Chew Vale Uppermill, Oldham

63 addresses across 3 postcodes (OL3), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29404474.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £175,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 30, D: 6, E: 1).
  • Flood: 13 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 C; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Greenfield, about 590 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brownhill Countryside Centre, is about 1.9 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 157 to 161 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Saddleworth Medical Practice, about 1.4 km away.
  • People: About 990 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 41% 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
20201£175,000£175,000£175,000
20132£100,500£89,000£112,000
20051£139,950£139,950£139,950
20041£110,000£110,000£110,000
20021£80,000£80,000£80,000
19971£64,000£64,000£64,000
19961£63,000£63,000£63,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Dec 202031 OL3 7EQTerraced£175,000
1 Dec 20178 OL3 7EQOther£248,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 20176 - 8 OL3 7EQOther£248,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 201328 OL3 7EQTerraced£89,000
15 Apr 201331 OL3 7EQTerraced£112,000
20 May 200531 OL3 7EQTerraced£139,950
1 Jun 200425 OL3 7EQDetached£110,000
12 Jul 200225 OL3 7EQDetached£80,000
24 Jul 19972 OL3 7EQTerraced£64,000
12 Apr 19968 OL3 7EQSemi-detached£63,000Leasehold.

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

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (33); House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1967-1975 (30); 1976-1982 (9); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (20); rented (private) (9); owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 1,710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Ladhill Lane. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 1.0 km

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, 9 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 38 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 35 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 15 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL3 7EQnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 29 unlikely
OL3 7JPzone 2 5 / 1 / 8 unlikely
OL3 7JWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 1 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 63 addresses are between 157 m and 161 m above sea level (158 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
OL3 7EQ100%67%67%0%
OL3 7JP100%100%100%0%
OL3 7JW100%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 stationsGreenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–25590 m
Mossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km
Stalybridge 840,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 30 within 800 m; nearest King William IV Greenfield100 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange6.4 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station510 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN27.5 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 Saddleworth Medical Practice1.4 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Well70 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery340 m
HospitalTameside General Hospital6.5 km
Police stationLancashire Police - Uppermill Police Station1.6 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Uppermill, Upermill Cashzone1.4 km

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 gardenBrownhill Countryside Centre 2.5 ha1.9 km
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 610 m²100 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,260 m²70 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,650 m²1.6 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Higher Kinders, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m north-east. 34 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Higher KindersListed building, Grade II*510 m north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Yarns HillHill1.1 km east
Wickens CloughValley1.2 km north-west
Noonsun HillHill1.5 km south-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.5 km south-east
Nut BottomValley1.6 km east
Lower Hollins PlantationWood2.4 km south-east

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 59200
Under 554163

22 of the street's 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11240 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Greenfield St Mary's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11520 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Friezland Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km No published inspection
Saddleworth SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Chad's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–112.0 km Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Greenfield Cricket Club OL3 7JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Well Pharmacy OL3 7DBRetailers - other70 mExempt
Greenfield Newsagents OL3 7JJRetailers - other80 m5 Very good1 Feb 2022
Old Cobblers OL3 7BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good18 Jan 2022
Boarshurst Band Club OL3 7EWPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good16 May 2023
Friezland Bowling Club OL3 7EWPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good16 May 2023
Harrops Farm Shop OL3 7JNRetailers - other160 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Golden House OL3 7JRTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Tame Valley Tennis & Squash Club OL3 7JRPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Greenfield Primary School OL3 7AASchool/college/university290 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Swan Meadow Cottage OL3 7AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Kingfisher OL3 7AEPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Saddleworth Pizza OL3 7AETakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
The Clarence OL3 7DDPub/bar/nightclub340 mAwaiting inspection
Premier Greenfield Store OL3 7DDRetailers - other350 m5 Very good14 Aug 2024

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 (derbyshire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 985 residents in 489 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 8 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.

  • OL3 7EQ: 56 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • OL3 7JP: 4 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • OL3 7JW: 3 addresses of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Primrose Bank · Ladhill Lane · Greenbridge Lane · Wimberry Close · Clifton Street · Eskdale Mews · Bowler Way · Kinders Mews · Eskdale Avenue · Morley Way · Croft Edge · Kinders Crescent

All the streets in OL3 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 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.