Malvern Crescent Cosby, Blaby

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE9), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2800725.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 4, D: 3).
  • 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 B; Band D in Blaby costs £2,490 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Narborough, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 78 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Limes Medical Centre, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 58 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
20251£380,000£380,000£380,000
20221£308,000£308,000£308,000
20211£255,000£255,000£255,000
20201£185,000£185,000£185,000
20162£211,000£187,000£235,000
20142£180,000£164,250£195,750
20111£147,000£147,000£147,000
20101£162,500£162,500£162,500
20081£110,000£110,000£110,000
20041£137,500£137,500£137,500
20033£134,950£117,950£174,000
20011£82,950£82,950£82,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Mar 20253 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£380,000
29 Jul 20228 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£308,000
10 Dec 202118 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£255,000
15 Feb 20204 LE9 1UXDetached£185,000
2 Sep 201618 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£187,000
21 Jan 201610 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£235,000
4 Aug 201422 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£195,750
4 Aug 201418 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£164,250
25 Nov 20118 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£147,000
28 May 201018 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£162,500
11 Nov 200818 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£110,000
21 May 20044 LE9 1UXDetached£137,500
7 Nov 200320 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£174,000
23 May 20038 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£134,950
24 Feb 20034 LE9 1UXDetached£117,950
25 May 20013 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£82,950
30 Nov 200022 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£94,950
14 May 199910 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£60,000
18 Jun 199810 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£51,000
6 Jun 19978 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£59,500
11 Feb 199720 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£65,000
22 Nov 19967 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£46,000
19 Apr 19965 LE9 1UXSemi-detached£52,750

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 April 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (50% of about 700 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 5 November 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
LE9 1UXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
LE9 1USnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 18 addresses are between 75 m and 78 m above sea level (76 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
LE9 1US100%100%100%0%
LE9 1UX100%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 stationsNarborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.3 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–2510.1 km (6.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bradbury Close Cosby160 m
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA32.6 km (20 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 surgeriesThe Limes Medical Centre2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cosby Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentistsWhetstone Dental Surgery2.2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police Federation3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cosby - Main Street, Cosby Cashzone110 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 gardenUnnamed 3.1 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,680 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victory Park 5.2 ha250 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha490 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael and All Angels, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m south-west. 13 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 Michael and All AngelsListed building, Grade II*230 m south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whetstone GorseWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Cosby SpinneysWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Ash Pole SpinneyWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Cosby HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Clark's SpinneyWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir4.7 km (2.9 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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 5930
Under 551518

3 of the street's 18 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 Blaby: see them on the Blaby 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
Cosby Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Badgerbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Mr Clutton LE9 1UAMobile caterer130 m2 Improvement necessary7 Jan 2026
The Co-Operative Food LE9 1UURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Tithe Barn LE9 1UWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good20 Sep 2024
Bangla Spice LE9 1UWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good24 Jul 2024
Cosby Village Club LE9 1UWPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good12 Dec 2023
The Nook Fish Bar LE9 1RQTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
The Bulls Head LE9 1RQPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Jul 2023
Russell Smith Butchers LE9 1RQManufacturers/packers410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 2026
The Cook In The Nook LE9 1RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Sep 2024
Cosby Cantonese LE9 1RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary26 Mar 2025
One Stop LE9 1RERetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Dec 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.

58 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting21
Anti-social behaviour13
Violence and sexual offences10
Public order4
Vehicle crime4
Burglary3
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (27); On or near Harland Close (6); On or near Burley Close (5); On or near Farthingdale Close (5); On or near Cambrian Close (4).

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: 318 residents in 141 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 age5040
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 5 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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

Steadman Avenue · Cotswold Avenue · Orchard Close · Ash-Tree Road · Arnold Close · Linley Green · Cambrian Close · Burley Close · Chiltern Avenue · Farthingdale Close · Harland Close · Bradbury Close

All the streets in LE9 and across Blaby.

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.