Foxley Heath Widnes, Halton

76 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA8), about 510 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16105175.

  • Sales: 151 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £289,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 50 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21, D: 26, E: 3).
  • Flood: 2 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 A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, King George's Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 76 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Newtown Surgery, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 40 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
20263£289,000£215,000£312,000
20254£242,500£235,000£285,000
20245£330,000£206,000£360,000
20221£212,500£212,500£212,500
20213£233,000£185,000£235,000
20201£192,000£192,000£192,000
20192£211,700£210,000£213,400
20181£202,000£202,000£202,000
20173£220,000£175,000£220,500
20162£144,500£136,000£153,000
20153£135,000£122,500£158,000
20145£158,000£157,500£193,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 151)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jul 202659 WA8 7EBDetached£312,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 202661 WA8 7EBDetached£289,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 202666 WA8 7EJSemi-detached£215,000Leasehold.
30 May 202532 WA8 7EJDetached£285,000
1 Apr 202555 WA8 7EBDetached£235,000Leasehold.
13 Mar 202557 WA8 7EBDetached£240,000
24 Jan 202512 WA8 7EJDetached£245,000
18 Dec 202482 WA8 7EJDetached£330,000
14 Nov 202426 WA8 7EJDetached£360,000
2 Oct 202478 WA8 7EJDetached£245,000Leasehold.
15 Jul 202456 WA8 7EJDetached£206,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202469 WA8 7EBDetached£357,500Leasehold.
24 May 202243 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£212,500
21 Dec 202155 WA8 7EBDetached£235,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 20218 WA8 7EJSemi-detached£185,000
18 Mar 202142 WA8 7EJDetached£233,000
17 Jul 202048 WA8 7EJDetached£192,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 201940 WA8 7EJDetached£210,000
29 Mar 20193 WA8 7EBDetached£213,400Leasehold.
13 Jul 201839 WA8 7EBDetached£202,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 201772 WA8 7EJDetached£220,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 201748 WA8 7EJDetached£175,000Leasehold.
4 May 201763 WA8 7EBDetached£220,500Leasehold.
21 Oct 201645 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£136,000
15 Jan 201658 WA8 7EJDetached£153,000Leasehold.
14 Aug 20158 WA8 7EJSemi-detached£122,500
24 Jul 201559 WA8 7EBDetached£158,000Leasehold.
15 May 201521 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 201434 WA8 7EJDetached£193,000
1 Aug 201419 WA8 7EBDetached£157,500Leasehold.
11 Jul 201459 WA8 7EBDetached£158,000Leasehold.
11 Jul 201459 WA8 7EBDetached£158,000
10 Jul 201440 WA8 7EJDetached£164,950
25 Nov 201333 WA8 7EBDetached£189,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 201376 WA8 7EJSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 201368 WA8 7EJSemi-detached£119,000Leasehold.
10 Apr 201342 WA8 7EJDetached£160,000
8 Feb 201350 WA8 7EJDetached£154,000
18 May 201251 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£125,000
2 Dec 20112 WA8 7EJDetached£162,000
29 Apr 201054 WA8 7EJDetached£187,000
6 Nov 200940 WA8 7EJDetached£152,000
27 Jul 200911 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£122,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 200911 WA8 7EBSemi-detached£120,500Leasehold.
19 Sep 200854 WA8 7EJDetached£182,500
30 May 200832 WA8 7EJDetached£157,000
1 Feb 200810 WA8 7EJDetached£182,000
18 Jan 200872 WA8 7EJDetached£245,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 200730 WA8 7EJDetached£159,000
8 Nov 200734 WA8 7EJDetached£180,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

50 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (37); House, semi-detached (11); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (37); 1991-1995 (6); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (42); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (40% of about 680 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026: HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 24 August 2026: HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 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
WA8 7EJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WA8 7EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 76 addresses are between 14 m and 18 m above sea level (16 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
WA8 7EB100%100%100%0%
WA8 7EJ100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ditton Rec.240 m
Bus or coach stationHuyton Bus Station7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Caldwell Road Car Park750 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL7.8 km (4.8 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 Newtown Surgery860 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist740 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Widnes Healthcare Resource Centre860 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grangepan Food Store, Grangepans440 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George's Park 20 ha100 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,220 m²370 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,900 m²600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 22 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
Spike IslandIsland1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Hale Road WoodsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Bower's PoolTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Church BankWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Pex HillHill3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Big PoolLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) south

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)11.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5980
Under 556676

10 of the street's 76 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–4410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside College Halton16 plus16–99820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Kingsway Primary Academy SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary5–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 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
Londis WA8 7DURetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Oct 2023
Best One WA8 7DURetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 2023
Halton Stadium - Catering and Bars WA8 7DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Oct 2025
Premier Express (Freda's Convenience) WA8 7BGRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary13 Jan 2026
Paul's Widnes Fish Bar WA8 7DUTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Mar 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.

40 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order2
Drugs2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Milton Avenue (18); On or near Keats Close (8); On or near Prestbury Close (5); On or near Dundalk Road (3); On or near Capesthorne Close (2).

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: 818 residents in 323 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 age4040
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • WA8 7EJ: 42 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • WA8 7EB: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Prestbury Close · Keats Close · Capesthorne Close · Southey Close · Coleridge Grove · Millington Close · Steward's Avenue · Thornton · Browning Avenue · Marlowe Close · Wordsworth Avenue · Milton Avenue

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.