Foston Gate Wigston

109 addresses across 4 postcodes (LE18), about 730 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 29200244.

  • Sales: 223 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £270,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 73 homes have an energy certificate (C: 29, D: 37, E: 7).
  • Flood: 2 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 Oadby and Wigston costs £2,407 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Wigston, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 81 to 87 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 109 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bushloe Surgery, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 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
20263£270,000£196,500£290,000
20254£273,750£197,000£275,000
20242£317,000£209,000£425,000
20233£257,500£217,500£359,950
20226£207,500£175,000£370,000
20217£220,000£195,000£360,000
20205£195,000£165,000£382,000
20197£186,500£156,000£330,000
20188£163,500£142,000£193,000
20174£149,500£135,000£170,000
20164£166,500£148,000£191,000
20155£139,950£135,000£161,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 223)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Apr 202639 LE18 3SSDetached£270,000
6 Feb 20268 LE18 3SDTerraced£196,500
4 Feb 202645 LE18 3SSTerraced£142,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jan 20261 LE18 3SSDetached£290,000
19 Dec 20257 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 202550 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£272,500
7 Nov 202563 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£275,000
3 Oct 202564 LE18 3SDTerraced£197,000
8 Aug 202537 LE18 3SSDetached£275,000
5 Apr 2024104 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£209,000
29 Feb 202478 LE18 3SDDetached£425,000
30 Jun 202328 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£257,500
24 Apr 2023107 LE18 3SSDetached£359,950
6 Jan 202313 LE18 3SSTerraced£217,500
4 Nov 202279 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£220,000
23 Sep 202212 LE18 3SDTerraced£200,000
2 Sep 202261 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£215,000
24 Feb 202264 LE18 3SDTerraced£175,000
11 Feb 2022110 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£200,000
21 Jan 202267 LE18 3SSDetached£370,000
6 Dec 202143 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£220,000
29 Sep 202175 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£245,000
8 Sep 2021103 LE18 3SSDetached£360,000
8 Sep 202130 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£220,000
9 Jul 202191 LE18 3SSTerraced£195,000
19 Apr 202199 LE18 3SSDetached£358,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Apr 202125 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£215,000
4 Feb 202140 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£205,000
9 Nov 202091 LE18 3SSTerraced£165,000
28 Aug 202063 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£195,000
28 Aug 202063 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 202034 LE18 3SDTerraced£190,000
7 Aug 202050 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£207,500
24 Jan 202095 LE18 3SSDetached£382,000
15 Nov 201961 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£182,000
16 Sep 201944 LE18 3SDDetached£186,500
15 Aug 201938 LE18 3SDTerraced£192,000
17 May 201928 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£192,500
17 May 201910 LE18 3SDTerraced£156,000
30 Jan 201964 LE18 3SDTerraced£162,000
16 Jan 201993 LE18 3SSDetached£330,000
14 Sep 201834 LE18 3SDTerraced£169,500
6 Sep 20188 LE18 3SDTerraced£142,000
20 Jul 201864 LE18 3SDTerraced£162,000
15 Jun 2018104 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£156,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 May 201826 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£165,000
11 May 201873 LE18 3SSSemi-detached£193,000
27 Apr 2018110 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£150,500
26 Jan 201832 LE18 3SDSemi-detached£180,000
8 Jan 201822 LE18 3SDTerraced£155,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

73 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (25); House, mid-terrace (19); House, end-terrace (12). Built: 1983-1990 (48); 1991-1995 (17); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (55); rented (private) (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (34 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Oadby and Wigston in 2026-27: Band D £2,407 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,872£2,139£2,407£2,942£3,477£4,011£4,814

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (33% of about 1,380 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 11 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands), Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 17 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 107 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 9 low and 0 very low.

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
LE18 3SSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 9 unlikely
LE18 3SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
LE18 3LJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
LE18 3SZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 109 addresses are between 81 m and 87 m above sea level (85 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
LE18 3LJ100%100%100%0%
LE18 3SD100%100%100%0%
LE18 3SS100%100%100%0%
LE18 3SZ100%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 stationsSouth Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mablowe Field Wigston Harcourt10 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Car parksCountesthorpe Road Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA32.4 km (20 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 surgeriesBushloe Surgery1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little Hill Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationWigston Police Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesCentral England Co-Op - Launceston Rd Cashzone1 km (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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,980 m²210 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 860 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

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
Lucas MarshWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Tythorn HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Flaxman's SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Lockhouse SpinneyWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
The IslandsIsland3 km (1.8 miles) south-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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
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
60 to 6420
55 to 5990
Under 5598109

11 of the street's 109 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 Oadby and Wigston: see them on the Oadby and Wigston 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
Thythorn Field Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 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
The Meadow Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wigston Menphys Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Little Hill PrimaryPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Glenmere Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Wigston AcademySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, Wigston, Leicestershire Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wigston CollegeSecondary16–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Brocks Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gartree High SchoolSecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Mercer News LE18 3SNRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gregory Way (7); On or near Mablowe Field (4); On or near Broughton Field (2); On or near Heards Close (1); On or near Simons Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 838 residents in 384 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 over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • LE18 3SS: 54 addresses of 55 in the postcode
  • LE18 3SD: 53 addresses of 55 in the postcode
  • LE18 3LJ: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • LE18 3SZ: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Guthlaxton Way · Mablowe Field · Stanbrig · Blackwell Close · Butt Close · Heards Close · Portgate · Simons Close · Herrick Way · Preston Close · Broughtons Field · Bronze Barrow Close

All the streets in LE18 and across Oadby and Wigston.

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.