Kingsway Luton

2 addresses across 1 postcode (LU4), about 60 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 24003474.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £268,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in 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 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ferndale Leisure Gardens, is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Conway Medical Centre, about 280 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 101 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
20211£268,000£268,000£268,000
20161£220,000£220,000£220,000
20131£124,000£124,000£124,000
20061£150,000£150,000£150,000
20051£137,500£137,500£137,500
20021£55,000£55,000£55,000
19992£39,250£38,000£40,500
19982£36,000£35,000£37,000
19971£34,500£34,500£34,500
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 202181 LU4 8EJTerraced£268,000
16 Feb 201681 LU4 8EJTerraced£220,000
28 Feb 201467 LU4 8EJOther£468,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 201379 LU4 8EJTerraced£124,000
15 Dec 200681 LU4 8EJTerraced£150,000
8 Aug 200575 LU4 8EJTerraced£137,500
4 Oct 200275 LU4 8EJTerraced£55,000
6 Aug 199981 LU4 8EJTerraced£40,500
7 May 199979 LU4 8EJTerraced£38,000
17 Apr 199875 LU4 8EJTerraced£35,000
12 Mar 199879 LU4 8EJTerraced£37,000
19 Dec 199777 LU4 8EJTerraced£34,500

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 B (77% of about 570 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 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 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 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 addresses are about 122 m above sea level.

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
LU4 8EJ100%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 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsway Maidenhall290 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carlton House - Luton Car Park70 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN5.4 km (3.4 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 Conway Medical Centre280 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beech Hill Dental Practice510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationLuton Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsway Service Station Cashzone340 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 Ferndale Leisure Gardens 27 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsway Park 3.0 ha170 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,830 m²890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wardown Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Blossom SpringWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Badgerdell WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Bush WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Wardown LakeLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Warden HillHill4.3 km (2.7 miles) north-east

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)12.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
60 to 64200
Under 55022

2 of the street's 2 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
Maidenhall Primary SchoolPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Foxdell Primary SchoolPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 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
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 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
Denbigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Downside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Dallow Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Whipperley Infant AcademyPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 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
Denbigh High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
River Bank Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Norton Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beechwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Kingsway Karahi LU4 8EPTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Mar 2026
Kingsway Superstore LU4 8EHRetailers - other210 m4 Good10 Jan 2018
Everyday Superfood LU1 1FWImporters/Exporters240 m2 Improvement necessary23 Feb 2026
Gopuff LU1 1TTRetailers - other240 m5 Very good11 Mar 2022
Ds Kitchen Luton LU4 8BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
G & A Fast Food LU4 8BYTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
G & A Superstore LU4 8BYRetailers - other270 m4 Good29 Jan 2026
Thonia Off Licence LU4 8BYRetailers - other270 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
CALIFORNIA CRISPY CHICKEN LTD LU4 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Feb 2026
Simis Kitchen LU4 8AUOther catering premises310 m5 Very good16 Sep 2024
Bismillah Madina Store LU4 8BURetailers - other310 m5 Very good13 Mar 2023
Tesco Express LU4 8JSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Original Roti Junction LU4 8DATakeaway/sandwich shop340 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2026
Krispy Lemon Chicken Ltd LU4 8DATakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good22 Aug 2026
Kingsway Service Station LU4 8DARetailers - other340 m5 Very good24 Sep 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.

101 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Anti-social behaviour17
Vehicle crime10
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order7
Other theft6
Shoplifting6
Burglary4
Drugs3
Other crime2
Theft from the person2
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kingsway (32); On or near Beresford Road (29); On or near Dunstable Close (28); On or near Medina Road (7); On or near Portland Road (5).

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: 473 residents in 116 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 age2940
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • LU4 8EJ: 2 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Churchill Road · Beresford Road · Dunstable Close · Medina Road · Durbar Road · Titan Court · Kingsway · Portland Road · Finway · Dunraven Avenue · Highfield Road · Grantham Road

All the streets in LU4 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.