Chapel Walks Preston

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR1), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30701339.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Preston cost £188,103 in August 2026 (+3.6% on a year); private rents averaged £791 a month.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (D: 4).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Corporation Street, is 150 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 67 times (163 hours) in 2025.
  • Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Red Scar Industrial Estate - EfW, is 4.9 km (3 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A59, carries 20,347 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 0% to 52% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Winckley Square, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Avenham Surgery, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 7% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 981 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 8 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

House prices and rents in Preston

A typical home in Preston cost £188,103 in August 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier and 40% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£330,599
Semi-detached£203,550
Terraced£145,269
Flat or maisonette£100,723
Bought by a first-time buyer£165,111

Private renters in Preston paid £791 a month on average in September 2026, 5.7% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£731
Three bedrooms£860
Four or more bedrooms£1,251

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: Flat (4). Built: before 1900 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 21 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is PR1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 (66% of about 1,390 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, Winckley Square Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Red Scar Industrial Estate - EfW Preston LCC/2019/0029 Energy from waste (incinerator) 40 MW Permission granted, not yet built Nov 2019 4.9 km (3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, give and take, on the carriageway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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 2AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
PR1 2NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 67 times, for 163 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Swillbrook Culvert A Tributary of the River Ribble (Tidal), River Ribble, Swillbrook Clvrt Trib R Ribble, River Ribble Via Swillbrook Culvert and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Frenchwood Knoll Cso 331Ux United Utilities Swillbrook Culvert A Tributary of the River Ribble (Tidal) 18 3 770 m (0.5 miles)
Bank Parade Cso United Utilities River Ribble 39 125 780 m (0.5 miles)
Halsbury Street Cso 331Xr United Utilities Swillbrook Clvrt Trib R Ribble 3 1 890 m (0.6 miles)
Manchester Rd/Selbourne Rd Cso United Utilities River Ribble Via Swillbrook Culvert 1 0 1 km (0.6 miles)
Fishergate Hill Cso Chamber C8 United Utilities; monitored 61% of the year River Ribble Via Chain Caul Culvert 3 13 1 km (0.6 miles)
Fishergate Hill Cso (Chamber C9) United Utilities; monitored 53% of the year River Ribble 3 20 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 150 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Corporation Street Off Fishergate, Preston from 1960 Inert, industrial, commercial 150 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 33 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
PR1 2AY100%0%0%0%
PR1 2NL100%52%52%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 2024–25390 m
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Georges Centre Preston City Centre30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks Ltd340 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL48.1 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Avenham Surgery Good Jun 2018590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston470 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aadamson House Care Home Good May 20231.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Preston Customer Service Reception320 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM RBS The Royal Bank of Scotland30 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winckley Square 1.5 ha160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Avenham Park 19 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Wilfrid, a listed building (Grade II*), 100 m south. 267 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St WilfridListed building, Grade II*100 m south
Church of St George the MartyrListed building, Grade II*120 m north
Preston War MemorialListed building, Grade I260 m north-east
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art GalleryListed building, Grade I310 m east
Avenham WalkRegistered park or garden, Grade II580 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Avenham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) south
Penwortham Old BridgeScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Castle Hill motteScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery LaneScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Deepdale EnclosureWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Frenchwood KnollHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Church WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Pool PlatTidal water1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Bull NoseWetland3.2 km (2 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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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 5567

1 of the street's 7 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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Stoneygate Nursery SchoolNursery2–4450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary5–11770 m (0.5 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 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
St Stephen's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
Cardinal Newman College Roman Catholic16 plus16–99920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B; 16.6% AAB or better; progress above average
Frenchwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 39% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 41% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Lancaster University School of Mathematics16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 60.4% AAB or better; progress above average
Eden Boys' School, Preston MuslimSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 54.5 (49.8 in 2025 and 55.6 in 2024); 68.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Christ The King Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.0 (35.9 in 2025); 37.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
Preston Muslim Girls High SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 61.7 (56.2 in 2025 and 59.1 in 2024); 70.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Moor Park High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.2 (39.3 in 2025 and 38.9 in 2024); 29.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 0% AAB or better; progress average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Shining Stars Nursery PR1 3TH Full day care 72 Not inspected yet 390 m
University Of Central Lancashire Pre-School Centre PR1 2HE Full day care 90 Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 470 m (0.3 miles)
Carey Childcare Centre PR1 1DX Full day care 44 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
Oxford Gems Nursery PR1 3YN Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
Preston Tuition Centre PR1 8XE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 820 m (0.5 miles)
Mini's Daycare PR1 8XE Full day care 31 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Little Achievers Urban Forest School Nursery PR1 3QU Full day care 62 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 830 m (0.5 miles)
Li'l Champs PR1 1QL Full day care 32 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Small Wonders Nursery PR1 7HR Full day care 74 Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)
Childsplay Day Nursery PR1 5AR Full day care 24 Apr 2026: Expected standard in 1 area, Needs attention in 5 1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
SNV Mart International Foods PR1 2NNRetailers - other10 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Costa Coffee PR1 2AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Indulge Desserts Preston PR1 2NLTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good23 Aug 2023
TG Jones High Street Limited PR1 2AERetailers - other40 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Sainsburys PR1 2ADRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good25 Oct 2023
Perfect Tens PR1 2NLPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good6 Mar 2024
La Mandruta PR1 2NNRetailers - other70 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Tuesday Food Drop-In PR1 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Preston Central Premier Inn PR1 2ABHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good12 Jun 2024
Chopstix Noodle Bar PR1 2NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Kuckoo PR1 2ABPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good22 May 2024
Lune Street Fish and Chips PR1 2NNTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
The Angel PR1 2NNPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good30 Apr 2026
Coffeeboy PR1 8BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Greenhalghs PR1 8BHTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good1 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.

981 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting321
Anti-social behaviour227
Violence and sexual offences175
Public order68
Other theft48
Criminal damage and arson33
Burglary22
Bicycle theft21
Drugs19
Robbery13
Theft from the person11
Other crime10
Possession of weapons9
Vehicle crime4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (139); On or near Cheapside (118); On or near Falkland Street (106); On or near Theatre Street (94); On or near Nightclub (85).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 12 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 8 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 43% happened in the dark, and 43% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202210
202362
202410
202540
The most recent 10 of 14
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Dec 2025 02:58 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A59, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
12 Sep 2025 15:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
29 Jul 2025 20:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Jan 2025 12:15 Slight 2 people A59, 30 mph Wet road
14 Apr 2024 15:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark
18 Aug 2023 22:00 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
8 Jul 2023 07:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
5 Apr 2023 16:33 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A59, 30 mph Wet road
20 Mar 2023 12:08 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Wet road
1 Mar 2023 11:37 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A59 between A5071 and A583, with 20,347 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 130 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A59 A5071 to A583 20,347 estimated; counted 2022 1% -12% since 2015 130 m
A5071 A583 Kendal Street to A59 Ring Way 7,352 estimated; counted 2023 1% 310 m
Minor road Not recorded 2,923 estimated; counted 2024 1% 400 m (0.2 miles)
Minor road Not recorded 4,798 counted 2025 1% 420 m (0.3 miles)
A59 A583 to A6 19,323 estimated; counted 2020 2% -14% since 2015 440 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 230 residents in 162 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 age2740
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)7%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented88%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)2%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)53%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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 Red Rose Recovery (distributors/transporters, PR1 2NN) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 26 October 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Corner Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 1FB) now Awaiting inspection, was 4 Good found 4 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Tesco (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, PR1 2AT) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 29 October 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Grey Friar (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 2EJ) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 4 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: New service connection, 30 October 2026 to 3 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • PR1 2AY: 6 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • PR1 2NL: 1 address of 52 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Fishergate Walk · Lune Street · Fox Street · George's Road · Winckley Street · St Wilfrid Street · Anchor Court · Surgeon's Court · Mount Street · Lune Street · Chapel Street · Theatre Street

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.