Broadacre Caton, Lancaster

48 addresses across 3 postcodes (LA2), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 19701785.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £434,995 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 15, E: 2, F: 1).
  • 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 C; 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 6.4 km (4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bull Beck Picnic Site, is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lancaster Medical Practice, about 5.8 km (3.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20261£434,995£434,995£434,995
20252£432,500£425,000£440,000
20213£382,000£190,000£450,000
20201£245,000£245,000£245,000
20192£226,500£188,000£265,000
20181£299,950£299,950£299,950
20171£250,000£250,000£250,000
20162£212,500£180,000£245,000
20151£235,000£235,000£235,000
20142£231,250£230,000£232,500
20131£50,000£50,000£50,000
20111£249,950£249,950£249,950
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Apr 20266 LA2 9NFDetached£434,995
29 Oct 20259 LA2 9NFDetached£440,000
29 Oct 202533 LA2 9NQDetached£425,000
28 Sep 202137 LA2 9NQDetached£450,000
25 Jun 202125 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£190,000
5 Feb 202135 LA2 9NQDetached£382,000
26 Nov 202020 LA2 9NHDetached£245,000
11 Oct 201936 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£188,000
15 Apr 201953 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£265,000
20 Jun 20186 LA2 9NFDetached£299,950
18 Apr 20189 LA2 9NFOther£4,600Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Feb 201753 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£250,000
16 Sep 201659 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£180,000
5 Apr 201610 LA2 9NQDetached£245,000
3 Jul 201510 LA2 9NQDetached£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 201553 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£235,000
5 Dec 20142 LA2 9NFDetached£232,500
21 Jul 201435 LA2 9NQDetached£230,000
6 Dec 201353 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£50,000
26 Aug 20116 LA2 9NFDetached£249,950
25 Oct 201029 LA2 9NQTerraced£169,000
13 Aug 201025 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£125,000
10 Sep 200947 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£169,800
6 Aug 20089 LA2 9NFDetached£225,000
27 Nov 200731 LA2 9NQTerraced£177,000
14 Jul 200637 LA2 9NQDetached£320,000
2 May 20068 LA2 9NFDetached£200,000
13 May 200522 LA2 9NHTerraced£145,000
25 Oct 200459 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£174,000
1 Oct 200412 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£175,000
14 Nov 20038 LA2 9NFDetached£229,950
7 Apr 200347 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£130,000
11 Jul 200231 LA2 9NQTerraced£105,000
2 May 200251 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£60,000
8 Feb 200251 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£60,000
9 Nov 200139 LA2 9NQDetached£179,500
28 Sep 200114 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£80,500
5 Jan 20016 LA2 9NFDetached£142,500
16 Oct 20002 LA2 9NFDetached£130,000
21 Aug 200012 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£59,000
9 Jun 200014 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£77,000
5 Nov 199933 LA2 9NQDetached£104,000
27 Mar 19985 LA2 9NFSemi-detached£60,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 199855 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£43,500
9 Jan 199857 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£68,500
24 Dec 199726 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£60,000
26 Sep 199729 LA2 9NQSemi-detached£56,500
28 Jul 199727 LA2 9NQTerraced£58,000
11 Apr 199724 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£59,950
8 Dec 199530 LA2 9NHSemi-detached£60,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 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: Bungalow, detached (6); House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (6); before 1900 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2).

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 C (30% of about 700 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 6 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
LA2 9NHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
LA2 9NQnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LA2 9NFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 2 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 48 addresses are between 32 m and 36 m above sea level (34 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
LA2 9NF100%100%100%0%
LA2 9NH100%100%100%0%
LA2 9NQ100%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 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Carnforth 196,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Community PS Caton250 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal13.4 km (8.3 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA73.1 km (45 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 surgeriesLancaster Medical Practice5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caton Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caton Dental Practice470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRidge Lea Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationLancaster Constabulary6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Caton, Caton460 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenBull Beck Picnic Site 7,260 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²160 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,140 m²160 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,060 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Gresgarth Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) south. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gresgarth HallListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
Askew Heights univallate prehistoric defended enclosure and hollow wayScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Seale WoodWood650 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Crook o' LuneLake or reservoir940 m (0.6 miles) west
Queen's Well WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Crook o' Lune WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Potts HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Otter Geer CloughValley3.2 km (2 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)3.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)7.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 5930
Under 554548

3 of the street's 48 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
Caton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11280 m No published inspection
Caton St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 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: 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
Caton Community Primary School LA2 9NHSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good1 Sep 2025
The Old Post Office Cafe LA2 9QWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Sep 2024
Taylor's Treats LA2 9QSRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2026
The Station Hotel LA2 9QSPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good29 Apr 2025
The Co-operative LA2 9QWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Sep 2026
Caton Phamacy LA2 9QWRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft2
Burglary1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hall Drive (5); On or near Kingfisher Court (2); On or near Broadacre (2); On or near The Glen (2); On or near Quernmore Road (1).

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: 676 residents in 287 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 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 7 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

Broadacre Close · Kingfisher Court · Fell View · Broadacre Place · The Glen · Broadacre View · Langdale · Leslie Avenue · Roman Crescent · The Croft · Copy Lane · Greenfields

All the streets in LA2 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.