Hareden Brook Close Blackburn

20 addresses across 3 postcodes (BB1,BB2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901303.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £115,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Bennington Street/Pringle Street, lies under part of it.
  • Storm overflows: 10 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 261 times (597 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 3.1 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A6077, carries 10,627 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackburn, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Queen's Park, is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 140 to 149 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Georges Surgery, about 250 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 113 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 12 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20241£115,000£115,000£115,000
20211£100,000£100,000£100,000
20161£92,000£92,000£92,000
20061£80,000£80,000£80,000
20051£92,000£92,000£92,000
20031£14,950£14,950£14,950
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Jun 202420 BB2 3HXTerraced£115,000
16 Sep 20214 BB2 3HXTerraced£100,000
14 Mar 20162 BB2 3HXTerraced£92,000
10 Apr 200620 BB2 3HXTerraced£80,000
9 Dec 20052 BB2 3HXTerraced£92,000
10 Mar 20036 BB2 3HXTerraced£14,950

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 August 2013 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 81 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3); Bungalow, end-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1983-1990 (4); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (85% 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 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Blackburn with Darwen 10/22/1006 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2023 3.1 km (2 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
BB2 3HXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB1 1RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB2 3HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

10 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 261 times, for 597 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Queens Park Culvert Via Sws, Queens Park Culvert, Culvert Culvert St, River Blakewater and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Cumberland Street Cso United Utilities Queens Park Culvert Via Sws 25 25 200 m
Dickens Street Cso United Utilities Queens Park Culvert 18 44 200 m
Merchants Landing Culvert St Cso United Utilities Culvert Culvert St 0 0 250 m
Grimshaw Park Cso United Utilities River Blakewater 0 0 350 m
Back Queens Park Rd United Utilities Culvert Pringle St 0 0 480 m (0.3 miles)
Pringle Street Cso United Utilities Tributary of River Blakewater 0 0 500 m (0.3 miles)
Lower Audley Cso United Utilities Tributary of River Blakewater 40 98 530 m (0.3 miles)
Queens Park Road Cso United Utilities Queens Park Culvert 33 49 540 m (0.3 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

3 of the street's 3 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes: the nearest lies under part of it.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Bennington Street/Pringle Street Audley, Blackburn, Lancashire Not recorded Not recorded Under it
Lewis Sharrock Delph Haslingden Road, Sharrock Delph, Blackburn, Lancashire from 1946 Inert, special (hazardous) 210 m
Park Lee Road Park Lee Road, Blackburn, Lancashire Not recorded Inert 330 m
Gillibrand Rubber Paterson Street, Blackburn, Lancashire Not recorded Industrial 450 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 20 addresses are between 140 m and 149 m above sea level (144 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
BB1 1RS100%100%100%0%
BB2 3HU100%100%100%0%
BB2 3HX100%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 stationsBlackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bennington Street Grimshaw Park190 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nova Scotia Retail Park Car Park670 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN45.4 km (28 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Georges Surgery Good Sep 2019250 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Curo Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dept Of Special Care Dentistry880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital Good Feb 2019880 m (0.5 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queens Lodge Nursing Home Good Feb 2026490 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kay Group - Grimshaw Park Service Station Cashzone330 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queen's Park 12 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²90 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highfield Park 8,540 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,610 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Queen's Park, Blackburn, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 880 m (0.5 miles) east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Queen's Park, BlackburnRegistered park or garden, Grade II880 m (0.5 miles) east
Cathedral Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Higher Croft WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Fishmoor ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Guide ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Fernhurst WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Abbott CloughValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Fernhurst HillHill2.9 km (1.8 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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5920
Under 551720

3 of the street's 20 addresses are 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–1160 m No published inspection
Blackburn Central High SchoolSecondary11–16280 m No published inspection
Audley Junior SchoolPrimary7–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Audley Infant SchoolPrimary3–7460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Brunel Nursery SchoolNursery3–4600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Longshaw Community Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School MuslimSecondary11–181 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) 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
St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 50 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
PALS-St Mary's and St Joseph's BB2 3HP Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 50 m
Audley and Queen's Park Children's Centre BB1 1SF Sessional day care 77 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Little Wonders Nursery Ltd BB1 1DW Sessional day care 32 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 760 m (0.5 miles)
Peekaboo Waterside BB2 3SF Full day care 122 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 850 m (0.5 miles)
Kip McGrath Blackburn BB2 2AU Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 900 m (0.6 miles)
PALS-Longshaw Juniors BB2 3NX Out-of-school day care 32 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
PALS- Blackburn St Thomas' C of E Primary School BB1 1NE Out-of-school day care 32 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Higher Croft Children's Centre BB2 3UY Sessional day care 60 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bumble Bees Nursery (Blackburn) LTD BB1 2HU Sessional day care 66 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Shadsworth Childrens Centre BB1 2HR Full day care 60 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Europa Superstore BB2 3HPRetailers - other160 m5 Very good7 Jun 2022
Kashmir Supermarket BB2 3HPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m4 Good8 May 2026
Better Bodies BB2 3HPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good13 Apr 2022
Daily Stop Go Local BB2 3HWRetailers - other170 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jul 2025
Vaping Hub Ltd BB2 3HRRetailers - other200 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Asda Stores Ltd BB2 3DYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good15 Oct 2024
Aki Halal Meat LTD BB1 1TDRetailers - other360 mAwaiting inspection
Sahad Kebab House BB1 1TDTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Apr 2026
St. Pauls Church Room BB1 1DHOther catering premises380 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
Clifton Arms BB2 3AGPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2024
Planet Ice Blackburn BB2 3DYOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Costa Coffee Drive Thru Grimshaw Park BB2 3DYRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Haji Baba Limited BB2 3DYRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2025
B & M Retail BB2 3DYRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Naafiah Takeaway BB1 1TFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Apr 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.

113 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences44
Anti-social behaviour29
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft8
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons3
Other crime3
Public order3
Drugs2
Robbery2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Skelshaw Close (22); On or near Cross Fold (19); On or near Primrose Hill (17); On or near Malham Gardens (12); On or near Hare Clough Close (8).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

12 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 9 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist. 42% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202130
202220
202332
202421
202520
The most recent 10 of 12
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Dec 2025 14:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
31 Aug 2025 12:43 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Aug 2024 00:16 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
12 Aug 2024 11:00 Slight 1 person A6077, 30 mph Daylight
26 Nov 2023 13:32 Slight 1 person A6077, 30 mph Daylight
17 Aug 2023 15:56 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Mar 2023 23:13 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
30 Jul 2022 23:01 Slight 1 person A6077, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
30 Jan 2022 01:08 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Oct 2021 09:45 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A6077 between A6078 and Bennington Street, with 10,627 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 130 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A6077 A6078 to Bennington Street 10,627 estimated; counted 2022 1% -1% since 2015 130 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 508 residents in 150 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 age2840
Children under 1530%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented53%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)17%34%
No qualifications37%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

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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.

  • BB2 3HX: 18 addresses
  • BB1 1RS: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • BB2 3HU: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Barn Gill Close · Whitendale Crescent · Malham Gardens · St Annes Close · St Marys Wharf · St Frances Close · Kempton Rise · Crossfield Street · Hare Clough Close · Gillies Street · Skelshaw Close · Bennington Street

All the streets in BB1, BB2 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.