Hamble Close Desford, Hinckley and Bosworth

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE9), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17400548.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 2, D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 Hinckley and Bosworth costs £2,383 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Narborough, about 8.7 km (5.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Tropical Bird Garden, is about 920 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 123 to 128 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Desford Medical Centre, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 31 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
20221£315,000£315,000£315,000
20161£230,000£230,000£230,000
20151£159,011£159,011£159,011
20141£275,000£275,000£275,000
20131£152,500£152,500£152,500
20101£275,000£275,000£275,000
20091£160,000£160,000£160,000
20061£167,000£167,000£167,000
20032£151,750£126,500£177,000
20021£125,000£125,000£125,000
19991£51,000£51,000£51,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jul 202212 LE9 9HHDetached£315,000
9 Dec 20163 LE9 9HHDetached£230,000
20 Nov 201515 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£159,011
3 Jan 20149 LE9 9HHDetached£275,000
3 May 201316 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£152,500
18 Nov 20105 LE9 9HHDetached£275,000
28 Aug 20093 LE9 9HHDetached£160,000
2 Jun 200616 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£167,000
30 May 20037 LE9 9HHDetached£177,000
30 May 200316 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£126,500
9 May 20022 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£125,000
29 Oct 199914 LE9 9HHSemi-detached£51,000

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, detached (9); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hinckley and Bosworth in 2026-27: Band D £2,383 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,588£1,853£2,118£2,383£2,912£3,442£3,971£4,765

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (47% of about 870 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

  • 12 September 2026: BT, New service connection, 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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
LE9 9HHnot in 2 or 3 8 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LE9 9JHnot 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.

© 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 19 addresses are between 123 m and 128 m above sea level (126 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
LE9 9HH100%100%100%0%
LE9 9JH100%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 stationsNarborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–258.7 km (5.4 miles)
Hinckley (Leics) 378,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.9 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Manor Gardens Desford290 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA23.2 km (14 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Medical Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Desford Dental Care290 m
HospitalHinckley And Bosworth Community Hospital8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Police stationBlaby Police8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Desford Cashzone440 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 gardenTropical Bird Garden 1.9 ha920 m (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,580 m²270 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha270 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Manor House and Attached Barn and Service Block, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) north-east. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Manor House and Attached Barn and Service BlockListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) north-east
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Moated site 440m south west of Lindridge Fields FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lindridge WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Bullacre SpinneyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Peckleton CommonWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Newbold SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Old BrakeWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Foundation LakeLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west

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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
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
55 to 5910
Under 551819

1 of the street's 19 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 Hinckley and Bosworth: see them on the Hinckley and Bosworth 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
Desford Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11190 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Bosworth AcademySecondary11–19850 m (0.5 miles) Good (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
Desford Primary School Extra Time Club LE9 9JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 mExempt
Desford Fish Bar LE9 9GXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good28 Nov 2023
Desford Shop And Post Office LE9 9GXRetailers - other270 m5 Very good5 May 2022
Little India LE9 9GXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
The Co-op LE9 9JFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
The Blue Bell Inn And Lodge LE9 9JFPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Caterpillar Sports And Social Club LE9 9JUPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2024
Sport In Desford LE9 9JURetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Baxterstorey Ltd At Caterpillar (UK) Ltd LE9 9JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Aug 2025
St Martins Church Centre LE9 9JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Chapel Lane Playgroup LE9 9GEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

31 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Public order5
Burglary3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Robbery1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holmfield Road (11); On or near Willow Street (4); On or near The Grove (3); On or near Kirkby Road (3); On or near Norfolk Road (3).

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: 633 residents in 254 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 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • LE9 9HH: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • LE9 9JH: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Belvoir Close · Bedford Close · Burley Close · Lynwood Close · Essex Close · Rowan Way · Salisbury Close · Hazel Street · Beech Way · Parkstone Road · Gloucester Close · Holmfield Road

All the streets in LE9 and across Hinckley and Bosworth.

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.