Lacrets Path Luton

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU1), about 160 m long, classed as a secondary access road. USRN 24002824.

  • 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 A; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton, about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hat Gardens, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 112 to 115 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 2 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lea Vale Medical Practice, about 310 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 2% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,428 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 (load in progress). 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 A (83% of about 1,290 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: yes, Town Centre Conservation Area 1 (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Luton Town Centre and Surrounds (2023).
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
LU1 2PLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 3 unlikely
LU1 2RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 2 addresses are between 112 m and 115 m above sea level (114 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 2PL97%97%97%0%
LU1 2RD100%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 2024–25390 m
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 78 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Galaxy Centre Luton Town Centre80 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre250 m
Car parks11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks150 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station50 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN3.5 km (2.2 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lea Vale Medical Practice310 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Se Morgan Chemist250 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sharing Smiles30 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationLuton Police Station280 m
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM140 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hat Gardens 1,520 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Brantwood Park 2.3 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldManor Road Park 2.5 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,510 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 630 m (0.4 miles) east. 63 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) east
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wardown LakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Farley PondLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Lower Kidney WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Blossom SpringWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Kidney WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Warden HillHill4.7 km (2.9 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)14.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

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 55122

1 of the street's 2 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
Rothesay Nursery SchoolNursery2–5510 m (0.3 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
Chapel Street Nursery SchoolNursery2–4680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Dallow Primary SchoolPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillborough Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillborough Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hart Hill Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 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
Farley Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denbigh High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Linden AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (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
Fireaway Pizza also trading as Luton Bites LU1 2QPTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jun 2025
Downtown LU1 2QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m4 Good1 Apr 2026
Karam Express LU1 2QPTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m3 Generally satisfactory21 May 2025
Foodie Fusion 2025 Ltd LU1 2QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 mAwaiting inspection
Tokko Youth Hub LU1 2QPRetailers - other40 m4 Good10 Apr 2026
Apata Lounge LU1 2PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Jul 2026
Magic Doner LU1 2QGTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good31 Oct 2025
BEEF KING LU1 2QGOther catering premises50 mAwaiting inspection
24/7 Moldova limited LU1 2QGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Non stop Moldova LU1 2QBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Sam's Chicken LU1 2QBTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Chunkeez LU1 2QBTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good11 Dec 2024
Ramsays wings n tings LU1 2QBTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Apr 2026
Apata Lounge LU1 2PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 mAwaiting inspection
Tastys Fried Chicken LU1 2QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good9 Oct 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.

1,428 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences405
Anti-social behaviour219
Shoplifting207
Public order105
Other theft98
Drugs89
Criminal damage and arson67
Vehicle crime50
Robbery47
Theft from the person42
Possession of weapons29
Burglary29
Bicycle theft29
Other crime12

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (231); On or near Bridge Street (210); On or near Peel Street (185); On or near Manchester Street (125); On or near Parking Area (106).

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: 469 residents in 188 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 age2740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)2%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented69%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)24%6%
Retired (of adults)1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van25%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus40%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)55%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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 2PL: 1 address of 164 in the postcode
  • LU1 2RD: 1 address of 173 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gordon Street · Alma Street · Alma Street Passage · Inkerman Street · Alma Street · Manchester Street · Bridge Street · Dunstable Place · Upper George Street · Peel Street · Cardigan Street · Peel Place

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.