Ashfield Prescot, St. Helens

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (L35), about 70 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 37500076.

  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 2, D: 5).
  • Flood: 5 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 C; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainhill, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rainhill Eco, is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rainhill Village Surgery, about 230 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 56 m². Most common: Flat (8). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in St. Helens in 2026-27: Band D £2,403 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,602£1,869£2,136£2,403£2,937£3,472£4,006£4,807

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (18% of about 680 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 28 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
L35 4LSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 14 unlikely
L35 0NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 14 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 addresses are about 61 m above sea level.

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
L35 0NS100%100%100%0%
L35 4LS67%67%67%33%

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 stationsRainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Eccleston Park 74,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Thatto Heath 149,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashfield St Anns50 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksParking Space on Blundell Road, L351.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.7 km (6.7 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 Rainhill Village Surgery230 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Longsters Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barker And Scott Dental Surgery700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalAset Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationPrescot Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesCompass Group - Whiston Hospital Cashzone1.8 km (1.1 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 Rainhill Eco 900 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.7 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²360 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.7 ha220 m
AllotmentsMilton Street Allotments 1.2 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Anne's Well, a scheduled monument, 470 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Anne's WellScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Rainhill Hall Farm moated site and twelve fishponds in The RoughScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Micklehead Green moated siteScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Blundell's HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) west
Blundell's Hill WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Ansdell's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The RoughWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Whiston WoodsWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
The DamLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6460
55 to 5970
Under 55115

14 of the street's 15 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 St. Helens: see them on the St. Helens 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
Rainhill Community NurseryNursery2–4250 m Report card (Apr 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Ann's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11350 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Rainhill High SchoolSecondary11–18610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakdene Primary AcademyPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Longton Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) 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
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) 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: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sutton Manor Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Dec 2022, 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
Rainhill Ex-Servicemens Club L35 4LSPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good18 Apr 2024
Rainhill Recreation Club L35 0LHPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025
Carouse on the Loose L35 0LHMobile caterer240 mAwaiting inspection
Rainhill Community Nursery L35 4NWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
The Co-Operative Food L35 4LZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good18 May 2026
Cookhouse Pub and Carvery L35 0LRPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good14 Mar 2026
The Base Breakfast & After School Club L35 0LQSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Casa Presto L35 0LQTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Oct 2025
St Anns CE Primary School L35 0LQSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Waterfields L35 4LZRetailers - other380 m2 Improvement necessary27 Oct 2025
Rainhill Fish Bar L35 4LZTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2025
Chung Ku L35 4LZTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Hayes Traditional Butchers L35 4LZRetailers - other390 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Commercial Hotel L35 0LPPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jan 2025
The Wine Club L35 4LURetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kingsdale Avenue (8); On or near Ashfield (3); On or near Knowsley Road (2); On or near Deepdale Drive (2); On or near The Meadows (1).

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: 280 residents in 127 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • L35 4LS: 14 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • L35 0NS: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wharfedale Drive · Allendale Avenue · Kingsdale Avenue · Wensleydale Avenue · Nidderdale Avenue · Widdale Avenue · Deepdale Drive · Knowsley Road · The Meadows · Mossdale Drive · Swaledale Avenue · Oaklands

All the streets in L35 and across St. Helens.

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.