Bossu Drive Oadby

80 addresses across 1 postcode (LE2), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29201085.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £379,950 across 21 sales.
  • Energy: 75 homes have an energy certificate (A: 6, B: 69).
  • 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 E; Band D in Oadby and Wigston costs £2,407 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leicester, about 4.1 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Shady Lane Arboretum, is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 96 to 107 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Central Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 55% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
202521£379,950£128,000£542,450
20247£404,950£128,000£574,950
202310£395,998£112,000£487,000
20224£490,000£430,000£550,000
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Sep 20259 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£394,950New build.
26 Sep 202513 LE2 2GRDetached£379,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 202551 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£324,950New build.
29 Aug 202511 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£394,950New build.
28 Aug 202545 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£324,950New build.
4 Aug 202512 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£146,250Leasehold.
25 Jul 202529 LE2 2GRDetached£419,950New build.
25 Jul 2025102 LE2 2GRDetached£379,950New build.
25 Jul 202543 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£324,950New build.
30 May 2025100 LE2 2GRDetached£379,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 May 202592 LE2 2GRDetached£542,450New build.
2 May 202510 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 202598 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£279,950New build.
28 Mar 202515 LE2 2GRDetached£414,950New build.
28 Mar 202517 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£394,950New build.
28 Mar 202549 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£315,950New build.
21 Mar 202594 LE2 2GRDetached£413,950New build.
20 Mar 202521 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£389,950New build.
14 Mar 202523 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£387,234New build.
13 Mar 202596 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£279,950New build.
13 Feb 202527 LE2 2GRDetached£369,950New build.
31 Jan 202519 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£389,950New build.
24 Jan 20254 LE2 2GRDetached£369,950New build.
13 Dec 202425 LE2 2GRDetached£454,950New build.
29 Sep 20242 LE2 2GRDetached£404,950New build.
26 Sep 202439 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£313,950New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 202441 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£311,500New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 202448 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£354,950New build.
31 May 202450 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£361,950New build.
10 May 202440 LE2 2GRDetached£574,950New build.
23 Apr 202410 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
29 Feb 202446 LE2 2GRDetached£439,950New build.
20 Dec 202384 LE2 2GRTerraced£112,000Leasehold.
18 Oct 202328 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£392,000New build.
4 Aug 202332 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£399,995New build.
28 Jul 202326 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£392,000New build.
21 Jul 202344 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£385,000New build.
21 Jul 202354 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£316,500New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 202352 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£316,500New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jul 202334 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£399,995New build.
30 Jun 202342 LE2 2GRSemi-detached£399,995New build.
28 Apr 202322 LE2 2GRDetached£380,000New build.
14 Mar 202330 LE2 2GRDetached£425,000New build.
31 Jan 202324 LE2 2GRDetached£487,000New build.
22 Dec 202236 LE2 2GRDetached£430,000New build.
16 Dec 202238 LE2 2GRDetached£480,000New build.
8 Dec 202220 LE2 2GRDetached£550,000New build.
2 Dec 202218 LE2 2GRDetached£500,000New build.

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 October 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

75 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (32); House, detached (24); House, end-terrace (12). Built: 2021 (63); 2023 (7); 2022 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (75).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oadby and Wigston in 2026-27: Band D £2,407 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,872£2,139£2,407£2,942£3,477£4,011£4,814

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 80 addresses are between 96 m and 107 m above sea level (102 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LE2 2GR100%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 stationsLeicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Syston 213,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest University Sports Ground Oadby410 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester4.8 km (3 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA29.9 km (19 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 The Central Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vision Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Dental Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police - Spinney Hill Park Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.1 km (0.7 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shady Lane Arboretum 13 ha380 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²60 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 18 ha230 m
AllotmentsBrabazon Road Allotments 2,830 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site with fishponds at Evington, a scheduled monument, 880 m (0.5 miles) north. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site with fishponds at EvingtonScheduled monument880 m (0.5 miles) north
Parish Church of St DenysListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) north
Moated grange at StoughtonScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Churchyard cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stackyard SpinneyWood190 m north
Galtree SpinneyWood350 m south
Judgemeadow SpinneyWood600 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Dam's SpinneyWood640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Brook SpinneyWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Lucas MarshWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) south

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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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
Under 558080

None of the street's 80 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Oadby and Wigston: see them on the Oadby and Wigston 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
Brookside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Judgemeadow Community CollegeSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Launde Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Linden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The City of Leicester CollegeSecondary11–191.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whitehall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Krishna Avanti Primary School HinduPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Langmoor Primary School OadbyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected 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
Cow And Plough Public House LE2 2FBPub/bar/nightclub270 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Aug 2026
Lollipops Pottery Painting Studio LE2 2FBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Seicho Developments Limited LE2 2FBManufacturers/packers290 mAwaiting inspection
Aigburth RH LE2 2LLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (leicestershire).

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: 370 residents in 117 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)55%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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.

  • LE2 2GR: 80 addresses of 85 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Farnham Close · Leycester Close · Bushby Road · Sheppard Drive · Penny Lane · Wade Close · Abbots Drive · Ringer's Spinney · Cranborne Gardens · Stoctone Road · Shady Lane · Manor Close

All the streets in LE2 and across Oadby and Wigston.

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.