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On Exchange Street, in North Shore
What it's like at FY1 2DZ: every home that has sold on Exchange Street 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Exchange Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
7 of the 44 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 42, Exchange StreetTerraced | Mar 2017 | £52,000 | 118 m² | £441/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44, Exchange StreetTerraced | May 2015 | £215,000 | 25 m² | £8,600/m² | 5 |
| 46, Exchange StreetTerraced | Aug 2024 | £64,000 | 115 m² | £557/m² | 4 |
| 47a, Exchange StreetTerraced | Apr 2014 | £170,000 | 66 m² | £2,576/m² | 2 |
| 48, Exchange StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £80,000 | 83 m² | £964/m² | 1 |
| 49, Exchange StreetTerraced | Oct 2014 | £75,000 | 126 m² | £595/m² | 1 |
| 50, Exchange StreetTerraced | Jan 2011 | £75,000 | 89 m² | £843/m² | 2 |
| 51, Exchange StreetTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2023 | £88,000 | 26 m² | £3,385/m² | 3 |
| 52, Exchange StreetTerraced | Jul 2002 | £36,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 54, Exchange StreetTerraced | Jul 1998 | £27,000 | 97 m² | £278/m² | 1 |
| 55, Exchange StreetTerraced | Apr 2006 | £80,000 | 102 m² | £784/m² | 3 |
| 56, Exchange StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £53,000 | 80 m² | £663/m² | 3 |
| 57, Exchange StreetTerraced | Jun 2000 | £15,000 | 49 m² | £306/m² | 1 |
| 58, Exchange StreetTerraced · company-owned | Mar 1998 | £25,000 | 76 m² | £329/m² | 1 |
| The Empress Hotel, 59, Exchange StreetOther · company-owned | Aug 2021 | £800,000 | 70 m² | £11,429/m² | 3 |
The nearest station is Pleasant Street tram stop, a few minutes' walk (300 m). The nearest rail station is Blackpool North, 350 m away, with 2.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Egerton Square, 100 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 4); 72 departures an hour from the 18 stops within a 5-minute walk.
53% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Westminster Primary Academy, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 60% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Layton Primary School (1.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Unity Academy Blackpool, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 29.3 · 1.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Vicky's Afro Caribbean Superstore, 300 m away, with Premier Daily Savers closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St Pauls Medical Centre (450 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Hugos Barbers is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Blackpool Victoria Hospital, 2.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 50% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 59% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 26 restaurants and cafés and 21 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Spice Coast is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and New Mount Pleasant the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (24 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 476 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 15 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (56%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 81% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Harold Larwood Park, 750 m away; for exercise, Unique Training Centre (450 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Bispham, 2.2 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 57 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 74 km.
45 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.
Blackpool South constituency: Chris Webb MP (Labour), since May 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,848 (19.5%), turnout 45%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 16%, Green Party 3%.
15 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 FY1 2DZ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Many neighbours rent: 57% of households rent privately and 8% socially.
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 34 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 81.4% | 90.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.4% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 14.4% | 8.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.7% | 0.6% | 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.
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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 44 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Ingleton Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 61 min
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