CH1 2LB Cheshire West and Chester

Streets

• New Crane Street, Chester: 43 addresses
• Weaver Street, Chester: 1 address
• Nicholas Street, Chester: 1 address
• Watergate Street, Chester: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (28% of about 940 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 33.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• NUMBER 11 STREET NUMBERS 15 AND 15A ROW THE OLD CRYPT, grade I
• NUMBER 17 STREET NUMBER 21 ROW LECHE HOUSE, grade I
• NUMBER 37 STREET NUMBER 45 ROW ST URSULAS, grade I
• NUMBER 41 STREET NUMBERS 51 AND 53 ROW BISHOP LLOYDS HOUSE, grade I
• NUMBERS 28 AND 30 ROW BOOTH MANSION NUMBERS 28-34 STREET, grade I
• NUMBER 21 STREET NUMBER 27 ROW, grade II*
• NUMBER 22 ROW NUMBER 22 STREET, grade II*
• NUMBER 24 ROW NUMBER 24 STREET, grade II*
• NUMBER 26 ROW NUMBER 26 STREET, grade II*
• NUMBER 68 STREET, grade II*
• NUMBERS 34, 36 AND 38 ROW NUMBERS 38, 40 AND 42 STREET, grade II*
• THE FRIARS, grade II*
• 13 and 15 Watergate Street and 17 and 19 Watergate Row South, grade II
• 2-5, OLD HALL PLACE, grade II
• 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET, grade II
• 49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South, grade II
• 51 Watergate Street and 59 Watergate Row South, grade II
• GUILDHALL, grade II
• NUMBER 23 ROW LYON HOUSE, grade II
• NUMBER 25 STREET NUMBER 29 ROW, grade II
• NUMBER 35 STREET NUMBER 43 ROW, grade II
• NUMBER 39 STREET NUMBERS 47 AND 49 ROW, grade II
• NUMBER 52 STREET, grade II
• NUMBER 70 STREET OLD CUSTOM HOUSE, grade II
• NUMBER 73 STREET, grade II
• NUMBER 9 STREET NUMBERS 11 AND 11A ROW GODS PROVIDENCE HOUSE, grade II
• NUMBERS 44 AND 46 STREET, grade II
• NUMBERS 48 AND 50 STREET, grade II
• NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET, grade II
• NUMBERS 58-66 STREET, grade II

And 3 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• 14 - 20 Watergate Street, Chester (within boundary of CHC/0008/H): up to 26 homes, permissioned (100 m)
• Land at Bollands Court, Commonhall Street, Chester: up to 15 homes, not permissioned (130 m)
• 22 Nicholas Street, Chester, CH1 2NX: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (150 m)
• Northgate Redevelopment, Northgate Street, Chester: up to 300 homes, not permissioned (160 m)
• Linenhall car park, Stanley Street, Chester, CH1 2LR: up to 200 homes, permissioned (180 m)
• Clemence House, St Werburgh Street, Chester, CH1 2DY: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (220 m)
• New Crane Street car park, Chester: up to 15 homes, not permissioned (320 m)
• Former car garage, Lower Bridge Street, Chester: up to 48 homes, pending decision (410 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 46 addresses are between 20 m and 25 m above sea level (23 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 0%, gigabit 0% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

Within 800 m: 8 parks and gardens, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Number 41 Street Numbers 51 and 53 Row Bishop Lloyds House, a listed building (Grade I), 10 m. 611 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 59 of them Grade I and 66 of them Grade II*.

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

44 of the postcode's 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 543 residents in 221 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

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Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.