Hillview Crescent Luton

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU2,LU3), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000641.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £440,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 10, 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.
  • 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 Leagrave, about 2.7 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 123 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barton Hills Medical Group, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 126 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20251£440,000£440,000£440,000
20241£445,000£445,000£445,000
20223£400,000£287,000£475,000
20201£346,000£346,000£346,000
20141£239,995£239,995£239,995
20131£245,600£245,600£245,600
20122£178,475£157,000£199,950
20101£314,000£314,000£314,000
20091£186,000£186,000£186,000
20071£228,000£228,000£228,000
20062£217,000£214,000£220,000
20051£243,000£243,000£243,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jan 20259 LU2 7AASemi-detached£440,000
30 Sep 20247 LU2 7AASemi-detached£445,000
20 Sep 202222 LU2 7AASemi-detached£400,000
28 Jan 20221 LU2 7AASemi-detached£475,000
21 Jan 202220 LU2 7AASemi-detached£287,000
8 Dec 20213 LU2 7AATerraced£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 20206 LU2 7AASemi-detached£346,000
27 May 20148 LU2 7AASemi-detached£239,995
29 Aug 201319 LU2 7AASemi-detached£245,600
7 Sep 201216 LU2 7AASemi-detached£199,950
26 Mar 201222 LU2 7AASemi-detached£157,000
23 Mar 20101 LU2 7AASemi-detached£314,000
1 Sep 200921 LU2 7AASemi-detached£186,000
16 Jul 20075 LU2 7AASemi-detached£228,000
18 May 200618 LU2 7AASemi-detached£214,000
1 Feb 200612 LU2 7AASemi-detached£220,000
12 May 200523 LU2 7AASemi-detached£243,000
9 Dec 200412 LU2 7AASemi-detached£160,000
20 Oct 200416 LU2 7AASemi-detached£175,000
21 Nov 20037 LU2 7AASemi-detached£226,000
22 Oct 200324 LU2 7AASemi-detached£190,000
19 Dec 200221 LU2 7AASemi-detached£170,000
28 Apr 199918 LU2 7AASemi-detached£88,000
24 Oct 199725 LU2 7AASemi-detached£98,000
25 Sep 199729 LU2 7AADetached£100,000
14 Jul 19957 LU2 7AASemi-detached£74,000

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 108 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, semi-detached (4); House, detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

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 (46% of about 690 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.

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 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
LU2 7AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU3 2BDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 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 32 addresses are between 123 m and 127 m above sea level (125 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
LU2 7AA100%100%100%0%
LU3 2BD100%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 stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.6 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Weybourne Drive Warden Hill70 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksParking available near Luton Airport1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN6.2 km (3.8 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barton Hills Medical Group900 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warden Hill Chemist280 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramingham Dental Clinic900 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Luton Cashzone590 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,520 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha250 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 4.3 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1Scheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club houseScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Strip lynchets on Stopsley CommonScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warden HillHill900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Little Bramingham WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Valentine PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Bramingham WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Galley HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Smithcombe ValleyValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) north

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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
65 to 6910
55 to 5970
Under 552432

8 of the street's 32 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 Luton: see them on the Luton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary4–7300 m Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grasmere Nursery SchoolNursery3–5380 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warden Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Icknield High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
William Austin Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
William Austin Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
BP SF Connect -Streatley Service Station LU3 2BLRetailers - other130 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Luton Women and Girls Cricket Club LU2 7ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Barton Road Service Station LU3 2BDRetailers - other260 m4 Good21 Aug 2017
Warden Hill Chemist LU3 2BERetailers - other270 mExempt
Widecombe Nursing Home LU3 2DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Barton Lodge LU3 2DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Little Peoples Nursery LU3 2DNSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Warden Hill Junior School B'fast & After School Club LU3 2DNSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
St Johns Church LU3 2DNOther catering premises330 m5 Very good21 Aug 2018
Warden Hill Infant Academy LU3 2DNSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Warden Hill Junior School-School Catering Support Ltd t/a Relish LU3 2DNSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
St Johns Preschool LU3 2DNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Cardinal Newman School LU2 7AESchool/college/university390 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
South Bedfordshire Golf Club LU2 7AEPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Rowles House Care Home LU3 2BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jun 2026

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.

126 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting72
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour12
Other theft8
Public order8
Robbery4
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (105); On or near Barton Road (5); On or near Sheringham Close (5); On or near Poplar Avenue (3); On or near Hillview Crescent (3).

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: 297 residents in 107 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 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)32%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification12%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • LU2 7AA: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • LU3 2BD: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Weybourne Drive · Kelling Close · Hillcrest Avenue · Sheringham Close · Barton Road · Blakeney Drive · Wiveton Close · Poplar Avenue · Hill Close · Langham Close · Hanworth Close · Lancaster Avenue

All the streets in LU2, LU3 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.