Deva Lane Chester

29 addresses across 6 postcodes (CH2), about 110 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 6903030.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £197,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 4, D: 2).
  • Flood: 4 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 D; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bache, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Countess of Chester Country Park, is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Upton Village Surgery, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 47 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£197,500£197,500£197,500
20251£182,500£182,500£182,500
20171£240,000£240,000£240,000
20144£244,250£230,000£253,750
20133£237,500£237,000£240,000
20091£150,000£150,000£150,000
20031£60,000£60,000£60,000
20002£64,950£59,950£69,950
19991£59,500£59,500£59,500
19982£55,225£52,450£58,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Feb 202611 CH2 1AZTerraced£197,500
25 Feb 202510 CH2 1AZTerraced£182,500
16 Dec 202410 CH2 1AZTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Nov 201720 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£240,000
16 Dec 201414 CH2 1AZDetached£253,750New build.
26 Sep 201415 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£244,750New build.
13 May 201420 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£243,750New build.
26 Feb 201416 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£230,000New build.
27 Sep 201317 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£240,000New build.
27 Sep 201319 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£237,500New build.
20 Sep 201318 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£237,000New build.
26 Aug 200911 CH2 1AZTerraced£150,000
14 Feb 20037 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£60,000
6 Oct 200011 CH2 1AZTerraced£59,950
23 Jun 20009 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£69,950
30 Sep 19998 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£59,500
14 Aug 19981 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£58,000
17 Jul 19989 CH2 1AZSemi-detached£52,450

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 September 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 2013 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 1,870 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: yes, Cheshire West and Chester.

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 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 11 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
CH2 1AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
CH2 4AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
CH2 4ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH2 1DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH2 1EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH2 1FAnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 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 29 addresses are between 8 m and 22 m above sea level (19 m on average); the ground rises about 14 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CH2 1AZ100%100%100%0%
CH2 1DT100%100%100%0%
CH2 1EZ100%100%100%0%
CH2 1FA35%35%35%65%
CH2 4AH100%0%0%0%
CH2 4AS100%84%84%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 stationsBache 495,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m (0.4 miles)
Chester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beechway Bache230 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Enterprise Car Parks - Mill@Upton Car Park660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL13.8 km (8.6 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 Upton Village Surgery890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chester Dental Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBowmere Hospital310 m
Police stationBlacon Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM660 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Countess of Chester Country Park 23 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²330 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.6 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsKingsway Allotments 8,010 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 24 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman camp at Upton Heath, beside the water tower north of Long Lane, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman camp at Upton Heath, beside the water tower north of Long LaneScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Roman camp 300m west of Upton Grange FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Roman camp at Upton, 350m north east of the water tower north of Long LaneScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The DaleValley850 m (0.5 miles) north
Donkey FieldWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Icehouse PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Viaduct WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Butter HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
60 to 6420
55 to 59120
Under 551429

15 of the street's 29 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 Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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
Upton Heath CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton-by-Chester High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Arches Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Acresfield AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 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
Oak Tree CH2 1BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good8 Feb 2025
Upton Dene Residential CH2 1FDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good24 May 2026
The Brewers Arms CH2 1BDPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good24 Aug 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.

47 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Caldecott Close (25); On or near Deva Lane (11); On or near Vivienne Smith Lane (7); On or near Beechway (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 836 residents in 320 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 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 10 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 17 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • CH2 1AZ: 22 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • CH2 4AH: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • CH2 4AS: 2 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • CH2 1DT: 1 address of 8 in the postcode
  • CH2 1EZ: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
  • CH2 1FA: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mottershead Court · Vivienne Smith Lane · Caldecott Close · Liverpool Road · Upton Grange · Beechway · Frost Drive · Ross Avenue · Sydney Close · Griffiths Square · Warren Lane · Parsons Lane

All the streets in CH2 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.