Princess Close Flitwick, Central Bedfordshire

21 addresses across 1 postcode (MK45), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25202578.

33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale. 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13). 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises. The nearest railway station is Flitwick, about 310 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 1.4 km away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 72 to 75 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Flitwick Surgery, about 240 m away. About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 27 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£375,000£375,000£375,000
20241£395,000£395,000£395,000
20231£420,000£420,000£420,000
20211£239,400£239,400£239,400
20191£272,500£272,500£272,500
20183£229,000£227,000£294,000
20171£345,000£345,000£345,000
20162£260,000£190,000£330,000
20151£249,000£249,000£249,000
20142£239,000£228,000£250,000
20121£230,000£230,000£230,000
20084£200,000£150,000£245,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Jun 202514 MK45 1FHDetached£375,000
17 Oct 202416 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£395,000
15 Dec 20232 MK45 1FHDetached£420,000
10 Sep 202111 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£239,400Leasehold.
26 Mar 20196 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£272,500
14 Dec 20189 MK45 1FHTerraced£229,000
29 Nov 20185 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£294,000
15 Mar 20187 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£227,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 201716 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£345,000
21 Sep 20163 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£330,000
20 Jan 201618 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
30 Jan 201510 MK45 1FHTerraced£249,000
22 Dec 20145 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£228,000
15 Apr 20142 MK45 1FHDetached£250,000
30 Nov 201214 MK45 1FHDetached£230,000
14 Aug 200811 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£163,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Apr 20083 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£237,000New build.
20 Mar 200816 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£245,000
5 Mar 200818 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 20074 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£246,000New build.
20 Dec 20077 MK45 1FHFlat or maisonette£175,000New build. Leasehold.
14 Dec 20071 MK45 1FHDetached£325,000
10 Dec 20078 MK45 1FHTerraced£190,000New build.
30 Nov 200717 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£250,000
27 Nov 20075 MK45 1FHDetached£210,000New build.
26 Nov 200710 MK45 1FHTerraced£235,000
23 Nov 200713 MK45 1FHDetached£250,000New build.
15 Nov 20076 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£200,000New build.
6 Nov 20079 MK45 1FHTerraced£175,000New build.
11 Oct 200712 MK45 1FHTerraced£210,000
14 Sep 200714 MK45 1FHSemi-detached£215,000New build.
4 Sep 200715 MK45 1FHDetached£220,000
17 Jul 20072 MK45 1FHTerraced£250,000New 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 July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 2007-2011 (10); 2007 onwards (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 720 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 1.0 km

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 21 addresses are between 72 m and 75 m above sea level (74 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
MK45 1FH100%0%0%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 stationsFlitwick 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25310 m
Harlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km
Millbrook (Bedfordshire) 9,280 journeys in 2024–256.3 km
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m, 37 within 800 m; nearest Flitwick Bowls Club110 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Interchange Flitwick360 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN16.6 km

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; nearest Flitwick Surgery240 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest The Highlands Pharmacy LTD280 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Flitwick Dental Group230 m
HospitalSteppingley Hospital1.8 km
Police stationBedforshire Police Authority11.4 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Flitwick, Flitwick Cashzone370 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 gardenUnnamed 2.7 ha1.4 km
Play area8 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 540 m²220 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha440 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Council Allotment 1.1 ha230 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Mount: a motte and bailey castle, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km south-west. 10 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Mount: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.2 km south-west
Flitwick ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km south-west
Moated site at Ruxox FarmScheduled monument1.5 km north-east
The AlamedaRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Flitwick MoorWood1.1 km east
Flitwick WoodWood1.4 km west
Priestleymoor PlantationWood1.7 km south-west
Ash SpinneyWood1.8 km north-west
Cooper's HillHill2.9 km north
Westminster PondLake or reservoir3.6 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 552121

None of the street's 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Kingsmoor Lower SchoolPrimary2–9170 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Flitwick Lower SchoolPrimary2–9570 m No published inspection
Templefield Lower SchoolPrimary2–9700 m No published inspection
Woodland Middle School AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–13740 m No published inspection
Redborne Upper School and Community CollegeSecondary13–181.8 km Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenfield CofE VC Lower School Church of EnglandPrimary2–91.8 km Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Ferndale Older Persons Home MK45 1HBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Flitwick Bowls Club MK45 1EDPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
China Inn Chinese Takeaway MK45 1EDTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Kings Cafe MK45 1EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Kingsmoor Lower School MK45 1EYSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good25 Sep 2024
Dawn Until Dusk Ltd MK45 1EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Sporty Scholars MK45 1EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Merry Poppets Nursery MK45 1BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
The Cottage Bakery Ltd MK45 1DPRetailers - other230 m5 Very good27 Dec 2025
Flitwick Sandwich Bar MK45 1DPTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Pearl of Bengal MK45 1DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good18 Dec 2024
Flitwick Breakfast & Cafe MK45 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Olive Naturally Indian MK45 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 mAwaiting inspection
Felicity's Chinese Restaurant MK45 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good20 Nov 2025
Costa Coffee MK45 1DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good9 Jan 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order3
Other theft2
Shoplifting1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Avenue (11); On or near Parking Area (10); On or near Princess Close (2); On or near Station Road (1); On or near Easton Road (1).

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: 408 residents in 152 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)32%65%
Work 30 km or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Kingsmoor Close · Easton Road · Station Road · Easton Close · Avenue Mews · Station Road · The Avenue · Hatfield Close · The Rowans · Beech Road · Hollybush Road · Queens Close

All the streets in MK45 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.