Farnham Close Kirkby, Knowsley

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (L32), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19502188.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £160,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 2, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Knowsley costs £2,488 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Headbolt Lane, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Webster Park, is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St. Laurence's Medical Centre, about 210 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 121 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
20241£160,000£160,000£160,000
20221£125,000£125,000£125,000
20211£140,000£140,000£140,000
20193£117,000£102,000£117,500
20171£95,000£95,000£95,000
20152£95,500£95,000£96,000
20121£91,000£91,000£91,000
20111£96,000£96,000£96,000
20071£119,000£119,000£119,000
20061£105,000£105,000£105,000
20041£95,000£95,000£95,000
20021£52,000£52,000£52,000
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 20249 L32 9SFSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
11 Feb 20228 L32 9SFSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 20214 L32 9SFSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
8 Feb 20194 L32 9SFSemi-detached£117,500Leasehold.
8 Feb 20191 L32 9SFTerraced£102,000Leasehold.
25 Jan 20195 L32 9SFSemi-detached£117,000Leasehold.
10 Mar 20172 L32 9SFTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 20158 L32 9SFSemi-detached£96,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 20159 L32 9SFSemi-detached£95,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 20121 L32 9SFTerraced£91,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 20118 L32 9SFSemi-detached£96,000Leasehold.
2 Mar 20075 L32 9SFSemi-detached£119,000Leasehold.
1 Feb 20064 L32 9SFSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 20049 L32 9SFSemi-detached£95,000Leasehold.
15 Feb 20027 L32 9SFSemi-detached£52,000Leasehold.
8 Jun 20015 L32 9SFSemi-detached£46,000Leasehold.
18 May 20012 L32 9SFTerraced£46,995Leasehold.
23 Feb 20013 L32 9SFSemi-detached£48,500New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 20011 L32 9SFTerraced£48,500New build. Leasehold.
19 Dec 20007 L32 9SFSemi-detached£49,500New build. Leasehold.
18 Dec 20006 L32 9SFSemi-detached£49,500New build. Leasehold.
29 Nov 20004 L32 9SFSemi-detached£45,995New build. Leasehold.
24 Nov 20005 L32 9SFSemi-detached£45,995New build. Leasehold.
27 Oct 20008 L32 9SFSemi-detached£46,995New build. Leasehold.
27 Jul 20009 L32 9SFSemi-detached£46,995New build. Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (1); Bungalow, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (5); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Knowsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,488 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,659£1,935£2,212£2,488£3,041£3,594£4,147£4,977

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (99% of about 710 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
L32 9SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L32 9SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 27 m above sea level.

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
L32 9SF100%100%100%0%
L32 9SG100%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 stationsHeadbolt Lane 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Kirkby (Merseyside) 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Fazakerley 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lydbury Crescent Southdene140 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle9.2 km (5.7 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15.8 km (9.8 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St. Laurence's Medical Centre210 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Carlis Road (Dental Surgery)470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWalton Hospital3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationKirkby Police Station710 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM610 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Webster Park 3.4 ha210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Memorial Park 5.3 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,040 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 8.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old RoughWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Willow Bed PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Briton PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Knowsley WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Long PondLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Berry HillHill4 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)11.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 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 Knowsley: see them on the Knowsley page.

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
St Laurence's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11110 m No published inspection
Park Brow Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11380 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Joseph the Worker Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kirkby High SchoolSecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northwood Community Primary School (With Designated Special Provision)Primary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kirkby CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Marie's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Millbrook Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westvale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
St Laurence's Catholic Primary School L32 9QXSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
The Street Kitchen L32 6QPTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
The Park Brow L32 6QPPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Park Brow Fish Bar L32 6QPTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Fryer Tucks Cafe L32 6QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good5 Sep 2025
Gerry Wongs L32 6QPTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
Park Brow Newsagents L32 6QPRetailers - other280 m5 Very good2 Nov 2022
The Grog Shop L32 6QDRetailers - other300 mExempt
The Convenience Store L32 6QDRetailers - other300 m5 Very good19 Aug 2024
Park Brow Primary School L32 6QHSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good29 Jan 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.

121 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences50
Criminal damage and arson18
Drugs18
Public order9
Anti-social behaviour9
Other crime4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons3
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kersey Road (14); On or near Hazel Grove (13); On or near Sennen Road (12); On or near Park Brow Drive (12); On or near Thursby Drive (12).

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: 384 residents in 163 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Gorleston Way · Gorleston Way · Leeside Avenue · Hazel Grove · Leeside Close · Lydbury Crescent · Park Brow Drive · Ingleton Road · Broad Lane · St Laurence Grove · Ingleton Green · Thursby Drive

All the streets in L32 and across Knowsley.

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.