Shaw Close Blackburn

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901415.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2006 the median was £47,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (A: 3, B: 1, C: 3, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackburn, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Paul's Gardens, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 112 to 114 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oakenhurst Medical Practice, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 284 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
20061£47,000£47,000£47,000
20051£75,000£75,000£75,000
20001£27,500£27,500£27,500
19951£26,500£26,500£26,500
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jan 20069 BB2 1RBTerraced£47,000
16 Sep 20051 BB2 1RBTerraced£75,000
3 Mar 20001 BB2 1RBTerraced£27,500
5 May 199519 BB2 1RBTerraced£26,500

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 April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 2007-2011 (3); 1976-1982 (3); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); owner-occupied (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (86% of about 720 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 12 addresses are between 112 m and 114 m above sea level (113 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
BB2 1HF100%100%100%0%
BB2 1RB100%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 stationsBlackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 63 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Higson Street Blackburn100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Blackburn Town Centre870 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 7 Mill Lane Parking720 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN46.6 km (29 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oakenhurst Medical Practice420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Johnston Pharmacy60 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ap Smilecare270 m
HospitalThe Beardswood Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Garage Group -preston Way290 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Paul's Gardens 3,270 m²300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Corporation Park 22 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alexandra Meadows 1.7 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Corporation Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 860 m (0.5 miles) north. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) north
Cathedral Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) east
Church of St SilasListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) west
Part of Witton Old Hall medieval lordly residence 340m north east of Feniscliffe BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Queen's Park, BlackburnRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buncer WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Ned Hole WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Higher Gardens PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Ornamental PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Billinge HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Abbott CloughValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) 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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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 5940
Under 55812

4 of the street's 12 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen 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
Ashworth Nursery SchoolNursery3–4130 m Report card (May 2026): 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 Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11140 m Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blackburn College16 plus16–99320 m No published inspection
St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolSecondary11–19550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Elizabeth's Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 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
St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademySecondary11–18660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School MuslimSecondary11–18790 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Silas's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Khan Spice BB2 1HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jul 2025
FIREBIRD BB2 1HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mAwaiting inspection
Yaseen Halal Meat BB2 1HDRetailers - other60 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Sharif And Sons Grocers BB2 1HDRetailers - other70 m4 Good5 Aug 2024
Grillish Peri Peri Chicken and Ribs BB2 1ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024
Johnston Pharmacy BB2 1HDRetailers - other100 mExempt
F S Sweets Ltd BB2 1EHRetailers - other120 m1 Major improvement necessary2 Apr 2025
AJK Fish & Chips BB2 1ESTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Kashmir Food Store BB2 1ESRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Sep 2026
ELCO Superstore BB2 1HFRetailers - other140 m2 Improvement necessary9 Feb 2026
Lazeeza Karahi BB2 1ESTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2026
Charcoal Cuisine BB2 1EHTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Chilli Bowl BB2 1EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m2 Improvement necessary5 Mar 2026
Jabir's Ranch BB2 1EJTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m2 Improvement necessary19 Nov 2025
Hussain Grocers BB2 1EJRetailers - other210 m1 Major improvement necessary27 May 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.

284 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences108
Anti-social behaviour69
Public order19
Criminal damage and arson16
Drugs11
Burglary11
Vehicle crime11
Shoplifting11
Other theft10
Other crime10
Bicycle theft3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oakenhurst Road (41); On or near Heyhurst Road (36); On or near Supermarket (32); On or near Belle Vue Street (15); On or near Ashworth Close (15).

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: 320 residents in 110 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 age3140
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: New service connection, 15 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 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.

  • BB2 1RB: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • BB2 1HF: 1 address of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cutler Close · Barley Close · Cowell Way · Shaw Street · Nab Lane · Addison Close · Whittaker Street · Higson Street · Roney Street · Johnston Street · Montague Street · Johnston Street

All the streets in BB2 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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.