Gosforth Road Blackpool

63 addresses across 3 postcodes (FY2), about 460 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3001133.

  • Sales: 80 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £190,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 23, E: 11).
  • 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 C; Band D in Blackpool costs £2,513 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Layton (Lancs), about 1.2 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rock Garden, is about 410 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Pauls Medical Centre, about 1.0 km away.
  • People: About 950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 86 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£190,000£180,000£195,000
20252£217,500£205,000£230,000
20231£230,000£230,000£230,000
20224£220,000£175,000£255,000
20214£216,475£163,000£292,500
20193£160,000£160,000£182,000
20185£177,000£147,500£220,000
20172£200,500£176,000£225,000
20163£160,000£118,500£179,950
20155£130,000£105,000£159,995
20142£155,125£153,250£157,000
20133£135,000£110,000£180,000
Most recent sales (80)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 202623 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£180,000
23 Feb 202620 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£190,000
6 Feb 202636 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£195,000
19 Dec 202554 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£230,000
28 May 202535 FY2 9UBTerraced£205,000
10 Nov 202326 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£230,000
16 Dec 202233 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£175,000
16 Jun 202210 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£255,000
11 Mar 202251 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£220,000
4 Mar 202237 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£220,000
24 Nov 202154 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Sep 202149 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£204,950
26 Aug 20216 FY2 9UBDetached£292,500
30 Apr 202131 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£163,000
11 Mar 20213 FY2 9UBDetached£228,000
6 Dec 201943 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£182,000
6 Dec 201956 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£160,000
21 Oct 201925 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£160,000
25 Oct 20188 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£177,000
28 Sep 201815 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£179,950
7 Sep 201847 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£220,000
21 Jun 201840 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£147,500
27 Feb 201853 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£172,500
24 Nov 201743 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£176,000
2 Nov 20172A FY2 9UBDetached£225,000
1 Nov 201645 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£118,500
10 Oct 201655 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£160,000
31 Mar 20167 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£179,950
25 Sep 201549 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£159,995
17 Aug 201531 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£130,000
11 Aug 201555 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£105,000
21 Jul 20151B FY2 9UBDetached£115,000
2 Apr 201541 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£134,000
28 Nov 20145 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£157,000
29 Oct 201427 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£153,250
6 Dec 201315 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£135,000
6 Dec 201329 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£110,000
12 Sep 201311 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£180,000
6 Dec 201224 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£185,000
22 Sep 200925 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£165,000
27 May 200911 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£192,000
31 Mar 200930 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£118,000
16 Mar 200753 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£155,000
28 Feb 20074 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£249,000
8 Feb 200713 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£203,000
8 Dec 200611 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£185,000
16 Oct 200616 FY2 9UBDetached£288,000
25 Sep 200633 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£157,000
30 Jun 200643 FY2 9TPSemi-detached£190,000
28 Apr 200623 FY2 9UBSemi-detached£163,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 120 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (29); House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (22); 1900-1929 (11); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (29); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackpool in 2026-27: Band D £2,513 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,675£1,955£2,234£2,513£3,072£3,630£4,189£5,026

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,490 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): Article 4 Direction - C3 to C4 HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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, 1 address is 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
FY2 9UBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 4 unlikely
FY2 9TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
FY2 9UJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 63 addresses are between 23 m and 25 m above sea level (24 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
FY2 9TP100%100%100%0%
FY2 9UB100%100%100%0%
FY2 9UJ100%96%96%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 stationsLayton (Lancs) 75,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km
Blackpool North 2.1 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km
Poulton-Le-Fylde 630,000 journeys in 2024–254.0 km
Underground, metro or tramCliffs Hotel (Blackpool Tramway)500 m
Cabin (Blackpool Tramway)510 m
Gynn Square (Blackpool Tramway)600 m
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Empress Drive North Shore220 m
Bus or coach stationNational Express Coach Facility Blackpool2.6 km
Ferry terminalFleetwood for Knott End Ferry Landing10.5 km
Car parksTalbot Road Multi-Storey Car Park1.9 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Source EV Charging Station1.5 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL57.3 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest St Pauls Medical Centre1.0 km
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Cohens Chemist370 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Caro Collinson And Virdee1.6 km
HospitalSpire Fylde Coast Hospital2.2 km
Police stationLancashire Police2.8 km
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m; nearest Select Convenience Cashzone320 m

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m; nearest Rock Garden 3.3 ha410 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 6.0 ha540 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 140 m²560 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Warbreck Recreation Ground 9,840 m²460 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,450 m²850 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 9.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Stanley Park, Blackpool, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.9 km south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stanley Park, BlackpoolRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Blackpool North BeachBeach890 m south-west
Bispham BeachBeach2.3 km north
Blackpool Central BeachBeach2.7 km south
Horseman's HillHill3.0 km north-east
Sea Lion PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km south-east
Puddle House WoodWood4.7 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11420 m No published inspection
Unity Academy BlackpoolAll-through2–16520 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Westminster Primary AcademyPrimary4–11760 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bispham Endowed Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Layton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km No published inspection
Moor Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km No published inspection
Devonshire Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Golden Years Rest Home FY2 9TWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Oak House FY2 9RXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Westcliffe Private Hotel FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house290 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
King Edward Rest Home FY2 9SXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Number 42 FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good25 Sep 2023
Langtry’s FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
The Gatsby FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good18 Jul 2025
Woodleigh Hotel FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good24 Aug 2026
Number 40 FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good21 Aug 2023
The Berwick FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good21 Jul 2025
Brooklands Hotel FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
Penrhyn Hotel FY2 9TAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good10 Aug 2026
New Guilderoy Hotel FY2 9RUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house310 m5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Bargain Booze FY2 9RTRetailers - other320 m4 Good4 Sep 2025
Aireys Wine Stores FY2 9TERetailers - other320 m5 Very good2 Oct 2023

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.

86 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Anti-social behaviour18
Criminal damage and arson9
Vehicle crime7
Other crime4
Other theft3
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1
Public order1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Argyll Road (28); On or near Cornwall Avenue (27); On or near Knowle Avenue (12); On or near Calder Road (11); On or near Shaftesbury Avenue (4).

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: 952 residents in 380 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%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 bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications16%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 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 8 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.

  • FY2 9UB: 46 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • FY2 9TP: 16 addresses
  • FY2 9UJ: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Argyll Road · Cleator Avenue · Calder Road · Knowle Avenue · Pierston Avenue · Antrim Road · Cambray Road · King Edward Avenue · Athlone Avenue · Sandicroft Road · Holly Road · Shaftesbury Avenue

All the streets in FY2 and across Blackpool.

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.