Helder Street Siddick, Cumberland
4 addresses across 2 postcodes (CA14), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 301377.
- Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2007 the median was £95,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Cumberland cost £172,654 in August 2026 (+4.1% on a year); private rents averaged £687 a month.
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Coal mining: 1 of its postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
- Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, OS Field No 8444, is 80 m away.
- Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 39 times (133 hours) in 2025.
- Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 120 m from its postcodes.
- Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
- Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Iggesund Paperboard, Siddick - Anaerobic Digestion Plant, is 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A596, carries 15,336 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Workington, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lonsdale Park, is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
- Noise: 3 of its 4 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is James Street Group Pract, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
- People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 23 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
- Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1 | £95,000 | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| 1996 | 1 | £6,000 | £6,000 | £6,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2007 | 62 CA14 1JY | Terraced | £95,000 | |
| 22 Mar 1996 | 121 CA14 1JY | Terraced | £6,000 |
House prices and rents in Cumberland
A typical home in Cumberland cost £172,654 in August 2026, 4.1% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 40% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £286,152 |
| Semi-detached | £179,276 |
| Terraced | £143,160 |
| Flat or maisonette | £94,927 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £152,989 |
Private renters in Cumberland paid £687 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £512 |
| Two bedrooms | £649 |
| Three bedrooms | £792 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,103 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
None of the street's postcodes has the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.
Council tax
What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,674 | £1,953 | £2,232 | £2,511 | £3,069 | £3,627 | £4,186 | £5,023 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (84% of about 750 homes).
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.
Energy projects nearby
10 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldside Wind Farm | Wind 9 turbines | 5.4 MW | Operational Sep 1996 | 260 m |
| Iggesund Paperboard CHP Plant Cumberland 2/2010/0982 | Biomass | 49 MW | Operational Feb 2013 | 270 m |
| Iggesund Paperboard, Siddick - Anaerobic Digestion Plant Cumberland FUL/2023/0107 | Anaerobic digestion | Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2023 | 420 m (0.3 miles) | |
| Eastman Chemicals, Workington Cumberland 2/2003/0721 | Wind 2 turbines | 4 MW | Operational Oct 2006 | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Siddick Wind Farm | Wind 7 turbines | 4.2 MW | Operational Aug 1996 | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| New Balance Athletic Shoes, Flimby To Maryport - Wind Turbine Cumberland FUL/2023/0047 | Wind 1 turbine, 75 m tall | 1 MW | Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2024 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Chapel Banks, Curwen Road - Solar Panels Cumberland REJ/2026/0002 | Solar farm | 3.2 MW | Planning application made Jun 2026 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| St Helen's Lane Cumberland 2/2015/0593 | Solar farm | 5 MW | Operational Mar 2017 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| Wythegill Wind Turbine Cumberland 2/2011/0259 | Wind 1 turbine | 2.3 MW | Operational Jun 2015 | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| Land at Flimby Hall Farm Cumberland 2/2009/0418 | Wind 3 turbines | 6.2 MW | Operational Jun 2013 | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA14 1JY | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| CA14 1JU | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 1 / 6 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
The nearest projected erosion zone is 120 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried out).
| Projection | Policy for the frontage | Erosion | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Managed realignment Great Ormes Head to Scotland | up to 39 m | 170 m |
| By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Managed realignment Great Ormes Head to Scotland | up to 88 m | 120 m |
| By 2105, if defences are not maintained or built | No intervention Great Ormes Head to Scotland | up to 88 m | 120 m |
Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.
Storm overflows
1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 39 times, for 133 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Derwent Estuary.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Pier Sewage Pumping Station United Utilities | River Derwent Estuary | 39 | 133 | 890 m (0.6 miles) |
A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.
Coal mining
1 of the street's 2 postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.
Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.
Radon
The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.
Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.
Historic landfill
1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 80 m away.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| OS Field No 8444 Siddick, Workington, Cumbria | 1979 to 1980 | Inert | 80 m |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's addresses are about 7 m above sea level.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA14 1JU | 93% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| CA14 1JY | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Workington 230,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Flimby 17,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) | |
| Harrington 36,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 5.8 km (3.6 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wedgewood St Siddick | 30 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station (W) Workington | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| EV charging points | Allerdale House Workington GeniePoint | 2 km (1.2 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Glasgow Prestwick Airport PIK | 114 km (71 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | James Street Group Pract Good Jun 2025 | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy | 850 m (0.5 miles) |
| NHS dentists | The Belvedere Dental Practice LTD | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Hospital | Workington Community Hospital | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) |
| Care homes | Briarfield Requires improvement Sep 2026 | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) |
| Police station | Workington Police Station | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
| Cash machines | Payzone | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Lonsdale Park 7.4 ha | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,730 m² | 100 m |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.4 ha | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,470 m² | 180 m |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Burrow Walls Roman fort, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Burrow Walls Roman fort | Scheduled monument | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Siddick Ponds | Lake or reservoir | 690 m (0.4 miles) south |
| Hazel Gill | Valley | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east |
| Hawk Hill | Hill | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east |
| Calva Hill | Hill | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east |
| Stainton Hole | Tidal water | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south |
| Scarbank Wood | Wood | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 4.4 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 4.2 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 6.6 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 2 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 1 | 4 |
3 of the street's 4 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 Cumberland: see them on the Cumberland page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Primary School | Primary | 2–11 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) | 30% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 38% in 2024) |
| Seaton St. Paul's CofE Junior School Church of England | Primary | 7–11 | 1.6 km (1 mile) | No published inspection | 42% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 57% in 2023) |
| Seaton Academy | Primary | 3–7 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met | None published |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 57 childminders and 3 home childcarers (nannies) in Cumberland. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 7 |
| Other theft | 5 |
| Burglary | 4 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 4 |
| Other crime | 1 |
| Public order | 1 |
| Drugs | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Shore Side (10); On or near Helder Street (7); On or near Mc Gowan Street (6).
Road safety
1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 100% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2022 19:33 | Slight | 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child | Minor road, 40 mph | Dark, wet road |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A596 between A597 and Lowca Lane, with 15,336 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 60 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A596 | A597 to Lowca Lane | 15,336 estimated; counted 2024 | 3% | -5% since 2015 | 60 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 43 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 18% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 17% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 63% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 36% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 21% | 17% |
| Private rented | 16% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 57% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 19% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 8% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 12% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 69% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 6% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 13% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 59% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 8% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 18% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 31% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 100% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Senhouse Street · Shore Side · Wedgwood Street · Mc Gowan Street · New Villas · A596
All the streets in CA14 and across Cumberland.
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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- 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.