Chiltern Road Birkenhead, Wirral

45 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH42), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44500737.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £195,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 16, E: 1, F: 1).
  • 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 Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rock Ferry, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 56 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 45 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gladstone Med Ctr, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 93 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
20263£195,000£180,000£215,000
20253£175,000£117,000£195,000
20231£180,000£180,000£180,000
20222£154,000£148,000£160,000
20201£100,000£100,000£100,000
20172£119,250£111,000£127,500
20161£134,500£134,500£134,500
20151£123,000£123,000£123,000
20142£131,750£120,000£143,500
20131£119,000£119,000£119,000
20093£103,000£95,000£110,000
20062£118,250£104,000£132,500
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 20265 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£180,000
6 Feb 20269 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£215,000
2 Feb 202628 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£195,000
12 Dec 202555 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£195,000
20 May 202512 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£117,000
31 Jan 202564 CH42 6SGTerraced£175,000
11 Jun 202458 CH42 6SGTerraced£123,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Sep 20234 CH42 6SGTerraced£180,000
4 Nov 202254 CH42 6SGTerraced£160,000
14 Jan 202224 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£148,000
14 Dec 202012 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£100,000
2 Aug 201724 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£127,500
24 Feb 20174 CH42 6SGTerraced£111,000
29 Mar 20165 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£134,500
20 Feb 201564 CH42 6SGTerraced£123,000
15 Dec 201444 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£120,000
17 Oct 201455 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£143,500
6 Dec 201364 CH42 6SGTerraced£119,000
18 Sep 200924 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£95,000
16 Jul 200945 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£103,000
12 Jun 200955 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£110,000
6 Sep 200660 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£132,500
17 Mar 200656 CH42 6SGTerraced£104,000
6 May 200532 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£130,000
11 Dec 20044 CH42 6SGTerraced£115,000
7 Jun 200412 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£29,000
28 May 200444 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£103,000
6 Feb 200422 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£20,000
13 Jun 200318 CH42 6SGTerraced£79,000
7 May 200316 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£79,700
27 Mar 200360 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£66,500
3 Apr 20024 CH42 6SGTerraced£57,500
14 Apr 200016 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£48,950
10 Dec 199953 CH42 6SQSemi-detached£51,500
27 Sep 19998 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£49,950
5 Aug 199932 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£52,000
19 Oct 199858 CH42 6SGTerraced£27,000
21 Aug 199844 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£38,000
16 Jan 19984 CH42 6SGTerraced£43,950
24 Oct 19972 CH42 6SGTerraced£41,500
1 Aug 199744 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£34,000
30 Sep 199632 CH42 6SGSemi-detached£33,000
3 May 19962 CH42 6SGTerraced£38,950
19 Dec 19952 CH42 6SGTerraced£38,000

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 July 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (17); 1930-1949 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (social) (12); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (51% of about 680 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 25 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)

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

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 on this street 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 45 addresses are between 45 m and 56 m above sea level (50 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
CH42 6SG100%100%100%0%
CH42 6SQ100%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 stationsRock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Green Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bebington 918,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mendip Road Prenton70 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal3.3 km (2.1 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.6 km (7.8 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 Gladstone Med Ctr1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Pharmacy740 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westbourne Dental Practice600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Tranmere, Higher Tranmere Cashzone270 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 11 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 40 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,800 m²190 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Dell, the Diamond and the Causeway, Port Sunlight, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Dell, the Diamond and the Causeway, Port SunlightRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I3 km (1.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marsh Hey CovertWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Prenton DellValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Cow Hey CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Tranmere BeachBeach2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Outer BasinLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 554445

1 of the street's 45 addresses is 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–16350 m No published inspection
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Prenton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Town Lane Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Higher Bebington Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Morrisons Daily CH42 6RERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m5 Very good2 Jul 2019
Hursts Bakery, Keylex Ltd CH42 6RERetailers - other280 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
Prenton Lawn Tennis Club CH42 8LYPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
Mount General Store CH42 6RERetailers - other290 m5 Very good14 Nov 2018
Poco loco prenton CH42 6RETakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Aug 2025
Shaftesbury Youth Club CH42 8NURetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Dec 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.

93 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences64
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour4
Other crime3
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson3
Shoplifting3
Burglary2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mount Road (22); On or near Mendip Road (19); On or near Chiltern Road (13); On or near Clee Hill Road (12); On or near The Wiend (9).

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: 311 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 age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 25 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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

Cheviot Road · Mount Road · Mount Road · Cheviot Close · Pennine Road · The Close · Thornton Road · Thornton Road · Raby Grove · Brecon Road · Clee Hill Road · The Wiend

All the streets in CH42 and across Wirral.

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.