Alder Close Prescot, Knowsley

23 addresses across 1 postcode (L34), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19500016.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £213,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 3, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 D; Band D in Knowsley costs £2,488 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Eccleston Park, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, and The Henley Memorial Park (2.3 hectares) is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 70 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park House Medical Centre, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20252£213,500£200,000£227,000
20231£297,500£297,500£297,500
20221£277,000£277,000£277,000
20202£179,775£162,550£197,000
20181£172,500£172,500£172,500
20171£185,000£185,000£185,000
20161£162,000£162,000£162,000
20151£170,000£170,000£170,000
20131£108,000£108,000£108,000
20121£118,500£118,500£118,500
20081£137,000£137,000£137,000
20071£145,000£145,000£145,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Apr 20256 L34 2SNSemi-detached£227,000
17 Apr 202518 L34 2SNSemi-detached£200,000
13 Mar 20238 L34 2SNSemi-detached£297,500
24 Jun 20225 L34 2SNSemi-detached£277,000
24 Sep 20216 L34 2SNSemi-detached£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Sep 20205 L34 2SNSemi-detached£197,000
17 Jul 202015 L34 2SNSemi-detached£162,550
26 Sep 20182 L34 2SNSemi-detached£172,500
16 Aug 20175 L34 2SNSemi-detached£185,000
30 Jun 20161 L34 2SNSemi-detached£162,000
23 Oct 20152 L34 2SNSemi-detached£170,000
31 Jul 201313 L34 2SNSemi-detached£108,000
7 Dec 20125 L34 2SNSemi-detached£118,500
15 Feb 200815 L34 2SNSemi-detached£137,000
15 Feb 20078 L34 2SNSemi-detached£145,000
24 Jan 20061 L34 2SNSemi-detached£154,000
7 Nov 200310 L34 2SNTerraced£105,000
29 Oct 19999 L34 2SNSemi-detached£53,950
28 Oct 199921 L34 2SNSemi-detached£49,500
29 Jan 199917 L34 2SNSemi-detached£49,000
20 Oct 19971 L34 2SNSemi-detached£59,950
31 Oct 199519 L34 2SNSemi-detached£44,000
26 May 199514 L34 2SNSemi-detached£49,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Knowsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,488 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,659£1,935£2,212£2,488£3,041£3,594£4,147£4,977

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (39% of about 590 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

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

© 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 23 addresses are between 70 m and 72 m above sea level (71 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
L34 2SN100%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 stationsEccleston Park 74,000 journeys in 2024–25500 m (0.3 miles)
Prescot 293,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Whiston 178,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alder Close Prescot50 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalGerry Marsden Ferry Terminal Liverpool14.2 km (8.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking Space on Blundell Road, L35780 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL11.3 km (7 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park House Medical Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalAset Hospital700 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationPrescot Police Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM750 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,700 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Henley Memorial Park 2.3 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²760 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,920 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Taylor Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Taylor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Landscape associated with the former Pilkingtons Headquarters complexRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Yates' PlantationWood930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Number 3 ReservoirLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Gorse PlantationWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Sale's WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Number 4 ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
The KnollHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) 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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 5920
Under 552123

2 of the street's 23 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 Knowsley: see them on the Knowsley 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
Prescot Primary SchoolPrimary3–11340 m Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eccleston Lane Ends Primary SchoolPrimary4–11370 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Evelyn Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 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: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Luke's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Longton Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whiston Willis Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Prescot SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carmel College Roman Catholic16 plus16–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Nutgrove Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Go Local Extra L35 7JXRetailers - other220 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Aug 2024
Eccleston Park Lawn Tennis Club L34 2TTPub/bar/nightclub340 m4 Good16 Dec 2024
Wilsons Cafe L35 7JARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good28 May 2025
Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School L34 2QNSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good7 Oct 2024
F.A.C.E.S. L34 2QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Eurofoods International L35 7ADImporters/Exporters400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
The Wellington L34 2RHPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Prescot Primary School L34 2TASchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Evelyn Community Primary School L34 2SPSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Feb 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Other theft3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Anti-social behaviour1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grays Avenue (3); On or near B5201 (3); On or near Alder Close (2); On or near Old Lane (2); On or near Vining Road (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 270 residents in 121 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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

Coniston Avenue · Portico Lane · Vining Road · Grasmere Avenue · The Gables · Rydal Avenue · Broom Close · Fairholme Avenue · Mcvinnie Road · Beech Avenue · Plum Tree Close · Derwent Avenue

All the streets in L34 and across Knowsley.

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.