Thornbank Blackpool, Fylde

26 addresses across 1 postcode (FY3), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14800706.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £239,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 4).
  • Flood: 2 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 B; Band D in Fylde costs £2,484 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Layton (Lancs), about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodland Garden, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 16 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 Newton Drive Health Centre, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 86 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
20241£239,950£239,950£239,950
20231£285,000£285,000£285,000
20211£228,000£228,000£228,000
20182£222,500£187,500£257,500
20171£175,000£175,000£175,000
20161£254,000£254,000£254,000
20141£195,000£195,000£195,000
20122£215,250£200,500£230,000
20071£240,000£240,000£240,000
20051£229,000£229,000£229,000
20031£195,000£195,000£195,000
20022£141,500£124,000£159,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 May 202426 FY3 8QEDetached£239,950
31 Mar 202318 FY3 8QEDetached£285,000
26 Jul 202119 FY3 8QEDetached£228,000
12 Mar 20216 FY3 8QEDetached£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Sep 201825 FY3 8QEDetached£257,500
6 Jul 20184 FY3 8QEDetached£187,500
21 Jul 201710 FY3 8QEDetached£175,000
31 Mar 201710 FY3 8QEDetached£169,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Dec 201622 FY3 8QEDetached£254,000
25 Jul 201426 FY3 8QEDetached£195,000
18 Dec 201212 FY3 8QEDetached£200,500
30 Mar 20126 FY3 8QEDetached£230,000
14 Dec 200725 FY3 8QEDetached£240,000
17 Nov 200519 FY3 8QEDetached£229,000
27 Aug 200325 FY3 8QEDetached£195,000
11 Dec 200219 FY3 8QEDetached£124,000
18 Oct 200225 FY3 8QEDetached£159,000
19 Mar 200116 FY3 8QEDetached£114,000
17 Aug 200025 FY3 8QEDetached£120,000
31 May 200025 FY3 8QEDetached£116,000
30 Apr 199917 FY3 8QEDetached£105,000
11 Dec 199820 FY3 8QEDetached£87,500
13 Jan 19959 FY3 8QEDetached£90,000

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: House, detached (10). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1996-2002 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Fylde in 2026-27: Band D £2,484 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,656£1,932£2,208£2,484£3,036£3,588£4,140£4,968

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 860 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 5 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Disconnection or alteration of supply, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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 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 26 addresses are between 13 m and 16 m above sea level (15 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
FY3 8QE100%89%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 stationsLayton (Lancs) 75,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Poulton-Le-Fylde 630,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Blackpool North 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Newton Arms Normoss140 m
Bus or coach stationNational Express Coach Facility Blackpool3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalFleetwood for Knott End Ferry Landing11.3 km (7 miles)
Car parksVillage Hotel Blackpool Car Park Pre Book1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL55.6 km (35 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 Newton Drive Health Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Normoss Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newton Drive Health Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Fylde Coast Hospital820 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM250 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 gardenWoodland Garden 2.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 300 m²840 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldBoundary Park 8.3 ha810 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Derek Slack Allotments 2.2 ha510 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thanksgiving Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thanksgiving Shrine of Our Lady of LourdesListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Stanley Park, BlackpoolRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sea Lion PoolLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Marton MereLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Puddle House WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Blackpool North BeachBeach3.5 km (2.2 miles) west
Horseman's HillHill4.1 km (2.5 miles) north
Skippool MarshWetland4.1 km (2.6 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

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 552626

None of the street's 26 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 Fylde: see them on the Fylde 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
Boundary Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Christ The King Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Staining Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Blackpool Aspire AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Layton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Baines SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Blackpool Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Premier Store Normoss Motors FY3 0AHRetailers - other160 m5 Very good8 Feb 2024
Bake N Butty FY3 0AHTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good12 Feb 2025
Newton Arms FY3 0AJPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good26 Jan 2024
Seniors FY3 8QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good11 Oct 2023
Furamar Chinese Takeaway FY3 8QPTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jan 2026
The Cooperative Food FY3 8QPRetailers - other210 m5 Very good15 Mar 2024
NORMOSS PHARMACY FY3 8QPRetailers - other210 mExempt
Rios FY3 8QPTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good19 Jan 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.

86 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Anti-social behaviour21
Shoplifting7
Criminal damage and arson6
Vehicle crime6
Public order5
Other crime5
Other theft3
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dobson Road (14); On or near Supermarket (14); On or near Shaftesbury Avenue (13); On or near Raven'S Close (11); On or near Greenfinch Court (9).

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: 324 residents in 139 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 age5040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%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)36%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Disconnection or alteration of supply, 5 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (no 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.

  • FY3 8QE: 26 addresses of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Whitemoss Avenue · Westfield Avenue · Thornbank · Whitemoss Avenue · Schofield Avenue · Snipe Close · Chaffinch Court · Staining Road · Grebe Close · Greenfinch Court · Bittern Close · Conway Avenue

All the streets in FY3 and across Fylde.

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.