Broxton Close Widnes, Halton

13 addresses across 1 postcode (WA8), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16101472.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £148,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hough Green, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hough Green Health Park, about 310 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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£148,250£116,500£180,000
20191£71,000£71,000£71,000
20182£110,000£85,000£135,000
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20162£75,000£75,000£75,000
20081£74,000£74,000£74,000
20071£105,000£105,000£105,000
20062£79,500£76,000£83,000
20032£51,000£40,000£62,000
20012£30,250£27,500£33,000
20003£42,500£41,500£45,000
19991£33,250£33,250£33,250
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Jun 202512 WA8 4DXTerraced£180,000
30 May 20259 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£116,500Leasehold.
24 Oct 20193 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£71,000Leasehold.
29 May 20186 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
20 Apr 201810 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£135,000
8 Dec 201712 WA8 4DXTerraced£120,000
20 Dec 20169 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 20168 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£72,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Oct 20166 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
23 May 20083 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
24 Apr 20071 WA8 4DXDetached£105,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 20068 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£83,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 20069 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£76,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 20034 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£62,000
10 Jan 20037 WA8 4DXTerraced£40,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 20018 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£33,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 20011 WA8 4DXDetached£27,500Leasehold.
29 Sep 200011 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£41,500
16 Aug 20005 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£42,500
23 Jun 200010 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£45,000
3 Dec 19993 WA8 4DXFlat or maisonette£33,250Leasehold.
30 Apr 19985 WA8 4DXSemi-detached£39,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: Maisonette, semi-detached (3); Flat (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1967-1975 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (48% of about 660 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

© 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 addresses are about 23 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, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WA8 4DX100%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 stationsHough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Burnsall Drive Upton40 m
Bus or coach stationHuyton Bus Station5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL7.5 km (4.7 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hough Green Health Park310 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hough Green Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Widnes Bechers Road, Upton Estate Cashzone510 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,630 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5,800 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,090 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.6 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,610 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 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
George's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
The FieldWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Pex HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Big WaterLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Spike IslandIsland3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Church BankWetland4.4 km (2.8 miles) south-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)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 551313

None of the street's 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Halton: see them on the Halton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Basil's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cronton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Madeline McKenna Court HBC WA8 4DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Parklands Club WA8 4NQPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
The Route@Upton Cafe WA8 4PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 mAwaiting inspection
All Saints Upton Primary School Orian Catering WA8 4PGSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jul 2024
Upton Pre-School Before After School Club WA8 4PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Oct 2022
Upton Fish Bar WA8 4TETakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Mar 2024
Bee Sweet WA8 4TERetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Dec 2021

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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Other theft2
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Darley Close (16); On or near Newsham Close (7); On or near Oxton Close (4); On or near Haddon Drive (3); On or near Redbourne Drive (2).

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: 293 residents in 136 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 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Langton Close · Burnsall Drive · Chedworth Drive · Fenton Close · Oxton Close · Blair Drive · Caxton Close · Billington Road · Darley Close · Madeline Mckenna Court · Lea Cross Grove · Haddon Drive

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

What this page cannot tell you

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