Darwin Drive Leyland, Chorley

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR25), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 7403539.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12).
  • Flood: 3 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 E; Band D in Chorley costs £2,430 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leyland, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 220 m away, and Cuerden Valley Park (238 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Central Park Surgery, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 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
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20252£195,000£60,000£330,000
20212£173,750£100,000£247,500
20203£225,000£45,000£299,950
20191£266,500£266,500£266,500
20173£284,995£277,995£314,000
201618£297,495£236,995£349,995
20153£249,995£234,995£290,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 May 202623 PR25 5APDetached£425,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 20257 PR25 5APTerraced£60,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 202510 PR25 5APDetached£330,000
19 Nov 202134 PR25 5APSemi-detached£100,000
21 Jan 202115 PR25 5APDetached£247,500Leasehold.
3 Dec 20205 PR25 5APTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 2020BADGERS DRIFT, 12 PR25 5APDetached£299,950Leasehold.
20 Mar 202010 PR25 5APDetached£225,000Leasehold.
11 Jan 201920 PR25 5APDetached£266,500Leasehold.
1 Dec 20178 PR25 5APDetached£284,995Leasehold.
15 Sep 201719 PR25 5APFlat or maisonette£314,000Leasehold.
22 Jan 20178 PR25 5APDetached£277,995New build. Leasehold.
16 Sep 201629 PR25 5APDetached£264,995New build. Leasehold.
26 Aug 201627 PR25 5APDetached£276,995New build. Leasehold.
19 Aug 201625 PR25 5APDetached£319,995New build. Leasehold.
18 Aug 201621 PR25 5APDetached£299,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Jul 201623 PR25 5APDetached£299,995New build. Leasehold.
27 May 201619 PR25 5APFlat or maisonette£304,995Leasehold.
27 May 2016BADGERS DRIFT, 12 PR25 5APDetached£294,995New build. Leasehold.
27 May 201626 PR25 5APDetached£236,995New build. Leasehold.
20 May 201617 PR25 5APDetached£329,995New build. Leasehold.
20 May 201624 PR25 5APDetached£274,995New build. Leasehold.
12 May 201622 PR25 5APDetached£318,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Apr 201620 PR25 5APDetached£261,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Apr 201618 PR25 5APDetached£252,995New build. Leasehold.
22 Apr 201616 PR25 5APDetached£318,995New build. Leasehold.
24 Mar 201614 PR25 5APDetached£349,995New build. Leasehold.
4 Mar 201610 PR25 5APDetached£236,995New build. Leasehold.
5 Feb 201613 PR25 5APDetached£299,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Jan 201615 PR25 5APDetached£249,995New build. Leasehold.
11 Sep 20156 PR25 5APDetached£290,000Leasehold.
21 Aug 20154 PR25 5APDetached£249,995New build. Leasehold.
21 Aug 20152 PR25 5APDetached£234,995New build. Leasehold.

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 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House (11); House, detached (1). Built: 2013 (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Chorley in 2026-27: Band D £2,430 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,620£1,890£2,160£2,430£2,970£3,510£4,050£4,860

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (25% of about 1,140 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Roadworks

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 7 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
PR25 5APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
PR25 5AGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 5 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 13 addresses are between 57 m and 59 m above sea level (58 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
PR25 5AG100%100%100%0%
PR25 5AP100%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 stationsLeyland 451,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Lostock Hall 24,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Buckshaw Parkway 355,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wychwood Grove Clayton-le-Woods180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Chorley Town Centre5.9 km (3.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station350 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL42.2 km (26 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 surgeriesCentral Park Surgery1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leyland & Farington Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lowerbank Dental Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalRamsey Buckshawe Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationLeyland Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Bristol Ave Farrington, Bristol Avenue, Farington Cashzone760 m (0.5 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,210 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cuerden Valley Park 238 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,040 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,820 m²2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 240 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site of Clayton Hall, adjacent fishponds and channels, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site of Clayton Hall, adjacent fishponds and channelsScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Worden HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bolton's WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Lady Hoghton's PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
School CovertWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Black Banks WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Gravel Hole WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Nixon HillockHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
55 to 5930
Under 551013

3 of the street's 13 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 Chorley: see them on the Chorley 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 Catherine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lancaster Lane Primary and Pre-SchoolPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lever House Primary SchoolPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Farington Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leyland Methodist Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leyland Methodist Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Clayton-le-Woods Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Balshaw's Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wellfield AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clayton-le-Woods Manor Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Leyland St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
NSS News PR25 5SDRetailers - other150 m5 Very good27 Jan 2023
The Woodsman Public House PR25 5RYPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good1 Jun 2026
Bangla Spice Brasserie PR25 5SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary22 Jul 2026
Teddy Towers PR25 5TDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Aug 2025
The Happy Frier PR25 5TUTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Jun 2026
Tesco Express PR25 5TURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2016

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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour9
Vehicle crime7
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Burglary2
Shoplifting1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mortimer Place (8); On or near Dallington Avenue (8); On or near Leighfield Close (6); On or near Arden Drive (6); On or near Hampton Grove (5).

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: 835 residents in 271 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 age3240
Children under 1533%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work81%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • PR25 5AP: 12 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • PR25 5AG: 1 address of 61 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hampton Grove · Charnwood Mews · Dallington Avenue · Kielder Gardens · Leighfield Close · Cuerden Gardens · Arden Drive · Gisburn Court · Moss Lane · Mortimer Place · Whinfell Close · Kent Drive

All the streets in PR25 and across Chorley.

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.