Bushell Street Preston

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR1), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30700498.

  • 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 Preston costs £2,576 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Peace Garden, is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gutteridge Medical Centre, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 315 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Preston in 2026-27: Band D £2,576 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,717£2,003£2,290£2,576£3,148£3,721£4,293£5,151

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (76% of about 1,730 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

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PR1 2SPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR1 1NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 5 addresses are between 37 m and 38 m above sea level (37 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
PR1 1NJ100%96%96%0%
PR1 2SP100%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 stationsPreston (Lancs) 5.4 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gt Georges Street Preston City Centre130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre560 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks Ltd460 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL48.9 km (30 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 Gutteridge Medical Centre890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moor Park Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationPreston Police Station80 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crown Convenience Cashzone250 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Peace Garden 710 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Moor Park 40 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,080 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldOxhey's Recreation Ground 1.7 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Ignatius, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 117 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St IgnatiusListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south-east
St Peter's Arts Centre, University of Central LancashireListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Church of St George the MartyrListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south
Sessions HouseListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south
Moor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north
Avenham WalkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Castle Hill motteScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Penwortham Old BridgeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Deepdale EnclosureWood730 m (0.5 miles) east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Frenchwood KnollHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Crow WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Pool PlatTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Bull NoseWetland3.3 km (2.1 miles) west

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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 addresses is 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 Preston: see them on the Preston 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
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–11340 m No published inspection
St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moor Park High SchoolSecondary11–16910 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stoneygate Nursery SchoolNursery2–4940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Deepdale Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 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
Preston Muslim Girls High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 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
Cardinal Newman College Roman Catholic16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Eden Boys' School, Preston MuslimSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Lancaster University School of Mathematics16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The Roebuck SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, 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
Nisa Local PR1 1JRRetailers - other130 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Apr 2026
True Vaping PR1 7ATRetailers - other160 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
The Queen Vic PR1 7ATTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good6 Dec 2023
City Church Preston at St Thomas PR1 1JXRetailers - other160 m5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Iceland PR1 1RURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m4 Good19 Dec 2023
The Moorbrook Inn PR1 1RUPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Chesters Food Distribution Limited PR1 1RDDistributors/Transporters190 m4 Good14 Aug 2026
Chamo Street Food PR1 7ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Tesco Express PR1 1JQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Kashmir Watan Foodstores Limited PR1 1PJRetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
Surprice PR1 1TJRetailers - other250 m5 Very good1 Apr 2025
English Martyrs R C School PR1 7DRSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Breakfast and After School Club PR1 7DRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Wellsprings community hub PR1 1YPOther catering premises280 mAwaiting inspection
Quattro PR1 1TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory12 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.

315 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences108
Anti-social behaviour58
Criminal damage and arson37
Public order36
Drugs27
Other theft15
Vehicle crime8
Other crime8
Bicycle theft6
Burglary5
Shoplifting3
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Singleton Row (107); On or near Moor Lane (29); On or near Fish Street (25); On or near Melling Street (20); On or near Appleby Street (19).

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: 578 residents in 290 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 age3340
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented73%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle30%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Locos (takeaway/sandwich shop, PR1 2ED) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 7 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Spicy Grill (takeaway/sandwich shop, PR1 2ED) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 7 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

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

Lancaster Road · Lancaster Road North · Beckett Court · Riding Street · Singleton Row · Cragg's Row · Crown Street · Emmett Street · Dawson Walk · Atkinson Close · Aughton Walk · Appleby Street

All the streets in PR1 and across Preston.

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.