Church Close Wallasey, Wirral

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH44), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44504588.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026 (+5.8% on a year); private rents averaged £862 a month.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6, 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 180 m from its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels, is 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A551, carries 9,736 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; 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 Birkenhead Park, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Central Park, is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Egremont Med Ctr, about 170 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 188 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20241£130,000£130,000£130,000
20231£182,500£182,500£182,500
20212£96,500£83,000£110,000
20201£118,600£118,600£118,600
20141£118,000£118,000£118,000
20131£100,000£100,000£100,000
20121£63,000£63,000£63,000
20032£61,225£59,950£62,500
20021£48,250£48,250£48,250
20011£42,000£42,000£42,000
20001£46,500£46,500£46,500
19971£39,000£39,000£39,000
All 15 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Aug 20211 CH44 8HGTerraced£83,000
23 Jul 20212 CH44 8HGDetached£110,000
5 Mar 19972 CH44 8HGDetached£39,000
14 Feb 20034 CH44 8HGTerraced£59,950
22 Jun 20205 CH44 8HGTerraced£118,600
27 Sep 20246 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£130,000
22 Sep 19956 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£40,000
14 Mar 20237 CH44 8HGTerraced£182,500
17 Jul 20137 CH44 8HGTerraced£100,000
25 Feb 20009 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£46,500
15 Sep 200312 CH44 8HGTerraced£62,500
22 Feb 201214 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£63,000
23 Aug 200214 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£48,250
6 Apr 200114 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£42,000
29 May 201415 CH44 8HGSemi-detached£118,000

House prices and rents in Wirral

A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 55% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£395,663
Semi-detached£252,118
Terraced£176,914
Flat or maisonette£125,172
Bought by a first-time buyer£190,039

Private renters in Wirral paid £862 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£574
Two bedrooms£743
Three bedrooms£909
Four or more bedrooms£1,255

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 April 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 90 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,293 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 9,898 kWh, and 2,898 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CH44 8HG132,894 kWh 138,412 kWh
CH44 8HF212,404 kWh 225,872 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CH44.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (86% of about 1,600 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: 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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Burbo Bank Energy Storage Wirral APP/17/00463 Battery storage 2 MW Operational Dec 2018 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bidston Moss Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 2.3 MW Operational Jan 1998 3.2 km (2 miles)
Port of Liverpool - wind Sefton 05F/2712 Wind 4 turbines 10 MW Operational Feb 2009 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels Liverpool 22LP/2379 Wind 1 turbine Planning application made Sep 2022 4.5 km (2.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
CH44 8HGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CH44 8HFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 180 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Great Ormes Head to Scotland none (the line is held)230 m
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Great Ormes Head to Scotland none (the line is held)230 m
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Great Ormes Head to Scotland up to 52 m180 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 21 m and 22 m above sea level (22 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
CH44 8HF100%100%100%0%
CH44 8HG100%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 stationsBirkenhead Park 670,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Birkenhead North 944,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
New Brighton 1.2 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Street South Egremont150 m
Bus or coach stationWoodside Interchange2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalSeacombe Ferry Terminal1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rappart Road Car Park420 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sainsburys Wirral Waters Smart Charge1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15 km (9.3 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Egremont Med Ctr Good Mar 2017170 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Egremont Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalVictoria Central Hospital1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Care homes18 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apple Blossom Court Good May 2025110 m
Police stationWallasey Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone190 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Park 19 ha280 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Seacombe Recreation Ground 1.7 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.6 ha940 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wallasey Town Hall including podium facing walls and steps, concrete retaining walls and steps down to the promenade, boundary walls and railings including light standards, and railings to front lawns, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) south-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wallasey Town Hall including podium facing walls and steps, concrete retaining walls and steps down to the promenade, boundary walls and railings including light standards, and railings to front lawnsListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) south-east
Memorial ChapelListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alfred DockLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
Trafalgar DockLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) east
Bidston MossWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Bidston HillHill3.8 km (2.4 miles) south-west
South Ferry BasinTidal water4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-east
Great Burbo BankWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west

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)11.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 551116

5 of the street's 16 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Egremont Primary SchoolPrimary2–1170 m 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 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Somerville Primary SchoolPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Riverside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wallasey Roman CatholicPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Somerville Nursery SchoolNursery2–5820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Kingsway Primary SchoolPrimary2–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 37% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 17% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
Liscard Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
St Alban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
Co-op Academy OldershawSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 29.0 (28.0 in 2025 and 27.9 in 2024); 13.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade E+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
Weatherhead High SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.2 (41.9 in 2025 and 41.6 in 2024); 38.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 9.3% AAB or better; progress average
Mount Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 160 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Lyn's Little Ones Preschool CH44 0BW Sessional day care 40 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 160 m
Jan's Little Learners CH44 0BZ Sessional day care 48 Apr 2026: Needs attention in 4 areas, Urgent improvement in 2 410 m (0.3 miles)
Lyn's Little Ones Day Nursery CH44 0AB Full day care 64 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Flickers and Flyers CIC CH44 7ED Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 660 m (0.4 miles)
Manor Childcare Centre CH44 1BQ Full day care 36 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 690 m (0.4 miles)
Oakdale Children's Nursery CH44 7HN Full day care 50 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 690 m (0.4 miles)
Ash House Day Nursery CH44 1BB Full day care 70 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Penkett Day Nursery Limited CH45 7QN Full day care 60 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Daisy Day Nursery CH44 4EU Full day care 65 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Little Rainbows Day Nursery Ltd CH44 2AA Full day care 36 Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 120 childminders and 12 home childcarers (nannies) in Wirral. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
New Hope Wirral CH44 0BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good17 Feb 2026
Apple Blossom Court CH44 8ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Stanleys Vaults CH44 8AUPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good28 Jan 2019
Lyn's Little Ones Pre-School CH44 0BWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Bargain Booze CH44 8DYRetailers - other190 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Wallasey Off Licence and Convenience CH44 8AURetailers - other190 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Jun 2025
Tandoori Mahal Restaurant CH44 8AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Nov 2025
Kilos kitchen / Ramsey Hot Chicken / Press’d CH44 8DYTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Nabzys Wallasey CH44 8DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Jun 2026
Oriental Chef CH44 8AUTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m2 Improvement necessary29 Sep 2026
A & A News CH44 8DYRetailers - other220 m4 Good26 Dec 2018
The Scrapyard Bar CH44 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
NI HAO FISH BAR CH44 8AATakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
The smash king Wallasey CH44 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good26 Sep 2026
Beryls CH44 8DYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good3 Sep 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.

188 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences103
Criminal damage and arson21
Anti-social behaviour21
Public order11
Drugs9
Other theft8
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons3
Other crime1
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Clarendon Road (23); On or near Tobin Street (19); On or near Elmswood Road (18); On or near Churchmeadow Close (17); On or near Water Street (16).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 2 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202300
202421
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Sep 2024 12:10 Slight 2 people A554, 30 mph Wet road
18 Jul 2024 16:30 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A554, 30 mph Daylight
18 Oct 2022 14:25 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
12 Sep 2022 16:25 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A551 between Mill Lane and B5145, with 9,736 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 310 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A554 A5028 to B5477 Harrison Drive 6,901 estimated; counted 2018 1% -32% since 2015 260 m
A551 Mill Lane to B5145 9,736 estimated; counted 2024 1% -6% since 2015 310 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 637 residents in 333 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 age4540
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Oriental Chef (takeaway/sandwich shop, CH44 8AU) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 4 Good (rated 29 September 2026) found 4 November 2026

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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.

  • CH44 8HG: 15 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • CH44 8HF: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Lane · Darlington Street · Falkland Road · Church Gardens · Churchmeadow Close · Darlington Close · Church Street · Church Street · King Street · Redfield Close · Dalehurst Close · Brighton Street

All the streets in CH44 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.