Brown Square Burnley

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB11), about 230 m long. USRN 5000098.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £55,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 2, E: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in Burnley costs £2,549 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Burnley Central, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thompson Park, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 122 to 129 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Burnley Group Practice, about 200 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 269 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£55,000£55,000£55,000
20191£26,750£26,750£26,750
20181£20,000£20,000£20,000
20031£24,000£24,000£24,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Jul 20255 BB11 2SDTerraced£39,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Apr 20237 BB11 2SDTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
21 Mar 20227 BB11 2SDTerraced£35,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Aug 201911 BB11 2SDTerraced£26,750Leasehold.
30 Apr 201911 BB11 2SDTerraced£25,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 20183 BB11 2SDTerraced£54,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 May 201813 BB11 2SDTerraced£20,000Leasehold.
13 Jan 20037 BB11 2SDTerraced£24,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2012 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 53 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (4); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Burnley in 2026-27: Band D £2,549 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,700£1,983£2,266£2,549£3,116£3,682£4,249£5,099

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (70% of about 690 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: yes, Top o' th' Town. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation.
  • 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 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

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 on this street 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 8 addresses are between 122 m and 129 m above sea level (123 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
BB11 2RU100%100%100%0%
BB11 2SD100%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 stationsBurnley Central 115,000 journeys in 2024–25530 m (0.3 miles)
Burnley Manchester Road 583,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Burnley Barracks 30,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ormerod Road Burnley150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Burnley510 m (0.3 miles)
Car parksTesco Car Park810 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA38.8 km (24 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Burnley Group Practice200 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Peters Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Peters Centre200 m
HospitalBurnley General Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationLancashire Constabulary700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *Deposit & Withdrawal* Asda Burnley Cashzone550 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thompson Park 11 ha150 m
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 680 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turf Moor Cricket Ground 1.8 ha380 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.8 ha850 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m west. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*190 m west
Thompson ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II290 m north
Queen's Park, BurnleyRegistered park or garden, Grade II570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Burnley MechanicsListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Oakmount Mill engine and engine house, Wiseman StreetScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ridge WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Crow WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Goit WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Rowley LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Sep CloughValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Castle HillHill2.6 km (1.6 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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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 5980
Under 5508

8 of the street's 8 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 Burnley: see them on the Burnley 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
Burnley St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademySecondary11–16550 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Burnley College16 plus16–99850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Stoneyholme Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Burnley Springfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Heasandford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Burnley Stoneyholme Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Basnett Street Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Burnley St Stephen's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Burnley Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Burnley Brunshaw Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Benjamin House BB11 2RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises10 m4 Good8 Sep 2017
M.S. Lone Off - Licence BB11 2SARetailers - other30 m4 Good27 Jun 2024
Adam House BB11 2RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m4 Good8 Sep 2017
Healy House BB11 2RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Shimla Spice BB11 2DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Aug 2025
Domino's Pizza BB11 2DLTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Aroma BB11 2DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good23 Jun 2024
Chaiiwala BB11 2DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good21 Jan 2024
Mother Hubbards Famous Fish & Chips BB11 2DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good14 Nov 2025
Faiz Supermarket BB11 2DLRetailers - other190 m4 Good25 Jun 2026
Freddy's Chicken & Pizza BB11 2DLTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good5 Nov 2025
Top Shop BB11 3DJRetailers - other230 m4 Good25 Jun 2024
St Peter's CofE Primary School BB11 2DLSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
St Peter's Church (Kitchen) BB11 2DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Sion Baptist Church BB11 2DWRetailers - other240 m5 Very good18 Jul 2018

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.

269 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences87
Anti-social behaviour63
Criminal damage and arson30
Burglary15
Public order15
Vehicle crime12
Other theft12
Shoplifting10
Drugs8
Other crime7
Bicycle theft4
Theft from the person3
Possession of weapons2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dawson Square (39); On or near Thurston Street (35); On or near Hawk Street (34); On or near Hunslet Street (33); On or near Adlington Street (22).

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: 403 residents in 111 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 age3840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Hawk Street · Forest Street · Godley Street · Hawk Street · Ormerod Road · Lindsay Street · Shorey Bank · Talbot Street · Hart Street · Church Street · Church Street · Rawcliffe Street

All the streets in BB11 and across Burnley.

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.