Appleton Village Widnes, Halton

59 addresses across 7 postcodes (WA8), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 16101570.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2006 the median was £160,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, B: 20, C: 8, 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 A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 910 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 25 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 32 of its 66 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Peelhouse Medical Plaza, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 157 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
20061£160,000£160,000£160,000
20041£140,000£140,000£140,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Dec 2020WHITEFIELD & BROWN WA8 6EQOther£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Dec 2020WHITEFIELD & BROWN WA8 6EQOther£374,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Apr 20152, ST BEDES VIEW WA8 7FLOther£1,025,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Nov 200618 WA8 6PUSemi-detached£160,000
8 Oct 200418 WA8 6PUSemi-detached£140,000

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 January 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 43 m². Most common: Flat (32); House, detached (1). Built: 2018 (24); 1930-1949 (3); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (32); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (43% of about 2,340 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Halton Borough Council Article 4 - 1, Halton Borough Council Article 4 - A4D_1.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

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

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 66 addresses are between 25 m and 32 m above sea level (29 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WA8 6EJ100%0%0%0%
WA8 6EL100%100%100%0%
WA8 6EN100%100%100%0%
WA8 6EQ100%100%100%0%
WA8 6PU100%100%100%0%
WA8 7FL100%0%0%0%
WA8 7QP100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leigh Avenue Appleton60 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car Park - Widnes560 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL8.9 km (5.5 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peelhouse Medical Plaza500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Appleton Village Pharmacy30 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery240 m
HospitalHighfield Hospital540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 23-24 Albert Square Lloyds Bank310 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 14 ha130 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,240 m²330 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²260 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 540 m²890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spike IslandIsland1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Bower's PoolTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Runcorn SandsWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Pex HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Hale Road WoodsWood3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Big PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
65 to 6940
60 to 6450
55 to 59230
Under 553466

32 of the street's 66 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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 Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary5–7120 m Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–11160 m Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Kingsway Primary Academy SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–16610 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Riverside College Halton16 plus16–99820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–5850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, 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
St Bede's Catholic Primary School - Mellors WA8 6ELSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good8 Nov 2024
Village Care Club Ltd WA8 6ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
Daisy Maisies Appleton WA8 6ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Aros Kitchen WA8 6ELTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good13 Nov 2025
R.A.O.B Club WA8 6EEPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good11 Mar 2019
Appleton Village Store WA8 6PURetailers - other220 m5 Very good19 Oct 2023
Early Learners Nursery WA8 6EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good3 Sep 2026
JJ Store WA8 6PFRetailers - other260 m1 Major improvement necessary15 May 2026
The Viking Grill WA8 6JWOther catering premises260 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Iceland WA8 6JWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m4 Good28 Apr 2026
Taste of China WA8 6NXTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good8 Dec 2025
Moo and a Brew Ltd WA8 6JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Widnes Discount Store WA8 6JWRetailers - other300 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jul 2024
My Local WA8 6HQRetailers - other300 m5 Very good9 Jan 2024
Ma & Ja Cafe Ltd WA8 6JWOther catering premises300 m5 Very good13 Nov 2024

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.

157 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences61
Anti-social behaviour29
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order14
Shoplifting13
Burglary8
Other theft5
Drugs3
Bicycle theft2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (50); On or near Deacon Road (19); On or near Dickson Street (13); On or near Appleton Village (11); On or near Mc Clellan Place (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,303 residents in 607 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)29%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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.

  • WA8 6EJ: 25 addresses
  • WA8 6EL: 17 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • WA8 6EQ: 10 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • WA8 6EN: 2 addresses
  • WA8 6PU: 2 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • WA8 7QP: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WA8 7FL: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Deacon Road · Frederick Street · Randle Mews · Sayce Street · Regent Road · Mc Clellan Place · Deirdre Avenue · St. Bedes View · Appleton Road · Park Avenue · Carey Street · Kent Street

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.