Meadow Road Luton

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU3), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000843.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £335,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (D: 4, E: 3).
  • Flood: 15 addresses on its postcodes are 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 C; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leagrave, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 111 to 112 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Neville Road Surgery, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 110 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
20211£335,000£335,000£335,000
20201£215,000£215,000£215,000
20191£340,000£340,000£340,000
20181£325,000£325,000£325,000
20131£241,000£241,000£241,000
20111£175,000£175,000£175,000
20062£211,000£172,000£250,000
20051£218,000£218,000£218,000
20022£125,750£108,000£143,500
20001£139,950£139,950£139,950
19992£93,998£87,995£100,000
19973£68,000£57,000£76,500
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 May 20213 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£335,000
15 May 20203 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£215,000
31 Jan 20192 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£340,000
21 Sep 20184 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£325,000
25 Nov 20131 LU3 1UXDetached£241,000
31 Jan 20115 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£175,000
18 Oct 200612 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£250,000
23 Jun 20067 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£172,000
16 Jan 200512 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£218,000
2 Aug 20024 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£143,500
15 Mar 20027 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£108,000
14 Apr 200011 LU3 1UXDetached£139,950
2 Dec 19997 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£87,995
30 Jul 199911 LU3 1UXDetached£100,000
4 Jul 199710 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£76,500
20 Jan 19977 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£68,000
10 Jan 199710 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£57,000
31 Aug 19958 LU3 1UXSemi-detached£52,000

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

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (4); 1950-1966 (2); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,898£2,169£2,440£2,982£3,524£4,067£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (66% of about 680 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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
LU3 1UXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LU3 1UAnot in 2 or 3 12 / 3 / 7 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 14 addresses are between 111 m and 112 m above sea level (111 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
LU3 1UA100%100%100%0%
LU3 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 stationsLeagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest William Austin Infants School Limbury100 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smartairportparkingltd390 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN5.5 km (3.4 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Neville Road Surgery790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bishopscote Chemist460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marsh Road Dental Practice1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone560 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.8 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.3 ha290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wardown Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's BankScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Strip lynchets on Stopsley CommonScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wardown LakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Little Bramingham WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Valentine PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Bramingham WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Great Bramingham WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Warden HillHill2.6 km (1.6 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)11.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
55 to 59100
Under 55121414

2 of the street's 14 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 Luton: see them on the Luton 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
William Austin Junior SchoolPrimary7–11280 m No published inspection
William Austin Infant SchoolPrimary5–7320 m No published inspection
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Icknield High SchoolSecondary11–16710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Norton Road Primary SchoolPrimary5–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denbigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
River Bank Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Luton Sixth Form College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Maidenhall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 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
Peri Peri Grill Cottage LU3 1TYTakeaway/sandwich shop60 mAwaiting inspection
William Austin Jnr School -abm catering @ William Austin Junior School LU3 1UASchool/college/university90 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Old Moat House LU3 1UUPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Family Choice Trading Ltd LU3 1XARetailers - other170 m5 Very good11 May 2017
Gulf Petrol Station LU3 1XARetailers - other170 m5 Very good18 Oct 2023
Johal's LU3 1PERetailers - other210 m4 Good20 Aug 2019
Tesco Express LU3 1PERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Ahmed Food Store LU3 1QHRetailers - other260 m5 Very good15 Mar 2021
Trinity fuel service station LU3 1TPRetailers - other270 m4 Good11 Dec 2025
Dosa Cafe LU1 2LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 mAwaiting inspection
Esda Local LU3 1TRRetailers - other350 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Aug 2025
Foodie LU3 1TRMobile caterer350 mAwaiting inspection
HCL @ Icknield High School LU3 2AHSchool/college/university360 m4 Good26 Jun 2025
Saints Superstore LU3 1QWRetailers - other370 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jan 2025
H & H Ices LU3 1QRMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Apr 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.

110 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Anti-social behaviour25
Shoplifting13
Criminal damage and arson12
Vehicle crime7
Drugs7
Other theft4
Burglary3
Public order3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Galliard Close (27); On or near Tintagel Close (17); On or near Petrol Station (16); On or near Nunnery Lane (9); On or near Carol Close (9).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 503 residents in 128 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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

Reeves Avenue · Austin Road · Carol Close · Moat Lane · Nunnery Lane · Fallowfield · Lucerne Way · Ellerdine Close · Tintagel Close · Galliard Close · St Ethelbert Avenue · Trinity Close

All the streets in LU3 and across Luton.

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.