Hanley Close Widnes, Halton

15 addresses across 1 postcode (WA8), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16102037.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2015 the median was £75,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hough Green, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 370 m away, and King George's Park (20 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 22 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 Upton Rocks Primary Care, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 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
20151£75,000£75,000£75,000
20051£74,950£74,950£74,950
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Feb 20267 WA8 8ENTerraced£92,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Oct 20156 WA8 8ENTerraced£75,000
30 Sep 200512 WA8 8ENTerraced£74,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2010 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 76 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

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 (95% of about 610 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 22 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
WA8 8EN100%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 stationsHough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ormiston Chadwick Academy Ditton120 m
Bus or coach stationHuyton Bus Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL7 km (4.4 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upton Rocks Primary Care630 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Ditton, Ditton Cashzone190 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 6,900 m²370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)King George's Park 20 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,220 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 930 m²40 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 770 m (0.5 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clincton WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Hale Road WoodsWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Spike IslandIsland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Pex HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Church BankWetland3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Big PoolLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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
Under 551515

None of the street's 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–16320 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–4630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Basil's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside College Halton16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 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
Voyage Care WA8 8SSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good9 Nov 2023
The Olive Tree by HHT at Naughtonfields WA8 7HLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
The Woodlands WA8 7UXPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Glenwood WA8 7HXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m4 Good8 Oct 2024
Co-Operative Group Food Ltd (8280) WA8 7HLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good25 Apr 2025
Ball Post Office WA8 7HXRetailers - other310 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Bankfield Residential Home WA8 7UNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Ditton Primary Academy School Orian Catering WA8 7HDSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good2 Jul 2024
Tastee WA8 7HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 mAwaiting inspection
Ditton Deli WA8 8DQTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Orange Tree Bistro WA8 8GJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Best One WA8 8DYRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 Oct 2024
Golden Flower WA8 8DYTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Feb 2023
Widnes Hall and Lodge WA8 8BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Cohens Chemist WA8 7HYRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences60
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order12
Other crime11
Drugs10
Anti-social behaviour9
Possession of weapons4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Crossway Court (27); On or near Northway (23); On or near Borrowdale Road (13); On or near Hanley Road (12); On or near Southway (10).

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: 280 residents in 109 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3740
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented46%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%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)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)14%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WA8 8EN: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rydal Way · Graham Close · Liverpool Place · Graham Road · Northway · Borrowdale Road · Eastway · Southway · Crossway · Lune Way

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.