Stuart Street Luton

325 addresses across 11 postcodes (LU1), about 850 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 24001207.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2012 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 155 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 48, D: 98, E: 6).
  • Flood: 40 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brantwood Park, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 114 to 124 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 326 of its 329 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bute House Medical Centre, about 270 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 3% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,206 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
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
20091£155,000£155,000£155,000
20061£151,690£151,690£151,690
20041£150,000£150,000£150,000
19991£70,000£70,000£70,000
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Aug 202118 LU1 2SLOther£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Mar 202064 - 66 LU1 2SWOther£2,570,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Oct 201214 LU1 2SLTerraced£155,000
16 Feb 200916 LU1 2SLTerraced£155,000
20 Jan 20066 - 8 LU1 2SJFlat or maisonette£151,690Leasehold.
28 May 200416 LU1 2SLTerraced£150,000
10 Mar 199918 LU1 2SLSemi-detached£70,000

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 June 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

155 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 40 m². Most common: Flat (154); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2016 (100); 1996-2002 (16); 2015 (15). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (20).

Each home's certificates and sales (135 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,898£2,169£2,440£2,982£3,524£4,067£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (87% of about 4,770 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Town Centre Conservation Area 1 (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 21.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Luton Town Centre and Surrounds (2023).
  • 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: LUTON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

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, 36 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 13 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
LU1 2SJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 2SWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
LU1 5FWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 5FXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 2SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 2SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 2SEnot in 2 or 3 26 / 4 / 2 unlikely
LU1 2BJnot in 2 or 3 8 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 2RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LU1 3AJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 6 unlikely
LU1 5BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 329 addresses are between 114 m and 124 m above sea level (120 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LU1 2BJ100%100%100%0%
LU1 2RD100%100%100%0%
LU1 2SA100%100%100%0%
LU1 2SE100%96%96%0%
LU1 2SJ100%100%100%0%
LU1 2SL100%100%100%0%
LU1 2SW100%100%100%0%
LU1 3AJ100%100%96%0%
LU1 5BL100%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 stationsLuton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–25580 m (0.4 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.1 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 72 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dunstable Place Luton Town Centre20 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre460 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP - Luton Old Court House Car Park60 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN3.6 km (2.3 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 Bute House Medical Centre270 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Se Morgan Chemist220 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maple Dental Clinic90 m
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationLuton Police Station70 m
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bajwa Food Store250 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brantwood Park 2.3 ha370 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²370 m
Playing fieldManor Road Park 2.5 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,830 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 720 m (0.4 miles) east. 64 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) east
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south
Wardown ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wardown LakeLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Farley PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Blossom SpringWood2 km (1.2 miles) west
Lower Kidney WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Kidney WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Warden HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) north

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)14.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 7416400
65 to 6915800
60 to 64300
55 to 59100
Under 553329329

326 of the street's 329 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 Luton: see them on the Luton 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
Rothesay Nursery SchoolNursery2–5300 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chapel Street Nursery SchoolNursery2–4510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Dallow Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hillborough Junior SchoolPrimary7–11750 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillborough Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Farley Junior AcademyPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hart Hill Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Whipperley Infant AcademyPrimary4–71.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Linden AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
ESS LU1 1SDOther catering premises70 m4 Good24 Jul 2026
Zandras LU1 2RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good4 Jul 2022
La Doi Pasi LU1 2RDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 mAwaiting inspection
After Dark Night Club LU1 2RDPub/bar/nightclub90 mExempt
Fries Club LU1 2RDOther catering premises90 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Jul 2025
Roasty arabic grill LU1 2RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good11 Aug 2026
Punjab Restaurant & Bar / Punjab Pizza O More LU1 2QTOther catering premises90 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Project Manna Foundation Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 mAwaiting inspection
Fruit and Veg Luton also trading as Adams Fruit and Veg. Retailers - other100 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
The Baklava Company LU1 2RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Luton Vape LU1 2QHMobile caterer140 m5 Very good13 Mar 2024
Gao Express LU1 5AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good15 Apr 2025
Spice Rack LU1 5AAOther catering premises140 m4 Good11 Mar 2025
Raj indian takeaway and restaurant LU1 5AAOther catering premises140 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Golden Phoenix LU1 5AATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good18 Feb 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.

1,206 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences405
Anti-social behaviour197
Public order123
Drugs103
Criminal damage and arson75
Shoplifting66
Other theft49
Vehicle crime48
Burglary39
Robbery25
Theft from the person25
Other crime22
Possession of weapons17
Bicycle theft12

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (262); On or near Peel Street (185); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (105); On or near Nightclub (64); On or near Parking Area (61).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,387 residents in 1,023 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 age2840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)3%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented62%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)20%6%
Retired (of adults)4%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 van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus32%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)58%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

  • LU1 2SJ: 99 addresses of 100 in the postcode
  • LU1 2SW: 84 addresses
  • LU1 5FW: 59 addresses of 61 in the postcode
  • LU1 5FX: 55 addresses
  • LU1 2SL: 11 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • LU1 2SA: 8 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • LU1 2SE: 3 addresses of 192 in the postcode
  • LU1 2BJ: 2 addresses of 122 in the postcode
  • LU1 2RD: 2 addresses of 173 in the postcode
  • LU1 3AJ: 1 address of 67 in the postcode
  • LU1 5BL: 1 address of 2 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dunstable Place · Upper George Street · Alma Street · Stuart Place · Peel Place · Adelaide Street · Cardiff Road · Peel Street · Buxton Road · Stuart Street Passage · Inkerman Street · Alma Street Passage

All the streets in LU1 and across Luton.

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.