Heathfield Square Knutsford, Cheshire East

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA16), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24101069.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £545,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 12).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knutsford, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Heath, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Knutsford Medical Partnership, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 37 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
20252£545,000£520,000£570,000
20232£482,500£400,000£565,000
20214£422,500£400,130£450,000
20201£315,000£315,000£315,000
20192£318,750£317,500£320,000
20181£369,950£369,950£369,950
20171£400,000£400,000£400,000
20152£226,500£173,000£280,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20131£311,000£311,000£311,000
20121£234,000£234,000£234,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Feb 202512 WA16 0ADTerraced£520,000
17 Jan 20259 WA16 0ADTerraced£570,000
19 Oct 20234 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£565,000
30 Aug 202324 WA16 0ADTerraced£400,000
26 Nov 202115 WA16 0ADTerraced£400,130
31 Aug 202113 WA16 0ADTerraced£450,000
24 Mar 20215 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£435,000
3 Mar 202120 WA16 0ADTerraced£410,000
22 Jul 202013 WA16 0ADTerraced£315,000
14 Aug 20199 WA16 0ADTerraced£320,000
25 Jan 20191 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£317,500
22 Jun 201820 WA16 0ADTerraced£369,950
19 Dec 20173 WA16 0ADTerraced£400,000
3 Aug 201524 WA16 0ADTerraced£173,000
27 Mar 201510 WA16 0ADTerraced£280,000
20 Jun 20144 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£250,000
2 Dec 201312 WA16 0ADTerraced£311,000
27 Jan 20123 WA16 0ADTerraced£234,000
6 May 201115 WA16 0ADTerraced£250,000
21 Jul 201012 WA16 0ADTerraced£250,000
22 Jan 20105 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£226,500
20 Feb 200917 WA16 0ADTerraced£175,000
15 Dec 200612 WA16 0ADTerraced£250,000
21 Dec 20059 WA16 0ADTerraced£82,000
12 Nov 20043 WA16 0ADTerraced£187,500
23 Apr 200415 WA16 0ADTerraced£210,000
18 Mar 200412 WA16 0ADTerraced£210,000
10 Aug 200112 WA16 0ADTerraced£137,000
19 Jan 20011 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£94,000
24 Aug 200012 WA16 0ADTerraced£128,000
16 Apr 199915 WA16 0ADTerraced£86,500
12 Jun 19981 WA16 0ADSemi-detached£57,500
15 Mar 199620 WA16 0ADTerraced£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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1930-1949 (8); 1900-1929 (7); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (social) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 620 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WA16 0ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA16 0ABnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 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 62 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
WA16 0AB100%100%100%0%
WA16 0AD100%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 stationsKnutsford 371,000 journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
Plumley 19,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Mobberley 23,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heathfield Square Knutsford60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Knutsford460 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tatton Street Car Park570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN8.5 km (5.3 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knutsford Medical Partnership420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Prescription Service460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gaskell Ave Dental Practice270 m
HospitalKnutsford Community Hospital280 m
Police stationNorthwich Police Station9.7 km (6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moto - Knutsford South - Forecourt150 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 The Heath 13 ha60 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tabley Park Play Area 440 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Warren Avenue Allotments 3,810 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sessions House, a listed building (Grade II*), 540 m (0.3 miles) east. 84 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sessions HouseListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) east
98 King Street, KnutsfordListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Former Kings Coffee House and Gaskell Memorial TowerListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) east
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) east
Site of St John's Church and surrounding burial ground, 400m NW of Booths MereScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Tabley HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Tatton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*3 km (1.9 miles) north
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site9.2 km (5.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sanctuary MoorWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Higmere PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Approach ClumpWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Tatton MereLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Birch IslandIsland3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Mobberley BottomsValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
70 to 74100
65 to 69100
60 to 64400
55 to 59400
Under 55162626

10 of the street's 26 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 East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Knutsford AcademySecondary11–18280 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Egerton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11380 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bexton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Manor Park Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, 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
Hooked on the Heath WA16 0LTOther catering premises50 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Knutsford Academy WA16 0EASchool/college/university330 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Egerton Lions WA16 0EESchool/college/university340 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Booths Supermarket WA16 0BSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Rafi's Spicebox WA16 0BSRetailers - other340 m5 Very good4 Sep 2026
Abbeyfield Knutsford Society Ltd WA16 0EEOther catering premises340 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Cottons Hotel WA16 0SUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good27 Jul 2026
The White Bear WA16 6BHPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2026
cranford cafe and sandwich bar WA16 6BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd WA16 6BQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2024
Costa Coffee WA16 6BUOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Sep 2025
TG Jones High Street Limited WA16 6BURetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Woods Butchers WA16 6BNRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Apr 2025
Waitrose WA16 6BNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Sep 2025
Caffe Nero WA16 6BJOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Nov 2024

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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Other theft2
Shoplifting1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cranford Square (9); On or near Westfield Drive (6); On or near Racefield Road (6); On or near Parking Area (5); On or near Sandileigh Avenue (3).

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: 278 residents in 117 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • WA16 0AD: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • WA16 0AB: 2 addresses of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sandileigh Avenue · Racefield Road · Westfield Drive · Heath Drive · Warren Avenue · Cranford Avenue · Cranford Square · Gaskell Avenue · Tabley Grove · Stanley Road · Warren Avenue · School Close

All the streets in WA16 and across Cheshire East.

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.