Flour Mill Way Crewe, Cheshire East
5 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW1), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9802351.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Cheshire East cost £311,897 in August 2026 (+4.5% on a year); private rents averaged £992 a month.
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 14 times (17 hours) in 2025.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A534, carries 14,781 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Crewe, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 48 to 50 m above sea level.
- Noise: 3 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hungerford Medical Centre, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
- People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 63% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 126 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
- Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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House sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in Cheshire East
A typical home in Cheshire East cost £311,897 in August 2026, 4.5% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £504,698 |
| Semi-detached | £299,120 |
| Terraced | £231,113 |
| Flat or maisonette | £157,592 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £252,798 |
Private renters in Cheshire East paid £992 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £701 |
| Two bedrooms | £905 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,115 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,622 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
None of the street's postcodes has the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.
Council tax
What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,637 | £1,909 | £2,182 | £2,455 | £3,000 | £3,546 | £4,091 | £4,910 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 670 homes).
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.
Energy projects nearby
2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maw Green Landfill Site | Landfill Gas | 1.6 MW | Operational Dec 1996 | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| Maw Green Landfill Site, Cheshire (Extension) | Landfill Gas | 2 MW | Operational Jun 2003 | 2.3 km (1.5 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.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| CW1 6HU | zone 3 | 0 / 1 / 0 | unlikely |
| CW1 6BD | zone 2 | 0 / 0 / 2 | unlikely |
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.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 14 times, for 17 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Drain, Trib of Valley Brook.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junc Hungerford Road and Laureston United Utilities | Drain, Trib of Valley Brook | 14 | 17 | 340 m |
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.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 5 addresses are between 48 m and 50 m above sea level (49 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CW1 6BD | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| CW1 6HU | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Crewe 3.4 million journeys in 2024–25 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Sandbach 295,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.6 km (4.1 miles) | |
| Nantwich 223,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.5 km (4.7 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Buckingham University Crewe | 160 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Crewe | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Car parks | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mill Dale Parking Area | 380 m |
| EV charging points | 10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station | 60 m |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Manchester Airport MAN | 30 km (19 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hungerford Medical Centre Good Nov 2023 | 800 m (0.5 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well | 800 m (0.5 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Old Surgery Dental Practice | 880 m (0.5 miles) |
| Hospital | Leighton Hospital Requires improvement Apr 2024 | 4.7 km (2.9 miles) |
| Care homes | 2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Primrose Avenue - Crewe Good Jan 2018 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Police station | Crewe Police Station | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Cash machines | 3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kay Group - Gateway Service Station Cashzone | 200 m |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.3 ha | 540 m (0.3 miles) |
| Play area | 3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 750 m² | 190 m |
| Playing field | Queen Street Park 1.3 ha | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha | 510 m (0.3 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.3 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is The Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| The Church of St Michael | Listed building, Grade II* | 630 m (0.4 miles) east |
| Crewe Hall | Registered park or garden, Grade II | 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Quaker's Coppice | Wood | 680 m (0.4 miles) south-east |
| Rookery Wood | Wood | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east |
| Oak Coppice | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south |
| Slaughter Hill | Hill | 1.6 km (1 mile) east |
| Temple of Peace Wood | Wood | 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east |
| Winterley Pool | Lake or reservoir | 3.3 km (2 miles) north-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 8.0 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.4 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 10.4 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 2 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 2 | 5 |
3 of the street's 5 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 East: see them on the Cheshire East page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungerford Primary Academy | Primary | 3–11 | 800 m (0.5 miles) | No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good | 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 37% in 2023) |
| Brierley Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) | Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) | 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 65% in 2023) |
| Haslington Primary Academy | Primary | 2–11 | 1.6 km (1 mile) | No published inspection | 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 30% in 2023) |
| Sir William Stanier School | Secondary | 11–16 | 1.6 km (1 mile) | Report card (Apr 2026): 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 27.4 (28.4 in 2025 and 29.6 in 2024); 9.6% grade 5+ in English and maths |
| Westminster Nursery School | Nursery | 2–4 | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) | No published inspection | |
| Cheshire Studio School | Secondary | 14–19 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | No published inspection | GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional) A level 2025: average grade D+; progress below average |
| Crewe Engineering and Design UTC | Secondary | 14–19 | 1.9 km (1.2 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 | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 31.6 (32.4 in 2025 and 32.8 in 2024); 18.6% grade 5+ in English and maths A level 2025: average grade D; progress average |
| Ruskin Community High School | Secondary | 11–16 | 2 km (1.2 miles) | No published inspection | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.2 (37.9 in 2025 and 42.2 in 2024); 52.4% grade 5+ in English and maths |
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
1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.4 km (0.9 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kids Planet Crewe CW1 5NF | Full day care | 85 | Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 108 childminders and 11 home childcarers (nannies) in Cheshire East. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolce Ltd Springfield School CW1 5HS | School/college/university | 130 m | 5 Very good | 25 Sep 2025 |
| Co-operative Food CW1 5NP | Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets | 210 m | 5 Very good | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Clearston Gardens CW1 5NP | Retailers - other | 210 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| The Emperor CW1 5NP | Takeaway/sandwich shop | 250 m | 5 Very good | 1 Aug 2024 |
| Londis CW1 5NP | Retailers - other | 270 m | 5 Very good | 25 May 2026 |
| Greggs CW1 5NP | Other catering premises | 270 m | 5 Very good | 2 Oct 2026 |
| Curry Magic CW1 5DU | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 280 m | 4 Good | 3 Jun 2025 |
| Amaka's CW1 6HY | Retailers - other | 280 m | 5 Very good | 25 Mar 2025 |
| Martin Hall Cafe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 300 m | 5 Very good | 19 May 2026 |
| Aldi CW1 5NP | Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets | 320 m | 5 Very good | 28 Jul 2025 |
| Magic Cheers CW1 5DU | Pub/bar/nightclub | 320 m | Awaiting inspection |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 30 |
| Public order | 24 |
| Shoplifting | 20 |
| Other theft | 16 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 9 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 8 |
| Drugs | 6 |
| Vehicle crime | 5 |
| Bicycle theft | 4 |
| Other crime | 2 |
| Robbery | 2 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (93); On or near Crewe Green Road (24); On or near Mill Bridge Close (9).
Road safety
4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Oct 2025 16:40 | Slight | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | Minor road, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 7 Jan 2025 14:46 | Slight | 3 people | A534, 30 mph | Frost or ice |
| 18 Nov 2024 10:21 | Serious | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | A5020, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 2 Aug 2022 06:58 | Serious | 1 person: 1 cyclist | A534, 40 mph | Wet road |
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 A534 between A5020 and A532, with 14,781 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 410 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A534 | A5020 to A532 | 14,781 estimated; counted 2021 | 4% | -21% since 2015 | 410 m (0.3 miles) |
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.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 32 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 7% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 10% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 84% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 44% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 3% | 17% |
| Private rented | 14% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 68% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 11% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 20% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 25% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 31% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 23% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 61% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 33% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 63% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 6% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 73% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Crewe Road · Emperor Way · Crewe Green Road · Electra Way · Mill Bridge Close · Beswick Drive · Coppicemere Drive · A534 · Renaissance Way · A534 · Renaissance Court · Westmere Drive
All the streets in CW1 and across Cheshire East.
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; 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.