Newbold Road Luton

6 addresses across 5 postcodes (LU3), about 320 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 24000903.

  • 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 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 200 m away, and Great Bramingham Park (7.8 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 115 to 122 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barton Hills Medical Group, about 330 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 68 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 2,010 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 3 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 18 August 2026: HUTCHISON 3G LTD, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 10 at medium risk and 37 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 47 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 8 low and 0 very low.

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 3XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU3 2BUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 4 / 6 unlikely
LU3 3XEnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 12 unlikely
LU3 3XGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LU3 4BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 18 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 6 addresses are between 115 m and 122 m above sea level (119 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
LU3 2BU100%100%100%0%
LU3 3XB100%100%100%0%
LU3 3XE100%100%100%0%
LU3 3XG100%100%100%0%
LU3 4BG100%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 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grasmere Avenue Runfold210 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksParking available near Luton Airport1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN6.6 km (4.1 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barton Hills Medical Group330 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Britannia Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramingham Dental Clinic330 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Luton Cashzone570 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Great Bramingham Park 7.8 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²230 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4.3 ha1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dray's Ditches See also BEDFORDSHIRE 1Scheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's BankScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Bramingham WoodWood520 m (0.3 miles) west
Valentine PondLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bramingham WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Great Bramingham WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Warden HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Smithcombe ValleyValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) north

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5920
Under 5526

4 of the street's 6 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
Grasmere Nursery SchoolNursery3–5320 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary4–7600 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warden Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Icknield High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Waulud Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
William Austin Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Bright Horizons Bramingham Day Nursery and Preschool LU3 4BGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Grasmere Nursery LU3 2BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
The Brim and Crown LU3 4ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Brim and Crown LU3 4ABPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Sainsbury's LU3 4ABRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets250 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
J Sainsbury Service Station LU3 4ABRetailers - other250 m5 Very good3 Oct 2017
Costa Coffee LU3 4ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Jolly Milliner LU3 2BXPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Maz Does Cakes LU3 4AFRetailers - other300 m5 Very good26 May 2026
Whitehorse Vale Stores LU3 4ADRetailers - other310 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Aug 2025
Bramingham Primary School LU3 4BLSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good1 Apr 2025
Learning Land Preschool LU3 4BLSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good17 Sep 2018
Friends of the Elderly LU3 3XFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
ARTS CONVENIENCE STORE LU3 3XFRetailers - other350 mAwaiting inspection
Widecombe Nursing Home LU3 2DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jun 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.

68 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order9
Vehicle crime7
Other theft4
Robbery3
Other crime3
Burglary2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Marsom Grove (13); On or near Spayne Close (10); On or near Stoneleigh Close (9); On or near Lucas Gardens (7); On or near Sharples Green (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,491 residents in 675 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 age4540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%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 qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 8 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: VIRGIN MEDIA: Utility asset works, 15 October 2026 to 20 October 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.

  • LU3 3XB: 2 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • LU3 2BU: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • LU3 3XE: 1 address of 35 in the postcode
  • LU3 3XG: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • LU3 4BG: 1 address of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wootton Close · Stoneleigh Close · Lucas Gardens · Icknield Way · Sharples Green · Spayne Close · Hardwick Green · Marsom Grove · Icknield Way · Sorrel Close · Sorrell Close · Grasmere Avenue

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.