Thames Road Blackpool

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (FY4), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3000184.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £95,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, E: 7).
  • 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 Blackpool costs £2,513 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackpool Pleasure Beach, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, George Bancroft Park, is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Arnold Medical Centre, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 303 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
20213£95,000£94,000£175,000
20191£75,000£75,000£75,000
20182£108,500£107,000£110,000
20172£107,750£90,000£125,500
20141£81,000£81,000£81,000
20121£102,000£102,000£102,000
20061£108,000£108,000£108,000
20041£80,500£80,500£80,500
20031£32,000£32,000£32,000
20022£45,500£43,000£48,000
19971£45,000£45,000£45,000
19961£39,000£39,000£39,000
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Jun 20254 FY4 1EDSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Nov 20214 FY4 1EDSemi-detached£175,000
28 Apr 202130 FY4 1EDTerraced£94,000
31 Mar 202118 FY4 1EDTerraced£75,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Feb 202126 FY4 1EDTerraced£95,000
12 Jul 201922 FY4 1EDTerraced£75,000
31 Jul 201828 FY4 1EDTerraced£107,000
16 Feb 201820 FY4 1EDTerraced£110,000
12 Sep 201720 FY4 1EDTerraced£65,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 201726 FY4 1EDTerraced£90,000
7 Jun 20174 FY4 1EDSemi-detached£125,500
28 Feb 20148 FY4 1EDTerraced£81,000
6 Sep 20126 FY4 1EDTerraced£102,000
28 Mar 200626 FY4 1EDTerraced£108,000
11 May 200426 FY4 1EDTerraced£80,500
5 Mar 20036 FY4 1EDTerraced£32,000
17 Jul 200216 FY4 1EDTerraced£43,000
22 May 200210 FY4 1EDTerraced£48,000
14 Aug 199714 FY4 1EDTerraced£45,000
4 Apr 19968 FY4 1EDTerraced£39,000

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (9); Flat (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (8); 1900-1929 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackpool in 2026-27: Band D £2,513 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,675£1,955£2,234£2,513£3,072£3,630£4,189£5,026

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (30% of about 1,160 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 2 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: 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): Article 4 Direction - C3 to C4 HMO.
  • 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

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

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 addresses are about 10 m above sea level.

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
FY4 1EB100%98%98%0%
FY4 1ED100%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 stationsBlackpool Pleasure Beach 119,000 journeys in 2024–25580 m (0.4 miles)
Blackpool South 114,000 journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Squires Gate 28,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramPleasure Beach (Blackpool Tramway)400 m (0.2 miles)
South Pier (Blackpool Tramway)490 m (0.3 miles)
Waterloo Road (Blackpool Tramway)760 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thames Road South Shore110 m
Bus or coach stationLonsdale Coach Park Bloomfield1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Balmoral Road Car Park250 m
EV charging pointsApcoa Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL52.7 km (33 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Arnold Medical Centre920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Seriva Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cadis Clinics Limited300 m
HospitalOpd Victoria Hospital3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Coastal House, 7 Abingdon Road610 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest George Bancroft Park 2.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,160 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha380 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 800 m²920 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Blackpool South BeachBeach660 m (0.4 miles) west
Blackpool Central BeachBeach2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Crusader BankBeach2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Sea Lion PoolLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Marton MereLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Arnott WoodWood4.3 km (2.7 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)5.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)7.64015

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
65 to 6910
55 to 5960
Under 551118

7 of the street's 18 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 Blackpool: see them on the Blackpool 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
Thames Primary AcademyPrimary2–11100 m No published inspection
Armfield AcademyAll-through3–16440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
South Shore AcademySecondary11–16590 m (0.4 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Blackpool Gateway AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Roseacre Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Hawes Side AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Waterloo Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Highfield Leadership AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Revoe Learning AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Roman CatholicPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, 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
Thames Primary Academy FY4 1EESchool/college/university30 m5 Very good18 Sep 2026
Briardene Hotel FY4 1HQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house210 m5 Very good25 Apr 2025
Pizza Hut Restaurants - Dine In FY4 1EZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good1 May 2026
Madame Crevettes Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
Branston Lodge Guest House FY4 1HEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Denmar Hotel FY4 1HEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Elite Hotel FY4 1HEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Travelodge Blackpool FY4 1HRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Bentleys Fish and Chips FY4 1HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Bond Hotel FY4 1HGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house270 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Westgarth Newsagents FY4 1HGRetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2025
San Diego Guesthouse FY4 1HJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house280 m5 Very good21 Aug 2019
Parkfield FY4 1HEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Canberra FY4 1HEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good25 Apr 2025
Empire (prev. Marmaris) FY4 1HTTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good22 Aug 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.

303 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences121
Anti-social behaviour78
Other theft24
Criminal damage and arson24
Public order18
Vehicle crime16
Drugs8
Burglary7
Other crime3
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Brighton Avenue (98); On or near Hampton Road (54); On or near Windsor Avenue (46); On or near Osborne Road (23); On or near The Crescent (18).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 422 residents in 201 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)29%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

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

  • FY4 1ED: 17 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • FY4 1EB: 1 address of 65 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Severn Road · Mersey Road · Brighton Avenue · Osbourne Road · Trent Road · Windsor Avenue · Coniston Road · Arlington Avenue · Balmoral Road · Jesmond Avenue · Lytham Road · Seabourne Avenue

All the streets in FY4 and across Blackpool.

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.