Burnt Close Luton

82 addresses across 1 postcode (LU3), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000205.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20, D: 12).
  • Flood: 21 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Leagrave Common (15 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 119 to 123 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barton Hills Medical Group, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 153 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£300,000£300,000£300,000
20241£260,000£260,000£260,000
20231£260,000£260,000£260,000
20211£255,000£255,000£255,000
20191£187,000£187,000£187,000
20181£227,000£227,000£227,000
20172£232,500£230,000£235,000
20162£191,498£169,995£213,000
20131£115,000£115,000£115,000
20074£129,000£105,000£137,500
20052£118,500£117,000£120,000
20042£100,500£100,000£101,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202634 LU3 3SUTerraced£300,000
11 Jul 202412 LU3 3SUTerraced£260,000
25 Apr 202315 LU3 3SUTerraced£260,000
9 Jun 202119 LU3 3SUTerraced£255,000
7 Dec 202032 LU3 3SUTerraced£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 201930 LU3 3SUTerraced£187,000
12 Jul 201841 LU3 3SUTerraced£227,000
25 Oct 201734 LU3 3SUTerraced£235,000
18 Sep 20175 LU3 3SUTerraced£197,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 201711 LU3 3SUTerraced£230,000
24 Mar 20175 LU3 3SUTerraced£197,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Aug 201614 LU3 3SUTerraced£213,000
11 Mar 201641 LU3 3SUTerraced£169,995
10 Oct 201341 LU3 3SUTerraced£115,000
24 Sep 200732 LU3 3SUTerraced£135,000
10 Aug 200719 LU3 3SUTerraced£137,500
27 Apr 200747 LU3 3SUTerraced£123,000
2 Feb 200732 LU3 3SUTerraced£105,000
31 Aug 200529 LU3 3SUSemi-detached£117,000
21 Mar 200522 LU3 3SUSemi-detached£120,000
23 Jul 200451 LU3 3SUTerraced£100,000
28 Jun 200430 LU3 3SUTerraced£101,000
18 Oct 200229 LU3 3SUSemi-detached£89,995
18 Jun 20017 LU3 3SUTerraced£59,000
1 Sep 20003 LU3 3SUTerraced£59,995
16 Jun 200047 LU3 3SUTerraced£46,950
1 Sep 199751 LU3 3SUTerraced£35,000

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 July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (20); House, end-terrace (12). Built: 1950-1966 (17); 1967-1975 (14); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (17); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,898£2,169£2,440£2,982£3,524£4,067£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (57% of about 510 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.

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

  • 16 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footpath (immediate - emergency works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 20 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 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 82 addresses are between 119 m and 123 m above sea level (120 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
LU3 3SU100%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 stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Harlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodlands Secondary School Marsh Farm140 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN7.4 km (4.6 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 Barton Hills Medical Group1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moakes Pharmacy200 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marsh Farm90 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM720 m (0.4 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 Unnamed 2,780 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Leagrave Common 15 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Purley Centre Seniors Play Area 1,370 m²90 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha40 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,710 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's Bank, a scheduled monument, 820 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's BankScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1Scheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great Bramingham WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) north
Bramingham WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Valentine PondLake or reservoir620 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Little Bramingham WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) east
Warden HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Smithcombe ValleyValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) north

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5940
Under 557882

4 of the street's 82 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 Luton: see them on the Luton 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
Waulud Primary SchoolPrimary3–11370 m No published inspection
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary11–16380 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Parklea Primary SchoolPrimary4–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lealands High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grasmere Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Gill Blowers Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Warden Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary4–71.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, 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
Woodlands Special School LU3 3SPSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Woodlands Community Cafe LU3 3SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
Nisa Local T/A B+M Stores LU3 3FHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Marsh Farm Fish & Chips LU3 3FHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m1 Major improvement necessary1 Sep 2026
Abdul Halal butchers and grocers marsh farm LU3 3FHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Jul 2026
Moakes Pharmacy LU3 3FHRetailers - other200 mExempt
Heywood House LU3 3QBOther catering premises280 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Marsh Farm Futures LU3 3QBRetailers - other280 mExempt
MFF Community Fridge LU3 3QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
Pizza City & Peri Peri Grill Cottage LU3 3QBTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Dec 2025
Marsh Bears Nursery LU3 3QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good22 Mar 2017
Cafe 1 LU3 3QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 mAwaiting inspection
Slimming World LU3 3SJRetailers - other350 mExempt
Nisa Food Store LU3 3LTRetailers - other370 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Lea Manor High School Performing Arts College LU3 3TLSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good24 Nov 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.

153 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences74
Anti-social behaviour30
Public order11
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft7
Drugs5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons3
Robbery2
Theft from the person2
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sherd Close (44); On or near Purway Close (24); On or near Burnt Close (18); On or near The Moakes (16); On or near Vadis Close (15).

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: 343 residents in 126 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 age3740
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • LU3 3SU: 82 addresses of 90 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Buckle Close · Pottery Close · Northwell Drive · Vadis Close · Mosaic Close · Purway Close · Sherd Close · Redgrave Gardens · The Moakes · Sylam Close · Northwell Drive · Thrales Close

All the streets in LU3 and across Luton.

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.