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On Windmill Road, in Central Luton
What it's like at LU1 3XL: every home that has sold on Windmill 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Windmill Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 23 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 1, Windmill RoadDetached | Aug 2006 | £159,000 | 129 m² | £1,233/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7, Windmill RoadDetached · company-owned | Oct 2005 | £390,000 | 55 m² | £7,091/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 7, Windmill RoadFlat | Jan 2011 | £67,000 | 40 m² | £1,675/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, 7, Windmill RoadFlat | Nov 2010 | £90,000 | 35 m² | £2,571/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 7, Windmill RoadFlat | Nov 2010 | £90,000 | 58 m² | £1,552/m² | 1 |
| 11, Windmill RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2010 | £139,950 | 101 m² | £1,386/m² | 2 |
| 15, Windmill RoadTerraced | Apr 2004 | £139,000 | 128 m² | £1,086/m² | 3 |
| 45, Windmill RoadTerraced | Aug 2014 | £170,000 | 89 m² | £1,910/m² | 1 |
| 49, Windmill RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £237,000 | 98 m² | £2,418/m² | 2 |
| 51, Windmill RoadTerraced | Mar 2018 | £184,000 | 103 m² | £1,786/m² | 1 |
| 55, Windmill RoadTerraced | Jan 2023 | £275,000 | 74 m² | £3,716/m² | 2 |
| 57, Windmill RoadTerraced | Aug 1996 | £10,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 59, Windmill RoadTerraced | Sept 1998 | £46,000 | 105 m² | £438/m² | 1 |
| 60, Windmill RoadOther · company-owned | Dec 2022 | £10,500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 61, Windmill RoadTerraced | May 2006 | £134,250 | 93 m² | £1,444/m² | 2 |
| 63, Windmill RoadTerraced | Aug 1998 | £52,500 | 107 m² | £491/m² | 1 |
| 65, Windmill RoadTerraced | Oct 1999 | £55,000 | 93 m² | £591/m² | 1 |
| 67, Windmill RoadTerraced | Oct 2023 | £270,000 | 102 m² | £2,647/m² | 3 |
| 69, Windmill RoadTerraced | Feb 2020 | £190,000 | 99 m² | £1,919/m² | 1 |
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 10-minute walk (700 m), with 4.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is The Busway, 150 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes Z, A, 101, X1); 50 departures an hour from the 9 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 5 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 46 km away as the crow flies.
65% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is The Linden Academy, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Hillborough Junior School (0.9 km), with 3 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Chiltern Academy, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 49.5 · 16.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Denbigh High School (1.4 km) and Challney High School for Boys (3.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 300 m away; True Vine Fellowship (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Castle Medical Group Practice (800 m), with Superdrug the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Moad's Hairdressers is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Luton and Dunstable Hospital, 4.3 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 76 restaurants and cafés and 15 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Illyrians Lounge is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Chequers the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (36 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 524 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 38 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (88%).
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 323 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Manor Road Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Venue 360 (650 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.0 µg/m³).
48 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%.
43 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 3XL →
For holidays, London Luton is 3.4 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 62% of households rent privately and 29% socially.
It's young: 36% of residents are aged 15–29.
There's a sizeable student population: 23% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is University of Bedfordshire, 550 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 57 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: 1 of 21 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 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 | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 43.2% | 86.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 48.8% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.8% | 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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.