Willoughby Road Blaby

49 addresses across 4 postcodes (LE8), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 2801195.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £407,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 6, E: 8, F: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in Blaby costs £2,490 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 95% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Wigston, about 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 99 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Countesthorpe Health Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20261£407,500£407,500£407,500
20242£635,000£595,000£675,000
20232£913,750£580,000£1,247,500
20221£435,000£435,000£435,000
20213£855,000£490,000£1,200,000
20201£735,000£735,000£735,000
20192£355,000£280,000£430,000
20172£395,190£310,000£480,380
20163£475,000£275,000£770,000
20112£440,834£356,667£525,000
20092£419,750£417,500£422,000
20082£294,000£228,000£360,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jan 20267 LE8 5UADetached£407,500
19 Dec 202447 LE8 5UADetached£595,000
3 Sep 202445A LE8 5UADetached£675,000
25 Aug 202327 LE8 5UADetached£1,247,500
6 Jun 202311 LE8 5UADetached£580,000
14 Feb 20221A LE8 5UADetached£435,000
14 Jul 202123 LE8 5UADetached£855,000
29 Mar 202127 LE8 5UADetached£1,200,000
16 Mar 202115 LE8 5UADetached£490,000
21 Dec 202025 LE8 5UADetached£735,000
7 Oct 20199 LE8 5UADetached£280,000
15 Feb 201921 LE8 5UADetached£430,000
8 Dec 201713 LE8 5UADetached£480,380
29 Sep 20173 LE8 5UADetached£310,000
26 Aug 20161A LE8 5UADetached£275,000
30 Mar 201639A LE8 5UADetached£770,000
18 Mar 201627 LE8 5UADetached£475,000
24 Jun 20115 LE8 5UADetached£356,667
21 Jan 201143 LE8 5UADetached£525,000
17 Aug 200917 LE8 5UADetached£422,000
24 Feb 200935 LE8 5UADetached£417,500
24 Sep 200849 LE8 5UADetached£360,000
8 Jul 20081A LE8 5UADetached£228,000
17 Aug 20071 LE8 5UADetached£280,000
22 Dec 200639A LE8 5UADetached£690,000
10 Nov 200645A LE8 5UADetached£345,000
26 Oct 200643 LE8 5UADetached£340,000
28 Jul 20067 LE8 5UADetached£227,500
7 Jul 200623 LE8 5UADetached£450,000
2 Jun 200412 LE8 5UADetached£715,000
17 Sep 200351 LE8 5UADetached£335,000
26 Jul 20025 LE8 5UADetached£250,000
20 Aug 199917 LE8 5UADetached£199,950
30 Jul 199943 LE8 5UADetached£175,000
10 Nov 199719 LE8 5UADetached£130,000
6 Nov 199738 LE8 5UADetached£175,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 181 m². Most common: House, detached (19); Bungalow, detached (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1930-1949 (4); 2007 onwards (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 770 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 12 October 2026 to 13 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 1 October 2026 to 2 October 2026: LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 7 August 2026: LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, stop/go boards, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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
LE8 5UAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely
LE8 5ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LE8 5ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LE8 5PDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 49 addresses are between 89 m and 99 m above sea level (94 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
LE8 5AD100%0%0%0%
LE8 5AL90%10%10%0%
LE8 5PD100%92%92%0%
LE8 5UA97%95%95%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 stationsSouth Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–259.6 km (6 miles)
Bus stopsNone within 800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA33.8 km (21 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 Countesthorpe Health Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Countesthorpe Chemist1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rd Dental1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalStoneygate Eye Hospital8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police Federation3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Cosby - Main Street, Cosby Cashzone2.7 km (1.7 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 gardenUnnamed 6,960 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,400 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha370 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha690 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

4 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
Whetstone GorseWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Ash SpinneyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
The PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Reed Pool SpinneyWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Cosby HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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 6410
55 to 5990
Under 553949

10 of the street's 49 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 Blaby: see them on the Blaby 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
Countesthorpe AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (leicestershire).

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: 411 residents in 156 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 age4640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 22 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (give and take) 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.

  • LE8 5UA: 46 addresses of 48 in the postcode
  • LE8 5AD: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • LE8 5AL: 1 address of 13 in the postcode
  • LE8 5PD: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bambury Lane

All the streets in LE8 and across Blaby.

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.