Garrett Close Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire

35 addresses across 1 postcode (LU6), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35100547.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £615,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 6, E: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Blow's Downs, is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 172 to 176 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eastgate Surgery, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 96% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 65 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£615,000£615,000£615,000
20241£370,000£370,000£370,000
20231£450,000£450,000£450,000
20222£395,000£335,000£455,000
20211£325,000£325,000£325,000
20191£375,000£375,000£375,000
20182£343,750£290,000£397,500
20161£295,000£295,000£295,000
20141£270,000£270,000£270,000
20132£237,500£225,000£250,000
20112£263,250£235,000£291,500
20101£325,000£325,000£325,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 May 202510 LU6 3EGDetached£615,000
16 Aug 202420 LU6 3EGDetached£370,000
14 Dec 202320 LU6 3EGDetached£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 20234 LU6 3EGSemi-detached£450,000
30 Jun 202242 LU6 3EGDetached£455,000
14 Mar 202222 LU6 3EGDetached£335,000
19 Jan 202148 LU6 3EGDetached£325,000
19 Jul 20199 LU6 3EGDetached£375,000
18 May 201822 LU6 3EGDetached£290,000
9 Jan 201810 LU6 3EGDetached£397,500
8 Jan 201650 LU6 3EGDetached£295,000
28 Apr 201427 LU6 3EGDetached£270,000
17 Dec 201315 LU6 3EGDetached£225,000
27 Nov 20133 LU6 3EGDetached£250,000
11 Apr 20112 LU6 3EGDetached£291,500
11 Feb 20119 LU6 3EGDetached£235,000
21 Jul 20102, THE PASTURES LU6 3EGDetached£325,000
21 Sep 200915 LU6 3EGSemi-detached£240,000
8 Aug 20072, THE PASTURES LU6 3EGDetached£283,500
20 Dec 20065 LU6 3EGSemi-detached£245,000
8 Sep 200619 LU6 3EGDetached£230,000
21 Aug 200646 LU6 3EGDetached£250,000
25 Apr 200648 LU6 3EGDetached£202,000
30 Mar 200514 LU6 3EGDetached£395,000
18 Mar 200527 LU6 3EGDetached£219,950
26 Nov 200427 LU6 3EGTerraced£180,000
29 Jul 200411 LU6 3EGDetached£220,000
13 Feb 20044 LU6 3EGSemi-detached£243,000
18 Feb 20031, THE PASTURES LU6 3EGDetached£179,995
28 Aug 200242 LU6 3EGDetached£180,000
27 Mar 200210 LU6 3EGDetached£185,000
7 Jun 20019 LU6 3EGDetached£155,000
14 Nov 200023 LU6 3EGDetached£158,500
17 Dec 199946 LU6 3EGDetached£168,000
3 Dec 19992 LU6 3EGDetached£159,000
26 Nov 19973 LU6 3EGDetached£116,000
2 Jul 199648 LU6 3EGDetached£72,500
19 Apr 199619 LU6 3EGDetached£81,000
28 Apr 19954 LU6 3EGSemi-detached£123,000

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 January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, detached (13). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1983-1990 (5); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (31% of about 750 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance 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, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 35 addresses are between 172 m and 176 m above sea level (174 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
LU6 3EG100%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 stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Churchill Road Dunstable160 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Car parksAshton Square Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN9.4 km (5.8 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 surgeriesEastgate Surgery1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mayfield Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queensbury Dental Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationDunstable Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Downside Supermarket550 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blow's Downs 43 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²370 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.2 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.8 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 43 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval village 100m west of Zouches Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval village 100m west of Zouches FarmScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Dunstable PrioryScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stipers HillHill520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Dame Ellen's WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Grove SpringWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Little John's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Castlecroft WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) east
Farley PondLake or reservoir5 km (3.1 miles) 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55343535

1 of the street's 35 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Manshead Church of England AcademySecondary11–19580 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11580 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St. Augustine's Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Ardley Hill AcademyPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Watling Lower SchoolPrimary2–91.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Priory AcademyAll-through9–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Lark Rise AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Queensbury AcademySecondary11–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Dunstable Icknield Lower SchoolPrimary3–91.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 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
Hamberley Care (Caddington) Ltd LU6 3DXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
The Highwayman Hotel LU6 3DXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good14 May 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

65 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour17
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson3
Possession of weapons3
Burglary2
Other crime2
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lockhart Close (35); On or near Churchill Road (23); On or near Beech Close (3); On or near Seamons Close (2); On or near Burges Close (1).

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: 301 residents in 133 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 age5640
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)96%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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.

  • LU6 3EG: 35 addresses of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stipers Close · Burges Close · Lockhart Close · Bowles Way · Beech Close · Churchill Road · London Road · Seamons Close · London Road · Birch Side · Lowther Road · London Road

All the streets in LU6 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.