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On Island Road, in Walney Island South & Barrow Island
What it's like at LA14 2SR: every home that has sold on Island 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).
Sales and extensions on Island Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 56 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 9, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Jan 2022 | £65,000 | 65 m² | £1,000/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 8, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Jan 2025 | £90,000 | 68 m² | £1,324/m² | 3 |
| Flat 4, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Jul 2012 | £89,000 | 62 m² | £1,435/m² | 1 |
| Flat 7, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Mar 2012 | £87,500 | 52 m² | £1,683/m² | 1 |
| Flat 5, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Jan 2021 | £70,655 | 69 m² | £1,024/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Aug 2025 | £60,000 | 51 m² | £1,176/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Feb 2022 | £87,000 | 69 m² | £1,261/m² | 4 |
| Flat 10, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Dec 2011 | £87,500 | 94 m² | £931/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Oct 2024 | £92,500 | 59 m² | £1,568/m² | 2 |
| Flat 6, St Johns Apartments, Island RoadFlat | Jul 2025 | £85,000 | 51 m² | £1,667/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Barrow-in-Furness, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 590k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Millom.
The nearest bus stop is St Johns Church, 50 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (route 1); 46 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Barrow Island Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Furness Academy, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 42.4 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 50 m away; Roberts Newsagents (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Abbey Road Surgery (750 m), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, Kerry's Cuts is 900 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Furness General Hospital, 4.4 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 60% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Emmanuel Community Church is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Devonshire Hotel the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (8 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 90 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 30% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Barrow Island, South Vickerstown).
There are 24 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 16% flats and 5% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 64% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is The Old Bakery Gardens, 1.4 km away; for exercise, Everlast Gyms (900 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Walney Sandy Gap, 1.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 89 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 105 km.
15 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St John | II | 30 m |
| Steamer Street Tenements | II* | 80 m |
| Schooner Street Tenements | II | 120 m |
| Brig Street Tenements | II | 130 m |
| Barque Street Tenements | II | 150 m |
| Numbers 10-14 Devonshire Buildings | II* | 160 m |
| Ship Street Tenement | II | 180 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.
Barrow and Furness constituency: Michelle Scrogham MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,324 (12.6%), turnout 56%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 4%.
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 LA14 2SR →
Most households own their home, 25% 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.
Nearest: Windermere, Lakeside YMCA · about 35 min
Nearest: Hill Top Farm · about 35 min
Nearest: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 49 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 12 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 2.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.3% | 74.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.0% | 12.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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 56 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.