Beech Drive Crewe, Cheshire East

86 addresses across 4 postcodes (CW2), about 430 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 9800108.

  • Sales: 47 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £188,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 49 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 25, D: 16, E: 3, F: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crewe, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, and Queen's Park (16 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 47 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 86 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Millcroft Medical Centre, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 97 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
20252£188,000£186,000£190,000
20241£185,000£185,000£185,000
20232£125,000£120,000£130,000
20211£119,000£119,000£119,000
20191£138,000£138,000£138,000
20173£135,000£115,000£142,500
20162£132,475£125,000£139,950
20151£116,000£116,000£116,000
20111£70,000£70,000£70,000
20096£83,250£79,000£113,500
20081£120,000£120,000£120,000
20074£135,000£70,000£142,500
Most recent sales (47)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Nov 202521 CW2 8RESemi-detached£190,000
29 May 202529 CW2 8RETerraced£75,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 May 20255 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£115,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Mar 202583 CW2 8RQTerraced£186,000
19 Nov 202428 CW2 8RETerraced£185,000
22 Jun 202319 CW2 8RESemi-detached£130,000
30 Mar 202328 CW2 8RETerraced£120,000
5 May 202116 CW2 8RETerraced£119,000
27 Apr 202181 CW2 8RQTerraced£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Apr 201913 CW2 8RESemi-detached£138,000
20 Oct 201739 CW2 8RESemi-detached£115,000
21 Aug 201783 CW2 8RQTerraced£142,500
30 May 201741 CW2 8RESemi-detached£115,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Mar 201713 CW2 8RESemi-detached£135,000
30 Sep 201672 CW2 8RQSemi-detached£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Sep 201626 CW2 8RETerraced£125,000
10 Jun 201683 CW2 8RQTerraced£139,950
26 Nov 201579 CW2 8RQTerraced£116,000
14 Jan 201175 CW2 8RQSemi-detached£70,000
10 Dec 200955 CW2 8RESemi-detached£85,000
23 Oct 200981 CW2 8RQTerraced£113,500
21 Oct 200971 CW2 8RQSemi-detached£80,000
2 Oct 200918 CW2 8RETerraced£92,000
1 Oct 200971 CW2 8RQSemi-detached£81,500
19 Jun 200915 CW2 8RESemi-detached£79,000
7 Mar 200836 CW2 8RESemi-detached£120,000
24 Aug 200783 CW2 8RQTerraced£142,500New build.
3 Aug 200781 CW2 8RQTerraced£135,000New build.
3 Aug 200779 CW2 8RQTerraced£135,000New build.
13 Feb 200737 CW2 8RESemi-detached£70,000
1 Sep 20066 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£124,950
24 Jun 200532 CW2 8RESemi-detached£90,000
28 Jan 200542 CW2 8RETerraced£88,950
20 Dec 20042 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£112,000
31 Oct 200313 CW2 8RESemi-detached£76,000
25 Mar 200321 CW2 8RESemi-detached£71,000
7 Mar 200336 CW2 8RESemi-detached£65,000
30 Jul 200173 CW2 8RQSemi-detached£14,850
20 Apr 200146 CW2 8RESemi-detached£39,950
16 Feb 200142 CW2 8RETerraced£36,000
25 Jun 19999 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£37,500
27 Nov 19989 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£37,000
28 Aug 199813 CW2 8RESemi-detached£29,500
27 Feb 199835 CW2 8RETerraced£32,000
20 Dec 199636 CW2 8RESemi-detached£28,500
24 Jun 19967 CW2 8RDSemi-detached£33,750
31 Jul 199538 CW2 8RESemi-detached£35,000

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

49 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (26); House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (35); 1930-1949 (8); 1996-2002 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (social) (18); rented (private) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (72% 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.

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, 1 at medium risk and 8 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
CW2 8REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 8 unlikely
CW2 8RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW2 8RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW2 8RGnot 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 86 addresses are between 47 m and 50 m above sea level (49 m on average).

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
CW2 8RD100%100%100%0%
CW2 8RE100%100%100%0%
CW2 8RG100%100%100%0%
CW2 8RQ100%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 stationsCrewe 3.4 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Nantwich 223,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Sandbach 295,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wood End Wistaston Green140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Crewe2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksHolly Bank Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN31.7 km (20 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 Millcroft Medical Centre1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well370 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dane Bank House Dental Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalLeighton Hospital3.3 km (2 miles)
Police stationCrewe Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Readesdale Avenue, Readesdale Ave Cashzone260 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Queen's Park 16 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²350 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.0 ha120 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wistaston Green Road Allotments 7,430 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is West End, a listed building (Grade II*), 800 m (0.5 miles) west. 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
West EndListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) west
Queen's Park, CreweRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rookerybank CovertWood190 m south
Old CovertWood240 m west
Hinging Bank CovertWood380 m west
Joey the SwanLake or reservoir390 m south
Old Gorse CovertWood900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
PoolehillHill5 km (3.1 miles) west

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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59100
Under 557686

10 of the street's 86 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Wistaston AcademyPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe Roman CatholicPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16640 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Vine Tree Primary SchoolPrimary4–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Wistaston Church Lane AcademyPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Oaks AcademySecondary11–16950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gainsborough Primary & Nursery AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cheshire College - South & West16 plus16–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Edleston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ruskin Community High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Pebble Brook Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Berkeley AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2019, 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
Rainbow Cheesecakes CW2 8PTOther catering premises290 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025
Owens General Stores CW2 8PTRetailers - other290 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
The Wisatston Fryer CW2 8PTTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Co-op CW2 8URRetailers - other360 m5 Very good25 May 2026
The Pantree CW2 8UROther catering premises370 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Bennys Fish & Chips CW2 8URTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good14 Jan 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.

97 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences53
Public order10
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft4
Drugs3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Elm Close (56); On or near Woodford Close (11); On or near Tatton Road (8); On or near Hawthorn Lane (5); On or near Wistaston Avenue (5).

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: 297 residents in 133 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 age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 15 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 15 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • CW2 8RE: 44 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • CW2 8RD: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • CW2 8RQ: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • CW2 8RG: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hawthorn Lane · Laburnum Avenue · Laurel Drive · Willow Crescent · Moreton Road · Woodford Close · Elm Close · Tatton Road · Valley Road · Wistaston Avenue · Alvaston Walk · Readesdale Avenue

All the streets in CW2 and across Cheshire East.

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.