Queen's Drive Oswaldtwistle, Hyndburn

30 addresses across 3 postcodes (BB5), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17900532.

  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 2, D: 8, E: 3).
  • 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 C; Band D in Hyndburn costs £2,466 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Church and Oswaldtwistle, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rhyddings Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 182 to 187 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Higher Heys Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 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 dates from May 2011 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 82 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (10); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (12); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hyndburn in 2026-27: Band D £2,466 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,192£2,466£3,014£3,562£4,110£4,932

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (65% of about 650 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 24 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency 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 2 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
BB5 3ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB5 3ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BB5 3BEnot 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 30 addresses are between 182 m and 187 m above sea level (185 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
BB5 3AR100%100%100%0%
BB5 3AS100%100%100%0%
BB5 3BE100%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 stationsChurch and Oswaldtwistle 59,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Accrington 504,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Rishton 41,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadfield Terrace170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Accrington1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksPlantation St Parking2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station840 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN44.1 km (27 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Higher Heys Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist820 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery930 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalAccrington Victoria Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationHyndburn Police Cadets1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pantry Convenience Store Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rhyddings Park 5.1 ha110 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,860 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,770 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,740 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oswaldtwistle War Memorial, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oswaldtwistle War MemorialListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basinScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hoyle BottomValley920 m (0.6 miles) south
The OrchardWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Rothwell HeightsHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Priestley CloughValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Aspen ValleyValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Warmwithens ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south

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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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 6410
55 to 5930
Under 552630

4 of the street's 30 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 Hyndburn: see them on the Hyndburn 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
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistlePrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
RhyddingsSecondary11–16610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnSecondary11–16680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11750 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Fairfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–5770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, AccringtonPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Needs attention; 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
Hexagon Care @ Hawthorn Avenue BB5 3APHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Stop & Rest BB5 3BEPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
Coach House @ Rhyddings Park BB5 3AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m4 Good3 Jul 2026
St Marys RC Primary School BB5 3AASchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2025
Star East BB5 3EUTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Mar 2026
Vape Esylum BB5 3EURetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour13
Vehicle crime12
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fielding Lane (11); On or near Melrose Avenue (10); On or near Acorn Avenue (8); On or near Edinburgh Drive (5); On or near Laburnum Drive (5).

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: 542 residents in 248 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 age5540
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%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)32%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 23 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • BB5 3AS: 28 addresses
  • BB5 3AR: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • BB5 3BE: 1 address of 63 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Somerset Close · Edinburgh Drive · Durham Drive · The Meadows · Hawthorn Avenue · Yew Tree Drive · Broadfield Street · Fielding Lane · Fielding Lane · Broadfield Street · Broadfield Street · Maple Drive

All the streets in BB5 and across Hyndburn.

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.