Gosforth Place Chester

45 addresses across 3 postcodes (CH2), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6903053.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 39 homes have an energy certificate (D: 27, E: 9, F: 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 B; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 97% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Alexandra Park, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 38 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Medical Centre, about 250 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 107 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
20191£155,000£155,000£155,000
20162£132,000£129,000£135,000
20131£191,500£191,500£191,500
20103£115,000£105,000£129,950
20062£190,000£140,000£240,000
20041£150,000£150,000£150,000
20031£127,000£127,000£127,000
20021£68,000£68,000£68,000
20012£86,975£64,000£109,950
20001£92,000£92,000£92,000
19971£46,500£46,500£46,500
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Mar 201912B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 201612B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 201610B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£129,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 20135 CH2 3JHTerraced£191,500
16 Jul 201012B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£129,950Leasehold.
16 Jul 20109D CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
19 Jan 201011E CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 200611D CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 20063 CH2 3JHTerraced£240,000
9 Jan 20045 CH2 3JHSemi-detached£150,000
14 Mar 20033 CH2 3JHTerraced£127,000
17 May 200212B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
3 Dec 20013 CH2 3JHTerraced£109,950
6 Jul 200110B CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£64,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 20002 CH2 3JHTerraced£92,000
19 Dec 199711C CH2 3JJFlat or maisonette£46,500Leasehold.

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

39 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Flat (34); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1967-1975 (27); 1950-1966 (5); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (31); owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (44% of about 880 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

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CH2 3JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH2 3JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH2 3JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 26 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
CH2 3JF100%94%97%0%
CH2 3JH100%10%0%0%
CH2 3JJ100%0%0%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 stationsChester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25590 m (0.4 miles)
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hamilton Street Hoole80 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksApcoa Parking1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station860 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15 km (9.3 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Medical Centre250 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boughton Pharmacy860 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandon Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalCountess Of Chester Hospital (Coc NHS Trust)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Natwest210 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alexandra Park 2.8 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lime Wood Fields 6.1 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coronation Playing Field 4.6 ha370 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hoole Allotments 5.0 ha480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chester Railway Station, a listed building (Grade II*), 600 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 60 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chester Railway StationListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Chester Leadworks and Shot TowerListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Church of St PaulListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
Newton HallListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Part of a Roman camp at Hoole 200m south of Hoole HallScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Abbey Green Roman siteScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
St John's Church (ruined portions)Scheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gallows HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south
Donkey FieldWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Bellevue WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Gamon's RoughWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
The DaleValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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

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
65 to 69180
60 to 6440
55 to 59160
Under 55745

38 of the street's 45 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 West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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 Martin's Academy ChesterPrimary4–11140 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hoole Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Newton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Mill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Grosvenor Park Church of England AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Upton-by-Chester High SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Boughton Heath AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Heart and Soul Cafe CH2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good11 May 2026
All Saints Church CH2 3HZOther catering premises100 m4 Good17 Apr 2025
Baytree Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Lewis Van P969 EOP CH2 3BBMobile caterer120 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Lewis N317 TOC CH2 3BBMobile caterer120 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Chester House CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good28 Apr 2018
Lavender Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good12 May 2018
St Martins Academy CH2 3NJSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Peak Sandwiches Ltd CH2 3AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Ba-Ba Guest House CH2 3NJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good23 Jan 2024
Chester Court Hotel CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Mar 2026
Kilmorey Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Stone Villa CH2 3NRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house170 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Oaklands Hotel CH2 3NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Glen Garth CH2 3NJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good28 Apr 2018

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.

107 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Shoplifting28
Public order14
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft7
Drugs5
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (34); On or near Gosforth Place (24); On or near Shavington Avenue (10); On or near Panton Road (7); On or near Kilmorey Park Road (5).

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: 264 residents in 132 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%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)53%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • CH2 3JJ: 33 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • CH2 3JH: 11 addresses
  • CH2 3JF: 1 address of 44 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sumpter Pathway · Hamilton Street · Vicarage Road · Panton Place · Newton Lane · Burges Street · Stone Place · Charles Street · Wards Terrace · Law Street · Kilmorey Park Road

All the streets in CH2 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.