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On Sandy Lane, in Accrington South East
What it's like at BB5 2AN: every home that has sold on Sandy Lane since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Sandy Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 54 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 85, Sandy LaneTerraced | Jun 2000 | £55,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £173,000 | 56 m² | £3,089/m² | 2 |
| 89, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £162,500 | 55 m² | £2,955/m² | 1 |
| 93, Sandy LaneSemi-detached | Jul 1999 | £46,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 95, Sandy LaneTerraced | Aug 2025 | £161,750 | 84 m² | £1,926/m² | 1 |
| 97, Sandy LaneTerraced | Mar 2002 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 101, Sandy LaneTerraced | Feb 2022 | £145,000 | 78 m² | £1,859/m² | 1 |
| 103, Sandy LaneTerraced | Nov 2022 | £135,000 | 82 m² | £1,646/m² | 1 |
| Broad Oak, Sandy LaneOther | May 2022 | £1,150,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Accrington, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 504k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Blackburn.
The nearest bus stop is Barnfield Street, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route A3); 5 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 49 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 36% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Hollins, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 40.7 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (9.2 km) and Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (14.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express Store, 650 m away, with Accrington & Rossendale Food Group closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Peel House Medical Practice (950 m), with Wyvern Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, H1cutz is 1.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Blackburn Hospital, 7.1 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 72% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 29 restaurants and cafés and 18 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Coffee Shop @ Accrington & Rossendale College is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Accrington Masonic Association the nearest pub (500 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (24 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 161 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 27 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 20% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Oak Hill Park, 600 m away; for exercise, The Gym (600 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 44 km away.
28 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Hyndburn constituency: Sarah Smith MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,687 (4.6%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 34%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 14%.
7 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BB5 2AN →
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 38 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 12 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.5% | 96.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.1% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.9% | 2.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Blackpool South · about 43 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 50 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 54 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.