Edgar Place Chester

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH4), about 30 m long. USRN 6902724.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £252,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026 (+3.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,000 a month.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 8, E: 2).
  • 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.
  • Storm overflows: 14 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 267 times (652 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, City Road - Solar panel, is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A483, carries 27,738 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 100 m away, and Grosvenor Park (5.9 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Handbridge Med.ctr., about 20 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 90 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20232£252,500£165,000£340,000
20201£300,000£300,000£300,000
20162£205,000£180,000£230,000
20152£215,000£215,000£215,000
20141£105,000£105,000£105,000
20071£217,500£217,500£217,500
20062£199,950£199,950£199,950
20052£157,500£95,000£220,000
20041£162,000£162,000£162,000
20031£148,000£148,000£148,000
20022£97,225£54,500£139,950
20012£121,875£65,750£178,000
All 25 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Aug 20231 CH4 7JYTerraced£340,000
1 Mar 19991 CH4 7JYTerraced£72,000
17 Aug 20152 CH4 7JYTerraced£215,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 20152 CH4 7JYTerraced£215,000
8 May 20062 CH4 7JYTerraced£199,950
8 May 20062 CH4 7JYTerraced£199,950Leasehold.
27 Nov 20203 CH4 7JYTerraced£300,000
1 Jun 20163 CH4 7JYTerraced£230,000
24 Jan 20033 CH4 7JYTerraced£148,000
9 May 19973 CH4 7JYTerraced£85,000
22 Mar 20004 CH4 7JYSemi-detached£95,000
24 Dec 19964 CH4 7JYSemi-detached£57,000
4 Dec 20015 CH4 7JYDetached£178,000
22 Feb 200211 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£54,500Leasehold.
15 Jun 200412 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£162,000Leasehold.
25 Nov 200212 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£139,950Leasehold.
9 Mar 200112 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£65,750Leasehold.
16 May 200514 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
13 Oct 201615 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 200715 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£217,500Leasehold.
15 Aug 200515 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£220,000Leasehold.
18 Aug 200015 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
12 Jan 202317 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£165,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 201419 CH4 7JYFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 200019 CH4 7JYTerraced£59,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Cheshire West and Chester

A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 49% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£439,091
Semi-detached£268,826
Terraced£211,455
Flat or maisonette£135,806
Bought by a first-time buyer£223,667

Private renters in Cheshire West and Chester paid £1,000 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 46% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£731
Two bedrooms£922
Three bedrooms£1,132
Four or more bedrooms£1,627

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 March 2012 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 62 m². Most common: Flat (5); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,296 kWh of it on average in 2024, 32% less than the district's 10,777 kWh, and 2,251 kWh of electricity, 29% less than the district's 3,181 kWh. There are gas meters for about 77% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CH4 7JY112,319 kWh 107,244 kWh
CH4 7JS42 10 Economy 71,313 kWh 317,474 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 CH4.

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 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (51% of about 950 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.

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
City Road - Solar panel Cheshire West and Chester 22/02101/P14 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2022 1.3 km (0.8 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

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: of the 40 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 2 very low.

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.

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

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

14 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 267 times, for 652 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Dee, Tributary of the River Dee.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Edgar Park Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 10 4 160 m
Chester Weir (South Bank) Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 20 73 180 m
Unknown Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 4 2 210 m
Old Dee Bridge (North Bank) Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 0 0 220 m
Little Roodee Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 36 109 230 m
Sandy Lane Combined Sewer Overflow Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 1 0 400 m (0.2 miles)
The Groves Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Dee 34 81 450 m (0.3 miles)
The Dingle Chester Cso Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Tributary of the River Dee 66 82 490 m (0.3 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 15 addresses are between 6 m and 17 m above sea level (15 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
CH4 7JS100%100%100%0%
CH4 7JY100%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 stationsChester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–259.2 km (5.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handbridge Garage100 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP560 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Car Charge People100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL17 km (11 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Handbridge Med.ctr. Requires improvement Nov 202320 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Handbridge Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oasis Dental Care540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalGrosvenor Nuffield Hospital Good Dec 2016910 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Belong Chester Requires improvement Jan 20261.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bt Kiosk O/s 42 Bridge Street- Chester450 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 Unnamed 1.2 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Grosvenor Park 5.9 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²120 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha220 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beeston View 1 and 2 2.2 ha680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Marys, a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m south. 488 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 44 of them Grade I and 55 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MarysListed building, Grade II*70 m south
Roman quarry including Edgar's Cave and the rock-cut figure of Minerva on Edgar's Field, 150m south west of Dee BridgeScheduled monument80 m north
Roman Shrine to MinervaListed building, Grade I80 m north
Dee BridgeScheduled monument210 m north
Old Dee BridgeListed building, Grade I210 m north
Part of City Wall From County Hall (Not Included) to Grosvenor RoadListed building, Grade I280 m north-west
Chester Castle (part)Scheduled monument340 m north-west
Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gamon's RoughWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Gallows HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Half Moon PlantationWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) south
Gorse HillHill3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
The DaleValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) north
Crook of DeeLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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), 6 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
Queen's Park High SchoolSecondary11–18240 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.6 (44.2 in 2025 and 47.5 in 2024); 53% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 27.8% AAB or better; progress below average
Chester International SchoolSecondary14–19380 m Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.5 (34.5 in 2025 and 34.9 in 2024); 27.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
The Catholic High School, Chester Roman CatholicSecondary11–18700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.1 (46.7 in 2025 and 44.3 in 2024); 36.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 7.8% AAB or better; progress below average
The Grosvenor Park Church of England AcademyPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 53.7 (53.8 in 2025 and 48.8 in 2024); 57.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 16.1% AAB or better; progress below average
Belgrave Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Boughton Heath AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 88% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Lache Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published

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

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 240 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Theatretrain Chester CH4 7AE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 240 m
Headstart-On-The-Hill Nursery & Pre-School CH1 2DW Full day care 102 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 360 m
Jigsaw Ash Tree Farm Day Nursery CH4 7QR Full day care 76 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Chester Day Nursery and Nursery School CH1 3ND Full day care 90 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
The Nursery in Belong CH1 3AD Full day care 32 Outstanding (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 109 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Cheshire West and Chester. 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 6 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
E W Edge And Son CH4 7JFRetailers - other70 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
HANDBRIDGE PUB CH4 7JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Jul 2026
The Grosvenor Arms CH4 7JEPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good26 Mar 2023
Nuance Coffee Limited CH4 7JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good15 Apr 2025
pickles CH4 7JEPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Asda Express Handbridge - Queens Park Road PFS CH4 7JFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m4 Good11 Feb 2025
Brown Sugar CH4 7JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good11 Apr 2026
Exsqueeze Me CH4 7JERetailers - other140 m5 Very good17 Apr 2025
Spoilt For Choice CH4 7JERetailers - other140 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Couper And Coulter CH4 7JERetailers - other140 mExempt
Ship Inn CH4 7JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Doorsteps CH4 7JETakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
St Marys CH4 7HLOther catering premises150 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Abbeyfield House CH4 7ADHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Vendees Local CH4 7BURetailers - other250 m5 Very good8 Oct 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.

90 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences37
Public order12
Shoplifting11
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Drugs4
Burglary2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Overleigh Court (14); On or near Castle Drive (12); On or near Supermarket (12); On or near Ebury Place (11); On or near Queen'S Park View (10).

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.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 4 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 20% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202320
202410
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Oct 2025 08:40 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
21 Jul 2025 17:19 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
5 Jun 2024 08:07 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Mar 2023 18:41 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Dark, wet road
8 Feb 2023 08:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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 A483 between A5104 and A5268, with 27,738 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 390 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 1,088 counted 2025 0% 390 m
A483 A5104 to A5268 27,738 estimated; counted 2022 1% +1% since 2015 390 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: 574 residents in 294 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 age5040
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented56%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications12%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

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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.

  • CH4 7JY: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • CH4 7JS: 2 addresses of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

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All the streets in CH4 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; 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.