Corncrake Close Luton

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000328.

16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £415,000 across 1 sale. 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 2). 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Luton, about 3.3 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Rose Garden, is about 380 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 166 to 167 m above sea level. 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Stopsley Village Practice, about 850 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 31 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
20251£415,000£415,000£415,000
20241£560,000£560,000£560,000
20223£450,000£425,000£580,000
20201£395,000£395,000£395,000
20151£273,500£273,500£273,500
20091£290,000£290,000£290,000
20062£260,000£240,000£280,000
20051£227,500£227,500£227,500
20041£240,000£240,000£240,000
20031£245,000£245,000£245,000
19981£118,000£118,000£118,000
19972£108,248£98,500£117,995
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 202510 LU2 8ELDetached£415,000
23 Oct 202412 LU2 8ELDetached£560,000
30 Nov 20223 LU2 8ELDetached£580,000
29 Apr 20225 LU2 8ELDetached£450,000
14 Apr 202210 LU2 8ELDetached£425,000
3 Feb 202011 LU2 8ELDetached£395,000
20 Jan 201514 LU2 8ELDetached£273,500
21 Dec 20093 LU2 8ELDetached£290,000
25 Aug 200612 LU2 8ELDetached£240,000
24 Aug 200619 LU2 8ELDetached£280,000
19 Dec 20056 LU2 8ELDetached£227,500
29 Mar 20042 LU2 8ELDetached£240,000
31 Jan 20033 LU2 8ELDetached£245,000
28 May 19983 LU2 8ELDetached£118,000
5 Sep 199719 LU2 8ELDetached£117,995
9 May 19975 LU2 8ELDetached£98,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, detached (7). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

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 D (74% of about 540 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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
LU2 8ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU2 8EJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 166 m and 167 m above sea level (166 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
LU2 8EJ100%100%100%0%
LU2 8EL100%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 3.7 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–255.0 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 21 within 800 m; nearest Mount Grace Road Stopsley280 m
Bus or coach stationAirport Bus Station Luton Airport3.1 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Luton, Great Marlings Car Park610 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station500 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN3.8 km

Local services

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

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Stopsley Village Practice850 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Medstone Pharmacy630 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest 21D Luton630 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital6.2 km
Police stationLuton Police Station4.0 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Stopsley, Stopsley Cashzone1.0 km

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m; nearest Rose Garden 3,980 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 1.8 ha750 m
Play areaNatural Play Space 2,270 m²910 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha780 m
AllotmentsWigmore Lane Leisure Gardens 2.8 ha1.2 km

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 4.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Putteridge Bury, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 900 m north-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Putteridge BuryRegistered park or garden, Grade II900 m north-east
Strip lynchets on Stopsley CommonScheduled monument1.4 km west
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great Hayes WoodWood440 m north-east
Oaket WoodWood900 m north
Icehouse PlantationWood1.0 km north-east
Upshot WoodWood1.1 km north-west
Warden HillHill2.6 km north-west
Wardown LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 552022

2 of the street's 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

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

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Putteridge Primary SchoolPrimary4–11240 m No published inspection
Putteridge High SchoolSecondary11–16300 m No published inspection
Stopsley Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km No published inspection
Someries Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education CentrePrimary2–71.3 km No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km No published inspection
Stopsley High SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ramridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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
Cockernhoe Endowed CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Queen Elizabeth SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Beech Hill Primary School LU2 8BWSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Putteridge High School LU2 8HJSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Putteridge Community Nursery LU2 8HJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good21 Aug 2018
Putteridge Primary LU2 8HJSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good24 Jun 2026
Extra Care Club LU2 8HJSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good1 May 2019
The Cannon LU2 8BJPub/bar/nightclub360 m4 Good15 Sep 2026
The Smokehouse@The Cannon LU2 8BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good27 Mar 2026
KSK Food and Wine 3 Ltd LU2 8HQRetailers - other420 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Dec 2025
Libra Beauty Ltd. LU2 8HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 mExempt
Bombay kitchen LU2 8AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m4 Good9 Dec 2025
Holiday Inn London Luton North LU2 8DDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house500 m5 Very good25 Jul 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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft3
Other crime3
Drugs1
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Crowland Road (8); On or near Wood Green Road (4); On or near Mount Grace Road (4); On or near Jaywood (4); On or near Swifts Green Close (3).

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: 337 residents in 124 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Edgewood Drive · Mount Grace Road · Curlew Road · Wood Green Close · Jaywood · Putteridge Road · Crowland Road · Swifts Green Road · Nightingale Close · Swifts Green Close · Hitchin Road · Wren Close

All the streets in LU2 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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