Queen Street Preston

23 addresses across 5 postcodes (PR1), about 450 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 30700093.

  • 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 A; Band D in Preston costs £2,576 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, and Avenham Park (19 hectares) is about 590 m (0.4 miles) 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 39 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Avenham Surgery, about 380 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 12% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 397 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 (91% of about 1,100 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 October 2026 to 14 October 2026: SP Electricity North West, Utility repair and maintenance works, stop/go boards, on the verge (standard 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 20 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 4HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR1 4HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR1 4HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 20 unlikely
PR1 4HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR1 3DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 24 addresses are between 39 m and 41 m above sea level (40 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 3DB100%100%100%0%
PR1 4HH100%100%100%0%
PR1 4HL100%100%100%0%
PR1 4HP100%100%100%0%
PR1 4HZ100%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 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cardinal Newman College Frenchwood220 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Preston City Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Manchester Road Prebook Car Park240 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL48.3 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 Surgery380 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Frenchwood Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redbridge Associates Limited (Smart Dental Care)300 m
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Preston Customer Service Reception650 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sids Convenience Store270 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,070 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Avenham Park 19 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 960 m²300 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smith's Recreation Ground 8,960 m²290 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Arkwright House, a listed building (Grade II*), 390 m west. 227 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Arkwright HouseListed building, Grade II*390 m west
Church of St John the DivineListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) west
The Old Bull, including nos. 141 and 142 Church StreetListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) west
Harris Public Library, Museum and Art GalleryListed building, Grade I610 m (0.4 miles) west
Avenham WalkRegistered park or garden, Grade II800 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Avenham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery LaneScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Penwortham Old BridgeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Frenchwood KnollHill540 m (0.3 miles) south
Deepdale EnclosureWood600 m (0.4 miles) north
Pool PlatTidal water1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Throslock WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Bull NoseWetland4.1 km (2.6 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
70 to 7430
65 to 6930
60 to 6450
55 to 5960
Under 55623

17 of the street's 23 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 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
Cardinal Newman College Roman Catholic16 plus16–99190 m No published inspection
Lancaster University School of Mathematics16 plus16–19270 m No published inspection
Eden Boys' School, Preston MuslimSecondary11–18300 m No published inspection
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary5–11370 m 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
Stoneygate Nursery SchoolNursery2–4460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Frenchwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 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 CatholicPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ The King Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16910 m (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
Preston Muslim Girls High SchoolSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 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
St Matthew's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Deepdale Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 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 Range PR1 4HZRetailers - other70 mExempt
Costa Coffee PR1 4HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Home Bargains PR1 4HZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good3 Apr 2023
Aldi Stores Limited PR1 4HZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good18 Nov 2024
The Food Warehouse PR1 4HZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Aramark @ Terrace Cafe PR1 4HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Aramark @ Costa Pod PR1 4HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Aramark @ The Hole in the Wall / The Chicken Shack PR1 4HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Aramark @ The Deli PR1 4HDRetailers - other180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Aramark @ Pranzo Pizza PR1 4HDTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Aramark @ Starbucks PR1 4HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Sabaa Steakhouse PR1 4HLTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Grams PR1 4HLTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Grand Occasions PR1 4BBOther catering premises240 m5 Very good12 May 2025
KDs Kitchen PR1 4BBTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good15 Apr 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.

397 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences118
Shoplifting108
Anti-social behaviour66
Other crime20
Public order19
Criminal damage and arson15
Drugs13
Other theft12
Robbery7
Burglary6
Vehicle crime5
Possession of weapons5
Bicycle theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stanley Street (104); On or near Shopping Area (86); On or near Supermarket (85); On or near Floyer Street (19); On or near Walker Place (14).

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: 576 residents in 309 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 age3440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)12%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

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.

  • PR1 4HZ: 16 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • PR1 4HH: 2 addresses
  • PR1 4HL: 2 addresses of 77 in the postcode
  • PR1 4HP: 2 addresses of 63 in the postcode
  • PR1 3DB: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Albyn Bank Road · Ashworth Street · Greenwood Street · Floyer Street · Duke Street · Grimshaw Street · Walker Place · Richmond Street · Carr Street · Larkhill Street · Grosvenor Street · Princess Street

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.