Bell View Widnes, Halton

26 addresses across 1 postcode (WA8), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16108986.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £239,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 20, C: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 1.1 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Crow Wood Park, is about 780 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bevan Group Practice, about 590 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20241£239,500£239,500£239,500
20231£275,000£275,000£275,000
20211£205,000£205,000£205,000
20193£250,000£215,000£293,000
201623£229,950£159,950£284,950
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 May 20247 WA8 9BGTerraced£239,500Leasehold.
21 Dec 202316 WA8 9BGDetached£275,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 202124 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 201917 WA8 9BGDetached£250,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 20191 WA8 9BGDetached£293,000Leasehold.
20 May 201916 WA8 9BGDetached£215,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 20169 WA8 9BGDetached£189,950New build. Leasehold.
18 Nov 201613 WA8 9BGDetached£282,950New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 201615 WA8 9BGDetached£284,950New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 201614 WA8 9BGDetached£274,950New build. Leasehold.
6 Oct 201612 WA8 9BGDetached£284,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Sep 201611 WA8 9BGDetached£269,950New build. Leasehold.
23 Sep 201610 WA8 9BGDetached£257,950New build. Leasehold.
16 Sep 20168 WA8 9BGTerraced£159,950New build. Leasehold.
26 Aug 20167 WA8 9BGTerraced£184,950New build. Leasehold.
22 Jul 20163 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£184,950New build. Leasehold.
8 Jul 201618 WA8 9BGDetached£252,950New build. Leasehold.
8 Jul 201617 WA8 9BGDetached£234,950New build. Leasehold.
8 Jul 201620 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£199,950New build. Leasehold.
8 Jul 201619 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£197,950New build. Leasehold.
7 Jul 201616 WA8 9BGDetached£224,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 201621 WA8 9BGDetached£229,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 20165 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£182,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 201624 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£175,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 201625 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£175,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jun 20166 WA8 9BGDetached£219,950New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20164 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£178,950New build. Leasehold.
21 Jun 20161 WA8 9BGDetached£280,000New build. Leasehold.
13 Jun 201622 WA8 9BGDetached£244,950New build. Leasehold.
25 May 201623 WA8 9BGDetached£229,950New build. Leasehold.
29 Apr 20162 WA8 9BGSemi-detached£189,950New build. Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2012 (18); 2016 (2); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 1,280 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 1.0 km

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, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 25 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 6 low and 0 very low.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 26 addresses are between 37 m and 40 m above sea level (38 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
WA8 9BG100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest Everite Works Farnworth100 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station7.5 km
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Widnes1.9 km
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest Routledge Street1.5 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.2 km

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; nearest Bevan Group Practice590 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Widnes Pharmacy590 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery540 m
HospitalHighfield Hospital1.5 km
Police stationWidnes Police Station2.2 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Farnworth, Farnworth Cashzone550 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Crow Wood Park 21 ha780 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 140 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha580 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²480 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch, a scheduled monument, 400 m west. 4 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument400 m west
Church of St LukeListed building, Grade II*400 m west
Cranshaw Hall moated siteScheduled monument1.0 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
School Lane WoodWood2.0 km north-east
Bold Heath PlantationWood2.1 km north-east
Pex HillHill2.2 km north-west
The HempstonesWetland3.3 km south-east
Spike IslandIsland3.4 km south
Lingley Mere PondLake or reservoir4.2 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)12.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5960
Under 551926

7 of the street's 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Lunts Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km No published inspection
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km No published inspection
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km No published inspection
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.7 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.7 km Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary5–71.7 km Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.8 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Aldi WA8 9WZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good15 Jan 2024
Pathaan Resturant WA8 5SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
The Village Shop WA8 9LWRetailers - other390 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Sep 2025
The Griffin WA8 9LHPub/bar/nightclub430 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Lunts Heath Primary School - Edsential Catering WA8 9RJSchool/college/university440 m5 Very good19 Oct 2026
Kid's Space Ltd - Lunts Heath WA8 9RJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m5 Very good13 May 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime7
Public order4
Other theft4
Other crime4
Anti-social behaviour2
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Watkinson Way (9); On or near Scampton Close (8); On or near Derby Road (5); On or near Supermarket (4); On or near Claremont Drive (3).

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: 509 residents in 203 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 age4140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

  • WA8 9BG: 26 addresses of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Claremont Avenue · Woodford Drive · Langley Beck · Latimer Road · Scampton Close · Andover Close · Amelia Close · Claremont Drive · Wilcote Close · Honeysuckle Close · Marsh Hall Road · Shackleton Avenue

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.