William Street Carnforth, Lancaster

36 addresses across 1 postcode (LA5), about 90 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 19702528.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £132,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 11, E: 5, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Lancaster costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Carnforth, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 740 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 10 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ash Trees Surgery, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20262£132,000£132,000£132,000
20253£125,000£97,000£130,000
20232£109,500£105,000£114,000
20222£97,750£96,500£99,000
20215£98,000£90,000£109,950
20201£103,000£103,000£103,000
20194£80,250£50,000£84,500
20172£96,000£84,000£108,000
20161£84,000£84,000£84,000
20141£45,000£45,000£45,000
20131£80,000£80,000£80,000
20122£75,000£70,000£80,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Feb 202621 LA5 9HETerraced£132,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 202621 LA5 9HETerraced£132,000
28 Nov 20256 LA5 9HETerraced£130,000
28 Mar 202529 LA5 9HESemi-detached£125,000
10 Jan 202516 LA5 9HETerraced£97,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 202315 LA5 9HETerraced£105,000Leasehold.
10 Mar 202310 LA5 9HETerraced£114,000
8 Aug 202211 LA5 9HETerraced£96,500
1 Jun 202214 LA5 9HETerraced£99,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 202121 LA5 9HETerraced£90,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 202121 LA5 9HETerraced£90,000
18 Aug 202131 LA5 9HETerraced£109,950Leasehold.
5 Mar 20218 LA5 9HETerraced£100,000Leasehold.
23 Feb 20216 LA5 9HETerraced£98,000
21 Feb 202022 LA5 9HETerraced£103,000
4 Oct 201910 LA5 9HETerraced£84,000
25 Sep 201913 LA5 9HETerraced£84,500Leasehold.
31 May 201922 LA5 9HETerraced£50,000
17 Apr 201919 LA5 9HETerraced£76,500Leasehold.
11 Dec 201710 LA5 9HETerraced£84,000
28 Apr 201734 LA5 9HETerraced£108,000
8 Jun 201611 LA5 9HETerraced£84,000
28 Apr 201418 LA5 9HETerraced£45,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 201321 LA5 9HETerraced£80,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 201216 LA5 9HETerraced£70,000Leasehold.
10 Apr 20121 LA5 9HETerraced£80,000
26 Jan 201119 LA5 9HETerraced£80,500Leasehold.
14 Jan 200921 LA5 9HETerraced£79,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 200815 LA5 9HETerraced£77,500Leasehold.
19 Oct 200713 LA5 9HETerraced£95,000Leasehold.
12 May 200622 LA5 9HETerraced£100,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 200531 LA5 9HETerraced£89,950Leasehold.
19 May 200512 LA5 9HETerraced£87,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 200429 LA5 9HESemi-detached£105,500
23 Jul 200410 LA5 9HETerraced£96,000
30 Apr 20048 LA5 9HETerraced£73,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 20049 LA5 9HETerraced£67,450Leasehold.
14 Feb 200329 LA5 9HETerraced£50,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 200214 LA5 9HETerraced£44,000Leasehold.
2 Aug 200212 LA5 9HETerraced£36,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 20026 LA5 9HETerraced£43,000Leasehold.
22 Mar 200216 LA5 9HETerraced£28,350Leasehold.
17 Sep 200113 LA5 9HETerraced£38,500Leasehold.
15 May 200110 LA5 9HETerraced£33,500
21 Feb 20017 LA5 9HETerraced£36,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 200030 LA5 9HETerraced£35,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 20002 LA5 9HETerraced£27,000Leasehold.
9 Oct 199829 LA5 9HETerraced£23,500Leasehold.
28 Nov 199715 LA5 9HETerraced£23,000Leasehold.
24 Oct 19972 LA5 9HETerraced£31,500Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 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.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (24); House, end-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (15); 1900-1929 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Lancaster in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,669£1,947£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,616£4,172£5,006

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (30% of about 610 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 36 addresses are between 10 m and 17 m above sea level (13 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
LA5 9HE100%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 stationsCarnforth 196,000 journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Silverdale 48,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bare Lane 119,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carlisle Terrace Millhead90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lancaster City Centre9.7 km (6 miles)
Ferry terminalHeysham Ferry Terminal14.7 km (9.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA78.7 km (49 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ash Trees Surgery700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ash Trees Pharmacy700 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalQueen Victoria Hospital9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Police stationMorecambe Police Station9 km (5.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Carnforth Cashzone690 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 Unnamed 610 m²740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,230 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha40 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,820 m²390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Carnforth: engine shed and associated facilities including the locomotive turntable, a listed building (Grade II*), 530 m (0.3 miles) south. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Carnforth: engine shed and associated facilities including the locomotive turntableListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south
Carnforth: the ash plantListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) south
Carnforth: the coaling plantListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south
St Oswald VicarageListed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) north
Warton Old RectoryScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Warton Crag small multivallate hillfortScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hagg WoodWood400 m (0.2 miles) south-west
Wheel HoleLake or reservoir560 m (0.3 miles) north
Wood Tarn PondLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Hunting HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Jenny Brown's PointHeadland4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-west
Warton SandsWetland5 km (3.1 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)4.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59240
Under 551236

24 of the street's 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carnforth Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warton Archbishop Hutton's VC Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Carnforth Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Carnforth High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
North West Dough LA5 9FGDistributors/Transporters430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jun 2025
Carringtons Coffee Co LA5 9FGManufacturers/packers460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Morecambe Bay Chowder Co LA5 9FGMobile caterer460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2026
Brew & Bite LA5 9FGTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Apr 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order2
Other crime1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Foundary Gardens (12); On or near Albert Street (5); On or near Hazelmount Crescent (4); On or near William Street (4); On or near Midland Terrace (4).

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: 233 residents in 132 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 age4140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%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)22%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • LA5 9HE: 36 addresses of 39 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Albert Street · Foundary Gardens · Rupert Street · Stainton Street · Mary Street · Albert Street · William Street · Park View · Carlisle Terrace · Jackson Terrace · Archer Hill · Grange View

All the streets in LA5 and across Lancaster.

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.