Corn Brook Avenue Runcorn, Halton

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA7), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16108575.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £165,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 13, C: 2).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Runcorn East, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Phoenix Park, is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Castlefields Health Centre, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 28 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
20251£165,000£165,000£165,000
20221£166,500£166,500£166,500
20211£180,000£180,000£180,000
20191£158,000£158,000£158,000
20182£144,000£128,000£160,000
20172£133,998£110,000£157,995
20161£118,000£118,000£118,000
20155£124,995£103,995£136,995
20147£109,995£92,000£137,995
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 20255 WA7 2YLTerraced£165,000
18 Nov 20224 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£166,500
16 Apr 20211 WA7 2YLDetached£180,000
17 May 20191 WA7 2YLDetached£158,000
29 Jun 20189 WA7 2YLDetached£160,000
16 Apr 20186 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£128,000
30 Jun 20178 WA7 2YLTerraced£110,000
28 Apr 20172 WA7 2YLDetached£157,995
28 Nov 201612 WA7 2YLTerraced£118,000
9 Oct 20157 WA7 2YLTerraced£124,995
9 Oct 20155 WA7 2YLTerraced£103,995
30 Sep 20153 WA7 2YLTerraced£103,995
25 Sep 20151 WA7 2YLDetached£136,995
23 Jan 20159 WA7 2YLDetached£132,995
15 Jan 201511 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£91,030Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 201515 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£79,549Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 201414 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£137,995
19 Dec 201416 WA7 2YLDetached£131,995
24 Sep 20144 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£109,995
8 Aug 201410 WA7 2YLTerraced£92,000
7 Aug 201412 WA7 2YLTerraced£111,995
31 Jul 20146 WA7 2YLSemi-detached£95,000
31 Jul 20148 WA7 2YLTerraced£93,995

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 August 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2012 (9); 2011 (4); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (89% of about 820 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): Halton Borough Council Article 4 - 1, Halton Borough Council Article 4 - A4D_1.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 9 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
WA7 2YLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WA7 2NBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 5 / 7 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 28 m and 30 m above sea level (29 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
WA7 2NB100%98%98%0%
WA7 2YL100%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 stationsRuncorn East 196,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Barge Castlefields100 m
Bus or coach stationWarrington Bus Interchange Stand U8.3 km (5.2 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.9 km (6.8 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castlefields Health Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Runcorn Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Halton Road Family Dental Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalHalton Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationCheshire Constabulary1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Runcorn Castlefield Centre, Castlefields Cashzone420 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Phoenix Park 9.8 ha330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Town Park 104 ha330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,740 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Haddock's Wood Playing Fields 11 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Haddocks Wood Allotments 2.0 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 118 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Norton Priory, a listed building (Grade I), 510 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Norton PrioryListed building, Grade I510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Augustinian Abbey known as Norton PrioryScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) east
The Seneschal's HouseListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Halton Castle: a ruined shell keep castle on the site of an earlier motte and baileyScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haddock's WoodWood560 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Windmill HillHill1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Wigg IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Sandymoor PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) east
Astmoor Salt MarshWetland1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Murdishaw ValleyValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
55 to 591100
Under 5541616

12 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11290 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Astmoor Primary SchoolPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) 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
Bridgewater Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Brow Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Windmill Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Berteline's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 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
Castle View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Palace Fields Primary AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School & Nursery - Impact Food Group WA7 2JJSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Astmoor Primary School - Breakfast Club WA7 2JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Acorn Day Nursery - Main Kitchen WA7 2JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Astmoor Primary School - Edsential WA7 2JESchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Castlefields Fish Bar WA7 2STTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory10 Aug 2026
Morrisons Daily WA7 2STRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory12 Jun 2025
The Route@Castlefields Cafe WA7 2STOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Bridgewater Park Nursery and Reception WA7 2LWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jul 2023
Bridgewater Park Primary School - Caterlink WA7 2LWSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Mar 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near De Lacy Row (6); On or near Knott Mill Way (6); On or near Scottsdale Road (5); On or near Castlefields Avenue East (3); On or near Denbigh Court (2).

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: 491 residents in 185 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 age3140
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented47%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WA7 2YL: 15 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • WA7 2NB: 1 address of 59 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Worsley Close · Medlock Close · Knott Mill Way · De Lacy Row · Tyrrell Way · Denbigh Court · Conwy Court · Scottsdale Road · Waterbridge Mews · Glendale Road · Astmoor Road · Green Bridge Close

All the streets in WA7 and across Halton.

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.