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On Watson Road, in South Shore
What it's like at FY4 1EG: every home that has sold on Watson Road 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Watson Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
11 of the 132 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Watson RoadTerraced | May 1999 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Watson RoadTerraced | Aug 2016 | £95,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £148,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Watson RoadTerraced | Feb 2003 | £76,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Watson RoadOther | Nov 2022 | £230,000 | 300 m² | £767/m² | 4 |
| 8, Watson RoadDetached | Jun 2003 | £89,000 | 136 m² | £654/m² | 1 |
| 8a, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2004 | £100,000 | 195 m² | £513/m² | 3 |
| 11, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £136,500 | 138 m² | £989/m² | 5 |
| 12, Watson RoadTerraced | Feb 2016 | £94,000 | 134 m² | £701/m² | 2 |
| 13, Watson RoadTerraced | Apr 2018 | £133,500 | 136 m² | £982/m² | 2 |
| 14, Watson RoadTerraced | Feb 2016 | £90,000 | 138 m² | £652/m² | 1 |
| 16, Watson RoadTerraced | Nov 2006 | £199,950 | 141 m² | £1,418/m² | 2 |
| 18, Watson RoadTerraced | Mar 2025 | £262,000 | 254 m² | £1,031/m² | 2 |
| 19a, Watson RoadTerraced | Dec 2006 | £88,000 | 118 m² | £746/m² | 1 |
| 20, Watson RoadTerraced | Aug 2008 | £210,000 | 164 m² | £1,280/m² | 3 |
| 23, Watson RoadTerraced | May 2002 | £36,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 23a, Watson RoadFlat | Jul 2024 | £62,000 | 193 m² | £321/m² | 1 |
| 24, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £205,000 | 186 m² | £1,102/m² | 1 |
| 25, Watson RoadTerraced | Apr 1995 | £51,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £150,000 | 161 m² | £932/m² | 2 |
| 27, Watson RoadTerraced | Sept 2016 | £146,500 | 126 m² | £1,163/m² | 2 |
| 28, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £244,950 | 131 m² | £1,870/m² | 2 |
| 29, Watson RoadTerraced | Aug 2014 | £99,950 | 112 m² | £892/m² | 2 |
| 30, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Oct 1999 | £67,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Watson RoadDetached · company-owned | Nov 2024 | £450,000 | 210 m² | £2,143/m² | 3 |
| 33, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £83,000 | 73 m² | £1,137/m² | 1 |
| 35, Watson RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £230,000 | 218 m² | £1,055/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Blackpool Pleasure Beach, a few minutes' walk (450 m), with 119k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Preston (Lancs).
The nearest bus stop is Watson Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 18); 46 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
The nearest primary school is Thames Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (50 m); 62% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Armfield Academy, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 35.6 · 2.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Go Local Extra, 700 m away, with Bee One / Premier closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Arnold Medical Centre (900 m), with Seriva Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, The Blow Bar is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Blackpool Victoria Hospital, 4.3 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 26 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Pizza Hut Restaurants - Dine In is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Horse Shoe Bar the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 142 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 30% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 52% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Flag Staff Gardens, 450 m away; for exercise, Sandcastle Waterworld (500 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Bispham, 6.8 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 52 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 70 km.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
38 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Grand National | II | 190 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
11 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 FY4 1EG →
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Blackpool since 2011.
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 132 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 105 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 7 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 85.8% | 90.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 12.8% | 8.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.2% | 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.
Nearest: Ingleton Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 58 min
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