Oliver Place Carnforth, Lancaster

5 addresses across 1 postcode (LA5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19702057.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 1).
  • 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 D; 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 Carnforth, about 350 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ash Trees Surgery, about 190 m away.
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 114 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
20201£130,000£130,000£130,000
20191£140,000£140,000£140,000
20031£95,000£95,000£95,000
20001£58,000£58,000£58,000
19982£54,250£51,000£57,500
19964£46,000£36,840£46,200
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Aug 20203 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£130,000
19 Dec 20191 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£140,000
18 Sep 20035 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£95,000
8 Jun 20001 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£58,000
13 Mar 19981 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£51,000
12 Mar 19985 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£57,500
31 May 19967 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£46,000New build.
18 Apr 19965 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£46,000New build.
15 Mar 19963 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£36,840New build.
9 Feb 19961 LA5 9LYSemi-detached£46,200New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2018 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 60 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1991-1995 (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

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.

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£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 D (24% of about 820 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 5 addresses are between 26 m and 28 m above sea level (27 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
LA5 9LY100%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 stationsCarnforth 196,000 journeys in 2024–25350 m
Silverdale 48,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Scotland Road Carnforth50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre9 km (5.6 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal14.3 km (8.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA78.2 km (49 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ash Trees Surgery190 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots180 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery80 m
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Police stationMorecambe Police Station8.6 km (5.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Carnforth Cashzone230 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,500 m²230 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,290 m²810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Carnforth: the coaling plant, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Carnforth: the coaling plantListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) west
Carnforth: the ash plantListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) west
Carnforth: engine shed and associated facilities including the locomotive turntableListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Warton Old RectoryScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wood Tarn PondLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) west
Hagg WoodWood840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Hunting HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) west
Wheel HoleLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Leapers WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Bowman Stout WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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 5950
Under 5505

5 of the street's 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carnforth Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11280 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Carnforth Roman CatholicPrimary3–11340 m No published inspection
Carnforth High SchoolSecondary11–16500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Warton Archbishop Hutton's VC Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
China Essence LA5 9JYTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m4 Good12 Jun 2025
Carnforth Ex-Servicemans Club LA5 9JYPub/bar/nightclub50 mAwaiting inspection
Hillcroft Nursing Home (Carnforth) LA5 9LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
E.H Booth & Co.Ltd LA5 9JZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Aldi LA5 9JZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Carnforth Town Council LA5 9LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Peking Chinese LA5 9JXTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Aug 2025
Flaming Hot LA5 9JXTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
Greggs LA5 9JXRetailers - other170 m5 Very good8 May 2026
Cafe Edelweiss LA5 9JXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Salvation Army LA5 9BYOther catering premises220 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Christ Church Primary School LA5 9LJSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
The Co-operative LA5 9JURetailers - other230 m5 Very good8 Aug 2025
Carnforth Hotel LA5 9LDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 mAwaiting inspection
The County Lodge Hotel LA5 9LDPub/bar/nightclub240 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Dec 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

114 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour21
Criminal damage and arson15
Shoplifting10
Other theft9
Burglary5
Public order4
Other crime4
Vehicle crime3
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near John Street (42); On or near Hawk Street (18); On or near Queens Court (15); On or near Pond Terrace (14); On or near Ashtrees Way (11).

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: 349 residents in 168 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 age4140
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented41%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%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 bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%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)24%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • LA5 9LY: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hawk Street · Market Street · Hawk Street · Queens Court · Pond Street · Hunter Street · John Street · Ashtrees Way · Back Hunter Street · Pond Terrace · Back Market Street · Ashtrees Way

All the streets in LA5 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.