Lisbon Drive Darwen

47 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB3), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2902161.

  • Sales: 47 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £140,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 15, E: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Sough Road, is 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 180 times (210 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 2 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • 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 Darwen, about 950 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 216 to 220 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 47 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring-Fenisco Healthlink, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20243£140,000£137,500£178,000
20232£115,000£100,000£130,000
20214£114,500£82,250£150,000
20202£104,000£95,000£113,000
20193£108,500£78,500£129,950
20183£80,000£70,500£115,000
20152£118,000£112,000£124,000
20141£78,000£78,000£78,000
20134£86,000£52,000£89,000
20122£85,500£82,000£89,000
20112£83,750£82,500£85,000
20091£85,000£85,000£85,000
All 47 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Oct 20113 BB3 3JWTerraced£85,000
23 Feb 20244 BB3 3JWTerraced£137,500
29 Mar 20214 BB3 3JWTerraced£117,000
12 Oct 20124 BB3 3JWTerraced£82,000
15 Jun 20064 BB3 3JWTerraced£79,995
20 Dec 20246 BB3 3JWTerraced£140,000
20 Dec 20246 BB3 3JWTerraced£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 20126 BB3 3JWTerraced£89,000
9 Nov 20016 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£36,950
29 Sep 20217 BB3 3JWTerraced£150,000
20 Mar 20207 BB3 3JWTerraced£95,000
16 Nov 20117 BB3 3JWTerraced£82,500
9 Apr 20188 BB3 3JWTerraced£80,000
22 Dec 19978 BB3 3JWTerraced£34,000
29 Sep 20009 BB3 3JWTerraced£35,000
29 Sep 200611 BB3 3JWTerraced£70,000
17 Aug 202315 BB3 3JWTerraced£100,000
10 Oct 200615 BB3 3JWTerraced£99,950
3 Aug 201819 BB3 3JWTerraced£70,500
4 Feb 202221 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Nov 201421 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£78,000
18 Dec 201522 BB3 3JWTerraced£124,000
13 Nov 201322 BB3 3JWTerraced£52,000
26 Mar 201823 BB3 3JWTerraced£115,000
29 May 200923 BB3 3JWTerraced£85,000
12 Mar 202024 BB3 3JWTerraced£113,000
14 Jun 201324 BB3 3JWTerraced£89,000
30 Aug 200224 BB3 3JWTerraced£32,000
2 Oct 199724 BB3 3JWTerraced£28,950
14 Jul 200426 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£84,000
3 Nov 202328 BB3 3JWTerraced£130,000
27 Mar 201530 BB3 3JWTerraced£112,000
12 Feb 200730 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£106,000
20 Nov 201331 BB3 3JWTerraced£87,000
19 Dec 202432 BB3 3JWTerraced£178,000
29 Jun 202133 BB3 3JWTerraced£112,000
25 Apr 201933 BB3 3JWTerraced£108,500
18 Jun 199933 BB3 3JWTerraced£39,950
23 Nov 200734 BB3 3JWTerraced£147,000
21 Jun 199937 BB3 3JWTerraced£35,000
30 Jun 199838 BB3 3JWTerraced£42,950
2 Dec 199739 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£31,150
9 Aug 201940 BB3 3JWTerraced£129,950
13 Sep 201340 BB3 3JWTerraced£85,000
15 Nov 201946 BB3 3JWTerraced£78,500
13 Aug 202148 BB3 3JWSemi-detached£82,250
15 Feb 200752 BB3 3JWDetached£120,000

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1930-1949 (12); 1950-1966 (7); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,867 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,565 kWh of electricity, 15% less than the district's 3,003 kWh. There are gas meters for about 82% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BB3 3JW442,501 kWh 4311,082 kWh
BB3 3SB181,855 kWh 89,474 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BB3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 (63% of about 720 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Blackburn with Darwen 10/22/1006 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2023 2 km (1.2 miles)
Hyndburn Wind Farm Hyndburn 11/09/0512 Wind 12 turbines 24 MW Operational Oct 2012 4.6 km (2.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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
BB3 3JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
BB3 3SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 180 times, for 210 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib River Darwen, Tributary of River Darwen, River Darwen (Sewer), River Darwen.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Sudellside Street Cso (052T9) United Utilities; monitored 89% of the year Trib River Darwen 0 0 510 m (0.3 miles)
Sudell Road Cso United Utilities Trib River Darwen 26 25 510 m (0.3 miles)
Anyon Street/Laurel Ave Cso United Utilities Tributary of River Darwen 63 107 670 m (0.4 miles)
Kay Street Cso United Utilities Trib River Darwen 0 0 740 m (0.5 miles)
28 Tythebarn Street Cso United Utilities River Darwen (Sewer) 20 16 740 m (0.5 miles)
Higher Perry St/Black Laurel St Cso United Utilities Tributary of River Darwen 68 62 810 m (0.5 miles)
Redearth Road/Sudell Road Cso United Utilities River Darwen 3 1 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 460 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Sough Road Sough Road, Darwen, Lancashire from 1960 Inert 460 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 47 addresses are between 216 m and 220 m above sea level (218 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
BB3 3JW100%100%100%0%
BB3 3SB100%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 stationsDarwen 346,000 journeys in 2024–25950 m (0.6 miles)
Entwistle 20,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.1 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lisbon Drive Darwen120 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Car parksAtlas Road Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN40.2 km (25 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spring-Fenisco Healthlink Good Jun 20261.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Street Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital Good Feb 20194.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St James House Requires improvement Feb 20221 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationPolice Headquarters3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kay Street News Cashzone740 m (0.5 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,930 m²330 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,550 m²100 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turncroft Road Gardens 1,860 m²700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 890 m (0.6 miles) west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) west
Bold Venture ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) west
Steam tramway reversing triangleScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Whitehall ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eccles HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Hills ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Polyphemus WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Scotland CloughValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Jacks Key CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Knowl Heights PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west

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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 554347

4 of the street's 47 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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Darwen Aldridge Sudell PrimaryPrimary4–11350 m Report card (Mar 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; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 13% in 2024 and 28% in 2023)
Turncroft Nursery SchoolNursery3–4600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Darwen Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–19830 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 36.8 (36.5 in 2025 and 39.0 in 2024); 21.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 37% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 28% in 2024 and 19% in 2023)
Holy Trinity VC School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 41% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Aldridge UTC DarwenSecondary13–191.3 km (0.8 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 31.7 (34.7 in 2025 and 36.4 in 2024); 19.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 0% AAB or better; progress average
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, DarwenPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Ashleigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Avondale Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 420 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Marshmallows Day Nursery BB3 3JB Full day care 63 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
Butterflies Out Of School Experience BB3 3DL Out-of-school day care 40 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 2 560 m (0.3 miles)
Precious Moments Childcare (Darwen) ltd. BB3 2DE Full day care 55 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 710 m (0.4 miles)
Darwen Children's Centre BB3 0HD Sessional day care 56 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Kidsland Limited at St Joseph's Church Hall Darwen BB3 2PG Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Duxbury, Elle May BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bolland, Gemma BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
PALS-Darwen St Joseph's Primary School BB3 2SG Full day care 35 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Kidzania Childcare Darwen BB3 1AT Full day care 99 Apr 2026: Urgent improvement in 6 areas 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Marshmallows BB3 3JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Priory Express/Londis BB3 3PTRetailers - other390 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Marsh House Chippy BB3 3JBTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Sudell Mini Mart BB3 3JARetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Feb 2025
Caterlink @Sudell Primary School BB3 3EBSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour8
Other crime4
Burglary3
Other theft3
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ellison Fold Way (10); On or near Avallon Way (6); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5); On or near Marsh House Lane (4); On or near Lisbon Drive (4).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Apr 2025 11:20 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Aug 2023 17:38 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 737 residents in 319 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 age4340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%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)25%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, semi-detached (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • BB3 3JW: 46 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • BB3 3SB: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Avallon Way · Tower View · Holden Close · Bland Avenue · Marsham Grove · Naples Road · Spion Close · Cambridge Street · Brussells Road · Ely Close · Well Springs · Sudell Close

All the streets in BB3 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.