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On Harcourt Street, in New Town
What it's like at LU1 3QJ: every home that has sold on Harcourt 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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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.
4 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 Harcourt Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
16 of the 106 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 49, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jun 2018 | £150,000 | 62 m² | £2,419/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jul 2023 | £201,000 | 66 m² | £3,045/m² | 1 |
| 53, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Feb 2021 | £210,000 | 72 m² | £2,917/m² | 3 |
| 55, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Feb 2007 | £136,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 57, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jul 2013 | £111,000 | 142 m² | £782/m² | 1 |
| 59, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Aug 2003 | £133,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 65, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Feb 2001 | £65,000 | 66 m² | £985/m² | 1 |
| 67, Harcourt StreetTerraced | May 2007 | £142,000 | 85 m² | £1,671/m² | 2 |
| 69, Harcourt StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2006 | £125,000 | 63 m² | £1,984/m² | 2 |
| 71, Harcourt StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2008 | £130,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 77, Harcourt StreetTerraced | May 2003 | £105,000 | 64 m² | £1,641/m² | 3 |
| 79, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Dec 2023 | £215,000 | 61 m² | £3,525/m² | 4 |
| 81, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Dec 1999 | £38,000 | 65 m² | £585/m² | 1 |
| 83, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Dec 2025 | £215,000 | 62 m² | £3,468/m² | 4 |
| 85, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Dec 2012 | £129,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 87, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Oct 2016 | £170,000 | 69 m² | £2,464/m² | 2 |
| 91, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jun 2017 | £250,000 | 81 m² | £3,086/m² | 3 |
| 93, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jul 2017 | £220,000 | 81 m² | £2,716/m² | 5 |
| 95, Harcourt StreetSemi-detached | Feb 2005 | £150,000 | 216 m² | £694/m² | 3 |
| 97, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Nov 2012 | £140,000 | 74 m² | £1,892/m² | 1 |
| 101, Harcourt StreetOther · company-owned | Oct 2024 | £220,000 | 83 m² | £2,651/m² | 1 |
| 107, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Mar 2007 | £163,500 | 37 m² | £4,419/m² | 2 |
| 109, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Oct 2025 | £295,000 | 81 m² | £3,642/m² | 1 |
| 115, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Sept 1995 | £53,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 117, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Sept 2018 | £265,000 | 78 m² | £3,397/m² | 3 |
| 121, Harcourt StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £245,000 | 76 m² | £3,224/m² | 2 |
| 123, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jun 2021 | £265,000 | 76 m² | £3,487/m² | 2 |
| 125, Harcourt StreetTerraced | May 2001 | £80,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 127, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jul 2006 | £166,000 | 94 m² | £1,766/m² | 3 |
| 129, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Mar 2017 | £328,000 | 112 m² | £2,929/m² | 2 |
| 131, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Aug 2014 | £189,995 | – | – | 5 |
| 133, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jun 2010 | £140,000 | 90 m² | £1,556/m² | 2 |
| 137, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Mar 2018 | £242,000 | 72 m² | £3,361/m² | 3 |
| 139, Harcourt StreetTerraced | Jun 2026 | £350,000 | 99 m² | £3,535/m² | 1 |
| 147, Harcourt StreetSemi-detached | Dec 2016 | £285,000 | 86 m² | £3,314/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Luton Airport Parkway, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 4.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Whitehill Avenue, 400 m away, with a bus about every 11 minutes on weekdays (routes 321, 610).
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 7 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 45 km away as the crow flies.
40% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Tennyson Road Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 80% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Chiltern Academy, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 49.5 · 16.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Denbigh High School (2.1 km) and Challney High School for Boys (4.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is European Store Luton, 300 m away, with The Connect Store closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Medici Medical Practice (600 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Aston Salon is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Luton and Dunstable Hospital, 4.6 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% 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: 30 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Lucky8 Chinese Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Sugar Loaf the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 179 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 22 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (51%).
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 682 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Luton Hoo Memorial Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Bannatyne's Health Club (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 3.3 km away.
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.
Luton South and South Bedfordshire constituency: Rachel Hopkins MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,858 (17.9%), turnout 50%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 18%, Independent 14%, Reform UK 12%.
40 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 LU1 3QJ →
Many neighbours rent: 51% of households rent privately and 19% socially.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
The nearest university is University of Bedfordshire, 900 m away (TEF Bronze).
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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 55 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 86 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 | 0.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 68.8% | 86.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 18.2% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 12.8% | 2.0% | 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 106 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.