Park Place Preston

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30701435.

  • Flood: 23 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 A; Band D in Preston costs £2,576 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 61% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 610 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Winckley Square, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 3 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Avenham Surgery, about 330 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,144 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 Preston in 2026-27: Band D £2,576 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,717£2,003£2,290£2,576£3,148£3,721£4,293£5,151

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (72% of about 3,040 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 2 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: yes, Winckley Square Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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, 19 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 4 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
PR1 3LSnot in 2 or 3 11 / 1 / 0 unlikely
PR1 3LTnot in 2 or 3 8 / 3 / 4 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 3 addresses are between 28 m and 30 m above sea level (29 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
PR1 3LS100%61%61%0%
PR1 3LT100%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 stationsPreston (Lancs) 5.4 million journeys in 2024–25610 m (0.4 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterstones Preston City Centre140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre390 m
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rose Street Car Park300 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL48 km (30 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 Avenham Surgery330 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots140 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery550 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Preston Customer Service Reception330 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 111 Fishergate Halifax210 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winckley Square 1.5 ha160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Avenham Park 19 ha330 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Frenchwood Recreation Ground 7.1 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Old Bull, including nos. 141 and 142 Church Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m north-east. 267 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Old Bull, including nos. 141 and 142 Church StreetListed building, Grade II*200 m north-east
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art GalleryListed building, Grade I240 m north
Church of St John the DivineListed building, Grade II*250 m north-east
Harris InstituteListed building, Grade II*250 m south
Avenham WalkRegistered park or garden, Grade II350 m south
Avenham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) south
Penwortham Old BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery LaneScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Castle Hill motteScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Frenchwood KnollHill750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Deepdale EnclosureWood910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Pool PlatTidal water1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Church WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
The SerpentineLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Bull NoseWetland3.5 km (2.2 miles) 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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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 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 5523

1 of the street's 3 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 Preston: see them on the Preston 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
Stoneygate Nursery SchoolNursery2–4220 m No published inspection
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary5–11500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 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
Cardinal Newman College Roman Catholic16 plus16–99660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Frenchwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lancaster University School of Mathematics16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Stephen's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eden Boys' School, Preston MuslimSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Christ The King Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Preston Muslim Girls High SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (May 2024, 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
Tea House Preston PR1 3NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Ravenous PR1 3NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Thai Orchid PR1 3NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m4 Good14 Nov 2025
Florianas PR1 3LSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good15 Mar 2024
Glovers Bar PR1 3LSPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Mitho Momo PR1 3NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good19 Aug 2025
Wings and Beer PR1 3NTPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Preston Health Foods PR1 3NURetailers - other90 mExempt
Pasal PR1 3NTRetailers - other90 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Detroit PR1 3XBPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good12 Oct 2023
Angelos PR1 3BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Stratos PR1 3BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Boots UK Limited PR1 3NNRetailers - other120 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
LIV Caffe PR1 3NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 mAwaiting inspection
Wingstop PR1 3NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good13 Jan 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.

1,144 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences367
Shoplifting223
Anti-social behaviour213
Public order77
Other theft68
Drugs66
Criminal damage and arson34
Burglary22
Robbery19
Theft from the person17
Bicycle theft14
Other crime13
Vehicle crime6
Possession of weapons5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nightclub (354); On or near Cheapside (118); On or near Anchor Court (85); On or near Boltons Court (85); On or near Winckley Street (78).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 661 residents in 380 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 age2740
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented72%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van30%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Bites N Beyond (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 2LA) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 4 Good (rated 7 October 2026) 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.

  • PR1 3LS: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
  • PR1 3LT: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

New Cock Yard · Cannon Street · Syke Street · Main Sprit Weind · Guildhall Street · Avenham Road · Old Cock Yard · Glover's Court · Glover Street · Cross Street · Avenham Street · Fishergate

All the streets in PR1 and across Preston.

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.