Handforth Grove Manchester

16 addresses across 1 postcode (M13), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24504065.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £142,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4, E: 2).
  • 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 Manchester costs £2,312 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Levenshulme, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 130 m away, and Birchfields Park (13 hectares) is about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawthorn Mc, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 34% 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
20242£142,500£110,000£175,000
20211£220,000£220,000£220,000
20131£140,000£140,000£140,000
20121£101,000£101,000£101,000
20092£116,500£111,000£122,000
20071£150,000£150,000£150,000
20032£130,000£130,000£130,000
20021£73,000£73,000£73,000
20011£42,000£42,000£42,000
19991£33,000£33,000£33,000
19972£44,500£36,000£53,000
19951£47,000£47,000£47,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Nov 20247 M13 0UHSemi-detached£110,000Leasehold.
8 Nov 202411 M13 0UHSemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
8 Jul 202114 M13 0UHSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
26 Mar 20193 M13 0UHSemi-detached£2,300,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Nov 20138 M13 0UHSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 201215 M13 0UHSemi-detached£101,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 200914 M13 0UHSemi-detached£111,000Leasehold.
1 May 20094 M13 0UHDetached£122,000Leasehold.
5 Nov 200716 M13 0UHSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
13 Jan 20039 M13 0UHSemi-detached£130,000
13 Jan 20039 M13 0UHSemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
30 May 20028 M13 0UHTerraced£73,000Leasehold.
19 Jan 20011 M13 0UHSemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.
26 Feb 199915 M13 0UHSemi-detached£33,000Leasehold.
20 Oct 199715 M13 0UHSemi-detached£36,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 199712 M13 0UHSemi-detached£53,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 199515 M13 0UHSemi-detached£47,000Leasehold.

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (6); 1950-1966 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Manchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,312 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,541£1,798£2,055£2,312£2,826£3,340£3,853£4,624

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (67% of about 550 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 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

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 16 addresses are between 46 m and 47 m above sea level (46 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
M13 0UH100%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 stationsLevenshulme 472,000 journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Mauldeth Road 318,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Belle Vue 15,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Hall Lane Birchfields90 m
Bus or coach stationPiccadilly Station Manchester City Centre4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksParking space on Wilmslow Road, M201.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN11.9 km (7.4 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 surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawthorn Mc460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westpoint Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westpoint Dental Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalManchester University Hospital NHS Ft (Hq)2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police Longsight Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM340 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 730 m²130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Birchfields Park 13 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.5 ha230 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,590 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Slade Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Slade HallListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Section of an early medieval boundary ditch known as the Nico Ditch in Platt Fields 480m SSE of Platt HallScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) west
Alexandra Park, ManchesterRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Peel MoatLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Houghend CloughValley3.3 km (2.1 miles) west
Gorton Lower ReservoirLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-east
Dale Street BasinLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) north-west
Denton WoodWood4.4 km (2.7 miles) east
Saint George's IslandIsland4.8 km (3 miles) north-west

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)14.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
Under 55161616

None of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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 Manchester: see them on the Manchester 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
Manchester Enterprise Academy CentralSecondary11–16140 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Birchfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Longsight Community PrimaryPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St James' CofE Primary School, Birch-in-Rusholme Church of EnglandPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Cringle Brook Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Agnes C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alma Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Crowcroft Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Acacias Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Stanley Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Richard's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Manchester Enterprise Academy Central M14 6PLSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good4 May 2023
Birchfields Primary School M14 6PLSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Westwood Homecare M13 0TQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 mAwaiting inspection
Zahra Cash and Carry M13 0TZRetailers - other330 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2026
M G M Food Stores M13 0TZRetailers - other380 m5 Very good21 Jun 2024
Bossmans M13 0TZTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Feb 2025
Lulu Mini Mart M13 0TZRetailers - other380 mAwaiting inspection
Miami Longsight M13 0TZTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Manchester Grammar School M13 0XTSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
Anson Community Grocer M13 0TRRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Anson Cabin Project M13 0TROther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Jun 2023
Younis Cash & Carry M19 2DDRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 2019
European Mini Market M13 0TARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2024
Finest Local M13 0TARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Feb 2024
Kings Continental Cash & Carry M13 0TARetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Sep 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (metropolitan).

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: 342 residents in 80 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 age2940
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)67%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all12%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.

Nearby streets

Skelton Grove · Craston Road · Birchfields Road · Kingsway · Tabley Grove · Heston Avenue · Hadley Avenue · Hardon Grove · Clee Avenue · Westray Road · Elsdon Road · Whitburn Avenue

All the streets in M13 and across Manchester.

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.