Breeze Hill Road Oldham

39 addresses across 4 postcodes (OL4), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29404796.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £951 a month.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 12, E: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 3 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 18 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Breeze Hill, is 50 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 2 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Lowerfields Farm, Warren Lane - Battery Energy Storage System, is 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A669, carries 15,599 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mossley (Manchester), about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 175 to 182 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leesbrook Surgery, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20261£155,000£155,000£155,000
20241£125,000£125,000£125,000
20223£140,000£118,000£245,000
20211£96,000£96,000£96,000
20192£117,250£81,500£153,000
20183£104,000£79,000£120,000
20174£80,500£77,000£115,000
20161£135,000£135,000£135,000
20132£103,750£82,500£125,000
20102£82,250£82,000£82,500
20083£94,950£92,430£103,995
20073£90,000£89,000£141,000
All 53 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jul 202228 OL4 5JGDetached£245,000
28 Oct 201628 OL4 5JGDetached£135,000
19 Mar 200730 OL4 5JGSemi-detached£141,000
21 Jun 201936 OL4 5JGSemi-detached£153,000
28 Mar 201336 OL4 5JGSemi-detached£125,000
2 Jul 200136 OL4 5JGSemi-detached£59,500
20 Apr 201842 OL4 5JFTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
15 Sep 200648 OL4 5JFTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
22 Sep 200048 OL4 5JFTerraced£36,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 199550 OL4 5JFTerraced£38,000
26 Jan 200652 OL4 5JFTerraced£48,800Leasehold.
24 Jul 202454 OL4 5JFTerraced£125,000
16 Jul 201856 OL4 5JFOther£83,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jul 201056 OL4 5JFTerraced£82,500Leasehold.
6 Oct 200656 OL4 5JFTerraced£82,500Leasehold.
2 Sep 202258 OL4 5JFTerraced£140,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 200658 OL4 5JFTerraced£89,950Leasehold.
14 Apr 200058 OL4 5JFTerraced£39,995Leasehold.
7 Oct 202260 OL4 5JFTerraced£118,000Leasehold.
16 Jan 200460 OL4 5JFTerraced£37,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 201862 OL4 5JFTerraced£104,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 200462 OL4 5JFTerraced£83,950Leasehold.
27 Aug 199963 OL4 5JFTerraced£34,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 201764 OL4 5JFTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
18 Apr 200864 OL4 5JFTerraced£103,995Leasehold.
12 Oct 200564 OL4 5JFTerraced£97,000Leasehold.
8 Mar 200264 OL4 5JFTerraced£47,300Leasehold.
3 Feb 202165 OL4 5JFTerraced£96,000Leasehold.
3 Mar 201765 OL4 5JFTerraced£77,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 200765 OL4 5JFTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
2 Jul 200465 OL4 5JFTerraced£58,250Leasehold.
28 Feb 201866 OL4 5JFTerraced£79,000Leasehold.
24 May 201967 OL4 5JFTerraced£81,500Leasehold.
31 Jan 200867 OL4 5JFTerraced£94,950Leasehold.
4 Aug 200667 OL4 5JFTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 201769 OL4 5JFTerraced£79,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 200669 OL4 5JFTerraced£85,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 199969 OL4 5JFTerraced£36,500Leasehold.
26 May 199869 OL4 5JFTerraced£19,500Leasehold.
2 Mar 200770 OL4 5JFSemi-detached£89,000Leasehold.
25 Feb 200570 OL4 5JFSemi-detached£81,500Leasehold.
9 Jan 200673 OL4 5JFDetached£189,950
6 Apr 199573 OL4 5JFDetached£70,000
27 Jun 201774 OL4 5JFOther£65,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 May 202676 OL4 5JFTerraced£155,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 201076 OL4 5JFTerraced£82,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 199876 OL4 5JFTerraced£36,500Leasehold.
27 Jan 201778 OL4 5JFTerraced£82,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 201378 OL4 5JFTerraced£82,500Leasehold.
15 Sep 200878 OL4 5JFTerraced£92,430Leasehold.
28 Sep 200678 OL4 5JFTerraced£86,200Leasehold.
11 Nov 200478 OL4 5JFTerraced£68,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 199778 OL4 5JFTerraced£36,500Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Oldham

A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier and 86% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£378,615
Semi-detached£247,700
Terraced£184,581
Flat or maisonette£132,991
Bought by a first-time buyer£198,052

Private renters in Oldham paid £951 a month on average in September 2026, 13.3% more than a year before. That is 59% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£708
Two bedrooms£888
Three bedrooms£1,078
Four or more bedrooms£1,466

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (16); House, end-terrace (2); House, detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (9); before 1900 (6); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,360 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 12,693 kWh, and 3,022 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 95% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OL4 5JF312,046 kWh 308,343 kWh
OL4 5JG62,441 kWh 66,055 kWh
OL4 5JE112,938 kWh 1112,254 kWh
OL4 5NL292,572 kWh 2610,550 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OL4.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (64% of about 1,540 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Lowerfields Farm, Warren Lane - Battery Energy Storage System Oldham FUL/354740/25 Battery storage 27 MW Planning application made Jul 2025 790 m (0.5 miles)
Scouthead Power Plant Oldham 40861 Landfill Gas 2.9 MW Operational Sep 2003 3.4 km (2.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
OL4 5JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL4 5JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL4 5JEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL4 5NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 2 times, for 1 hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Thornley Brook, River Irwell, Culvert Glodwick Brook, Trib River Medlock.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Tbc United Utilities; monitored 82% of the year Thornley Brook 0 0 200 m
Tbc United Utilities River Irwell 0 0 200 m
Abbeyhills Combined Sewer Overflow United Utilities Culvert Glodwick Brook 2 1 660 m (0.4 miles)
Abbeyhills Combined Sewer Overflow United Utilities Trib River Medlock 0 0 660 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

3 of the street's 4 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

18 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 50 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Breeze Hill Roundhorn Road, Roundhorn, Oldham, Greater Manchester until 1972 Commercial 50 m
Land to the rear of Ferndale Close / Manor Road Roundhorn, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 60 m
Sett Mill Gibralter Street, Leesbrook, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 70 m
Sett Mill Gibralter Street, Leesbrook, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 70 m
Lydgate Drive / Breeze Hill Roxbury, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 80 m
Land at Lees Brook Mill Lees Road, Leesbrook, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 100 m
Land at Fernhill Holt Res, Wildmoor Avenue, Holts, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 210 m
Land at Spring Close Nether Lees, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 210 m
Land off Brook Lane Brook Lane, Lees, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 210 m
Land at Bank Top Bedford Mill, Wellyhole Street, Bank Top, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 260 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 175 m and 182 m above sea level (180 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
OL4 5JE100%100%100%0%
OL4 5JF100%100%100%0%
OL4 5JG100%100%100%0%
OL4 5NL100%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 stationsMossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Greenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramOldham Mumps (Manchester Metrolink)1.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oasis Academy Leesbrook Salem140 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksCo-Op Grotton, Oldham Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station670 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN24.6 km (15 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leesbrook Surgery Good May 2026610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Avalon Park Care Home Good Aug 2019310 m
Police stationGreater Manchester Police1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clarksfield Food Store700 m (0.4 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 24 ha180 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.8 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,240 m²590 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Thomas, a listed building (Grade II*), 540 m (0.3 miles) east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St ThomasListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) east
Greenacres CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II910 m (0.6 miles) north
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ashes CloughValley1 km (0.6 miles) east
The OrchardWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Rowton CloughValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Wildmoor Leach WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Crow HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Lower Strinesdale ReservoirLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 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)12.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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 59190
Under 552039

19 of the street's 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Oasis Academy LeesbrookSecondary11–16190 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.4 (41.5 in 2025 and 41.7 in 2024); 31.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
Roundthorn Primary AcademyPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Oasis Academy ClarksfieldPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 39% in 2023)
St Edwards Roman Catholic Primary, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Hey-with-Zion Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
St Hugh's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 27% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Alt AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 40% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 34% in 2023)
Glodwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection None published
St Anne's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Greenacres Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Alexandra Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 520 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
TH Day Care Ltd t/a Shooting Stars Pre School Nursery OL4 5EP Full day care 135 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Cornerhouse Day Nursery OL4 3BT Full day care 32 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 580 m (0.4 miles)
The Village Day Nursery OL4 5DG Full day care 45 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Leesfield Pre-School Group OL4 5DN Sessional day care 30 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Kidz Matter Nursery (Oldham Arc Satellite) OL8 2DJ Sessional day care 40 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 850 m (0.5 miles)
Mobile Creche OL4 3DX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 900 m (0.6 miles)
Giggle and Grow Glodwick OL4 1AR Full day care 108 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Premier Daycare OL4 3EN Full day care 96 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
ALEXANDRA PRESCHOOL OL4 1AH Sessional day care 88 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Greenacres Laugh 'N' Learn OL4 3EU Sessional day care 40 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 114 childminders and 59 home childcarers (nannies) in Oldham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Oasis Academy Leesbrook OL4 5JESchool/college/university90 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Kee Sing OL4 3AFTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Salem Village Store & Newsagent OL4 3AFRetailers - other230 m4 Good18 Feb 2024
Friendship Inn OL4 3AFPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good18 Feb 2024
Avalon Park Care Home HC-One OL4 5HGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
ZembyMama OL4 3FWOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Village Tea Room OL4 5BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Oct 2025
Lees Road Newsagents OL4 5EPRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good21 Feb 2023
Shooting Stars Pre School Nursery OL4 5EPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Aldi Stores Ltd OL4 3BPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2025
New Earth St Sandwich Bar OL4 5EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Mar 2026
St Thomas Leesfield OL4 5BUSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Oct 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (northamptonshire).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 1 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist. 33% happened in the dark, and 33% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202211
202310
202411
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 Oct 2024 22:03 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
11 Jun 2023 14:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A669, 30 mph Daylight
8 May 2022 16:00 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A669, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A669 between A62 and A6050, with 15,599 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 210 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A669 A62 to A6050 15,599 counted 2025 1% -17% since 2015 210 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 619 residents in 270 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 over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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: TRANSPORT FOR GREATER MANCHESTER: Highway repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • OL4 5JF: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • OL4 5JG: 6 addresses
  • OL4 5JE: 1 address of 15 in the postcode
  • OL4 5NL: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Aden Street · Ceylon Street · Vigo Street · Roe Lane · Roxbury Avenue · Gibraltar Street · Old Street · Cyprus Close · Malta Street · Lees Grove · Spring Close · Pendle Close

All the streets in OL4 and across Oldham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.