Fence

16°CLight rain shower

• Today: 16° / 9° · 89% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 12° · Fog

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:35

13h 0m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Salford M60, United Kingdom

11 reported · July 2026▲ 22% YoY

• Vehicle crime4
• Violence & sexual offences4
• Anti-social behaviour2
• Possession of weapons1

Neighbourhood team: Fence & Higham · Lancashire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

143 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 206 casualties · 14.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

128 food businesses within 2 miles

• 105 rated 4–5 ★ (76 top)
• 10 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Brierfield (2.0 km)
• 11 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£149,613 average▲ 8.6% YoY

Across Pendle · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£666 average monthly rent▲ 6.2% YoY

• 1 bed £494
• 2 bed £629
• 3 bed £734

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

4.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.5 times median annual pay (3.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 162.9p · Asda (2.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Asda (2.5 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

29 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: The Prairie (3.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Overnight resurfacing works to minimise disruption as Nelson town centre scheme completes· 8 Sept 2026
• Food and drinks discount for theatre-goers at Colne Market Hall· 4 Sept 2026
• Annual electoral canvass household visits· 3 Sept 2026
• Council, Police and Fire Service working together to tackle late-night fireworks· 3 Sept 2026
• Council condemns vandalism of Nelson war memorial· 2 Sept 2026

Source: Pendle Council

95,757 residents in Pendle · 565/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 36 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

32% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,640 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (60% of 41,670)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

55 schools · 14,890 pupils

37 primary · 6 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 18 of 22 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

50inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Pendle

1,255 CQC-registered services

• Care homes423
• GP practices184
• Dentists250
• Homecare agencies290
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lancashire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 25 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

113 applications decided

85.8% granted · 97 granted, 16 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Jonathan Hinder

Labour

Pendle and Clitheroe

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Con 8
• LD 7
• Ref 5
• Oth 13

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools2
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,550 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

14 jobs advertised

e.g. Online Italian Tutor - Part Time, Become a Maths Tutor in Fence – Flexible & Remote, Online Italian Tutoring Job in Fence – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£620 median full-time weekly pay

5.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£18,449 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

26% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 49,326 certificates

16% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

97% low-carbon electricity

Wind 62% · Nuclear 31% · Solar 3% · Imports 2%

6 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.5 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction8.0
• Feeling worthwhile8.3
• Happiness yesterday8.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.6

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Pendle and Clitheroe:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office413 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s354 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership302 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases214 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership204 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Fence, Lancashire · 0.4 km

  Fence is a village in the civil parish of Old Laund Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, close to the towns of Nelson and Burnley. It lies alongside the A6068 road, known locally as the Padiham bypass. The parish has a…

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  Old Laund Booth · 0.4 km

  Old Laund Booth is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a population of 1,459, and contains the villages of Fence and Wheatley Lane.

• Mee-mawing · 1.3 km

  Mee-mawing was a form of speech with exaggerated movements to allow lip reading employed by workers in weaving sheds in Lancashire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The noise in a weaving shed rendered heari…

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  Wheatley Lane, Lancashire · 1.3 km

  Wheatley Lane is a village in Pendle, Lancashire, England. It is close to Nelson, Barrowford and Burnley. It lies to the north of the A6068 road, known locally as the Padiham bypass, or "The New Road".

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  Brierfield railway station · 2.0 km

  Brierfield railway station serves the town of Brierfield, Lancashire, England and is on the East Lancashire Line 2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) east of Burnley Central railway station towards Colne. The station is managed by No…

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  Higham, Lancashire · 2.1 km

  Higham is a village in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, south of Pendle Hill. The civil parish is named Higham with West Close Booth. The village is 2 miles (3 km) north-east of Padiham and about 4 miles…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)