Caesar Close Thorn, Central Bedfordshire

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU5), about 60 m long. USRN 6000855.

12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12). 12 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 6.2 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 700 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 99 m above sea level. 8 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Houghton Regis Medical Centre, about 2.1 km away. About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 27 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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Nov 20211 LU5 6JGOther£1,124,959Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: Flat (7); House, mid-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2019 (12).

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 2,100 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 1.0 km

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 30 September 2026.

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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
LU5 6JGnot in 2 or 3 12 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU5 6QDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 99 m above sea level.

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
LU5 6JG100%100%100%0%
LU5 6QD100%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 2024–256.2 km
Harlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km
Leighton Buzzard 1.5 million journeys in 2024–258.9 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 7 within 800 m; nearest Thorn Turn Depot Houghton Regis60 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre9.6 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station1.0 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN13.0 km

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 surgeriesHoughton Regis Medical Centre2.1 km
PharmaciesTitan Pharmacy2.1 km
NHS dentistsHoughton Regis Dental Practice1.9 km
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital5.4 km
Police stationDunstable Police Station3.3 km
Cash machinesNisa Store, Houghton Regis1.7 km

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,700 m²700 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 660 m²380 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest The Recreation Ground 8.1 ha580 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,420 m²210 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thorn Spring moated site and associated woodbanks, a scheduled monument, 620 m north-east. 1 listed building is within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thorn Spring moated site and associated woodbanksScheduled monument620 m north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thorn SpringWood620 m north-east
Blue Waters WoodlandWood1.1 km east
Bidwell SpinneyWood1.1 km east
Grove SpinneyWood2.2 km north-east
Tebworth PondLake or reservoir2.4 km north
Castle HillHill3.2 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5980
Under 55513

8 of the street's 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Houghton Regis Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Good
Tithe Farm Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Thomas Whitehead Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km 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

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Venture Trade Ltd LU5 6TZRetailers - other170 mAwaiting inspection
Esquires Coffee LU5 6TWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m5 Very good14 Oct 2024
Ashbourne Day Nursery at Houghton Regis LU5 6TWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m4 Good1 Jul 2026
The Codfather LU5 6TWTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Domino's Pizza LU5 6TWTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m5 Very good20 Jan 2025
Chicken Cottage LU5 6TWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good14 Oct 2024

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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order3
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Thorn Road (16); On or near Camilla Grove (5); On or near Decima Gardens (4); On or near Colosseum Drive (2).

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: 341 residents in 129 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 age2940
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work83%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km or more away27%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • LU5 6JG: 12 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • LU5 6QD: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Camilla Grove · Colosseum Drive · Decima Gardens · Titus Grove · Terra Croft · Claudia Gardens · Chalk Hill · Grendall Lane · Pantheon Drive

All the streets in LU5 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.