Cunningham Court Guide, Blackburn with Darwen

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB1), about 70 m long. USRN 2900021.

  • 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 A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 73% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackburn, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Queen's Park, is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 205 to 207 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Cornerstone Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Oct 2025UNIT 16 BB1 2QXOther£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 2025UNIT 18 BB1 2QXTerraced£303,600Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Aug 2025UNIT 15 BB1 2QXOther£282,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 2017UNIT 8 BB1 2QXOther£130,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 2017UNIT 12 BB1 2QXOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 2017UNIT 1 BB1 2QXOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 May 2017UNIT 2-4 BB1 2QXOther£1,100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 2017UNIT 6 BB1 2QXOther£130,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 2017UNIT 5-6 BB1 2QXOther£121,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Feb 2017UNIT 9 BB1 2QXOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Feb 2017UNIT 10 BB1 2QXOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Feb 2017UNIT 11 BB1 2QXOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jul 2016UNIT 1 BB1 2QXOther£480,000Not 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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (40% of about 1,040 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.

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

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 40 addresses are between 205 m and 207 m above sea level (206 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
BB1 2QS86%73%73%0%
BB1 2QX100%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 stationsBlackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Darwen 346,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lions Drive Guide50 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksNova Scotia Retail Park Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN43.7 km (27 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Cornerstone Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Patient Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dept Of Special Care Dentistry1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationPolice Headquarters250 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM130 m

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or gardenQueen's Park 12 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,600 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,210 m²140 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,610 m²1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Queen's Park, Blackburn, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Queen's Park, BlackburnRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Guide ReservoirLake or reservoir400 m (0.2 miles) west
Fishmoor ReservoirLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) west
Higher Croft WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
CloughValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Duckworth HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Abbott CloughValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) north

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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553940

1 of the street's 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen 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
Shadsworth Junior SchoolPrimary7–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Antony's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Shadsworth Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blackburn Central High SchoolSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Belthorn Academy Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Knuzden St Oswald's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Audley Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Audley Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Lower Darwen Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 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
The Patrons Tap Limited BB1 2LWPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Patrons Tap BB1 2LWPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Reedy's Naturally BB1 2EQManufacturers/packers130 m5 Very good25 Jul 2024
King Edward VII BB1 2NGPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good24 May 2022
Buy-Meds Ltd BB1 2QSImporters/Exporters140 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
The Willows BB1 2NGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good3 Aug 2026
10X Athletic BB1 2NFDistributors/Transporters260 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Apmzee BB1 2NFRetailers - other290 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Valinas Food Ltd BB1 2NFManufacturers/packers290 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Subway (Beehive) BB1 2EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good15 Oct 2024
Beehive Service Station/Spar BB1 2EERetailers - other340 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Greggs BB1 2EERetailers - other340 m5 Very good27 May 2025
Starbucks BB1 2EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good4 Aug 2025
SBARRO BB1 2EETakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good23 Feb 2026
Everlast Gyms Blackburn BB1 2EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025

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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour21
Violence and sexual offences9
Criminal damage and arson5
Other theft4
Shoplifting4
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2
Public order2
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bus/Coach Station (44); On or near School Lane (5); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (4).

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: 292 residents in 120 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 age3740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%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)35%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • BB1 2QX: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • BB1 2QS: 1 address of 97 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hurstwood Court · Copster Hill Close · Spring Farm Gardens · Spinning Avenue · M65 · Duttons Way · M65 · A6077 · M65 · Duttons Way · Mercer Way

All the streets in BB1 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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.