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On Boscombe Road, in South Shore
What it's like at FY4 1LW: every home that has sold on Boscombe 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Boscombe Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 33 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Sept 2018 | £200,000 | 95 m² | £2,105/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 1, 2, Boscombe RoadFlat | Sept 2008 | £125,000 | 64 m² | £1,953/m² | 4 |
| Flat 3, 3, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Mar 2023 | £260,000 | 29 m² | £8,966/m² | 1 |
| 4, Boscombe RoadFlat | Sept 2000 | £24,000 | 66 m² | £364/m² | 1 |
| 6, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2014 | £153,500 | 238 m² | £645/m² | 3 |
| 7, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Mar 2002 | £50,000 | 96 m² | £521/m² | 2 |
| 8, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2014 | £175,000 | 243 m² | £720/m² | 1 |
| 9, Boscombe RoadTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2019 | £175,000 | 245 m² | £714/m² | 4 |
| 10, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £167,500 | 160 m² | £1,047/m² | 1 |
| 13, Boscombe RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2026 | £140,000 | 35 m² | £4,000/m² | 3 |
| 15, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Aug 2001 | £89,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £220,000 | 158 m² | £1,392/m² | 1 |
| 17, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Mar 2005 | £167,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 19 - 21, Boscombe RoadOther · company-owned | Nov 2017 | £245,000 | 438 m² | £559/m² | 2 |
| 21, Boscombe RoadOther · company-owned | Oct 2018 | £820,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 22, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £118,000 | 95 m² | £1,242/m² | 1 |
| 23, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £140,000 | 124 m² | £1,129/m² | 3 |
| 24, Boscombe RoadDetached | Sept 1996 | £79,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Aug 2004 | £166,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £149,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Jun 1996 | £43,500 | 104 m² | £418/m² | 1 |
| 30, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2003 | £149,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Boscombe RoadOther · company-owned | May 2020 | £115,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 32, Boscombe RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £195,000 | 129 m² | £1,512/m² | 2 |
| 34, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Sept 2019 | £140,000 | 106 m² | £1,321/m² | 2 |
| 35, Boscombe RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £68,000 | 48 m² | £1,417/m² | 4 |
| 35a, Boscombe RoadFlat · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £68,000 | 86 m² | £791/m² | 1 |
| 38, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Apr 1996 | £35,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, Boscombe RoadTerraced | Aug 2003 | £88,500 | 103 m² | £859/m² | 1 |
| 1, Springdale Court, 25, Boscombe RoadFlat | Apr 2007 | £100,000 | 75 m² | £1,333/m² | 1 |
| 3, Springdale Court, 25, Boscombe RoadFlat | Nov 2002 | £48,000 | 67 m² | £716/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, Springdale Court, 25, Boscombe RoadFlat | Oct 2024 | £80,000 | 99 m² | £808/m² | 4 |
| Flat 2, Springdale Court, 25, Boscombe RoadFlat | Aug 2022 | £83,500 | 52 m² | £1,606/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 (350 m), with 119k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Preston (Lancs).
The nearest bus stop is Farmers Arms, 150 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 11, 68, 5, 68C); 52 departures an hour from the 8 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 Armfield Academy, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 45% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Armfield Academy, 400 m away; Attainment 8: 35.6 · 2.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Go Local Extra, 150 m away; G & K Mitchell Butchers (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highfield Surgery (550 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, The Blow Bar is 150 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.
Ducks Coffee Company is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Farmers Arms the nearest pub (250 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 The Louie Horrocks Playing Fields, 300 m away; for exercise, Sandcastle Waterworld (1.0 km).
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.
46 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%.
5 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 1LW →
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 33 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 22 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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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