Aster Street Oldham

74 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL1), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29400469.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £66,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 54 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 43, D: 5).
  • 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 A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), about 3.5 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 182 to 188 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 68 of its 74 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Chowdhury Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 26% 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
20191£66,000£66,000£66,000
20121£33,000£33,000£33,000
20091£60,000£60,000£60,000
20081£73,000£73,000£73,000
20041£45,500£45,500£45,500
20031£36,000£36,000£36,000
20021£35,000£35,000£35,000
20001£25,000£25,000£25,000
19971£22,000£22,000£22,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Aug 201947 OL1 2LATerraced£64,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Apr 201952 OL1 2LAFlat or maisonette£66,000Leasehold.
9 Mar 201269 OL1 2LAFlat or maisonette£33,000Leasehold.
29 May 200950 OL1 2LAFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
30 May 200847 OL1 2LATerraced£73,000Leasehold.
30 Jan 200445 OL1 2LAFlat or maisonette£45,500Leasehold.
7 Jul 200350 OL1 2LAFlat or maisonette£36,000Leasehold.
12 Apr 200251 OL1 2LASemi-detached£35,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 200045 OL1 2LATerraced£25,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 199751 OL1 2LASemi-detached£22,000Leasehold.

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

54 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 43 m². Most common: Flat (53); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1976-1982 (44); 1967-1975 (7); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (25); rented (social) (13); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (72% of about 1,360 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 2 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: 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 2 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
OL1 2LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
OL1 2JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 74 addresses are between 182 m and 188 m above sea level (183 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
OL1 2JX100%100%100%0%
OL1 2LA100%97%97%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 stationsMills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.1 miles)
Moston 106,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDerker (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Westwood (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Royal Oldham Hospital80 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksDiamond Valeting - Car Park Valeting1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station130 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN25 km (16 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Chowdhury Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gardeners Chemist370 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Integrated Care Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital160 m
Police stationOldham Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone860 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,260 m²200 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,710 m²210 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,550 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,830 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Anne, a listed building (Grade II*), 840 m (0.5 miles) north. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AnneListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north
Chadderton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) west
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Plumpton CloughValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Royley CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Buckley WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Greenacres HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Cinder HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Lower Strinesdale ReservoirLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) 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)15.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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
60 to 6490
55 to 59590
Under 55674

68 of the street's 74 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 Oldham: see them on the Oldham 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 Hilda's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
E-ACT the Oldham Academy NorthSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Holy Cross Ceva Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Northmoor AcademyPrimary2–11940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Burnley Brow Community SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Blue Coat CofE School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Oldham College16 plus14–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Beever Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ss Aidan and Oswald's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Westwood AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Brian Clarke Church of England AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Heathers Kitchen 3 OL1 2LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m4 Good31 May 2022
W H Smith OL1 2JHRetailers - other170 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Teddies Day Nursery OL1 2JHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Cafe Royal OL1 2JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Lloyds Pharmacy OL1 2JHRetailers - other170 mExempt
Two Apples OL1 2HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good11 Aug 2022
Burtons Newsagents OL1 2JJRetailers - other220 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Royal Oldham Hospital OL1 2JHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Shine A Light Day Nursery OL2 6AESchool/college/university280 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Breakfast Cartelz OL1 2LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
Savouries by Anza OL2 6AEOther catering premises280 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Lalah's OL1 2HFTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good13 Feb 2026
Edge Hill House Res. Home OL2 6ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good23 May 2026
Ree Ming OL2 6ABTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Lush Bake Ltd OL2 6ABRetailers - other320 m4 Good24 Jan 2023

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 (derbyshire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 774 residents in 295 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 age3240
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%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)26%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

  • OL1 2LA: 73 addresses of 76 in the postcode
  • OL1 2JX: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lily Street · Booth Hill Lane · Stoneclough Mews · East Way · Downhill Close · Lenfield Lane · Putney Close · Royal Parade · Oregon Avenue · Underhill Road · Hansby Close · Penwell Fold

All the streets in OL1 and across Oldham.

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.