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On Church Street, in Leighton Buzzard Central
What it's like at LU7 1BP: every home that has sold on Church 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Church Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 95 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Church StreetFlat | Nov 2023 | £155,000 | 57 m² | £2,719/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Church StreetFlat | Apr 2016 | £130,000 | 64 m² | £2,031/m² | 3 |
| 3, Church StreetTerraced | Feb 2025 | £245,500 | 46 m² | £5,337/m² | 8 |
| 5, Church StreetSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £220,000 | 48 m² | £4,583/m² | 5 |
| 7, Church StreetTerraced | Jun 2016 | £187,500 | 67 m² | £2,799/m² | 5 |
| 9, Church StreetTerraced | Aug 2025 | £250,000 | 42 m² | £5,952/m² | 6 |
| 11, Church StreetTerraced | Jul 2024 | £182,000 | 45 m² | £4,044/m² | 7 |
| 11a, Church StreetTerraced | Mar 2016 | £168,000 | 58 m² | £2,897/m² | 3 |
| 17, Church StreetTerraced | Dec 2022 | £210,000 | 45 m² | £4,667/m² | 4 |
| 21, Church StreetTerraced | May 2014 | £134,995 | – | – | 3 |
| 23, Church StreetTerraced | Sept 2009 | £160,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Church StreetTerraced | Jan 2023 | £318,000 | 86 m² | £3,698/m² | 4 |
| 27, Church StreetTerraced | Nov 2014 | £159,950 | 57 m² | £2,806/m² | 3 |
| 31, Church StreetTerraced | Jul 2026 | £296,000 | 102 m² | £2,902/m² | 5 |
| 35a, Church StreetFlat | Jul 1997 | £27,000 | 28 m² | £964/m² | 1 |
| 37, Church StreetTerraced | Jan 2023 | £208,000 | 53 m² | £3,925/m² | 6 |
| 39, Church StreetTerraced | Dec 1997 | £45,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 41, Church StreetTerraced | Apr 2017 | £185,000 | 43 m² | £4,302/m² | 3 |
| 43, Church StreetTerraced | Jul 2024 | £163,000 | 83 m² | £1,964/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Leighton Buzzard, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is Chapel Path, 50 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (routes L2, 150); 10 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
Central London is 59 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is The Mary Bassett Lower School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Leighton Middle School, 650 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 450 m away, with L B Food and Wine closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Surgery Bassett Road (300 m), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Di Meo Hairdressing is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Milton Keynes Hospital, 13 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 42 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Red Naga is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Wheatsheaf the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (21 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 91 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 32% flats and 13% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Parsons Close Recreation Ground, 850 m away; for exercise, The Cue and Arrow (600 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 21 km away.
Most households own their home, 21% 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.
61 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shenley House | II | 150 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.
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency: Alex Mayer MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 667 (1.4%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 33%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 18%, Liberal Democrat 14%.
33 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 LU7 1BP →
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 1 of 70 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 | 1.0% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 81.1% | 88.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 3.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 18.6% | 6.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 66 min
Nearest: Hemel Hempstead Leisure Centre · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 95 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.