Heath Close Luton

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU1), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000608.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 2, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brantwood Park, is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 168 to 169 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 Bute House Medical Centre, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 69 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
20261£250,000£250,000£250,000
20191£190,000£190,000£190,000
20161£250,000£250,000£250,000
20141£220,000£220,000£220,000
20121£143,000£143,000£143,000
20101£180,000£180,000£180,000
20091£160,000£160,000£160,000
20072£171,998£169,995£174,000
20041£132,500£132,500£132,500
20033£140,000£129,995£165,000
20021£105,000£105,000£105,000
20011£82,000£82,000£82,000
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Mar 20268 LU1 5SPTerraced£250,000
22 Nov 20198 LU1 5SPTerraced£190,000
22 Sep 20162 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£250,000
7 Aug 20143 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£220,000
21 Jun 20121 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£143,000
5 Feb 20103 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£180,000
30 Nov 20094 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£160,000
19 Dec 20072 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£174,000
19 Oct 20071 LU1 5SPDetached£169,995
5 Nov 20047 LU1 5SPTerraced£132,500
29 Aug 20031 LU1 5SPDetached£140,000
18 Jul 20035 LU1 5SPTerraced£129,995
23 May 20033 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£165,000
12 Aug 20025 LU1 5SPTerraced£105,000
28 Feb 20014 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£82,000
25 Aug 20007 LU1 5SPTerraced£81,000
18 Aug 200015 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£84,995
22 Jul 19991 LU1 5SPDetached£64,000
9 Nov 19982 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£56,000
31 Jan 199711 LU1 5SPTerraced£48,500
15 Aug 19957 LU1 5SPTerraced£44,250
31 May 19952 LU1 5SPSemi-detached£51,500

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

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,898£2,169£2,440£2,982£3,524£4,067£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (59% of about 730 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.

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.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 168 m and 169 m above sea level (169 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
LU1 5JY100%100%100%0%
LU1 5SP100%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 stationsLuton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Farley Methodist Church Farley Hill100 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Guru Nanak-Luton Car Park800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN4.5 km (2.8 miles)

Local services

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

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bute House Medical Centre770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Farley Hill Chemist410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Petrie Tucker & Partners LTD660 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationBedfordshire Police850 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone410 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brantwood Park 2.3 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ferndale Leisure Gardens 27 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldCastlecroft Road Recreation Ground 1.0 ha860 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,830 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Improvement Garden, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Blossom SpringWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Farley PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Round WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
Badgerdell WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
Heath WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Harps HillHill4.5 km (2.8 miles) south

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)12.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)14.64015

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

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55181919

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 Luton: see them on the Luton 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
Whipperley Infant AcademyPrimary4–7430 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Farley Junior AcademyPrimary7–11440 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dallow Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rothesay Nursery SchoolNursery2–5660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hillborough Junior SchoolPrimary7–11720 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillborough Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Stockwood Park AcademySecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chapel Street Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Foxdell Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, 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
Tiny cubs nursery LU1 5JGSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Whipperley Infant Academy LU1 5QYSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Whipperley Nursery LU1 5QYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Farley Junior School LU1 5JFSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Sporty Scholars LU1 5JFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 mAwaiting inspection
St Brendans LU1 1JWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Farley Hill Chemist LU1 5RDRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
The Parade Bakery & Pizzeria LU1 5RDRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Red Rooster Peri Peri LU1 5RDTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Aug 2024
Co-operative LU1 5RDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jan 2021
Farley Hill Fish Bar LU1 5RDTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2025
Manns Supermarket LU1 5RDRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Farley Food & Wine LU1 5RDRetailers - other410 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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime10
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime3
Burglary2
Public order2
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meyrick Gardens (14); On or near Bolingbroke Road (13); On or near Northdrift Way (12); On or near Godfreys Close (10); On or near Ryton Close (9).

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: 624 residents in 214 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 age3840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented19%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)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • LU1 5SP: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • LU1 5JY: 1 address of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dunsmore Road · Ryton Close · Northdrift Way · Santingfield North · Meyrick Gardens · Bolingbroke Road · Godfreys Close · Ross Close · Bethune Close · Hillary Crescent · Meyrick Avenue · Wolston Close

All the streets in LU1 and across Luton.

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.