Margate Avenue Blackpool

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (FY4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3002423.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £128,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Blackpool costs £2,513 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackpool Pleasure Beach, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Arnold Medical Centre, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 201 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£128,250£116,000£140,500
20242£131,000£122,000£140,000
20231£107,000£107,000£107,000
20221£173,000£173,000£173,000
20131£125,000£125,000£125,000
20111£120,000£120,000£120,000
20101£118,000£118,000£118,000
20091£81,500£81,500£81,500
20081£100,000£100,000£100,000
20061£100,000£100,000£100,000
20032£79,000£79,000£79,000
20022£57,750£41,500£74,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 202514 FY4 3PFTerraced£116,000
3 Jul 202516 FY4 3PFTerraced£140,500
12 Jan 202416 FY4 3PFTerraced£122,000
3 Jan 20243 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£140,000
21 Apr 202312 FY4 3PFTerraced£107,000
31 Oct 20227 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£173,000
4 Oct 20135 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£125,000
29 Jun 20115 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£120,000
14 Jun 20101 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£118,000
12 Jan 200910 FY4 3PFTerraced£81,500
30 May 200812 FY4 3PFTerraced£100,000
27 Jul 20068 FY4 3PFTerraced£100,000
2 May 20035 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£79,000
2 May 20035 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£79,000
4 Oct 20023 FY4 3PFSemi-detached£74,000
8 Feb 20028 FY4 3PFTerraced£41,500
25 May 200114 FY4 3PFTerraced£41,000
13 Jan 19998 FY4 3PFTerraced£34,950
31 Mar 19952 - 4 FY4 3PFTerraced£29,950

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (4); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackpool in 2026-27: Band D £2,513 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,675£1,955£2,234£2,513£3,072£3,630£4,189£5,026

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 640 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): Article 4 Direction - C3 to C4 HMO.
  • 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 addresses are about 8 m above sea level.

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
FY4 3PE100%100%100%0%
FY4 3PF100%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 stationsBlackpool Pleasure Beach 119,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Squires Gate 28,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Blackpool South 114,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramBurlington Road West (Blackpool Tramway)1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pleasure Beach (Blackpool Tramway)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Harrow Place (Blackpool Tramway)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Acre Gate Fishers Field80 m
Bus or coach stationLonsdale Coach Park Bloomfield2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging pointsApcoa Charging Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL51.8 km (32 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Arnold Medical Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackpool Express Chemist - Common Edge510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalOpd Victoria Hospital3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationBlackpool Police Headquarters2.7 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cowens News540 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,860 m²200 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fishers Field 2.6 ha130 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Acregate Allotment Gardens 8,750 m²120 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Blackpool South BeachBeach1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Crusader BankBeach2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Arnott WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) east
Marton MereLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) north-east
Sea Lion PoolLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north
Blackpool Central BeachBeach3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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 551213

1 of the street's 13 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 Blackpool: see them on the Blackpool 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
Highfield Leadership AcademySecondary11–16220 m Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hawes Side AcademyPrimary4–11450 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Roman CatholicPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Roseacre Primary AcademyPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Marton Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Armfield AcademyAll-through3–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
South Shore AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thames Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Waterloo Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; 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
Highfield News / D & E Kendall FY4 3JURetailers - other100 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jan 2025
Earth & Oven FY4 3JUTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Highfield Stores Ltd - Premier FY4 3JXRetailers - other140 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Beaumont College FY4 3JUSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Acre Gate Chippy FY4 3LETakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Kids Planet - Bluebell Lodge Nursery FY4 2QRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Highfield Leadership Academy FY4 3JZSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Hawes Side Academy School Kitchen FY4 3LNSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Joys Bubble Tea Ltd FY4 3LYMobile caterer380 m5 Very good8 Nov 2024
Thornlea Care Home FY4 2QPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Highfield Hotel FY4 3LAPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Red Oak Rest Home FY4 2EFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Michild Highfield Nursery FY4 2HGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jun 2025
Hawes Side Nursery FY4 3HZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Dotties Desserts FY4 5AXTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 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.

201 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences91
Anti-social behaviour55
Other theft13
Public order12
Criminal damage and arson12
Other crime4
Vehicle crime3
Burglary3
Drugs3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Clayton Crescent (56); On or near Kingsmede (54); On or near Nesswood Avenue (23); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (14); On or near Highfield Road (13).

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: 314 residents in 134 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 age4040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)21%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 van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Nearby streets

Dorritt Road · Linfield Terrace · Loxham Gardens · Highfield Road · Nesswood Avenue · Lostock Gardens · Kingsmede · Wyndham Gardens · Johnsville Avenue · Highfield Road · Endsleigh Gardens · Clayton Crescent

All the streets in FY4 and across Blackpool.

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.