Alpine Drive Wardle, Rochdale

76 addresses across 3 postcodes (OL12), about 500 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 32000037.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £234,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 17, E: 8, F: 4).
  • Flood: 6 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 B; Band D in Rochdale costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rutherford Park, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 187 to 195 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 76 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Littleborough Group Practice, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 27% 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
20252£234,250£223,500£245,000
20242£277,525£240,050£315,000
20232£257,500£240,000£275,000
20222£192,500£165,000£220,000
20213£220,000£190,000£229,950
20201£183,000£183,000£183,000
20183£180,000£175,000£192,500
20162£187,500£185,000£190,000
20153£135,000£128,000£204,000
20132£174,000£153,000£195,000
20122£164,250£122,000£206,500
20104£141,975£110,500£190,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Feb 20257 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£245,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 202552 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£223,500Leasehold.
14 Jun 202431 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£315,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 202427 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£240,050Leasehold.
20 Dec 202351 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£240,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 202339 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£275,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 202271 OL12 9NYTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
9 May 20227 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
21 May 202161 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
13 Apr 202112 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£229,950
15 Jan 202141 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£190,000
17 Jul 202017 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£183,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 201833 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£180,000
15 Jun 201831 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 201881 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£192,500
7 Oct 201643 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
17 Jun 201615 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£185,000
9 Oct 201555 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
11 Jun 201561 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 201532 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£204,000
5 Dec 201387 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£153,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 201323 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£195,000
10 Aug 201232 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£206,500
17 Jan 201281 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£122,000
19 Nov 201061 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£110,500Leasehold.
1 Oct 201029 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 201034 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£158,950
8 Mar 201079 OL12 9NYTerraced£190,000
11 Nov 200912 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£125,000
31 Oct 200849 OL12 9NYDetached£295,000
1 Oct 200748 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 20079 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£149,950Leasehold.
11 May 200779 OL12 9NYTerraced£177,000
24 Apr 200748 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£141,000Leasehold.
2 Mar 200752 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£157,500Leasehold.
15 Nov 20061 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 200555 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 200469 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£126,500
12 Sep 200346 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£98,000
12 Jun 200348 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£95,000Leasehold.
2 Jun 200367 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£119,950Leasehold.
2 Jun 200367 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£119,950
16 Dec 200244 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£102,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 200281 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£105,000
1 Nov 200239 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£94,950Leasehold.
20 Jul 200148 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 200057 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£50,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 199647 OL12 9NYSemi-detached£73,000
23 Feb 199632 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£63,000
4 Aug 199516 OL12 9NZSemi-detached£57,000Leasehold.

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); Bungalow, semi-detached (9); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (17); 1950-1966 (11); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27).

Each home's certificates and sales (22 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rochdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,179£3,757£4,335£5,202

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 840 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 14 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
OL12 9NYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
OL12 9NZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
OL12 9PAnot in 2 or 3 5 / 1 / 1 unlikely

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 76 addresses are between 187 m and 195 m above sea level (190 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
OL12 9NY100%100%100%0%
OL12 9NZ100%100%100%0%
OL12 9PA100%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 stationsSmithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brook Street Wardle190 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Car parks5 Milner Street Parking2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN34.6 km (22 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 surgeriesLittleborough Group Practice2.3 km (1.4 miles)
PharmaciesCohens Chemist1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dentistry@442 LTD440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationRochdale Police Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machinesWardle Off Licence/Select + Save, Small Bridge Cashzone1.5 km (0.9 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 gardenRutherford Park 1.7 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,450 m²120 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,840 m²110 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Whitworth Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whitworth CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rydings DamLake or reservoir810 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Birch HillHill880 m (0.5 miles) east
Watergrove ReservoirLake or reservoir940 m (0.6 miles) north
East HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Starring WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Hills CloughValley1.6 km (1 mile) 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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 5910
Under 557576

1 of the street's 76 addresses is 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 Rochdale: see them on the Rochdale 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 James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Report card (Apr 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
Wardle AcademySecondary11–16940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 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
Kentmere Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Charlies Coffee and Cake OL12 9NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
The Globe Inn OL12 9NUPub/bar/nightclub230 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2025
Wardle Conservative Club OL12 9JUPub/bar/nightclub240 mExempt
St. James C of E School OL12 9JWSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good10 Oct 2024
Tattersall's Bakery Ltd OL12 9LBRetailers - other340 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Hare & Hounds OL12 9LQPub/bar/nightclub340 m4 Good18 Aug 2025
Mr Bakers OL12 9LHTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Wardle News OL12 9LHRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jul 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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 273 residents in 116 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 age5440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)97%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%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 7 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

Pennine Drive · Back Chapel Street · Cornbrook Close · Chapel Street · Old School Place · Brook Street · Hartley Street · Knowl Syke Street · Clough Street · Back Ramsden Road · Clough Street · Fern Street

All the streets in OL12 and across Rochdale.

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.