Moor Platt Caton, Lancaster

32 addresses across 1 postcode (LA2), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19709999.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £325,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 28, C: 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 C; Band D in Lancaster costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lancaster, about 6.6 km (4.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bull Beck Picnic Site, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lancaster Medical Practice, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 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
20251£325,000£325,000£325,000
20241£285,000£285,000£285,000
20231£280,000£280,000£280,000
20221£350,000£350,000£350,000
20211£225,000£225,000£225,000
20203£225,000£95,000£229,950
20192£240,250£212,500£268,000
20182£243,750£232,500£255,000
20171£317,500£317,500£317,500
20152£200,998£194,995£207,000
201420£214,995£194,995£274,995
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Aug 20254 LA2 9BFDetached£325,000
12 Jul 20247 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£285,000
7 Dec 202314 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£280,000
21 Feb 202330 LA2 9BFTerraced£86,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 202210 LA2 9BFDetached£350,000
2 Jun 202114 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£225,000
16 Dec 20209 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£229,950
6 Nov 202028 LA2 9BFTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 20209 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£225,000
21 Oct 20197 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£212,500
5 Jul 20196 LA2 9BFDetached£268,000
21 Jun 201821 LA2 9BFDetached£255,000
21 Jun 20188 LA2 9BFDetached£232,500
9 Nov 201712 LA2 9BFDetached£317,500
11 Jun 20155 LA2 9BFDetached£207,000
27 Feb 201530 LA2 9BFTerraced£107,717New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Feb 201526 LA2 9BFTerraced£107,716New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Feb 201528 LA2 9BFTerraced£107,716New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Feb 20159 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£194,995New build.
19 Dec 201424 LA2 9BFDetached£214,995New build.
19 Dec 201422 LA2 9BFDetached£214,995New build.
19 Dec 201421 LA2 9BFDetached£212,995New build.
19 Dec 201415 LA2 9BFDetached£208,995New build.
17 Dec 201413 LA2 9BFDetached£259,995New build.
17 Dec 201411 LA2 9BFDetached£236,995New build.
17 Dec 20147 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£194,995New build.
17 Dec 201419 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£105,858New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Dec 201417 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£105,858New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Dec 201420 LA2 9BFDetached£259,995New build.
26 Nov 201418 LA2 9BFDetached£264,995New build.
26 Nov 201414 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£194,995New build.
4 Nov 201416 LA2 9BFSemi-detached£196,995New build.
10 Oct 201412 LA2 9BFDetached£259,995New build.
26 Sep 20146 LA2 9BFDetached£236,995New build.
26 Sep 20148 LA2 9BFDetached£203,995New build.
25 Sep 201410 LA2 9BFDetached£224,995New build.
22 Sep 20144 LA2 9BFDetached£205,995New build.
19 Sep 20142 LA2 9BFDetached£274,995New build.
27 Jun 20141 LA2 9BFDetached£274,995New build.
24 Jun 20143 LA2 9BFDetached£208,995New build.
16 Jun 20145 LA2 9BFDetached£210,995New build.

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

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, detached (17); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2014 (26); 2012 onwards (2); 2012 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (31).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lancaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,616£4,172£5,006

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (39% of about 800 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: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 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 32 addresses are between 24 m and 26 m above sea level (25 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
LA2 9BF100%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 stationsLancaster 2.2 million journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Carnforth 196,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Hotel Caton110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal13.5 km (8.4 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA73.3 km (46 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 surgeriesLancaster Medical Practice6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caton Pharmacy120 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caton Dental Practice120 m
HospitalRidge Lea Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationLancaster Constabulary6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Caton, Caton90 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 gardenBull Beck Picnic Site 7,260 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha150 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,060 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower Cliff WoodWood850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Higher Cliff WoodWood910 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Crook o' LuneLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) west
Boat WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Potts HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Otter Geer CloughValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south

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)3.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)7.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 6420
55 to 5950
Under 552432

8 of the street's 32 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 Lancaster: see them on the Lancaster 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
Caton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Caton St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 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: Expected 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
The Old Post Office Cafe LA2 9QWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
The Co-operative LA2 9QWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m4 Good9 Sep 2026
Caton Phamacy LA2 9QWRetailers - other140 mAwaiting inspection
Taylor's Treats LA2 9QSRetailers - other150 m5 Very good6 Aug 2026
The Station Hotel LA2 9QSPub/bar/nightclub200 m4 Good29 Apr 2025
Amanda's Big Baps Denny Beck Layby Mobile caterer410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jun 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order1
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (7); On or near Petrol Station (5); On or near Farriers Yard (2); On or near Station Road (2); On or near Greenfields (2).

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: 342 residents in 166 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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

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.

  • LA2 9BF: 32 addresses of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Station Road · Ashcroft Close · Lancaster Road · The Croft · Copy Lane · Greenfields · Hall Close · Hall Drive · Langdale · Artlebeck Grove · Artlebeck Road · Fell View

All the streets in LA2 and across Lancaster.

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.