Laurel Close Accrington, Hyndburn

5 addresses across 1 postcode (BB5), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17902607.

  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Hyndburn costs £2,466 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Accrington, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rhyddings Park, is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 169 to 170 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Arg Healthcare, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 125 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 September 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: Bungalow, end-terrace (2); Bungalow, mid-terrace (2). Built: 2007-2011 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Hyndburn in 2026-27: Band D £2,466 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,192£2,466£3,014£3,562£4,110£4,932

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (88% of about 890 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

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 5 addresses are between 169 m and 170 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
BB5 0HT100%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 stationsAccrington 504,000 journeys in 2024–25850 m (0.5 miles)
Church and Oswaldtwistle 59,000 journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Rishton 41,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fife Street Spring Hill50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Accrington1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksAbbey Street Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN44.8 km (28 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 Arg Healthcare630 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rx Health Pharmacy620 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery820 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalAccrington Victoria Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationHyndburn Police Cadets1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM340 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 Rhyddings Park 5.1 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²40 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bullough Park 5.3 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,470 m²120 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basin, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (1 mile) west. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basinScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The OrchardWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Priestley CloughValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Rothwell HeightsHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Hoyle BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Aspen ValleyValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Warmwithens ReservoirLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 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 Hyndburn: see them on the Hyndburn 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
Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–1120 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fairfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–5270 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnSecondary11–16270 m Report card (Nov 2025): 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistlePrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
RhyddingsSecondary11–16860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, AccringtonPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, ChurchPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Accrington Woodnook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lee Royd Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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
Richmond Convenience Store BB5 0HYRetailers - other90 m4 Good28 Jul 2026
Lancashire Catering @ Accrington Spring Hill Primary School BB5 0JDSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Richmond Grill Limited BB5 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good9 Jul 2025
Al - Hamza BB5 0JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Y & M News BB5 0SLRetailers - other260 m4 Good26 Nov 2025
Corner Express Ltd BB5 0QQRetailers - other290 m4 Good9 Apr 2026
Sultan BB5 0QJRetailers - other340 m4 Good1 Jul 2025
Mount Carmel RC High School BB5 0LUSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Amico Pizza BB5 0QGTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Oct 2025
Scaitcliffe Post Office BB5 0QJRetailers - other350 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Nov 2025
Little Stars Nursery @ The Oaks BB5 0SJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Fat Candy Ltd BB5 0RHManufacturers/packers380 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Oct 2025
Springhill Care Home BB5 0LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 May 2025
Mace Convenience Store BB5 0HGRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary25 Mar 2026
Fairfield Nursery School BB5 0LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Feb 2025

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.

125 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences57
Anti-social behaviour22
Vehicle crime14
Other crime9
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson5
Burglary4
Public order3
Possession of weapons2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fife Street (26); On or near Fraser Street (24); On or near Moorhouse Avenue (22); On or near Chester Street (16); On or near Rawson Avenue (9).

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: 451 residents in 147 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 age3140
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications40%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%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.

Nearby streets

Rawson Avenue · Walker Avenue · Primrose Street · Fife Street · Dover Street · Gordon Avenue · Moorhouse Avenue · Fraser Street · Chester Street · Moorhouse Close · Moorhouse Street · Pendle Street

All the streets in BB5 and across Hyndburn.

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.