Kinross Close Blackburn

24 addresses across 1 postcode (BB1), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901320.

  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 18, D: 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 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 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, and Queen's Park (12 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 138 to 139 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is William Hopwood Street Surgery, about 150 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 160 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 5% of households owned their home and 9% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 117 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 47 m². Most common: Flat (19); Maisonette, end-terrace (1); Maisonette, not recorded (1). Built: 1976-1982 (14); 1983-1990 (4); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (12); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 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 590 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

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 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 24 addresses are between 138 m and 139 m above sea level (138 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
BB1 1NH100%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 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Rishton 41,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brunel Drive Audley220 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre910 m (0.6 miles)
Car parksNewspaper House - Blackburn Car Park830 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN45.9 km (29 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest William Hopwood Street Surgery150 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Audley Late Night Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eden Dental Studio860 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone270 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,520 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Queen's Park 12 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,390 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,610 m²740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Queen's Park, Blackburn, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 820 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 11 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 II820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Cathedral Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) west
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Abbott CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Fishmoor ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Higher Croft WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) south
Guide ReservoirLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Brownhill PlantationWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Windy BankHill3.4 km (2.1 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
55 to 5940
Under 552024

4 of the street's 24 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), 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
Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11280 m No published inspection
St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m 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
Brunel Nursery SchoolNursery3–4420 m (0.3 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
Audley Junior SchoolPrimary7–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Audley Infant SchoolPrimary3–7590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 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
St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Blackburn Central High SchoolSecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Daisyfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael With St John CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Antony's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 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
Hopwood Court Day Centre BB1 1LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
Vapers Avenue Ltd BB1 1TGRetailers - other210 mExempt
Chesters/Franguitos BB1 3ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Hardeez Chicken BB1 3ANTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Jul 2026
Karahi N Kebab BB1 3ANTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m2 Improvement necessary16 Jun 2026
Billy Bunters BB1 3ANTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Royal Sweet Centre BB1 1TGTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good14 May 2024
Audley Pharmacy BB1 1TGRetailers - other240 mExempt
Rack City Kitchen BB1 3ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m2 Improvement necessary11 Aug 2025
Pizza Flip N Go BB1 3ANTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m4 Good17 Aug 2026
Bees Breakfast BB1 3AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good10 Jul 2025
Best 4 Less BB1 1RFRetailers - other280 m4 Good14 Jul 2025
Audley News BB1 1TGRetailers - other290 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Feb 2026
Hajats Homemade Food BB1 1TFOther catering premises290 m4 Good5 Mar 2026
Qahwa BB1 1JFTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good21 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.

117 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences59
Anti-social behaviour17
Drugs12
Other theft7
Other crime6
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Selkirk Close (25); On or near Dundee Drive (14); On or near William Hopwood Street (9); On or near Aberdeen Drive (8); On or near Kinross Close (8).

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: 155 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 age6040
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)5%61%
Owned outright3%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented88%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work16%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)31%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)32%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)4%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)9%34%
No qualifications49%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%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

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.

  • BB1 1NH: 24 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

William Hopwood Street · Shakeshaft Street · Addington Street · Aviemore Close · Audley Street · Kinross Walk · Strathclyde Road · Cumberland Street · Aberdeen Drive · Selkirk Close · Rose Hill Avenue · Mary Street

All the streets in BB1 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.
  • 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.