Fox Grove Heysham, Lancaster

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (LA3), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19700528.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £132,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3).
  • 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 B; Band D in Lancaster costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Morecambe, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bay Medical Group, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 123 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
20261£132,000£132,000£132,000
20252£176,000£160,000£192,000
20191£137,000£137,000£137,000
20141£111,000£111,000£111,000
20112£69,500£55,000£84,000
20021£57,000£57,000£57,000
20011£41,500£41,500£41,500
19971£23,750£23,750£23,750
19951£14,000£14,000£14,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Apr 20261 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£132,000
11 Nov 20252 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£192,000
12 Sep 20256 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£160,000
5 Mar 20196 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£85,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jan 20192 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£137,000
4 Apr 20148 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£111,000
18 Aug 20111 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£55,000
30 Jun 20118 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£84,000
16 Sep 20022 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£57,000
6 Mar 20014 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£41,500
14 Apr 19973 LA3 1HUTerraced£23,750
6 Nov 19956 LA3 1HUSemi-detached£14,000

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 September 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1930-1949 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lancaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,616£4,172£5,006

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (55% of about 1,150 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 at medium risk and 8 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 25 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 24 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
LA3 1HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
LA3 1HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 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 addresses are about 6 m above sea level.

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
LA3 1HR100%100%100%0%
LA3 1HU100%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 stationsMorecambe 175,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Heysham Port 13,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kings Crescent Sandylands130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Morecambe1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Central Drive Retail Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL80.8 km (50 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 surgeriesBay Medical Group2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oasis Dental Practice510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationMorecambe Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone460 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 930 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.6 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,560 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George's Field 3.0 ha190 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West End and Heysham North Allotments 1.7 ha280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 4.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 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
Crow HillWetland700 m (0.4 miles) west
Stear Tree HoleWetland930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Ring SandsBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Byroe HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Bare AyreLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Great WoodWood3 km (1.9 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.04015

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 5567

1 of the street's 7 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 Lancaster: see them on the Lancaster page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Bay Leadership AcademySecondary11–18130 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11220 m No published inspection
West End Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Morecambe Bay Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Fox Grove Court Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises0 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Salvation Army Church and Community Hall LA3 1HJOther catering premises140 m5 Very good14 May 2025
Stanleys Community Centre LA3 1UTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Sandylands CP School LA3 1EJSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Teamtheme LA3 1EJSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good13 Aug 2024
Brody Geepana Convenience Store LA3 1RTRetailers - other290 m4 Good3 Oct 2024
Total Tots Balmoral Road Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Bargain Booze LA3 1EPRetailers - other320 m5 Very good30 Apr 2024
Morecambe Fish Bar LA3 1UBTakeaway/sandwich shop360 mAwaiting inspection
Tharans Express LA3 1RWRetailers - other370 m5 Very good1 Nov 2023
Gusto Italiano LA3 1RNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2026
Supersave Convenience Store LA3 1TQRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Anchor Housing Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Oct 2024
KPN Stores Ltd LA3 1ADRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary20 Aug 2026
West End County Primary School LA3 1BWSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Sep 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.

123 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Anti-social behaviour28
Vehicle crime9
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson8
Other crime6
Burglary5
Public order5
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Myrtle Grove (26); On or near Westminster Mews (19); On or near Clevelands Walk (13); On or near Barnes Road (12); On or near Avondale Road (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 554 residents in 220 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 age3840
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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

Limes Avenue · Myrtle Grove · King's Crescent · Manor Grove · Maple Avenue · Balmoral Road · Stanley Road · Clevelands Avenue · Norfolk Avenue · Barnes Road · Clevelands Walk · Back Avondale Road West

All the streets in LA3 and across Lancaster.

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.