Adlington Drive Leftwich, Cheshire West and Chester

32 addresses across 3 postcodes (CW9), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41700013.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 9).
  • Flood: 11 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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, Old Hall Road, is 30 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 112 times (262 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Lostock, is 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; 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 Northwich, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Danebridge Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 17% 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: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£185,000£185,000£185,000
20233£150,000£144,000£187,000
20201£140,000£140,000£140,000
20191£121,500£121,500£121,500
20182£121,713£103,926£139,500
20172£123,250£121,500£125,000
20131£100,000£100,000£100,000
20122£92,500£80,000£105,000
20081£125,000£125,000£125,000
20073£112,500£111,000£115,000
20032£66,000£66,000£66,000
20012£45,475£44,950£46,000
All 23 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 20234 CW9 8BPTerraced£187,000
16 Mar 20184 CW9 8BPTerraced£139,500
5 May 20176 CW9 8BPTerraced£127,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Apr 20267 CW9 8BPTerraced£185,000
4 Mar 20207 CW9 8BPTerraced£140,000
13 Feb 20177 CW9 8BPTerraced£121,500
4 Feb 20087 CW9 8BPTerraced£125,000
24 Feb 201711 CW9 8BPTerraced£125,000
18 Dec 201311 CW9 8BPTerraced£100,000
25 Jan 200712 CW9 8BPTerraced£111,000
8 Jun 200112 CW9 8BPTerraced£44,950
2 Jun 202313 CW9 8BPTerraced£144,000
29 Aug 201214 CW9 8BPTerraced£80,000
23 Apr 200114 CW9 8BPTerraced£46,000
28 Apr 202316 CW9 8BPTerraced£150,000
14 May 201216 CW9 8BPTerraced£105,000
13 Aug 201922 CW9 8BPSemi-detached£121,500
4 May 200722 CW9 8BPSemi-detached£112,500
1 Apr 200322 CW9 8BPSemi-detached£66,000
22 Sep 199922 CW9 8BPSemi-detached£34,000
1 Oct 201827 CW9 8BPTerraced£103,926
20 Aug 200727 CW9 8BPTerraced£115,000
25 Apr 200327 CW9 8BPTerraced£66,000

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 June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (9); House, mid-terrace (9); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (19); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,680 kWh of it on average in 2024, 21% less than the district's 10,947 kWh, and 3,436 kWh of electricity, 5% more than the district's 3,262 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CW9 8BP272,444 kWh 288,225 kWh
CW9 8BJ263,324 kWh 289,545 kWh
CW9 8BS342,957 kWh 348,053 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 CW9.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (79% of about 620 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 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: none.
  • 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.

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Lostock Cheshire West and Chester S36 Energy from waste (incinerator) 60 MW Being built Sep 2021 1.7 km (1 mile)
Land at Lostock Works (Northwich Facility) Cheshire West and Chester 15/04133/FUL Anaerobic digestion 5 MW Operational Oct 2016 2.5 km (1.5 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 3 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CW9 8BPnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 2 unlikely
CW9 8BJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 1 unlikely
CW9 8BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 112 times, for 262 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Dane Via Sws, River Dane.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
181 London Road Cso United Utilities River Dane Via Sws 5 1 830 m (0.5 miles)
Off Carlton Road Cso United Utilities River Dane 38 28 870 m (0.5 miles)
Marlowe Road (Playing Fields) Cso United Utilities River Dane 69 233 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 30 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Old Hall Road Northwich, Cheshire 1966 to 1971 Not recorded 30 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 32 addresses are between 31 m and 33 m above sea level (32 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

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
CW9 8BJ100%100%100%0%
CW9 8BP100%100%100%0%
CW9 8BS100%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 stationsNorthwich 189,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Greenbank 215,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Hartford (Cheshire) 218,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadow Grove Leftwich70 m
Car parksZion Street Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsPark Street Car Park GeniePoint1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN18.9 km (12 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Danebridge Medical Centre Good Nov 20221.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leftwich Pharmacy130 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalIcc Victoria Infirmary1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Davenham Hall Nursing Home Good Oct 20251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationNorthwich Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Northwich, Clifton Drive130 m

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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,840 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.6 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Hall Road Play Area 2,770 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,100 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 7.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Wilfred, a listed building (Grade II*), 920 m (0.6 miles) south. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St WilfredListed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marshalls ArmLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Clough WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Greenbank WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Poor's WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Castle HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Gunners CloughValley4 km (2.5 miles) north-west

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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
55 to 5920
Under 553032

2 of the street's 32 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), 5 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
The County High School, LeftwichSecondary11–16430 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.1 (51.9 in 2025 and 53.7 in 2024); 51.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Leftwich Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College16 plus16–19920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 34.1% AAB or better; progress well above average
Kingsmead Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Davenham CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Nicholas Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.7 (50.8 in 2025 and 49.9 in 2024); 48.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 5.1% AAB or better; progress below average
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 88% in 2023)
Witton Church Walk CofE Aided Nursery and Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 35% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 23% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Charles Darwin Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Rudheath Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Victoria Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
The Rudheath Senior AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 32.2 (35.7 in 2025 and 37.2 in 2024); 19.1% grade 5+ in English and maths

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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Smallworld Pre-School CW9 8DH Full day care 24 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Little Weavers Day Nursery CW9 8EG Full day care 72 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Northwich CW9 8UW Full day care 107 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 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 5 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
Facefood CW9 8BQTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good27 Mar 2025
Best Local CW9 8BQRetailers - other150 m4 Good31 Aug 2026
MORRISONS DAILY CW9 8BQRetailers - other150 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
The Olive Branch CW9 8BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good18 Dec 2024
Yeung Sing Takeaway CW9 8BQTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good27 Mar 2025
Smallworld Pre-School Leftwich CW9 8DHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Leftwich C P School CW9 8DHSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 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 offences30
Public order10
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour5
Drugs3
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cockington Close (11); On or near Pillar Gardens (10); On or near Greenlaw Close (6); On or near Balmoral Avenue (5); On or near Adlington Drive (5).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Apr 2025 19:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 20 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 613 residents in 258 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 age3640
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • CW9 8BP: 30 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • CW9 8BJ: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • CW9 8BS: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Riverside · Pillar Gardens · Meadow Grove · Tilstone Close · Redesmere Close · Kenmare Bank · Cockington Close · Clifton Drive · Muirfield Close · Betley Close · Standford Drive · Greenlaw Close

All the streets in CW9 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.