Farbailey Close Chester

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH4), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6900637.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £400,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 8, E: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 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 3.3 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Westminster Park, is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 20 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lache Health Centre, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 37 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20242£400,000£330,000£470,000
20232£353,750£345,000£362,500
20213£336,000£310,000£432,000
20191£249,000£249,000£249,000
20181£272,250£272,250£272,250
20171£305,000£305,000£305,000
20161£295,000£295,000£295,000
20151£182,500£182,500£182,500
20131£249,950£249,950£249,950
20121£247,500£247,500£247,500
20101£228,000£228,000£228,000
20071£230,000£230,000£230,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Dec 202419 CH4 7QHDetached£470,000
31 Jul 20247 CH4 7QHDetached£330,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 202317 CH4 7QHDetached£345,000
10 Nov 202327 CH4 7QHDetached£362,500
21 Feb 202225 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Nov 20216 CH4 7QHDetached£432,000
20 Aug 20211 CH4 7QHDetached£336,000Leasehold.
5 Feb 202117 CH4 7QHDetached£310,000
8 Mar 201925 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£249,000
29 Aug 201815 CH4 7QHTerraced£272,250
30 Jun 201712 CH4 7QHDetached£305,000
28 Jun 201612 CH4 7QHDetached£295,000
27 Nov 20159 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£182,500
20 Dec 20135 CH4 7QHDetached£249,950
15 Nov 201217 CH4 7QHDetached£247,500
26 Jul 201017 CH4 7QHDetached£228,000
13 Aug 200717 CH4 7QHDetached£230,000
5 Dec 200612 CH4 7QHDetached£260,000
27 Jun 200623 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£185,000
8 Oct 200410 CH4 7QHDetached£192,500Leasehold.
27 Aug 200421 CH4 7QHDetached£245,000
21 Feb 20032 CH4 7QHDetached£198,950
29 Nov 200221 CH4 7QHDetached£166,000
16 Aug 200125 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£87,000
4 Feb 20009 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£86,000
9 Apr 199911 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£74,000
21 May 19985 CH4 7QHDetached£115,000
25 Jul 199723 CH4 7QHSemi-detached£64,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 19978 CH4 7QHDetached£70,000
29 Mar 19961 CH4 7QHDetached£82,500Leasehold.
21 Nov 199527 CH4 7QHDetached£80,000
21 Nov 199527 CH4 7QHDetached£80,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 19955 CH4 7QHDetached£96,000
5 May 199512 CH4 7QHDetached£84,750

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 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 89 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

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 E (29% of about 760 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 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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
CH4 7QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CH4 7QFnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 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 20 addresses are between 18 m and 19 m above sea level (18 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
CH4 7QF100%100%100%0%
CH4 7QH100%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 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Hawarden 31,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shops Westminster Park70 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksSaddlery Way Car Park2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL18.5 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. 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 Lache Health Centre610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westminster Park Pharmacy60 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Art Of Dental Care1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalGrosvenor Nuffield Hospital850 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Westminster Park - Chester, Westminister Park Estate Cashzone80 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westminster Park 18 ha340 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kings View Play Area 110 m²310 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,980 m²1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site 180m W of Fir Tree Farm, a scheduled monument, 810 m (0.5 miles) south. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site 180m W of Fir Tree FarmScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) south
Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Heronbridge Roman siteScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Roman quarry including Edgar's Cave and the rock-cut figure of Minerva on Edgar's Field, 150m south west of Dee BridgeScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gamon's RoughWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Half Moon PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Eccleston HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Johnson's RoughWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Black WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Crook of DeeLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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 551920

1 of the street's 20 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), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026; Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). 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. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Belgrave Primary SchoolPrimary4–11210 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lache Primary SchoolPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Clare's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kings Moat Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Catholic High School, Chester Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 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
Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 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
Wood Memorial Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Anthony's Catholic Primary Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Queen's Park High SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) 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

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Belgrave Primary Academy School CH4 7QSSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Belgrave Pre-School CH4 7QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Belgrave Primary Academy Afterschool Club CH4 7QSSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Golden dragon CH4 7QDTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good10 Aug 2026
Westminster Park Pharmacy CH4 7QDRetailers - other90 mExempt
Co-op CH4 7QSRetailers - other100 m5 Very good23 Mar 2024
Three Fellas Burger CH4 7QSTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Chatwins CH4 7QSRetailers - other120 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
SJ Bebbington Butchers Of Chester CH4 7QSRetailers - other130 m4 Good14 Aug 2026
Bebbington & Williams Fishmongers Ltd CH4 7QSRetailers - other130 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
The Emporium CH4 7QSRetailers - other140 m5 Very good7 Aug 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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting20
Violence and sexual offences8
Public order3
Other theft2
Bicycle theft2
Vehicle crime1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (27); On or near Cavendish Court (3); On or near Five Ashes Road (3); On or near Cotgreaves Close (2); On or near Lache Lane (1).

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: 596 residents in 259 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 age5340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright63%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)38%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 van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)53%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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.

Nearby streets

Five Ashes Road · Meadowfield Road · Vernay Green · Meadow Field Road · Claypit Road · Castle Croft Road · Lower Field Road · Cotgreaves Close · Sherbourne Avenue · Augustus Place · Rushfield Road · Cavendish Court

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.
  • 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.