Albert Drive Whitefield, Bury

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (M45), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5103918.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £220,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 18, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Bury costs £2,555 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Clifton (Manchester), about 4 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Unsworth Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20262£220,000£195,000£245,000
20251£256,000£256,000£256,000
20231£295,000£295,000£295,000
20201£330,000£330,000£330,000
20193£169,950£147,000£210,000
20152£130,000£125,000£135,000
20141£120,000£120,000£120,000
20081£150,000£150,000£150,000
20075£149,950£136,950£160,000
20066£187,000£137,500£250,000
200512£137,250£55,000£240,000
20046£91,250£55,000£137,500
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 20263 M45 8AGTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
22 May 202618 M45 8AGSemi-detached£245,000Leasehold.
15 May 202512 M45 8AGSemi-detached£256,000Leasehold.
24 May 202420 M45 8AGSemi-detached£242,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 20234 M45 8AGSemi-detached£295,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 202045 M45 8AGDetached£330,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 202020 M45 8AGSemi-detached£183,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Oct 201937 M45 8AGSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 20198 M45 8AGTerraced£169,950Leasehold.
16 Feb 201920 M45 8AGSemi-detached£147,000Leasehold.
9 Oct 201535 M45 8AGTerraced£114,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 20154 M45 8AGSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 201514 M45 8AGSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
8 May 20149 M45 8AGTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 201329 M45 8AGSemi-detached£117,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Sep 200816 M45 8AGSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 20078 M45 8AGTerraced£159,950Leasehold.
31 Oct 200718 M45 8AGSemi-detached£142,500Leasehold.
21 Sep 20076 M45 8AGSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
8 Jun 20072 M45 8AGSemi-detached£149,950Leasehold.
8 Jun 20073 M45 8AGTerraced£136,950Leasehold.
30 Oct 200641 M45 8AGSemi-detached£190,000New build. Leasehold.
13 Sep 200643 M45 8AGDetached£184,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Jul 200645 M45 8AGDetached£250,000New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 200647 M45 8AGDetached£190,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Mar 200616 M45 8AGSemi-detached£137,500New build. Leasehold.
17 Mar 200637 M45 8AGSemi-detached£175,000New build. Leasehold.
7 Dec 200549 M45 8AGDetached£175,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Sep 200529 M45 8AGSemi-detached£55,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 200535 M45 8AGTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Sep 200551 M45 8AGDetached£240,000New build. Leasehold.
8 Jul 200539 M45 8AGTerraced£175,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Jun 200520 M45 8AGSemi-detached£123,000New build. Leasehold.
13 May 200514 M45 8AGSemi-detached£137,500New build. Leasehold.
6 May 20058 M45 8AGTerraced£137,500New build. Leasehold.
4 Mar 200518 M45 8AGSemi-detached£135,000New build. Leasehold.
2 Mar 200512 M45 8AGSemi-detached£137,500New build. Leasehold.
28 Jan 20056 M45 8AGSemi-detached£137,000New build. Leasehold.
17 Jan 20054 M45 8AGSemi-detached£135,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 20042 M45 8AGSemi-detached£137,500New build. Leasehold.
7 Jul 20049 M45 8AGTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.
7 Jul 20047 M45 8AGTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Apr 20045 M45 8AGTerraced£95,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Apr 20043 M45 8AGTerraced£87,500New build. Leasehold.
16 Apr 20041 M45 8AGTerraced£95,000New build. Leasehold.

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 January 2010 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 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2003-2006 (14); 1991-1995 (4); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bury in 2026-27: Band D £2,555 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,703£1,987£2,271£2,555£3,123£3,691£4,259£5,110

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (54% of about 780 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): Bury borough HMO.
  • 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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.

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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 90 m and 92 m above sea level (91 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
M45 8AF100%100%100%0%
M45 8AG100%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 stationsClifton (Manchester) 1,100 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Swinton (Manchester) 165,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Moorside 43,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBesses o'th'Barn (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Whitefield (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Prestwich (Manchester Metrolink)2 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oak Lane Hillock80 m
Bus or coach stationRadcliffe Bus Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksHeaton Park Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN22.4 km (14 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. 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Unsworth Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitefield Pharmacy80 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parr Lane (Dental Surgery)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalPrestwich Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police - Whitefield Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Parr Lane - Bury, Unsworth640 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.3 ha250 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,560 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.9 ha260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eden Gardens Allotments 3,240 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Heaton Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Heaton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Heaton Park ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Lamb Lodge ReservoirLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Hazlitt WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Oak Croft HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Mere CloughValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Blackfish PondLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-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)13.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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, 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 59150
Under 551328

15 of the street's 28 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 Bury: see them on the Bury page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Michael's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–11190 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ribble Drive Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mersey Drive Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitefield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Unsworth Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Primary School, StandPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bury and Whitefield Jewish Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 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
Parrenthorn High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Unsworth AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heaton Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Smithy's Cafe M45 8NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good5 Dec 2024
ALS Curries & Kebabs M45 8NETakeaway/sandwich shop50 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2026
T&DYNE M45 8AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good16 Jan 2026
Spar M45 8NERetailers - other90 m5 Very good7 Dec 2018
Our Place Cafe M45 8NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection
Hazel Road Mini-Market Retailers - other390 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
Mellors Catering Services @ Ribble Drive County Primary School M45 8TDSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Toddlers Children’s Nursery Limited M45 8TDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Oct 2026

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

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: 794 residents in 323 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

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.

Nearby streets

Albert Place · Hindburn Walk · Albert Road · St Michaels Gardens · Regal Close · Tweedsdale Close · Beverley Close · Hindburn Close · Brook Drive · Cambeck Close · Billberry Close · Kenmore Road

All the streets in M45 and across Bury.

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.
  • 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.