Cherington Close Handforth, Cheshire East

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (SK9), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24100490.

13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £529,975 across 2 sales. 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 3). 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Handforth, about 710 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 350 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 76 to 81 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Handforth Health Centre, about 820 m away. About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often public order.

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
20242£529,975£479,950£580,000
20211£484,356£484,356£484,356
20201£467,500£467,500£467,500
20151£332,500£332,500£332,500
20141£380,000£380,000£380,000
20111£312,000£312,000£312,000
20091£250,000£250,000£250,000
20082£355,000£325,000£385,000
20051£310,000£310,000£310,000
20041£319,950£319,950£319,950
19991£128,000£128,000£128,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jul 202412 SK9 3ASDetached£580,000Leasehold.
10 Jun 202414 SK9 3ASDetached£479,950
11 Jan 20218 SK9 3ASDetached£484,356
17 Dec 20202 SK9 3ASDetached£467,500Leasehold.
31 Mar 201510 SK9 3ASDetached£332,500
20 Nov 201416 SK9 3ASDetached£380,000
15 Apr 201116 SK9 3ASDetached£312,000
16 Dec 20094 SK9 3ASDetached£250,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 20083 SK9 3ASSemi-detached£325,000
18 Jan 20082 SK9 3ASDetached£385,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 200516 SK9 3ASDetached£310,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 200414 SK9 3ASDetached£319,950
12 Nov 19992 SK9 3ASDetached£128,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 164 m². Most common: House, detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1950-1966 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (18% of about 980 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 14 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
SK9 3ASnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 2 unlikely
SK9 3GQnot in 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 76 m and 81 m above sea level (78 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
SK9 3AS100%100%100%0%
SK9 3GQ100%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 stationsHandforth 333,000 journeys in 2024–25710 m
Wilmslow 1.2 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km
Styal 28,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 11 within 800 m; nearest Hallwood Road Handforth360 m
Bus or coach stationManchester Airport The Station5.1 km
Car parksSchool Road Car Park1.0 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station490 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN5.1 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Handforth Health Centre820 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy710 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest 141 Wilmslow Road Dental Practice1.0 km
HospitalThe Priory Cheadle Royal Hospital3.6 km
Police stationWythenshawe Police Station5.9 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest M&S ATM580 m

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; nearest Unnamed 8,840 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 2.7 ha730 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 390 m²430 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,330 m²610 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Lincoln Road Allotment 7,740 m²780 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Handforth Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m north-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Handforth HallListed building, Grade II*350 m north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hall WoodWood270 m south
Deadman's CloughValley2.3 km west
Worms HillHill2.5 km west
Carr WoodWood2.9 km south-west
Willow Ground WoodWood3.1 km west
Black LakeLake or reservoir3.7 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 551616

None of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary4–11430 m No published inspection
The Wilmslow AcademyPrimary2–11820 m No published inspection
Handforth Grange Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.8 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Handforth Hall Tennis Club SK9 3AWOther catering premises130 m4 Good10 Jul 2025
The Wilmslow Academy SK9 2LXSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Wilmslow Manor Care Centre SK9 2LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m5 Very good27 Jan 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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cherington Close (5); On or near Wadsworth Close (2); On or near Hill Drive (1).

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: 364 residents in 154 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 age5540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)97%61%
Owned outright62%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Woodlands Road · Jamie Webb Drive · Hill Drive · Woodlands Road · Honeford Terrace · Wadsworth Close · Edmund Drive · Bishop Close · Old Hall Crescent · Kilham Avenue · A34 · Wear Grove

All the streets in SK9 and across Cheshire East.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.