Empingham Close Bletchley, Milton Keynes

40 addresses across 1 postcode (MK2), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25802724.

Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £105,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 8, E: 2).
Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 A; Band D in Milton Keynes costs £2,372 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Bletchley, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Waterhall Park (27 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 87 to 88 m above sea level.
Noise: 18 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Westfield Road Surgery, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away.
People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 127 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2022	1	£105,000	£105,000	£105,000
2019	3	£97,500	£57,000	£155,000
2017	3	£95,000	£80,000	£195,000
2016	2	£81,250	£72,500	£90,000
2015	1	£70,000	£70,000	£70,000
2014	1	£37,500	£37,500	£37,500
2013	1	£30,000	£30,000	£30,000
2010	1	£45,000	£45,000	£45,000
2008	2	£73,750	£72,500	£75,000
2007	2	£53,748	£42,500	£64,995
2006	3	£62,500	£39,995	£119,990
2005	1	£65,000	£65,000	£65,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
27 Mar 2024	22 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£172,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jun 2022	23 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£105,000	Leasehold.
9 May 2022	5 MK2 3QT	Other	£212,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Sep 2019	1 MK2 3QT	Detached	£155,000	Leasehold.
29 Apr 2019	14 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£57,000	Leasehold.
11 Apr 2019	38 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£97,500	Leasehold.
11 Aug 2017	6 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£80,000	Leasehold.
21 Jul 2017	10 MK2 3QT	Semi-detached	£195,000
26 Jun 2017	23 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£95,000	Leasehold.
24 Oct 2016	38 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£90,000	Leasehold.
31 Mar 2016	37 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£72,500	Leasehold.
30 Oct 2015	16 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£70,000	Leasehold.
21 Feb 2014	5 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£37,500	Leasehold.
2 Aug 2013	15 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£30,000	Leasehold.
24 May 2010	12 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£45,000	Leasehold.
15 Feb 2008	23 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£75,000	Leasehold.
18 Jan 2008	33 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£72,500	Leasehold.
16 Apr 2007	5 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£42,500	Leasehold.
23 Mar 2007	28 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£64,995	Leasehold.
8 Nov 2006	14 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£39,995	Leasehold.
27 Oct 2006	29 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£62,500	Leasehold.
26 May 2006	7 MK2 3QT	Semi-detached	£119,990
27 May 2005	16 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£65,000	Leasehold.
6 Dec 2004	33 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£62,000	Leasehold.
30 Jul 2004	37 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£62,000	Leasehold.
16 Dec 2003	23 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£56,000	Leasehold.
25 Nov 2003	38 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£56,000	Leasehold.
31 Oct 2003	6 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£44,000	Leasehold.
15 Aug 2003	22 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£53,250	Leasehold.
23 May 2003	24 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£55,000	Leasehold.
17 Apr 2003	16 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£50,000	Leasehold.
4 Apr 2003	1 MK2 3QT	Detached	£72,500	Leasehold.
28 Mar 2003	8 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£31,500	Leasehold.
12 Sep 2002	19 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£62,500	Leasehold.
23 Aug 2002	12 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£28,500	Leasehold.
16 Aug 2002	25 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£24,000	Leasehold.
14 Sep 2001	7 MK2 3QT	Semi-detached	£74,000
24 Aug 2001	24 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£40,500	Leasehold.
28 Jun 2001	28 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£33,250	Leasehold.
27 Jun 2001	29 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£31,995	Leasehold.
10 Nov 2000	37 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£31,000	Leasehold.
30 Aug 2000	23 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£32,000	Leasehold.
6 Jul 2000	8 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£22,500	Leasehold.
9 Jun 2000	38 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£27,995	Leasehold.
4 Feb 2000	4 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£17,995	Leasehold.
5 Nov 1999	12 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£18,000	Leasehold.
5 Jul 1999	16 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£25,000	Leasehold.
4 May 1999	22 MK2 3QT	Flat or maisonette	£23,500	Leasehold.
3 Apr 1998	7 MK2 3QT	Semi-detached	£49,000
4 Nov 1997	33 MK2 3QT	Terraced	£20,995	Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C11

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (7); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1991-1995 (8); 1983-1990 (7); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Milton Keynes in 2026-27: Band D £2,372 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,581	£1,845	£2,109	£2,372	£2,899	£3,427	£3,954	£4,744

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (81% of about 750 homes).

A81%

B12%

C1%

D4%

E0%

F1%

G0%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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): Article 4 Direction relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HIMO) - Immediate direction, Article 4 Direction relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HIMO) - Non immediate direction.
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)

Bramley Grange, Windermere Drive Bletchley Milton Keynes MK2 3QJ, not permissioned (420 m (0.3 miles))
Skew Bridge Cottage, Drayton Road, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 5JU, permissioned (570 m (0.4 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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 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 87 m and 88 m above sea level (87 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
MK2 3QT	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Bletchley 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25	2.4 km (1.5 miles)
	Fenny Stratford 26,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
	Bow Brickhill 33,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops	3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Arrow Place Bletchley	190 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Bletchley	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks	Napier Street Car Park	2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points	3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations	240 m
Airport with scheduled flights	London Luton Airport LTN	26.9 km (17 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Westfield Road Surgery	2 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies	Jardines Pharmacy	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Water Eaton Health Centre	430 m (0.3 miles)
Hospital	Bletchley Community Hospital	2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police station	Thames Valley Police	7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Cash machines	deposit & Withdrawal The Cooperative Food Water Eaton, Bletchley	1.5 km (0.9 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha	230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Waterhall Park 27 ha	570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area	4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²	300 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha	780 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stoke Road Allotments 1.4 ha	500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
New Covert	Wood	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Galleylane Spinney	Wood	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Old Fox Covert	Wood	1.6 km (1 mile) west
Fishpond Spinney	Wood	1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Partridge Hill	Hill	3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-east
Caldecotte Lake	Lake or reservoir	3.7 km (2.3 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	7.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.1	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.5	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
60 to 64	1	0
55 to 59	17	0
Under 55	22	40

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

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Water Hall Primary School	Primary	3–11	440 m (0.3 miles)	No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lift Sir Herbert Leon	Secondary	11–16	570 m (0.4 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
Drayton Park School	Primary	3–11	830 m (0.5 miles)	No published inspection
Newton Leys Primary School	Primary	3–11	830 m (0.5 miles)	No published inspection
Bishop Parker Catholic School Roman Catholic	Primary	2–11	1.2 km (0.8 miles)	No published inspection
The Premier Academy	Primary	4–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	No published inspection

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Breakfast Club MK2 3QD	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	350 m	5 Very good	14 Oct 2022

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.

127 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	69
Criminal damage and arson	12
Vehicle crime	8
Other theft	8
Public order	8
Burglary	6
Drugs	6
Anti-social behaviour	4
Other crime	2
Theft from the person	2
Robbery	1
Possession of weapons	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dunvegan Close (34); On or near Sheelin Grove (24); On or near Burnmoor Close (23); On or near Langdale Close (13); On or near Empingham Close (13).

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: 419 residents in 148 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 street	England
Median age	32	40
Children under 15	26%	17%
Aged 65 and over	11%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	29%	61%
Owned outright	12%	33%
Shared ownership	17%	1%
Social rented	40%	17%
Private rented	14%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	55%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	8%	6%
Retired (of adults)	13%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	6%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	15%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	66%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	6%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	6%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	84%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	7%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	20%	34%
No qualifications	21%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	4%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	93%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

MK2 3QT: 40 addresses

Nearby streets

Sheelin Grove · Padarn Place · Langdale Close · Lomond Drive · Laggan Court · Burnmoor Close · Melfort Drive · Rimsdale Court · Dunvegan Close · Arrow Place · Meriland Court · Torridon Court

All the streets in MK2 and across Milton Keynes.

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.