StreetDossier

Bishop Drive Prescot, Knowsley

63 addresses across 3 postcodes (L35), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19500121.

  • Sales: 47 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £188,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 13, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: 4 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 B; Band D in Knowsley costs £2,488 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whiston, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stadt Moers Country Park, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cedar Cross Medical Centre, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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£171,000£205,000
20242£185,500£180,000£191,000
20232£170,000£165,000£175,000
20221£198,000£198,000£198,000
20202£155,500£141,000£170,000
20191£154,000£154,000£154,000
20171£142,500£142,500£142,500
20163£108,000£75,000£123,000
20151£105,000£105,000£105,000
20141£110,000£110,000£110,000
20132£119,000£118,000£120,000
20121£117,500£117,500£117,500
Most recent sales (47)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 May 202511 L35 3SYSemi-detached£171,000
31 Mar 202519 L35 3SYSemi-detached£205,000
16 Aug 202417 L35 3SYSemi-detached£180,000
19 Jul 20249 L35 3SYSemi-detached£191,000
10 Nov 202344 L35 3JLSemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 202318 L35 3JLSemi-detached£165,000
3 Jul 202353 L35 3JLOther£950Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 20229 L35 3SYSemi-detached£198,000
18 Dec 202020 L35 3JLSemi-detached£141,000
25 Mar 202022 L35 3JLDetached£170,000
15 Oct 201912 L35 3SYSemi-detached£154,000
17 Mar 201732 L35 3JLTerraced£142,500Leasehold.
24 Mar 201644 L35 3JLSemi-detached£108,000Leasehold.
22 Jan 201650 L35 3JLSemi-detached£123,000
22 Jan 20164 L35 3SYSemi-detached£75,000
30 Sep 201557 L35 3JLSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 20146 L35 3SYSemi-detached£110,000
20 Dec 201322 L35 3JLDetached£118,000
5 Aug 201310 L35 3SYSemi-detached£103,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jan 201344 L35 3JLSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 201225 L35 3SYSemi-detached£117,500
15 Apr 201167 L35 3JLSemi-detached£140,000
24 Mar 201116 L35 3SYSemi-detached£117,500
3 Sep 201016 L35 3SYSemi-detached£105,000
26 Mar 200869 L35 3JLDetached£160,000
14 Sep 200646 L35 3JLSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 200643 L35 3JLSemi-detached£50,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 200453 L35 3JLSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
21 Oct 200427 L35 3SYSemi-detached£155,000
19 Dec 200327 L35 3SYSemi-detached£105,000
4 Jul 200310 L35 3SYSemi-detached£79,500
7 Dec 20011 L35 3SYSemi-detached£67,000
6 Apr 200130 L35 3JLSemi-detached£59,950Leasehold.
20 Oct 200073 L35 3JLSemi-detached£67,000
24 May 200053 L35 3JLSemi-detached£46,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 199946 L35 3JLSemi-detached£43,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 19996 L35 3SYSemi-detached£76,000
11 Mar 199973 L35 3JLSemi-detached£27,400
6 Nov 199869 L35 3JLDetached£92,000
23 Jan 199823 L35 3SYSemi-detached£56,500
14 Mar 199729 L35 3SYSemi-detached£51,500
28 Nov 199651 L35 3JLSemi-detached£35,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 199654 L35 3JLSemi-detached£46,500Leasehold.
24 Nov 199556 L35 3JLDetached£51,000Leasehold.
15 Sep 199521 L35 3SYSemi-detached£57,950
28 Jun 199555 L35 3JLSemi-detached£50,000Leasehold.
7 Jun 199556 L35 3JLDetached£35,750Leasehold.

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.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); Bungalow, semi-detached (11); Bungalow, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1950-1966 (11); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Knowsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,488 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,659£1,935£2,212£2,488£3,041£3,594£4,147£4,977

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (31% of about 1,120 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 23 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 13 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
L35 3JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 unlikely
L35 3SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
L35 3SDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 3 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 63 addresses are between 33 m and 40 m above sea level (35 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
L35 3JL100%100%100%0%
L35 3SD100%100%100%0%
L35 3SY100%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 stationsWhiston 178,000 journeys in 2024–25880 m (0.5 miles)
Prescot 293,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Huyton 695,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bishop Drive Windy Arbor40 m
Bus or coach stationHuyton Bus Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalGerry Marsden Ferry Terminal Liverpool12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Car parksParking Space on Blundell Road, L352.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station740 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL8.7 km (5.4 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 Cedar Cross Medical Centre800 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots800 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whiston Village Dental Practice530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWhiston Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationHuyton Police Station2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM500 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stadt Moers Country Park 87 ha140 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,150 m²350 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha310 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,570 m²270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 89 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 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
Round ClumpWood600 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Big WaterLake or reservoir720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
The Old WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Fox ClumpWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Brook CovertWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Blundell's HillHill2.1 km (1.3 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
55 to 59140
Under 554963

14 of the street's 63 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 Knowsley: see them on the Knowsley 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
Halsnead Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community Roman CatholicPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Whiston Willis Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willow Tree Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Gabriel's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sylvester Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Lord Derby AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, 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
Whiston Social Club L35 3RZPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good20 Mar 2026
The Best One L35 3SDRetailers - other380 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Tesco Express L35 3PARetailers - other390 m4 Good27 Mar 2025
Costcutter L35 3PARetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Jul 2025
Local Express L35 3RERetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2024
The Beer Engin Micropub L35 3REPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jun 2024
Panamia L35 3RETakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary30 Jun 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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coalgate Lane (6); On or near Mitre Close (6); On or near Long Hey (4); On or near St Nicholas Road (3); On or near Holly Hey (3).

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: 482 residents in 229 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5140
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 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.

  • L35 3JL: 40 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • L35 3SY: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • L35 3SD: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Banner Hey · Stone Hay · Priory Close · Mitre Close · Halton Hey · Long Hey · St Nicholas Road · Coalgate Lane · Holly Hey · Paradise Lane · Willis Close · Bishop Drive

All the streets in L35 and across Knowsley.

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.