Abbot's Grange Chester

42 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH2), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6900002.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026 (+3.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,000 a month.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (D: 10, E: 7).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Littlers Playing Fields, is 270 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 54 times (89 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, City Road - Solar panel, is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A5116, carries 16,191 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bache, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 280 m away, and Countess of Chester Country Park (23 hectares) is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 30 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Garden Lane Medical Ctr., about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 57 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Cheshire West and Chester

A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 49% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£439,091
Semi-detached£268,826
Terraced£211,455
Flat or maisonette£135,806
Bought by a first-time buyer£223,667

Private renters in Cheshire West and Chester paid £1,000 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 46% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£731
Two bedrooms£922
Three bedrooms£1,132
Four or more bedrooms£1,627

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 134 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (2); House, enclosed end-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1900-1929 (6); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 19,232 kWh of it on average in 2024, 74% more than the district's 11,037 kWh, and 3,767 kWh of electricity, 20% more than the district's 3,146 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CH2 1AJ343,152 kWh 3316,699 kWh
CH2 1AQ84,267 kWh 1020,534 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CH2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (35% of about 1,310 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
City Road - Solar panel Cheshire West and Chester 22/02101/P14 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2022 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026: CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 54 times, for 89 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Finchetts Gutter, Bache Brook, River Dee.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Unknown Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Finchetts Gutter 4 3 540 m (0.3 miles)
Chester Parkgate Court Sps Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bache Brook 3 1 630 m (0.4 miles)
Bache Tanks Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bache Brook 0 0 710 m (0.4 miles)
West of Wealstone Lane Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bache Brook 27 51 710 m (0.4 miles)
Crane Street Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 20 35 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 270 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Littlers Playing Fields Chester College, Cheyney Road, Chester, Cheshire 1988 to 1991 Inert 270 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 42 addresses are between 21 m and 28 m above sea level (25 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CH2 1AJ100%100%100%0%
CH2 1AQ100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBache 495,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Chester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chester University70 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange720 m (0.4 miles)
Car parksSens Close Car Park, Chester900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15.4 km (9.5 miles)

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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Garden Lane Medical Ctr. Good Aug 2017490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Liverpool Road (Dental Surgery)230 m
HospitalCountess Of Chester Hospital (Coc NHS Trust) Requires improvement Jul 20261 km (0.6 miles)
Care homes14 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stone House Residential Home Good Dec 2022250 m
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station890 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM740 m (0.5 miles)

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 middle of the street 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,540 m²280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Countess of Chester Country Park 23 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 60 m²310 m
Playing fieldDicksons Drive Field 1.6 ha810 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cheyney Road Allotments 7,560 m²460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chester College Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m south. 154 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 19 of them Grade I and 18 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chester College ChapelListed building, Grade II*90 m south
Bluecoat School and Former Chapel of St John BaptistListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) south
The NorthgateListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) south
Part of City Wall Between Morgans Mount and NorthgateListed building, Grade I690 m (0.4 miles) south
Abbey Green Roman siteScheduled monument760 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The Little Abbey Gateway, Northgate StreetScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) south
St Nicholas' ChapelScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Donkey FieldWood1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Gamon's RoughWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Gallows HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Gorse HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) west
The DaleValley2.5 km (1.5 miles) north
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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 middle of the street. 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.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 6990
60 to 64120
55 to 5980
Under 551242

30 of the street's 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Newton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
The Grosvenor Park Church of England AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Mill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
St Martin's Academy ChesterPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 96% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 32% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Highfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
Chester International SchoolSecondary14–191.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.5 (34.5 in 2025 and 34.9 in 2024); 27.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 38% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Queen's Park High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.6 (44.2 in 2025 and 47.5 in 2024); 53% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 27.8% AAB or better; progress below average
The Arches Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Hoole Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 150 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Learners Nursery School CH2 1AQ Full day care 76 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 150 m
Buddies Out of School Club CH1 4HG Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 310 m
Chester Day Nursery and Nursery School CH1 3ND Full day care 90 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Bright Horizons Countess of Chester Day Nursery and Preschool CH2 1UL Full day care 72 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
The Nursery in Belong CH1 3AD Full day care 32 Outstanding (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Chester Hopscotch CH1 4BE Full day care 76 Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Earlyworld Kids Club CH2 2LA Out-of-school day care 74 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Newton Park Pre School CH2 2LA Sessional day care 24 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Fir Cones Day Nursery CH2 2HJ Full day care 35 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
S4YC Holiday Club - The Firs School CH2 2HJ Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 109 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Cheshire West and Chester. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
University Of Chester CH1 4BJSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good17 Sep 2024
University Store CH1 4BJRetailers - other130 m5 Very good8 May 2026
Granola Kitchen CH1 4BJRetailers - other130 m4 Good18 Nov 2021
Sam Joseph Chocolates CH1 4BJRetailers - other130 m5 Very good25 Mar 2024
ROOT2GINGER CH1 4BJRetailers - other130 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Baked and Churned CH1 4BJManufacturers/packers130 mAwaiting inspection
Chunky Bakehouse CH1 4BJRetailers - other130 mAwaiting inspection
Little Learners Nursery CH2 1AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Total Fitness Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good25 Jul 2026
The Hammond School, Hampton Lodge Boarding House CH2 1AFSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Stone House Residential Home CH1 4BRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Chester Blue Coat CE Primary School CH1 4HGSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Georgie's Cafe / Rice Box Republik / Burger Bandits / Bomb Burritos CH2 1AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m2 Improvement necessary8 Dec 2025
George & Dragon CH2 1AAPub/bar/nightclub340 mAwaiting inspection
ROCS desserts Chester CH1 4EWRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

57 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour7
Drugs6
Other theft6
Public order4
Bicycle theft2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Possession of weapons1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Victoria Court (13); On or near Heathcote Close (12); On or near Conference/Exhibition Centre (8); On or near Dawson Drive (8); On or near Abbot'S Grange (7).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 5 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 57% happened in the dark, and 43% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202140
202200
202300
202421
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
29 Jan 2025 00:52 Serious 3 people A540, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
22 Oct 2024 07:57 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A540, 30 mph Wet road
18 Jun 2024 21:35 Slight 2 people A540, 30 mph Dark, street lights off
17 Nov 2021 18:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Dark
6 Jun 2021 14:08 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A540, 30 mph Daylight
11 May 2021 23:59 Slight 2 people A540, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
10 Jan 2021 14:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A5116, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A5116 between A5480 and A5268, with 16,191 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 200 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A5116 A5480 to A5268 16,191 counted 2025 0% -14% since 2015 200 m
A540 A5268 to A5480 10,124 estimated; counted 2018 2% -6% since 2015 410 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 518 residents in 205 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.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3440
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 8 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.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 1 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, bungalow, detached (lodged 31 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CH2 1AJ: 41 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • CH2 1AQ: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Exton Park · Abbots Grange · Dawson Drive · Hayes Park · Gaymoore Close · Victoria Court · Moss Bank · Victoria Crescent · Victoria Road · Liverpool Road · Heathcote Close · Bouverie Street

All the streets in CH2 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.