Fowler Close Wigan

17 addresses across 1 postcode (WN1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44120419.

  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 1).
  • 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 Wigan costs £2,153 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ince (Manchester), about 860 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 50 m away, and Haigh Woodland Park (169 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sullivan Way Surgery, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 33% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 2 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

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

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Flat (16). Built: 1991-1995 (12); 1996-2002 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (14).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wigan in 2026-27: Band D £2,153 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,435£1,674£1,913£2,153£2,631£3,109£3,588£4,305

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (91% of about 1,010 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.

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

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: 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 48 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
WN1 3JG100%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 stationsInce (Manchester) 13,000 journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Wigan Wallgate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Wigan North Western 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Roscoe Street Higher Ince120 m
Bus or coach stationWigan Bus Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sovereign Road Surface Car Park470 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station470 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL27.9 km (17 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sullivan Way Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Florence House870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWrightington Hospital Orthopaedic Centre Elective Surgical Hub7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Police stationWigan Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Select + Save240 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,960 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Haigh Woodland Park 169 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²50 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 430 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 171 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 72 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) north-west
War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling RailingsListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) west
Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School buildingScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Mesnes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park HouseScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whalley's BasinLake or reservoir430 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Bottling WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Pearson's FlashLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Haigh Lower PlantationsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Danes ValleyValley3.3 km (2.1 miles) east
Tucker's HillHill4.7 km (2.9 miles) north

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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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 551617

1 of the street's 17 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 Wigan: see them on the Wigan 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 Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–1150 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Catharine's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11180 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Douglas Valley Nursery SchoolNursery2–5600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Dean Trust Rose BridgeSecondary11–16630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Britannia Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mab's Cross Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St William's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wigan and Leigh College16 plus16–991 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Ince CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Canon Sharples Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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 Patricks Catholic Primary School WN1 3RZSchool/college/university50 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Silverwell Hotel WN1 3EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good7 Jun 2026
Tsangs Chippy WN1 3BHTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
ARG Hardybutts WN1 3NERetailers - other140 m5 Very good13 Mar 2024
St Patricks Arlfc WN1 3BNPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good1 May 2025
Whelley Ex Servicemans Club WN1 3LUPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Impact Food Group T/A Dolce @ St Catharines C of E Primary School WN1 3LPSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
St Catharines C of E Primary School Breakfast Club WN1 3LPSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good17 Oct 2019
Motherland Stores Ltd WN1 3SDManufacturers/packers220 mAwaiting inspection
International Mini Market WN1 3ATRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Aug 2025
Sunshine House WN1 3SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m2 Improvement necessary7 Aug 2026
Bill's Fry Inn WN1 3SDTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Mama Mia Pizzeria WN1 3SDTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m2 Improvement necessary26 Jun 2025
Chilli Indian Takeaway WN1 3SDTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m2 Improvement necessary2 Nov 2025
Select and Save WN1 3SDRetailers - other260 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Feb 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.

2 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gresley Close (1); On or near Caunce Street (1).

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: 300 residents in 135 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 age3740
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)33%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%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 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.

  • WN1 3JG: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gresley Close · St Patrick Street · Rupert Street · Collett Close · Hunt Street · Gresley Close · Hardybutts · Hackworth Close · Belvoir Street · Hartley Avenue · St Patricks Way · Scholefield Lane

All the streets in WN1 and across Wigan.

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.