Gorse Drive Stretford, Trafford

19 addresses across 1 postcode (M32), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41002582.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £154,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 5).
  • 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 B; Band D in Trafford costs £2,292 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Trafford Park, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 150 m away, and Longford Park (34 hectares) is about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is North Trafford Group Practice, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20261£154,000£154,000£154,000
20091£120,000£120,000£120,000
19961£48,000£48,000£48,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Feb 20264 M32 0UNSemi-detached£154,000
2 Oct 20092 M32 0UNSemi-detached£120,000
1 Mar 199614 M32 0UNSemi-detached£48,000

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 August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Trafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,292 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,528£1,782£2,037£2,292£2,801£3,310£3,820£4,583

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (64% of about 900 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 3 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 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 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
M32 0UN100%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 stationsTrafford Park 45,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Humphrey Park 30,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Deansgate 1.7 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramOld Trafford (Manchester Metrolink)480 m (0.3 miles)
Firswood (Manchester Metrolink)1 km (0.6 miles)
Trafford Bar (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gorse Avenue Gorse Hill120 m
Bus or coach stationChorlton Bus Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Sutherland Road590 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN11.8 km (7.3 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 North Trafford Group Practice520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest C & T Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Team400 m (0.2 miles)
HospitalBridgewater Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationStretford Police Station380 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Emirates Old Trafford420 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Longford Park 34 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 730 m²240 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha450 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Weaste Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.6 km (1.6 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Weaste CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Alexandra Park, ManchesterRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waters MeetingLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
South BayLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Central BayLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Treasure WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Saint George's IslandIsland2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Houghend CloughValley3.1 km (1.9 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)14.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6440
Under 551419

5 of the street's 19 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 Trafford: see them on the Trafford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Stretford High SchoolSecondary11–16300 m Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gorse Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Teresa's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kings Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Victoria Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–11950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Hilda's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Ann's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Victoria Park Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stretford Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Seymour Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oswald Road Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Talbot Supersave M32 0YWRetailers - other240 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Ming Dynasty M32 0YWTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Sep 2025
Crunch Manchester M32 0YWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jan 2026
Wok N Maki M32 0YWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Nov 2025
Stretford High School M32 0XASchool/college/university300 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
Trafford College Stretford M32 0XHSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
LMRCA Club M32 0RNPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good19 Sep 2024
Greatstone Hotel M32 0RNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house340 m4 Good1 Feb 2016
Lancashire County Cricket Club / Hilton Garden Inn M16 0PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Caffe Nero M16 0PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Sodexo Live M16 0PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Tesco M32 0ZSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Cafe Bar Eight46 M32 0QJPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Shiva Indian Takeaway M32 8GRTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory4 Feb 2026
The Late Shop M32 8GRRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Nov 2022

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (south-yorkshire).

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: 301 residents in 114 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 age4140
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%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)23%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • M32 0UN: 19 addresses of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gorse Lane · Gorse Crescent · Cranford Avenue · Kingsley Avenue · Great Stone Road · Shirley Avenue · School Avenue · Byron Road · Waverley Avenue · Kings Lane · Rotherwood Avenue · Trent Bridge Walk

All the streets in M32 and across Trafford.

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.