of School Club PE28 5SHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good3 Oct 2024
Caterlink @ Sawtry Infant school PE28 5SHSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Caterlink @ Sawtry Junior Academy PE28 5SHSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Buttons and Bows preschool Sawtry PE28 5SHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m4 Good8 Jan 2026
The Butchers Blade PE28 5TGRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good8 Jan 2026
Rumbles Fish Bar PE28 5UXTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Sawtry News Cabin/Mayu Trading Ltd PE28 5URRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Sawtry Mini Market PE28 5URRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Aug 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour9
Violence and sexual offences8
Burglary5
Possession of weapons3
Drugs3
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cavendish Close (17); On or near Parking Area (6); On or near Moyne Road (3); On or near St Andrews Way (3); On or near Fen Lane (2).

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: 623 residents in 283 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)25%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)26%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Cavendish Close · The Leys · Moyne Road · Spriggs Close · College Court · Fen Lane · Chapel End · Manor Drive · Louthe Way · Ermine Way · Haynes Close · Huntings Drive

All the streets in PE28 and across Huntingdonshire.

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.