West Cliff Terrace Preston

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR1), about 320 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30703554.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £170,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Preston cost £188,103 in August 2026 (+3.6% on a year); private rents averaged £791 a month.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Corporation Street, is 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 70 times (202 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 2,923 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Preston costs £2,576 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 74% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Preston (Lancs), about 290 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 310 m away, and Avenham Park (19 hectares) is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 16 to 20 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 Fishergate Hill Surgery, about 330 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 850 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 140 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20231£170,000£170,000£170,000
20121£170,000£170,000£170,000
20072£100,000£75,000£125,000
20021£38,500£38,500£38,500
20002£63,475£62,000£64,950
All 7 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Dec 20077 PR1 8HGTerraced£125,000
21 Dec 20077 PR1 8HGTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 20027 PR1 8HGDetached£38,500
4 Aug 20007 PR1 8HGFlat or maisonette£64,950Leasehold.
29 Dec 20238 PR1 8HGSemi-detached£170,000
30 May 20128 PR1 8HGSemi-detached£170,000
4 Aug 20008 PR1 8HGTerraced£62,000New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Preston

A typical home in Preston cost £188,103 in August 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier and 40% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£330,599
Semi-detached£203,550
Terraced£145,269
Flat or maisonette£100,723
Bought by a first-time buyer£165,111

Private renters in Preston paid £791 a month on average in September 2026, 5.7% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£731
Three bedrooms£860
Four or more bedrooms£1,251

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1996-2002 (9); 1983-1990 (6); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (14); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,739 kWh of it on average in 2024, 6% less than the district's 11,408 kWh, and 4,168 kWh of electricity, 33% more than the district's 3,143 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
PR1 8HG241,973 kWh 267,705 kWh
PR1 8JA145,123 kWh 1118,091 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is PR1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Preston in 2026-27: Band D £2,576 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 870 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: yes, Fishergate Hill Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 20 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
PR1 8HGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
PR1 8JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 70 times, for 202 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Ribble, River Ribble Via Chain Caul Culvert, River Ribble Estuarine Waters, River Ribble (Tidal) and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Fishergate Hill Cso (Chamber C9) United Utilities; monitored 53% of the year River Ribble 3 20 400 m (0.2 miles)
Fishergate Hill Cso Chamber C8 United Utilities; monitored 61% of the year River Ribble Via Chain Caul Culvert 3 13 420 m (0.3 miles)
Wolseley Road Cso United Utilities River Ribble Estuarine Waters 3 38 570 m (0.4 miles)
Valley Road Pumping Station United Utilities River Ribble Estuarine Waters 3 1 650 m (0.4 miles)
Riverside Road Cso United Utilities River Ribble (Tidal) 1 1 670 m (0.4 miles)
Marsh Lane Cso Pre0021 United Utilities Chain Caul Culvert, Via A Surface Water Sewer 0 0 710 m (0.4 miles)
West Strand Cso Chamber C10 Pre0071 United Utilities Chain Caul Culvert 0 0 840 m (0.5 miles)
Bank Parade Cso United Utilities River Ribble 39 125 850 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 470 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Corporation Street Off Fishergate, Preston from 1960 Inert, industrial, commercial 470 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 26 addresses are between 16 m and 20 m above sea level (18 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
PR1 8HG100%74%74%0%
PR1 8JA100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsPreston (Lancs) 5.4 million journeys in 2024–25290 m
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Bamber Bridge 75,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Cliff Broadgate230 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fishergate Car park310 m
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station490 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL47.6 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fishergate Hill Surgery Good Dec 2016330 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist330 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Preston790 m (0.5 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Priory Park Care Home Good Feb 20261.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Preston Customer Service Reception940 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 94 Fishergate Lloyds Bank560 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Avenham Park 19 ha350 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²320 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha210 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Penwortham West Allotments 4.4 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Miller Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) south-east. 230 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Miller ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) south-east
Church of St WilfridListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Avenham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) east
Harris InstituteListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) east
Penwortham Old BridgeScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Church of St George the MartyrListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Preston War MemorialListed building, Grade I870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Castle Hill motteScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) west
Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery LaneScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Crow WoodWood1 km (0.7 miles) west
Frenchwood KnollHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) east
Pool PlatTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Bull NoseWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
60 to 6407
55 to 5905
Under 552614

12 of the street's 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Preston: see them on the Preston page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 13 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Stephen's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11260 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
Stoneygate Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Frenchwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 39% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Cardinal Newman College Roman Catholic16 plus16–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B; 16.6% AAB or better; progress above average
Penwortham Girls' High SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 55.4 (52.9 in 2025 and 57.5 in 2024); 62.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Preston Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 41% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Christ The King Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.0 (35.9 in 2025); 37.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
Lancaster University School of Mathematics16 plus16–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 60.4% AAB or better; progress above average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 750 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Shining Stars Nursery PR1 3TH Full day care 72 Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Preston Tuition Centre PR1 8XE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Mini's Daycare PR1 8XE Full day care 31 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
Tinkerbells PR1 9XR Full day care 114 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
University Of Central Lancashire Pre-School Centre PR1 2HE Full day care 90 Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
TicTots Day Nursery & Creche PR1 8UY Full day care 88 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Oxford Gems Nursery PR1 3YN Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Little Achievers Urban Forest School Nursery PR1 3QU Full day care 62 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Carey Childcare Centre PR1 1DX Full day care 44 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Whitefriars Childrens Nursery Ltd PR1 9XH Full day care 40 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 13 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
Vex Vegan Cookery PR1 8HXOther catering premises20 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Embrace Care Limited PR1 8HUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Vohra Stores PR1 8JLRetailers - other210 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Oct 2025
Rams News PR1 8QURetailers - other230 m5 Very good19 Dec 2023
Cafe Local PR1 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Upper Crust PR1 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Starbucks PR1 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
The Beer House PR1 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Whistle Stop PR1 8APRetailers - other230 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Gourmet Coffee Bar and Kitchen PR1 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
Pauls Pies PR1 8JDRetailers - other240 m5 Very good4 Sep 2025
The Coffee House PR1 8HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
St Stephens C of E Primary School PR1 8JNSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good6 May 2025
Gujurat Temple PR1 8JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Vohra Stores PR1 8JNRetailers - other260 m4 Good23 Jul 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.

140 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences51
Anti-social behaviour34
Criminal damage and arson12
Vehicle crime8
Burglary7
Other crime5
Public order5
Other theft5
Drugs4
Robbery3
Shoplifting3
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Walton'S Parade (39); On or near Stanley Place (27); On or near West Cliff (17); On or near West Cliff Terrace (13); On or near North Cliff Street (10).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
7 Jul 2025 12:10 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Sep 2023 16:15 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist, 1 child Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights off

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 2,923 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 480 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 2,923 estimated; counted 2024 1% 480 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 854 residents in 409 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 age3040
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented59%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Hazuki Japanese Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 8BN) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 4 Good (rated 15 October 2026) found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Sushi Tasty (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 8HJ) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 15 October 2026) found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Pavilion Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR1 8JT) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 10 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NETWORK RAIL: Works for Rail Purposes, 26 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • PR1 8HG: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • PR1 8JA: 1 address of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

West Cliff · South Cliff Street · Toulmin Court · North Cliff Street · Cliff Street · Grafton Street · Walton's Parade · Stanley Place · Lauderdale Street · Hind Street · Christian Road · Meadow Court

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.