Cardiff Close Oldham

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL8), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29404833.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 1996 the median was £25,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 15, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: 14 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band 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 Moston, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 111 to 113 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hollinwood Medical Practice, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
19962£25,250£25,000£25,500
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 199620 OL8 3QQTerraced£25,500
9 May 199628 OL8 3QQTerraced£25,000

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 March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 2015 (15); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (84% of about 620 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 14 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 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
OL8 3QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 14 / 3 unlikely
OL8 3QFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely

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

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 21 addresses are between 111 m and 113 m above sea level (112 m on average).

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

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OL8 3QF100%100%100%0%
OL8 3QQ100%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 stationsMoston 106,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramHollinwood (Manchester Metrolink)470 m (0.3 miles)
South Chadderton (Manchester Metrolink)880 m (0.5 miles)
Failsworth (Manchester Metrolink)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hawthorn Road Hollinwood50 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksAnother Level Car Parks860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN21.1 km (13 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollinwood Medical Practice890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Yates Pharmacy430 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest M60 Dental Care150 m
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationFailsworth Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Zaheer Service Station640 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 gardenUnnamed 2,430 m²900 m (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,380 m²170 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,730 m²740 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alexandra Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crime LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Wood Park CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Medlock ValeValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Boodle WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Little Bankfield CloughValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Wester HillHill3 km (1.9 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)17.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)14.44015

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
70 to 7450
65 to 6920
60 to 64140
Under 55021

21 of the street's 21 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), 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
St Margaret's CofE Junior Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11350 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy LimesidePrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Higher Failsworth Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy OldhamSecondary11–16860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lyndhurst Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Limehurst Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Yew Tree Community SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitegate End Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Sunny Smiles Day Nursery OL8 3QFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises30 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Beulah Pre School OL8 3QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Madras Tiffin OL8 4SSOther catering premises140 m4 Good2 Aug 2025
Wong Kwok OL8 4SRTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good16 Apr 2026
Dave's Mini Market OL8 4SRRetailers - other180 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jun 2025
Greggs OL8 3RBRetailers - other280 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
The Old School BBQ Bus Ltd OL9 7LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good18 Apr 2026
Waggon & Horses OL8 3RBPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good12 Jul 2024
St Margarets CE Primary School OL8 4QSSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
The Centre Bar OL8 3QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Commercial BBQ Smokers OL8 3QPOther catering premises360 mExempt
Failsworth Tandoori OL8 3RBTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m4 Good21 Sep 2026
EG On the Move OL8 3RBRetailers - other370 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Starbucks OL9 7NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good22 Nov 2025
KFC OL9 7NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good22 Nov 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 (metropolitan).

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: 303 residents in 132 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 age3740
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)20%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

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.

  • OL8 3QQ: 20 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • OL8 3QF: 1 address of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hawthorn Road · Hollins Road · Withins Road · Gee Lane · Hawthorn Road · Barmouth Walk · Tenby Road · Ruthin Close · Whitland Drive · M60 · M60 · Carnarvon Street

All the streets in OL8 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.
  • 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.