Common Edge Road Blackpool

333 addresses across 19 postcodes (FY4,FY8), about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 3001935.

  • Energy: 113 homes have an energy certificate (C: 19, D: 58, E: 30, F: 5, G: 1).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Blackpool costs £2,513 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Squires Gate, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 289 of its 334 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Abbey Dale Medical Centre, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,780 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 75 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

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

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

113 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: Flat (41); House, semi-detached (28); House, mid-terrace (21). Built: 1930-1949 (44); 1950-1966 (21); 1967-1975 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (74); rented (private) (30).

Each home's certificates and sales (53 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackpool in 2026-27: Band D £2,513 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,675£1,955£2,234£2,513£3,072£3,630£4,189£5,026

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (31% of about 5,910 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 7 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): Article 4 Direction - C3 to C4 HMO, Article 4 Direction - Promenade.
  • 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 17 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: SP Electricity North West, Diversionary works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 5 October 2026 to 10 October 2026: SP Electricity North West, Diversionary works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 9 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 August 2026: BLACKPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 August 2026 to 10 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 4 August 2026: EE Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 46 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
FY4 3RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 14 unlikely
FY4 3REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1QWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 2QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 3RGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 3RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 2NHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 2BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1PJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 3RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 3RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
FY4 2QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1SYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 1TFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY4 3RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 26 unlikely
FY8 2STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
FY8 2SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 334 addresses are between 8 m and 11 m above sea level (9 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
FY4 1PJ100%100%100%0%
FY4 1QW100%96%96%0%
FY4 1QX100%100%100%0%
FY4 1SN100%94%94%0%
FY4 1SY100%100%100%0%
FY4 1TF100%0%0%0%
FY4 2BF100%100%100%0%
FY4 2NH100%100%100%0%
FY4 2QG100%100%100%0%
FY4 2QQ100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RE100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RF100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RG100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RL96%93%93%0%
FY4 3RN100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RQ100%100%100%0%
FY4 3RW100%18%18%0%
FY8 2ST100%100%100%0%
FY8 2SU100%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 stationsSquires Gate 28,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Blackpool Pleasure Beach 119,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Blackpool South 114,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramStarr Gate (Blackpool Tramway)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Harrow Place (Blackpool Tramway)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westby Avenue Lindale Gardens40 m
Bus or coach stationLonsdale Coach Park Bloomfield3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL51.1 km (32 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Dale Medical Centre830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalClifton Hospital4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationBlackpool Police Headquarters2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesCowens News930 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 gardenUnnamed 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,440 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²600 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crusader BankBeach2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Blackpool South BeachBeach2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Arnott WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
North HollowBeach3.3 km (2 miles) south-west
Kite Hall WoodWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Marton MereLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east

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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, 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
70 to 7430
65 to 691170
60 to 64840
55 to 59851
Under 5545333

289 of the street's 334 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 from railways, 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 Blackpool: see them on the Blackpool page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Roman CatholicPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Highfield Leadership AcademySecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Roseacre Primary AcademyPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hawes Side AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Marton Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Armfield AcademyAll-through3–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thames Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
South Shore AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Subway FY4 3RFTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m4 Good20 Jul 2026
Squires Gate Convenience - Premier FY4 3RGRetailers - other130 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Dunelm Pausa FY4 2RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Oak Tree Trading FY4 3RNRetailers - other160 m5 Very good28 May 2025
Aldi FY4 2RPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Ruchi FY4 3RGTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Costa Coffee Drivethrough FY4 3AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
TK Maxx FY4 2QSRetailers - other290 m5 Very good26 Jan 2024
Hobbycraft Blackpool FY4 2RPRetailers - other300 m5 Very good4 Jul 2024
Poundland FY4 2RPRetailers - other300 m5 Very good26 May 2026
TK Maxx FY4 3AWRetailers - other330 mExempt
Food Warehouse FY4 2RPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Greggs FY4 2BURetailers - other340 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Select and Save FY4 2QLRetailers - other350 m5 Very good21 Dec 2023
Taylors Fish & Chips FY4 2QLTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good3 Dec 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.

75 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting33
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (47); On or near Balham Avenue (13); On or near Newlyn Avenue (6); On or near Longridge Avenue (3); On or near Westby Avenue (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 10 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,779 residents in 1,288 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 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 7 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 7 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.

  • FY4 3RN: 77 addresses of 78 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RE: 36 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • FY4 1QW: 33 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • FY4 1SN: 28 addresses
  • FY4 2QQ: 28 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RG: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RQ: 22 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • FY4 2NH: 21 addresses
  • FY4 2BF: 19 addresses
  • FY4 1PJ: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RW: 12 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RF: 10 addresses
  • FY4 2QG: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • FY4 1QX: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • FY4 1SY: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • FY4 1TF: 1 address of 23 in the postcode
  • FY4 3RL: 1 address of 92 in the postcode
  • FY8 2ST: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • FY8 2SU: 1 address of 67 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Westby Avenue · Longridge Avenue · Weeton Avenue · Lindale Gardens · Balham Avenue · Newlyn Avenue · Alpine Avenue · Inskip Place · Nateby Avenue · Deeside · Elswick Place · Faringdon Avenue

All the streets in FY4, FY8 and across Blackpool.

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.