Cherry Gate Gardens Luton

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU1), about 140 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 24003648.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £485,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 10).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton Airport Parkway, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Luton Hoo Memorial Park, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 158 to 160 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Medici Medical Practice, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 121 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
20221£485,000£485,000£485,000
20212£620,000£610,000£630,000
20187£550,000£370,000£630,000
20173£550,000£485,000£575,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Jun 20224 LU1 3FZSemi-detached£485,000
30 Jul 20211 LU1 3FZDetached£610,000
29 Jun 202110 LU1 3FZDetached£630,000
26 Jun 20201 LU1 3FZDetached£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Dec 201810 LU1 3FZDetached£550,000
9 Nov 20188 LU1 3FZDetached£595,000
17 Jul 20189 LU1 3FZDetached£526,000
9 Jun 20187 LU1 3FZDetached£630,000
27 Apr 20183 LU1 3FZDetached£550,000
28 Mar 20184 LU1 3FZSemi-detached£465,000
3 Jan 20182 LU1 3FZDetached£370,000
21 Dec 20176 LU1 3FZDetached£550,000
14 Dec 20171 LU1 3FZDetached£575,000
8 Dec 20175 LU1 3FZSemi-detached£485,000
26 Aug 20163 LU1 3FZDetached£970,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 177 m². Most common: House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 2016 (5); 2018 (4); 2017 (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (25% of about 690 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: 1.
  • 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 11 addresses are between 158 m and 160 m above sea level (159 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
LU1 3FZ100%100%100%0%
LU1 3LZ100%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 stationsLuton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tennyson Road Lower New Town160 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksNCP Luton Regent Street890 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN3.3 km (2 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Medici Medical Practice680 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy680 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Luton Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationBedfordshire Police1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Costcutter Express Cashzone670 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Luton Hoo Memorial Park 4.3 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Stockwood Park 100 ha370 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stockwood Park Rugby Club 3.6 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 104 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Improvement Garden, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 750 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Luton HooRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower Kidney WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Kidney WoodWood890 m (0.6 miles) south
Bull WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Farley PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
Stockings WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Harps HillHill4.4 km (2.8 miles) south-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)12.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64009
55 to 59102
Under 5510110

1 of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 11 from aircraft, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Luton: see them on the Luton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11240 m Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cutenhoe Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chapel Street Nursery SchoolNursery2–4710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hillborough Junior SchoolPrimary7–11830 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillborough Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Linden AcademyPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chiltern AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rothesay Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Farley Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Stockwood Park AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) 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
Hart Hill Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Beeches LU1 3RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m4 Good1 May 2026
Linton Hotel LU1 3RPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
abmcatering@TennysonRoad Primary School South LU1 3RSSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Kidz Zone Club LU1 3RSSchool/college/university210 m4 Good22 Apr 2026
Stockwood Park Rugby Football Club Ltd LU1 3ULPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good28 Mar 2024
Ashton Stores LU1 3QQRetailers - other310 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Peri peri pizza and chicken ltd LU1 3QGTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good16 Sep 2026
Stockwood House LU1 3NBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 mAwaiting inspection
Ellenbrook House LU1 3NDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 mAwaiting inspection
The Connect Store LU1 3PTRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Dec 2024
Soul Shack ltd LU1 3GLMobile caterer450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Signposts LU1 3SGDistributors/Transporters480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

121 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Other theft15
Anti-social behaviour13
Vehicle crime13
Public order11
Criminal damage and arson11
Drugs7
Burglary6
Theft from the person3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ormsby Close (37); On or near Cutenhoe Road (27); On or near St Paul'S Road (20); On or near Harcourt Street (12); On or near Tennyson Road (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 693 residents in 260 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

West Hill Road · Saint Paul's Gardens · St Paul's Road · Ormsby Close · Somersby Close · Tennyson Road · Strathmore Avenue · Harcourt Street · Cowper Street · Ashton Road · Baker Street · Old Orchard

All the streets in LU1 and across Luton.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

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