Lowlands Close Northampton

86 addresses across 3 postcodes (NN3), about 430 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 28702082.

  • Sales: 176 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £290,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 62 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 28, D: 24, E: 8).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 West Northamptonshire costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northampton, about 7.4 km (4.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rectory Farm Pocket Park, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 102 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 33 of its 86 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brook Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 239 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20253£290,000£270,000£365,000
20244£270,000£220,000£365,000
20232£255,000£185,000£325,000
20221£195,000£195,000£195,000
20217£205,000£167,000£250,000
20204£196,750£194,000£231,000
20195£175,500£125,000£220,000
20182£205,000£175,000£235,000
20163£174,995£132,500£179,995
20159£160,000£129,000£217,500
20145£141,000£128,000£200,000
20136£131,000£95,000£175,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 176)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Oct 202530 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£290,000
31 Jul 202528 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£270,000
27 Mar 202515 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£365,000
10 May 20246 NN3 5EPDetached£365,000
10 May 202413 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£220,000
19 Apr 202420 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£235,000
10 Jan 202447 NN3 5EPDetached£305,000
8 Sep 202371 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£185,000
4 Jan 202332 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£325,000
27 Jul 202278 NN3 5EXTerraced£195,000
24 Sep 202169 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£198,000
22 Sep 202133 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£250,000
17 Sep 202155 NN3 5EXDetached£244,386
18 Jun 202125 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£205,000
11 Jun 202139 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£230,000
31 Mar 202126A NN3 5EPTerraced£167,000
29 Jan 202120 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£187,500
21 Dec 202068 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£194,000
25 Jun 202047 NN3 5EPDetached£231,000
31 Jan 202010 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£198,500
17 Jan 202059 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£195,000
22 Nov 201930 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£190,000
13 Sep 20192 NN3 5EPDetached£220,000
9 Aug 201978 NN3 5EXTerraced£175,500
8 Apr 201977 NN3 5EXTerraced£125,000
31 Jan 201941 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£168,000
31 Jul 201866A NN3 5EXSemi-detached£183,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jun 201880 NN3 5EXTerraced£157,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Apr 201869 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£175,000
29 Mar 20188 NN3 5EPDetached£235,000
7 Jul 201727 NN3 5EPTerraced£152,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Sep 201661 NN3 5EXSemi-detached£179,995
7 Sep 201613 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£174,995
22 Mar 201626A NN3 5EPTerraced£132,500
16 Dec 201552 NN3 5EXDetached£217,500
29 Oct 201539 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£169,000
9 Oct 201574 NN3 5EXTerraced£160,000
28 Aug 201575 NN3 5EXTerraced£150,000
26 Aug 201531 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£160,000
30 Jul 201528 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£154,950
1 May 201578 NN3 5EXTerraced£129,000
1 Apr 20158 NN3 5EPDetached£202,500
6 Feb 201566A NN3 5EXSemi-detached£137,500
12 Dec 201476 NN3 5EXTerraced£128,000
13 Nov 201423 NN3 5EPDetached£200,000
30 Jun 201433 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£145,000
30 May 201436 NN3 5EPSemi-detached£141,000
30 May 201444 NN3 5EPTerraced£129,000
12 Sep 201347 NN3 5EPDetached£175,000
2 Jul 201380 NN3 5EXTerraced£95,000

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

62 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, detached (21); House, mid-terrace (12). Built: 1976-1982 (44); 1967-1975 (10); 1983-1990 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (40); rented (private) (13); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (34 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,934£2,210£2,487£3,039£3,592£4,144£4,973

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (46% of about 1,530 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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

  • 25 August 2026: BT, New service connection, 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
NN3 5EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NN3 5EXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NN3 5EUnot 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 86 addresses are between 95 m and 102 m above sea level (101 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
NN3 5EP100%100%100%0%
NN3 5EU100%100%100%0%
NN3 5EX100%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 stationsNorthampton 2.8 million journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Wellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–2510 km (6.2 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–2514.8 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fellmead Road Rectory Farm100 m
Bus or coach stationNorthampton Bus Interchange6.8 km (4.2 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN53.4 km (33 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brook Medical Centre1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackthorn Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentistsWeston Favell Primary Care2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalSt Edmund's Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationWeston Favell Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone220 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 Rectory Farm Pocket Park 13 ha360 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha180 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.3 ha860 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North Lodge, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-British settlement and pottery kilns W of Ecton North LodgeScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great Olden SpinneyWood560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Fox CovertWood590 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Goldenash SpinneyWood780 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Blackthorn WoodWood790 m (0.5 miles) north
Pike PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Sywell BottomValley3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 64210
55 to 59110
Under 555386

33 of the street's 86 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 West Northamptonshire: see them on the West Northamptonshire 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
Rectory Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–11150 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blackthorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodvale Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lings Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrew's Ceva Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ecton Village Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ecton Brook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Lumbertubs Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northampton Academy ChristianSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thorplands Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Rays Kebabs NN3 8PTTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
Blackthorn Tandoori NN3 4PTTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good10 Feb 2020

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.

239 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting140
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour18
Robbery10
Public order10
Criminal damage and arson7
Other theft6
Vehicle crime6
Possession of weapons4
Burglary1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Olden Road (137); On or near Supermarket (22); On or near Collyweston Road (22); On or near Shire Place (18); On or near Leben Square (16).

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: 760 residents in 268 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 age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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.

  • NN3 5EP: 52 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • NN3 5EX: 33 addresses
  • NN3 5EU: 1 address of 56 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Great Billing Way · Vicarage Farm Drive · Casterton Walk · Rectory Way · Collyweston Road · Leben Square · Thorn End · Winnington Close · Farmyard Close · Olden Road · Shadowfax Drive · Glapthorn Walk

All the streets in NN3 and across West Northamptonshire.

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.