Buckfast Close Wigston

22 addresses across 1 postcode (LE18), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29200107.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 2, D: 6, E: 4).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 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 South Wigston, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Peace Memorial Park, is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 86 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 Bushloe Surgery, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 40 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£215,000£215,000£215,000
20251£250,000£250,000£250,000
20231£255,000£255,000£255,000
20221£240,000£240,000£240,000
20191£185,000£185,000£185,000
20172£184,500£179,000£190,000
20161£165,000£165,000£165,000
20142£151,500£148,000£155,000
20132£123,750£108,000£139,500
20122£109,500£91,500£127,500
20101£134,000£134,000£134,000
20071£85,800£85,800£85,800
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Apr 20265 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£215,000
17 Jun 20257 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£250,000
20 Oct 20234 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£255,000
13 Dec 202211 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£240,000
15 Feb 20192 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£185,000
8 Jun 201725 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£179,000
17 Mar 201716 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£190,000
8 Jan 201621 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£165,000
20 Nov 20145 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£155,000
31 Jan 20141 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£148,000
10 May 201313 LE18 2JUDetached£139,500
30 Apr 20131 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£108,000
9 Oct 20123 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£91,500
13 Jul 201212 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£127,500
19 Jul 201015 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£134,000
24 May 200725 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£85,800
8 Oct 20049 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£150,000
22 Jul 200417 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£150,000
16 Jul 200410 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£125,000
25 May 200419 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£139,950
4 Feb 200414 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£128,000
5 Nov 20032 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£116,500
25 Jun 200314 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£105,000
21 Dec 200117 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£84,950
30 Jul 199910 LE18 2JUSemi-detached£64,000

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 November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (13); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (6); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

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 C (49% of about 610 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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 22 addresses are between 84 m and 86 m above sea level (85 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
LE18 2JU100%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 stationsSouth Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashton Close Wigston Magna150 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester6.5 km (4 miles)
Car parksCountesthorpe Road Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA31.5 km (20 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bushloe Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little Hill Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationWigston Police Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Launceston Rd Cashzone440 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Peace Memorial Park 9,980 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 860 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha590 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade I), 430 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) north-east
42 and 44, Bushloe EndListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Workshop to Rear of Number 44Listed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Saffron Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Diamond Jubilee CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Lattice CoppiceWood2.3 km (1.5 miles) west
Lucas MarshWetland2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Tythorn HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
The IslandsIsland4.2 km (2.6 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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
Under 552222

None of the street's 22 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
Wigston Menphys Nursery SchoolNursery2–5260 m Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Hill PrimaryPrimary4–11290 m Report card (Jan 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: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wigston AcademySecondary11–16320 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wigston CollegeSecondary16–18420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thythorn Field Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Meadow Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fairfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Parkland Primary School South WigstonPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Water Leys Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
South Wigston High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saint John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, Wigston, Leicestershire Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong 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
Menphys Centre LE18 2FZSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Wigston Academies Trust LE18 2DTSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Kids Planet Wigston LE18 2GZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Relish School Food LE18 2GZSchool/college/university300 mAwaiting inspection
Birkett House School LE18 2DSSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Costa Coffee LE18 4PHRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Oct 2019
South Leicestershire College LE18 4PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Well Pharmacy LE18 2EWRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Little Hill Pharmacy LE18 2GLRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Co-Operative Supermarket LE18 2GLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Little Hill Fish Bar LE18 2GLTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 May 2026
The Plough Inn LE18 2BAPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
The Elms Pub \& Kitchen LE18 2BAPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 May 2025
Daisy Chain LE18 2DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Feb 2026
Spring House Chinese Takeaway LE18 2BSTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good20 Jun 2025

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.

40 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime2
Burglary1
Public order1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Collaton Road (16); On or near Salcombe Close (9); On or near Seaton Road (4); On or near Camborne Close (3); On or near Pochins Close (3).

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: 278 residents in 127 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 age5840
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright65%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Kenton Avenue · Pensilva Close · Ashton Close · Barton Close · Seaton Road · Cawsand Road · Collaton Road · Saltash Close · Tremaine Drive · Salcombe Close · Camborne Close · Pochins Close

All the streets in LE18 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.