Hampden Close Flitwick, Central Bedfordshire

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK45), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25201218.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £335,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 1, 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 86% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Flitwick, about 670 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.5 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Flitwick Surgery, about 900 m away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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
20112£335,000£330,000£340,000
20071£415,000£415,000£415,000
20001£159,000£159,000£159,000
19991£223,000£223,000£223,000
19981£165,000£165,000£165,000
19971£150,000£150,000£150,000
19963£130,000£118,000£138,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Dec 201112 MK45 1HRDetached£330,000
9 Sep 20117 MK45 1HRDetached£340,000
26 Feb 20079 MK45 1HRDetached£415,000
9 Jun 20002 MK45 1HRDetached£159,000
28 Jul 19991 MK45 1HRDetached£223,000
17 Dec 199810 MK45 1HRDetached£165,000
12 Sep 19972 MK45 1HRDetached£150,000
6 Dec 19965 MK45 1HRDetached£118,000
18 Nov 199611 MK45 1HRDetached£138,000
28 Jun 19969 MK45 1HRDetached£130,000

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 157 m². Most common: House, detached (3). Built: 1996-2002 (1); 1976-1982 (1); 1983-1990 (1).

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 (47% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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 1.0 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
MK45 1HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK45 1HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 71 m and 76 m above sea level (74 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
MK45 1HR100%100%100%0%
MK45 1HU93%93%86%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 stationsFlitwick 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25670 m
Harlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–254.0 km
Lidlington 17,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 26 within 800 m; nearest Vicarage Hill Flitwick120 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Interchange Flitwick660 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station520 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN16.4 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 Flitwick Surgery900 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy530 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Flitwick Dental Group710 m
HospitalSteppingley Hospital1.8 km
Police stationLuton North Police Station10.9 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Flitwick, Flitwick Cashzone550 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 gardenUnnamed 3,930 m²1.5 km
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 860 m²320 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha480 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Council Allotment 1.1 ha590 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade I), 250 m south-west. 13 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I250 m south-west
Flitwick ManorListed building, Grade II*290 m south-west
Flitwick ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II380 m south
The Mount: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monument410 m west
Moated site and fishponds south east of Westoning ManorScheduled monument1.9 km south
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priestleymoor PlantationWood850 m south-west
Flitwick WoodWood900 m west
Ash SpinneyWood1.8 km north-west
Moors PlantationWood1.8 km south-west
Cooper's HillHill3.3 km north
Valley LakeLake or reservoir3.7 km north-west

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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 551517

2 of the street's 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Flitwick Lower SchoolPrimary2–9290 m No published inspection
Woodland Middle School AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–13690 m No published inspection
Templefield Lower SchoolPrimary2–9730 m No published inspection
Kingsmoor Lower SchoolPrimary2–91.0 km No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Westoning Lower SchoolPrimary2–91.8 km No published inspection

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
Little Squirts Pre-School MK45 1HNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Mayflower MK45 1HZTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Spice MK45 1HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m4 Good12 Feb 2026
Flitwick Peri Peri MK45 1HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Flitwick Manor Hotel MK45 1AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good3 Sep 2025
Flitwick Lower School MK45 1LUSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Co-operative Group MK45 1QJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good15 Jul 2026
The Bumble Bee MK45 1QHPub/bar/nightclub400 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
The Swan MK45 1HPPub/bar/nightclub470 m5 Very good21 May 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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson7
Violence and sexual offences4
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dunstable Road (9); On or near Church Road (2); On or near Hampden Close (2); On or near Hubbard Close (2); On or near Heron Road (1).

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: 508 residents in 237 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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.

  • MK45 1HR: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • MK45 1HU: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Finch Walk · Heron Road · Dunstable Road · Falcon Crescent · Pope Close · Dove Walk · Raven Walk · Robin Close · Fir Tree Close · Pipit Close · Hubbard Close · Hampden Road

All the streets in MK45 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.