Derwent Drive Handforth, Cheshire East

18 addresses across 1 postcode (SK9), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24100721.

26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £475,000 across 1 sale. 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, D: 10). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Handforth, about 840 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 410 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 76 to 78 m above sea level. 1 of its 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Handforth Health Centre, about 710 m away. About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 29 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£475,000£475,000£475,000
20223£435,000£425,000£467,500
20201£375,000£375,000£375,000
20183£375,000£340,000£389,950
20171£365,000£365,000£365,000
20142£337,500£295,000£380,000
20132£278,975£249,950£308,000
20072£258,000£250,000£266,000
20041£191,000£191,000£191,000
20021£144,000£144,000£144,000
20011£155,000£155,000£155,000
19971£94,500£94,500£94,500
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Sep 20253 SK9 3NWDetached£475,000
1 Feb 20246 SK9 3NWDetached£465,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Feb 20246 SK9 3NWOther£465,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 20221 SK9 3NWDetached£467,500
8 Nov 20221 SK9 3NWOther£467,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 20229 SK9 3NWDetached£425,000
4 Mar 20221A SK9 3NWDetached£435,000
13 Aug 20201A SK9 3NWDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 20206 SK9 3NWDetached£375,000Leasehold.
10 Oct 201811 SK9 3NWDetached£389,950Leasehold.
14 Sep 201818 SK9 3NWDetached£340,000Leasehold.
26 Jan 20181 SK9 3NWDetached£375,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 20171 SK9 3NWDetached£365,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 20171A SK9 3NWSemi-detached£420,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jan 20171A SK9 3NWOther£300Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Oct 20148 SK9 3NWDetached£295,000
29 Sep 201411 SK9 3NWDetached£530Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Sep 20142 SK9 3NWDetached£380,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 20137 SK9 3NWDetached£308,000
24 May 20131A SK9 3NWSemi-detached£249,950Leasehold.
30 May 200710 SK9 3NWDetached£250,000Leasehold.
25 May 20074 SK9 3NWDetached£266,000
24 Aug 200420 SK9 3NWDetached£191,000
29 May 20026 SK9 3NWDetached£144,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 20015 SK9 3NWDetached£155,000
18 Aug 199716 SK9 3NWDetached£94,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (11). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1930-1949 (4); 2019 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 25 August 2026 to 4 September 2026: CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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

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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 18 addresses are between 76 m and 78 m above sea level (77 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
SK9 3NW100%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 stationsHandforth 333,000 journeys in 2024–25840 m
Styal 28,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Heald Green 420,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m, 18 within 800 m; nearest Spath Lane Handforth310 m
Bus or coach stationManchester Airport The Station3.7 km
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest School Road Car Park560 m
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest evyve Charging Station800 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN3.9 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Handforth Health Centre710 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Well570 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Portman Healthcare LTD - Wilmslow370 m
HospitalThe Priory Cheadle Royal Hospital2.5 km
Police stationWythenshawe Police Station4.4 km
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m; nearest Tesco Bank ATM420 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; nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha410 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 340 m²380 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,090 m²1.8 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cheadle Royal Hospital, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km north. 5 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cheadle Royal HospitalRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hall WoodWood1.7 km south-east
Worms HillHill1.8 km south-west
Deadman's CloughValley1.9 km south-west
Willow Ground WoodWood2.5 km south-west
Carr WoodWood2.6 km south-west
Black LakeLake or reservoir3.5 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551718

1 of the street's 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Handforth Grange Primary SchoolPrimary3–1160 m Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km No published inspection
Outwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km No published inspection
Bolshaw Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km No published inspection
St James' Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lacey Green Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Styal Primary SchoolPrimary4–112.0 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Handforth Grange School SK9 3NGSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Costa Coffee SK9 3HQOther catering premises390 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Time Out Group SK9 3HQOther catering premises390 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Peter Herd of Wilmslow SK9 3HGRetailers - other420 m5 Very good8 Dec 2025
Handforth Chinese Restaurant SK9 3HGOther catering premises420 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Indish @the paddock SK9 3HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Spinachi pizza&grill SK9 3LQTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m5 Very good20 May 2026
The Redesmere Centre SK9 3RXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m5 Very good2 Jul 2025
Istanblue SK9 3LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m1 Major improvement necessary12 Aug 2025
Dilshad Indian restaurant SK9 3LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2026

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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs2
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ullswater Road (7); On or near Windermere Road (5); On or near Richmond Avenue (4); On or near Clay Lane (3); On or near Marlow Drive (3).

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: 340 residents in 122 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)50%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • SK9 3NW: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Marlow Drive · Ashford Close · Coniston Drive · Marina Close · Irwin Drive · Windermere Road · Grangeway · Wallingford Road · Ullswater Road · Campden Way · Richmond Avenue · Kingston Road

All the streets in SK9 and across Cheshire East.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.