Charlton Close Whetstone, Blaby

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE8), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2800197.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blaby cost £293,412 in August 2026 (+3.4% on a year); private rents averaged £998 a month.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 10).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 6 times (22 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A426, carries 10,453 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Blaby costs £2,490 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Narborough, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Oliver Park, is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 74 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hazelmere Medical Centre, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 98% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was fatal.

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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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£400,000£400,000£400,000
20231£310,000£310,000£310,000
20192£235,500£195,000£276,000
20182£277,500£270,000£285,000
20171£229,000£229,000£229,000
20162£223,000£206,000£240,000
20151£230,000£230,000£230,000
20141£209,000£209,000£209,000
20131£175,000£175,000£175,000
20101£200,000£200,000£200,000
20092£208,500£197,000£220,000
20081£220,000£220,000£220,000
All 22 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 20181 LE8 6ETDetached£270,000
19 Dec 20192 LE8 6ETDetached£195,000
6 Feb 20093 LE8 6ETDetached£197,000
16 Nov 20003 LE8 6ETDetached£123,950
28 Sep 19953 LE8 6ETDetached£92,500
12 Nov 20105 LE8 6ETDetached£200,000
31 Jan 20005 LE8 6ETDetached£127,000
8 Jul 20136 LE8 6ETDetached£175,000
10 Oct 20177 LE8 6ETDetached£229,000
22 Aug 20177 LE8 6ETDetached£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 19997 LE8 6ETDetached£110,000
29 Sep 20239 LE8 6ETDetached£310,000
23 May 201410 LE8 6ETDetached£209,000
11 Apr 200810 LE8 6ETDetached£220,000
31 Oct 202511 LE8 6ETDetached£400,000
25 Jan 201911 LE8 6ETDetached£276,000
25 Aug 201611 LE8 6ETDetached£240,000
30 Mar 201612 LE8 6ETDetached£206,000
9 Jan 200913 LE8 6ETDetached£220,000
7 Mar 200313 LE8 6ETDetached£212,000
3 Aug 201816 LE8 6ETDetached£285,000
11 Sep 201516 LE8 6ETDetached£230,000

House prices and rents in Blaby

A typical home in Blaby cost £293,412 in August 2026, 3.4% more than a year before. That is 15% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£400,551
Semi-detached£268,631
Terraced£228,240
Flat or maisonette£136,043
Bought by a first-time buyer£260,507

Private renters in Blaby paid £998 a month on average in September 2026, 4.9% more than a year before. That is 40% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£711
Two bedrooms£912
Three bedrooms£1,083
Four or more bedrooms£1,569

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (8); House, detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1976-1982 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,040 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 3,096 kWh of electricity, 9% less than the district's 3,392 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
LE8 6ET16 5 Economy 72,293 kWh 1611,567 kWh
LE8 6ER54 33 Economy 72,280 kWh 5411,884 kWh

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 LE8.

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 Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 800 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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Narborough Landfill Landfill Gas 2.7 MW Operational Mar 2005 3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Enderby Warren Phase II Blaby 1997/0785/1 Landfill Gas 4.9 MW Operational Jun 1999 4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Warren Quarry Landfill Gas Scheme Landfill Gas 1.9 MW Operational Nov 1998 4.2 km (2.6 miles)
A C Shropshire (Farm AD) Blaby 09/0564/1/CX Anaerobic digestion 2.5 MW Operational May 2013 4.8 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

  • 7 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 9 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
LE8 6ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LE8 6ERnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 9 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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 6 times, for 22 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Whetstone Brook, R Soar/Sence/Whetstone Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Whetstone - the Dicken (Sso) Severn Trent Water Whetstone Brook 2 14 410 m (0.3 miles)
Blaby - Sycamore Street (Cso) Severn Trent Water R Soar/Sence/Whetstone Brook 4 9 420 m (0.3 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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 17 addresses are between 71 m and 74 m above sea level (72 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
LE8 6ER100%94%94%0%
LE8 6ET100%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 stationsNarborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sanderson Close Whetstone130 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester8.5 km (5.3 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA31.3 km (19 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hazelmere Medical Centre Good Jun 20171.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whetstone Chemist880 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whetstone Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital Good Feb 20247.2 km (4.5 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tavey House Good Jun 2022290 m
Police stationLeicestershire Police Federation1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesWhetstone News + Off Licence, Whetstone Cashzone890 m (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oliver Park 2.0 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,480 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 850 m (0.5 miles) north. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I850 m (0.5 miles) north
Enderby Mill BridgeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black SpinneyWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Ash SpinneyWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Sir John's WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Whetstone GorseWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Mill StreamLake or reservoir3 km (1.8 miles) east
Cosby HillHill3.7 km (2.3 miles) south

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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6430
55 to 5980
Under 55517

12 of the street's 17 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 Blaby: see them on the Blaby 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
Badgerbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 27% in 2023)
St Peter's Church of England Primary School WhetstonePrimary5–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Blaby Stokes Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 34% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 49% in 2023)
Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Countesthorpe AcademySecondary11–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.7 (38.9 in 2025 and 39.4 in 2024); 36.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 14.1% AAB or better; progress average
Cosby Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)

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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 460 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Hunny Bear Day Nursery LE8 6LA Full day care 90 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 460 m (0.3 miles)
Busy Bees at Blaby LE8 4DP Full day care 84 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
Daisy Chain Children's Nursery LE8 4BY Full day care 35 Outstanding (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Springwell Pre School LE8 6LJ Sessional day care 42 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 620 m (0.4 miles)
Daisy Chain Children's Nursery LE8 6LQ Full day care 42 Not inspected yet 670 m (0.4 miles)
Little Badgers Playgroup LE8 6LP Full day care 30 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 880 m (0.5 miles)
Rocket Holiday Camps - Blaby Stokes LE8 4EG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 880 m (0.5 miles)
Little Steps Preschool LE8 4HL Sessional day care 32 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)
Blaby Pre-School LE8 4FA Sessional day care 26 Dec 2025: Expected standard in 6 areas 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 346 childminders and 19 home childcarers (nannies) in Leicestershire. 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
Tavey House LE8 6LNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good31 Oct 2024
The Lime Tree LE8 6LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
Hunny Bear Day Nursery LE8 6LAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good12 May 2025
Kids Planet Whetstone LE8 6LAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Co-operative Group LE8 6PNRetailers - other330 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
The Waterbridge LE8 6LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good30 Mar 2025
Leicester Lions LE8 4DYOther catering premises360 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Impact Food Group T/A Dolce @ Badgerbrook Primary School LE8 6ZWSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Busy Bees At Leicester Blaby LE8 4DPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Blaby & Whetstone Social And Youth Club LE8 6LWOther catering premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2025
The Boyzee's Cafe LE8 6LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2026

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.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary1
Anti-social behaviour1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Halford Close (1); On or near Wootton Close (1); On or near Burnham Drive (1); On or near Pawley Close (1); On or near Simpson Close (1).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 serious and 0 slight, in which 2 people died. Most were on roads with a 50 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 Sep 2023 08:17 Fatal 2 people A426, 50 mph Wet road

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 A426 between Wychwood Road roundabout and B582, with 10,453 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 60 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A426 Wychwood Road roundabout to B582 10,453 estimated; counted 2018 3% -1% since 2015 60 m

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: 281 residents in 122 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 age5240
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)98%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification16%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 7 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • LE8 6ET: 16 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • LE8 6ER: 1 address of 60 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hind Close · Coulson Close · Hodson Close · Wootton Close · Shaw Close · Phipps Close · Worsley Way · Whittle Close · Sanderson Close · Halford Close · Pawley Close · Simpson Close

All the streets in LE8 and across Blaby.

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.