Sandycroft Preston

36 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR2), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30704173.

  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (B: 34).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • 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 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Grange Park (25 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr A Hussain, about 210 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 85 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 March 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (28); House, mid-terrace (5); House, detached (1). Built: 2021 (34). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34).

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.

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£1,717£2,003£2,290£2,576£3,148£3,721£4,293£5,151

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (40% of about 800 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.

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street 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.

© 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 36 addresses are between 53 m and 55 m above sea level (54 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
PR2 6FT100%100%100%0%
PR2 6FX100%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 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandycroft Ribbleton90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksPreston Park and Ride Junction 31a2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL50.3 km (31 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr A Hussain210 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miller Road Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalRamsay Fulwood Hall Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationFulwood Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moor Nook Convenience Store, Ribbleton410 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,810 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Grange Park 25 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ribbleton Park 7.4 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,560 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 38 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Preston Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 560 m (0.3 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Preston CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II560 m (0.3 miles) south
Moor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brockholes WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Boilton WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Brockholes QuarryLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Pool PlatTidal water2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Frenchwood KnollHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Grimsargh WetlandsWetland4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
Under 553636

None of the street's 36 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–11270 m Report card (Mar 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Moor Nook Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Preston Greenlands Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) 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
Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Fishwick Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, 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
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Preston Grange Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ribbleton Avenue Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Matthew's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Top Bistro PR2 6FYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good22 Oct 2026
Preston Glades Limited PR2 6NHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Carlitos Pizza PR2 6NHTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good19 Feb 2025
Heron Foods PR2 6NHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Blessed Sacrament RCP School PR2 6LXSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Breakfast Club PR2 6LXSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good14 May 2024
Blessed Sacrament After School PR2 6LXOther catering premises380 m5 Very good13 Jul 2023
Metro PR2 6QNRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory10 Feb 2026
Go Local Extra PR2 6QNRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Cuffs - Ice Cream Van stp29 PR2 6QNMobile caterer400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Cuffs Ice Cream Shop PR2 6QNRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2024
Bite Size Chefs PR2 6EEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 May 2026
Moor Nook Chippy PR2 6JNTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Pope Lane Deli PR2 6JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 May 2026
Moor Nook Express Shop PR2 6JNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory6 Oct 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.

85 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences39
Anti-social behaviour20
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime4
Public order3
Other theft3
Possession of weapons3
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sandycroft (45); On or near Braefield Crescent (12); On or near Sawley Crescent (11); On or near Grizedale Close (9); On or near Thornfield Avenue (5).

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: 384 residents in 144 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 age3540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)22%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

Sandycroft · Braefield Crescent · May Grove · Oren Close · Farringdon Lane · Ellery Avenue · Thornfield Avenue · Sawley Crescent · Grizedale Close · Village Drive · Moorside Avenue · Village Drive

All the streets in PR2 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.