Reynes Drive Oakley, Bedford

55 addresses across 6 postcodes (MK43), about 490 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 27300150.

  • Sales: 72 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £322,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026 (+1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,177 a month.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 13, E: 5).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Oakley Primary Academy, Station Road - Solar Panels & ASHP, is 390 m away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 38% to 98% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedford, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 55 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Priory Medical Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,200 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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£322,500£322,500£322,500
20242£417,500£320,000£515,000
20231£325,000£325,000£325,000
20221£446,000£446,000£446,000
20203£260,000£255,000£272,500
20192£285,000£270,000£300,000
20181£255,000£255,000£255,000
20171£410,000£410,000£410,000
20163£289,950£240,000£317,000
20151£225,000£225,000£225,000
20133£185,000£184,000£265,000
20123£270,000£205,000£276,000
All 72 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Aug 20171 MK43 7SADetached£410,000
6 Jul 20161 MK43 7SADetached£317,000
5 Feb 20163 MK43 7SADetached£289,950
11 Nov 20226 MK43 7SADetached£446,000
13 Dec 20127 MK43 7SBDetached£276,000
4 Apr 20018 MK43 7SADetached£160,000
18 Oct 202411 MK43 7SBDetached£515,000
2 Sep 201111 MK43 7SBDetached£236,500
24 Aug 200111 MK43 7SBDetached£142,000
11 Nov 201014 MK43 7SADetached£329,950
14 Feb 199714 MK43 7SADetached£140,000
28 May 200415 MK43 7SDSemi-detached£175,000
10 Dec 201216 MK43 7SDDetached£270,000
5 Jul 201117 MK43 7SDSemi-detached£172,500
22 Dec 201122 MK43 7SDDetached£170,000
26 Nov 200423 MK43 7SDDetached£170,000
6 Dec 201224 MK43 7SLTerraced£205,000
25 Sep 200024 MK43 7SLTerraced£104,000
19 Aug 201625 MK43 7SDSemi-detached£240,000
25 Oct 200125 MK43 7SDSemi-detached£100,000
27 Feb 199825 MK43 7SDSemi-detached£75,000
13 Jun 202426 MK43 7SLTerraced£320,000
10 Jul 202026 MK43 7SLTerraced£260,000
18 Mar 201526 MK43 7SLTerraced£225,000
25 Aug 200526 MK43 7SLTerraced£184,000
12 Sep 200326 MK43 7SLTerraced£157,000
26 May 200026 MK43 7SLTerraced£95,250
22 Dec 199826 MK43 7SLTerraced£78,500
7 Feb 202028 MK43 7SLTerraced£272,500
25 Jun 199928 MK43 7SLTerraced£78,000
9 May 199728 MK43 7SLTerraced£67,000
1 Aug 200330 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£176,300
10 Sep 200230 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£155,000
3 Aug 200130 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£115,000
1 Nov 199630 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£68,500
11 Dec 199833 MK43 7SDTerraced£71,500
30 Jan 199633 MK43 7SDTerraced£47,000
27 Mar 201335 MK43 7SDTerraced£184,000
13 Jul 199835 MK43 7SDTerraced£73,950
10 Apr 199737 MK43 7SDTerraced£64,000
22 Dec 199537 MK43 7SDTerraced£52,000
18 Jan 201338 MK43 7SNDetached£265,000
18 Oct 200038 MK43 7SNDetached£155,500
31 Oct 199738 MK43 7SNDetached£95,950
17 Jun 199638 MK43 7SNDetached£80,000
23 Nov 200739 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£210,000
11 Dec 200940 MK43 7SNDetached£248,000
3 May 200240 MK43 7SNDetached£166,500
25 Aug 199540 MK43 7SNDetached£79,000
6 Nov 201343 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£185,000
29 Jul 200543 MK43 7SLTerraced£171,000
27 Mar 200243 MK43 7SLTerraced£110,000
12 Jul 201945 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£300,000
1 Sep 200445 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£164,000
28 May 200445 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£120,000
12 Dec 200045 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£94,000
17 Jun 199645 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£59,995
24 Jan 202547 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£322,500
21 May 200249 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£125,000
13 Jul 202353 MK43 7SLTerraced£325,000
30 Jun 202053 MK43 7SLTerraced£255,000
12 Apr 201957 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£270,000
27 Oct 200657 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£190,000
10 Feb 199557 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£57,750
2 Aug 201861 MK43 7SLTerraced£255,000
2 Mar 200161 MK43 7SLTerraced£99,000
28 Oct 199661 MK43 7SLTerraced£59,995
19 May 200863 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£210,000
19 Feb 199963 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£89,000
8 May 199863 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£85,000
20 Sep 199663 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£52,500
18 Jun 199865 MK43 7SLSemi-detached£82,500

House prices and rents in Bedford

A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026, 1.1% more than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 36% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£557,923
Semi-detached£348,256
Terraced£278,279
Flat or maisonette£159,840
Bought by a first-time buyer£273,305

Private renters in Bedford paid £1,177 a month on average in September 2026, 2.5% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£802
Two bedrooms£1,032
Three bedrooms£1,265
Four or more bedrooms£1,812

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); House, detached (11); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (25); 1950-1966 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,329 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% more than the district's 11,596 kWh, and 3,886 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
MK43 7SL18 5 Economy 73,542 kWh 189,319 kWh
MK43 7SD162,497 kWh 159,816 kWh
MK43 7SA91,795 kWh 913,098 kWh
MK43 7SB52,320 kWh 510,689 kWh
MK43 7SN53,035 kWh 515,047 kWh
MK43 7RG38 7 Economy 73,078 kWh 4217,684 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is MK43.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bedford in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,922£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,943

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,030 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: 1.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Oakley Primary Academy, Station Road - Solar Panels & ASHP Bedford 22/02104/FUL Solar farm 1.6 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2023 390 m
Thurleigh Road - Battery Energy Storage Bedford 23/01139/MAF Battery storage 69 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2024 1.5 km (1 mile)
Twinwoods Heat & Power CHP Bedford 08/02465/COM Energy from waste (incinerator) 3.4 MW Operational Jun 2016 3.1 km (1.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
MK43 7SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
MK43 7SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
MK43 7SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK43 7SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK43 7SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK43 7RGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (4); 1 to 3% (3).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 55 addresses are between 44 m and 48 m above sea level (45 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
MK43 7RG100%98%98%0%
MK43 7SA100%44%44%0%
MK43 7SB100%60%60%0%
MK43 7SD100%38%38%0%
MK43 7SL100%44%44%0%
MK43 7SN100%40%40%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 stationsBedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Kempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queens Close Oakley150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford5.2 km (3.3 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN34.8 km (22 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Priory Medical Centre Good Jun 20261.4 km (0.9 miles)
PharmaciesBromham Pharmacy2.2 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Care Centre2.5 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital Good Mar 20196 km (3.7 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Creative Support - High Street Requires improvement Jun 2020240 m
Police stationBedford Police Station5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2.5 km (1.5 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 gardenUnnamed 1.8 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²50 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha50 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,210 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oakley House, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oakley HouseListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) south
Oakley churchyard crossScheduled monument700 m (0.4 miles) south
Oakley BridgeScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) south
Enclosures E of East End FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Gardens of Westfield HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fox CovertWood830 m (0.5 miles) west
Judge's SpinneyWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Bromham PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Mushroom HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Dick's IslandIsland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Bromham LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east

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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
55 to 5930
Under 555255

3 of the street's 55 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 Bedford: see them on the Bedford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Oakley Primary AcademyPrimary4–11360 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Lincroft AcademySecondary11–16420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.4 (45.0 in 2025 and 51.4 in 2024); 55.7% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Oakley Kindergarten MK43 7RQ Full day care 40 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 300 m

Ofsted also registers 95 childminders and 17 home childcarers (nannies) in Bedford. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Oakley Post Office & Newsagents MK43 7RHRetailers - other140 m5 Very good12 Feb 2018
Oakley Kindergarten MK43 7RQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
The Bedford Arms MK43 7RHPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
O For Coffee MK43 7RBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good2 Jun 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Possession of weapons2
Burglary1
Other theft1
Anti-social behaviour1
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lincroft (6); On or near Queens Close (3); On or near Dewlands (3); On or near Grenidge Way (3); On or near High Street (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 Mar 2025 12:40 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,198 residents in 466 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 age4540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)44%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

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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.

  • MK43 7SL: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • MK43 7SD: 16 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • MK43 7SA: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • MK43 7SB: 5 addresses
  • MK43 7SN: 5 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • MK43 7RG: 1 address of 58 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Burleigh Place · Grenidge Way · Farsands · Bevery Close · Copthorne Close · High Street · Queens Close · Hunts Path · Brockwell · High Street · Dewlands · Grange Close

All the streets in MK43 and across Bedford.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.