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On Finsbury Avenue, in Victoria
What it's like at FY1 6QN: every home that has sold on Finsbury Avenue 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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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Finsbury Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 31 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2015 | £64,000 | 79 m² | £810/m² | 2 |
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| 2, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | May 2014 | £63,000 | 81 m² | £778/m² | 3 |
| 3, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2022 | £100,000 | 79 m² | £1,266/m² | 3 |
| 4, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 2021 | £100,000 | 90 m² | £1,111/m² | 5 |
| 5, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2025 | £115,000 | 81 m² | £1,420/m² | 1 |
| 6, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2004 | £72,000 | 72 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| 7, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2003 | £52,000 | 75 m² | £693/m² | 2 |
| 8, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Jan 2000 | £40,900 | 108 m² | £379/m² | 1 |
| 9, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2003 | £70,000 | 76 m² | £921/m² | 2 |
| 11, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Mar 2025 | £116,000 | 82 m² | £1,415/m² | 2 |
| 13, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £82,500 | 91 m² | £907/m² | 2 |
| 19, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2001 | £42,500 | 117 m² | £363/m² | 1 |
| 20, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 2022 | £120,000 | 88 m² | £1,364/m² | 1 |
| 22, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 2023 | £101,000 | 73 m² | £1,384/m² | 1 |
| 25, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2012 | £88,000 | 75 m² | £1,173/m² | 2 |
| 27, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £86,000 | 68 m² | £1,265/m² | 1 |
| 28, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Sept 2025 | £88,000 | 84 m² | £1,048/m² | 5 |
| 29, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £80,000 | 71 m² | £1,127/m² | 2 |
| 30, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Jan 2021 | £93,500 | 74 m² | £1,264/m² | 4 |
| 31, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 2004 | £96,950 | 72 m² | £1,347/m² | 1 |
| 32, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 2004 | £81,500 | 72 m² | £1,132/m² | 1 |
| 33, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2026 | £122,500 | 93 m² | £1,317/m² | 2 |
| 34, Finsbury AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £65,000 | 75 m² | £867/m² | 1 |
| 35, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £88,000 | 81 m² | £1,086/m² | 2 |
| 36, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Jul 1995 | £38,000 | 75 m² | £507/m² | 1 |
| 38, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Oct 1997 | £33,700 | 91 m² | £370/m² | 1 |
| 40, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Dec 2016 | £105,000 | 49 m² | £2,143/m² | 2 |
| 44, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Mar 2018 | £87,500 | 90 m² | £972/m² | 1 |
| 46, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Jul 2013 | £73,000 | 72 m² | £1,014/m² | 1 |
| 48, Finsbury AvenueTerraced | Aug 2023 | £120,500 | 76 m² | £1,586/m² | 2 |
| 52, Finsbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 1996 | £31,000 | 81 m² | £383/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Blackpool South, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 114k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Preston (Lancs).
The nearest bus stop is Cunliffe Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes 6, 10); 37 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Revoe Learning Academy, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 46% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is South Shore Academy, 950 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Foodstores, 550 m away, with Tesco Express closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bloomfield Medical Centre (400 m), with Allied Pharmacy Bloomfield the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Salon Glo is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Blackpool Victoria Hospital, 2.6 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Bloomfield Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Bloomfield Brewhouse the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 141 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 14% flats and 5% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 66% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Revoe Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Bannatynes Health Club (950 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Bispham, 5.5 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 53 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 71 km.
Many neighbours rent: 40% of households rent privately and 6% 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.
47 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 6QN →
On this street: 0 of 31 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.2% | 90.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.1% | 8.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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 31 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 56 min
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