Bricks Croft Close West Gillibrands, West Lancashire

29 addresses across 1 postcode (WN8), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43302310.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in West Lancashire cost £240,850 in August 2026 (+5.6% on a year); private rents averaged £805 a month.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (A: 13, B: 15).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Unit 5 XL Business Park, is 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in West Lancashire costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainford, about 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stanley Coronation Park, is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 29 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Primary Care, about 390 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in West Lancashire

A typical home in West Lancashire cost £240,850 in August 2026, 5.6% more than a year before. That is 27% more than five years earlier and 42% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£379,602
Semi-detached£235,020
Terraced£182,007
Flat or maisonette£124,672
Bought by a first-time buyer£204,069

Private renters in West Lancashire paid £805 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 39% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£588
Two bedrooms£731
Three bedrooms£845
Four or more bedrooms£1,232

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 October 2025 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, detached (17); House, end-terrace (11). Built: 2023 (28). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (28).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

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 West Lancashire in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (67% of about 860 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Unit 5 XL Business Park West Lancashire 2017/0968/FUL Battery storage 49.9 MW Being built Jul 2021 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane - Battery Energy Storage West Lancashire 2024/1053/FUL Battery storage 320 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2025 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Barton House Farm, Pimbo Road - Wind Turbine West Lancashire 2024/1110/FUL Wind 1 turbine, 125 m tall 2.5 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2026 4.1 km (2.5 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

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

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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 postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: 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 the square 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. 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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 addresses are about 62 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

No Ofcom coverage figures for these postcodes.

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 stationsRainford 26,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ormskirk 2.3 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Parbold 99,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wardens Club Blaguegate240 m
Bus or coach stationConcourse Skelmersdale2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL24.3 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beacon Primary Care Good Nov 2018390 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery390 m
HospitalOrmskirk And District General Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20194.2 km (2.6 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Lancashire Short Break Services Good Sep 2025610 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationSkelmersdale Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone590 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stanley Coronation Park 7,780 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²160 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blaguegate Playing Fields 16 ha270 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Liverpool Road Allotments 5,190 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthworks in Spa Roughs Wood, a scheduled monument, 2 km (1.2 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Earthworks in Spa Roughs WoodScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stanley's FirsWood870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Halfpenny PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Goose Island PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) north
Goose IslandIsland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Cobb's CloughValley2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Ashhurst's HillHill4 km (2.5 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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6490
55 to 59190
Under 55029

29 of the street's 29 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 West Lancashire: see them on the West Lancashire 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
St Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale Roman CatholicPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Brookfield Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Trinity Church of England/Methodist SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Crow Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 92% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 13% in 2024 and 14% in 2023)
Lathom High School : A Technology CollegeSecondary11–161.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.6 (41.5 in 2025 and 37.6 in 2024); 40% grade 5+ in English and maths
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published

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

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 420 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
St Richard's Out of School Club WN8 8LQ Sessional day care 27 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
Shelly Tots Daycare WN8 8HE Full day care 40 Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)
Include me 2 Kingsbury Primary WN8 8EH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Stepping Stones Day Nursery WN8 8AZ Full day care 88 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
Little Achievers Nursery in the Park WN8 8HN Full day care 52 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
Trinity Primary School Little Buds WN8 8PW Sessional day care 12 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Include Me 2 West Lancs WN8 8DL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. 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
Asda Stores Ltd WN8 8TLRetailers - other260 m5 Very good11 Sep 2024
Greggs WN8 8TLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Wardens Club WN8 8TXPub/bar/nightclub310 m1 Major improvement necessary15 May 2025
The Dolphin WN8 8HXTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m4 Good3 Dec 2025
The Hub at West Lancs WN8 8LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 mAwaiting inspection
Victoria Hotel WN8 8LAPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Dine-a-Mo WN8 8LQTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 Nov 2024
St Richards R C Primary School WN8 8LQSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Feb 2026
Cooksons Butchers WN8 8LQRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Dec 2025
Simply Fresh WN8 8LQRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Feb 2025
Yummies Pizza WN8 8LQTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Mar 2026
Only Scrans Deli & Desserts WN8 8LQTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory13 Mar 2025
Sandy Lane Chippy WN8 8LQTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Mar 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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime6
Other theft4
Burglary4
Public order3
Drugs1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maiden Close (23); On or near Barn Croft Close (7); On or near Blaguegate Lane (5); On or near Taylor Street (2); On or near Victoria Park (2).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
12 Jul 2024 08:18 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A577, 30 mph Daylight
25 Mar 2022 08:22 Slight 3 people: 1 child A577, 40 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 231 residents in 109 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 age5040
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

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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.

Nearby streets

Slate Brook Road · Slate Brook Road · Brick Croft Close · Merdale Way · Headingly Avenue · Victoria Park · Goose Brook Drive · Barn Croft Close · Maiden Close · Blaguegate Lane · Headingly Avenue · Taylor Street

All the streets in WN8 and across West Lancashire.

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.