Barton Heys Road Formby, Sefton

32 addresses across 3 postcodes (L37), about 360 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34100210.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £615,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 11, E: 1).
  • Flood: 15 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 E; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 47% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Formby, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Village Surgery Formby, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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
20251£615,000£615,000£615,000
20241£615,000£615,000£615,000
20233£475,000£420,000£550,000
20222£346,500£255,000£438,000
20211£500,000£500,000£500,000
20204£357,500£255,000£640,000
20191£640,000£640,000£640,000
20181£490,000£490,000£490,000
20171£480,000£480,000£480,000
20161£202,000£202,000£202,000
20071£445,000£445,000£445,000
20061£225,000£225,000£225,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Feb 202526 L37 2EYSemi-detached£615,000
19 Jul 202428 L37 2EYSemi-detached£615,000
29 Sep 202318 L37 2EYSemi-detached£420,000
23 Jun 20231B L37 2EZDetached£475,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 20231B L37 2EZOther£4,620Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Mar 202321 L37 2EYDetached£550,000
10 Mar 202318 L37 2EYSemi-detached£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 202230 L37 2EYDetached£438,000
14 Jan 202216 L37 2EYSemi-detached£255,000
15 Dec 202124 L37 2EYSemi-detached£500,000
26 Nov 20203A L37 2EYDetached£640,000
24 Aug 202030 L37 2EYDetached£395,000
22 May 202017 L37 2EYSemi-detached£255,000
30 Jan 20201B L37 2EZDetached£320,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 20193 L37 2EYDetached£640,000
1 Jun 201819 L37 2EYDetached£490,000
9 Aug 201723 L37 2EYDetached£480,000
28 Jan 201614 L37 2EYSemi-detached£202,000
13 Aug 200720 L37 2EYDetached£445,000
23 Jun 200615 L37 2EYSemi-detached£225,000
14 Mar 200320 L37 2EYDetached£170,000
13 Dec 200110 L37 2EYSemi-detached£193,000
25 Oct 200128 L37 2EYSemi-detached£197,500
31 Aug 20013A L37 2EYDetached£249,950
25 May 20019 L37 2EYDetached£155,000
30 Mar 199911 L37 2EYDetached£106,000
28 Nov 199712 L37 2EYDetached£150,000
16 Aug 199610 L37 2EYSemi-detached£132,000
20 Dec 19953A L37 2EYDetached£173,000
25 Apr 199525 L37 2EYDetached£170,000
17 Mar 19954 L37 2EYDetached£120,000

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 July 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 175 m². Most common: House, detached (6); Bungalow, detached (5); Bungalow, semi-detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (28% of about 1,180 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 August 2026 to 3 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 23 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: MANWEB, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 12 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
L37 2EYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 6 unlikely
L37 2EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
L37 2YHnot in 2 or 3 5 / 6 / 4 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 7 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
L37 2EY100%100%100%0%
L37 2EZ100%100%100%0%
L37 2YH100%47%47%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 stationsFormby 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25770 m (0.5 miles)
Freshfield 589,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Hightown 297,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jubilee Road Formby210 m
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle12.4 km (7.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sainsburys Formby Smart Charge1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL27.9 km (17 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 The Village Surgery Formby1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Elbow Lane Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalRenacres Hospital10.1 km (6.3 miles)
Police stationMaghull Police Station9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *deposit & Withdrawl* The Cooperative Food Formby Queens Road, Formby450 m (0.3 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 2.6 ha350 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 890 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,020 m²700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Formby BeachBeach1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Long CovertWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Formby BankWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Taylor's BankWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Orrell Hill WoodWood3.3 km (2 miles) south-east
Formby HillsHills3.6 km (2.2 miles) north

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)4.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.04015

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 5920
Under 553032

2 of the street's 32 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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 Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11380 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Range High SchoolSecondary11–18470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) 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
St Jerome's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Redgate Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Formby High SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Locharwoods Care Home L37 2EUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Busy Bees in Formby L37 2EQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Ash-Croft House L37 2EGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Co-Operative Food L37 2HGRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Canto L37 2EGOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 May 2026
Queens Road Social L37 2HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 May 2026
Crispy Cod L37 2HFTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Formby Convenience Store L37 2HFRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Anti-social behaviour2
Public order2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Funchal Avenue (4); On or near Hadstock Avenue (2); On or near Crescent Avenue (1).

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: 795 residents in 298 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 age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 10 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.

  • L37 2EY: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • L37 2EZ: 3 addresses
  • L37 2YH: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Eccles Road · Carr's Crescent West · Kew Road · Jubilee Road · Carr's Crescent · Funchal Avenue · Hadstock Avenue · Sutton Road · Cambridge Road · Burwell Avenue · Crescent Avenue · Heydon Close

All the streets in L37 and across Sefton.

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.