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On Luxborough Street, in Regent's Park
What it's like at W1U 5BN: every home that has sold on Luxborough 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 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 Luxborough Street; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
10 of the 141 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 61, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | May 2026 | £685,000 | – | – | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Nov 2022 | £800,000 | 72 m² | £11,111/m² | 4 |
| 63, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Dec 2000 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 65, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Aug 2012 | £473,750 | 51 m² | £9,289/m² | 1 |
| 72, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Dec 1997 | £135,000 | 71 m² | £1,901/m² | 1 |
| 73, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Apr 2025 | £1,075,000 | 70 m² | £15,357/m² | 1 |
| 77, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Aug 2003 | £315,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 81, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Aug 2017 | £750,000 | 49 m² | £15,306/m² | 2 |
| 84, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Jul 2003 | £320,000 | 70 m² | £4,571/m² | 1 |
| 85, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat | Mar 1996 | £76,000 | 47 m² | £1,617/m² | 1 |
| 87, Luxborough Tower, Luxborough StreetFlat · company-owned | Jul 2022 | £825,000 | 72 m² | £11,458/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 69% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Baker Street Underground station, a few minutes' walk (250 m). The nearest rail station is London Marylebone, 550 m away, with 11.8m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Baker Street Station, 150 m away, with a bus about every 1 minute on weekdays (routes 18, 453, 27, 205); 521 departures an hour from the 20 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 4 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
You're in central London.
69% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
The nearest secondary is The St Marylebone CofE School, 200 m away; Attainment 8: 61 · 29% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Ark King Solomon Academy (0.8 km) and Paddington Academy (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (6.9 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (10.4 km).
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 150 m away; AD Food (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Marylebone Health Centre (300 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, C Lane is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is St Mary's Hospital, 1.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 95 restaurants and cafés and 2 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Canteen is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Globe Public House the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 336 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 81% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Portman Estate, Dorset Square).
There are 119 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (92%).
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
85 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 78, Chiltern Street | II | 70 m |
| 94-114,118 to 124, Baker Street W1 | II | 140 m |
| Fitzpatrick Family Mausoleum on East Side of the Southern Half of Public Gardens | II | 160 m |
| 5, Nottingham Street W1 | II | 160 m |
| 4, Nottingham Street W1 | II | 170 m |
| 3, Nottingham Street W1 | II | 170 m |
| 2 and 3, Dorset Street W1 | II | 170 m |
| St Marylebone Youth Centre Club | II | 180 m |
| 2, Nottingham Street W1 | II | 180 m |
| Prince Regent Public House | II | 190 m |
| 105-115, Baker Street W1 | II | 190 m |
| the Old Rising Sun Public House |
Cities of London and Westminster constituency: Rachel Blake MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 2,708 (6.9%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 39%, Conservative 32%, Liberal Democrat 11%, Green Party 7%.
68 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 W1U 5BN →
The nearest park is Paddington Street Gardens North, 50 m away; for exercise, Bxr (100 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 2.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 26.6 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 15 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 21 km.
Many neighbours rent: 55% of households rent privately and 7% socially.
It's young: 30% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 70% of adults have a degree.
There's a sizeable student population: 19% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is Regent's University London, 500 m away (TEF Silver).
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.
| II |
| 190 m |
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 116 homes with certificates have solar panels, 3 a heat pump, and 58 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 43.0% | 51.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 14.4% | 15.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 41.4% | 31.2% | 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 141 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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