Quickthorns Oadby

16 addresses across 1 postcode (LE2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29200811.

25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £980,000 across 1 sale. 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 3, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Oadby and Wigston costs £2,407 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Leicester, about 4.3 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, University of Leicester Botanic Garden, is about 900 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 106 to 110 m above sea level. The nearest GP surgery is The Central Surgery, about 850 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km. About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 29 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£980,000£980,000£980,000
20201£600,000£600,000£600,000
20181£640,000£640,000£640,000
20151£450,000£450,000£450,000
20121£500,000£500,000£500,000
20101£475,000£475,000£475,000
20091£290,000£290,000£290,000
20061£385,000£385,000£385,000
20031£460,000£460,000£460,000
20021£330,000£330,000£330,000
19981£188,000£188,000£188,000
199712£210,000£187,000£241,000
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Oct 202514 LE2 4EEDetached£980,000
18 Feb 20252 LE2 4EEOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Oct 20243 LE2 4EEDetached£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 20209 LE2 4EEDetached£600,000
26 Oct 201810 LE2 4EEDetached£640,000
9 Oct 20154 LE2 4EEDetached£450,000
19 Oct 201210 LE2 4EEDetached£500,000
9 Jul 20108 LE2 4EEDetached£475,000
20 Apr 20096 LE2 4EEDetached£290,000
25 May 200613 LE2 4EEDetached£385,000
14 Jul 20033 LE2 4EEDetached£460,000
10 Jul 20029 LE2 4EEDetached£330,000
15 May 19987 LE2 4EEDetached£188,000New build.
28 Nov 199711 LE2 4EEDetached£240,000New build.
28 Nov 19979 LE2 4EEDetached£208,000New build.
28 Nov 19975 LE2 4EEDetached£207,000New build.
28 Nov 19976 LE2 4EEDetached£192,000New build.
3 Oct 199713 LE2 4EEDetached£187,000New build.
22 Aug 199710 LE2 4EEDetached£237,000New build.
22 Aug 19973 LE2 4EEDetached£225,000New build.
13 Jun 199712 LE2 4EEDetached£210,000New build.
30 May 199714 LE2 4EEDetached£237,000New build.
30 May 19974 LE2 4EEDetached£210,000New build.
30 May 19978 LE2 4EEDetached£210,000New build.
6 Jan 199716 LE2 4EEDetached£241,000New 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 January 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 216 m². Most common: House, detached (11). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 2003-2006 (1); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oadby and Wigston in 2026-27: Band D £2,407 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,872£2,139£2,407£2,942£3,477£4,011£4,814

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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 16 addresses are between 106 m and 110 m above sea level (108 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
LE2 4EE100%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 stationsLeicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–259.4 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 22 within 800 m; nearest Cranbourne Gardens Oadby230 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester4.9 km
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station4.1 km
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA30.2 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Central Surgery850 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Vision Pharmacy440 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Manor Dental Centre200 m
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital1.9 km
Police stationSouth Leicester Police2.6 km
Cash machinesATM1.7 km

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 gardenUniversity of Leicester Botanic Garden 6.7 ha900 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 270 m²630 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5.3 ha250 m
AllotmentsBrabazon Road Allotments 2,830 m²910 m

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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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: 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.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Launde Primary SchoolPrimary4–11740 m Report card (Apr 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
Brookside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km No published inspection
Langmoor Primary School OadbyPrimary4–111.3 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Judgemeadow Community CollegeSecondary11–161.9 km Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Linden Primary SchoolPrimary3–112.0 km No published inspection
Gartree High SchoolSecondary11–162.0 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 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
Aigburth RH LE2 2LLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m5 Very good21 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs3
Burglary1
Public order1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Quickthorns (21); On or near Holly Court (3); On or near Hawthorn Grove (2); On or near Blackthorn Lane (2); On or near Eglantine Close (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: 436 residents in 134 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 age3940
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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

Blackthorn Lane · Hawthorn Grove · Southmeads Road · Blackthorn Lane · Holly Court · Eglantine Close · Manor Road · Dogwood Court · Wych Elm Road · Manor Close · Hornbeam Close · Woodfield Road

All the streets in LE2 and across Oadby and Wigston.

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.