Hill View Widnes, Halton

59 addresses across 3 postcodes (WA8), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16102060.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £260,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 18, E: 3, F: 3).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Birchfield Gardens, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fir Park Medical Centre, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20241£260,000£260,000£260,000
20222£290,250£253,000£327,500
20213£200,000£185,000£240,000
20202£172,000£138,000£206,000
20192£196,750£185,000£208,500
20174£185,000£140,000£204,000
20163£150,000£146,500£155,000
20152£154,000£128,000£180,000
20145£166,800£155,000£185,000
20131£136,000£136,000£136,000
20121£169,000£169,000£169,000
20112£160,250£147,000£173,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Apr 20249 WA8 9ALDetached£260,000
9 Sep 202267 WA8 9BNDetached£327,500Leasehold.
14 Apr 202253 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£253,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 202112 WA8 9ALDetached£240,000
14 Apr 202129 WA8 9BNDetached£200,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 202122 WA8 9BNTerraced£185,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 202035 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£138,000Leasehold.
10 Nov 202010 WA8 9ALDetached£206,000
1 Aug 201932 WA8 9BNDetached£208,500Leasehold.
5 Apr 201925 WA8 9BNDetached£185,000
27 Oct 201714 WA8 9ALDetached£200,000
25 Aug 20178 WA8 9ALDetached£170,000
20 Jun 201767 WA8 9BNDetached£204,000Leasehold.
15 Feb 201759 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£140,000
21 Dec 201614 WA8 9ALDetached£155,000
12 Jul 201637 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£146,500Leasehold.
10 Jun 201655 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 20153 WA8 9ALDetached£180,000
2 Oct 201515 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
11 Dec 201411 WA8 9ALDetached£184,950
25 Sep 201421 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£162,500Leasehold.
16 Sep 201471 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 20147 WA8 9ALDetached£166,800
10 Jan 201445 WA8 9BNDetached£185,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 201355 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£136,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 20129 WA8 9ALDetached£169,000
15 Dec 201125 WA8 9BNDetached£147,000
14 Oct 20116 WA8 9ALDetached£173,500
1 May 200935 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 20093 WA8 9ALDetached£162,000
26 Jan 20075 WA8 9ALDetached£182,500
12 Apr 200645 WA8 9BNDetached£173,500Leasehold.
24 Feb 200624 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£146,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 200511 WA8 9ALTerraced£157,950
27 Aug 200421 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£127,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 200355 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£107,000Leasehold.
14 Aug 200313 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 200321 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£96,000Leasehold.
5 Nov 200236 WA8 9BNDetached£112,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 200210 WA8 9ALDetached£129,950
13 Dec 20012 WA8 9ALSemi-detached£95,000
7 Nov 200117 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£79,500Leasehold.
26 Oct 20011 WA8 9ALDetached£112,500
16 Mar 200159 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£74,000
23 Jan 200173 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£75,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 20001 WA8 9ALDetached£82,000
26 May 20001 WA8 9ALDetached£68,000
22 May 20007 WA8 9ALDetached£64,000
10 Sep 199923 WA8 9BNSemi-detached£63,500Leasehold.
19 Jul 19995 WA8 9ALDetached£59,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (12); House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (8). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1950-1966 (8); 1976-1982 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (private) (2).

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 C (41% of about 1,140 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 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
WA8 9BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 9ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5BWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 59 addresses are between 45 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
WA8 5BW100%100%100%0%
WA8 9AL100%100%100%0%
WA8 9BN100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hillcrest Upton Rocks240 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Widnes2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL9.3 km (5.8 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fir Park Medical Centre790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy (Upton Rocks)790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationWidnes Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Widnes Upton Rocks, Upton Rocks Cashzone840 m (0.5 miles)

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 Birchfield Gardens 7,670 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Upton Rocks 11 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 400 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,300 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Luke, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east. 5 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 LukeListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Cranshaw Hall moated siteScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pex HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
The FieldWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Cronton WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Spike IslandIsland3.8 km (2.4 miles) south
Big WaterLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Runcorn SandsWetland4.4 km (2.7 miles) south

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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
55 to 5980
Under 555159

8 of the street's 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lunts Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–11830 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cronton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2020, 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
Cronton Lane Bakery WA8 5AJRetailers - other220 m5 Very good6 Aug 2024
Cronton Fish Bar 2 WA8 5AJTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Black Horse Post Office WA8 5AJRetailers - other230 m5 Very good10 Jun 2021
Pesto WA8 9AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Hillcrest Hotel WA8 9ARHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house280 m2 Improvement necessary27 Jul 2026
Asda Express Farnworth PFS WA8 5AZRetailers - other310 m5 Very good6 Aug 2024
The Upton Tavern WA8 9AFPub/bar/nightclub350 m4 Good4 Jun 2026
Riverside College and Starbucks - Cronton Campus WA8 5WASchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Jun 2023

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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Public order3
Drugs3
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cronton Lane (22); On or near Stratton Park (7); On or near Cowanway (3); On or near Hill View (3); On or near Chetwood Drive (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 676 residents in 273 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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 9BN: 43 addresses
  • WA8 9AL: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • WA8 5BW: 1 address of 80 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Upton Lane · Tynwald Crescent · Cowan Way · Stratton Park · Cronton Road · Cowan Way · Cronton Lane Mews · A5080 · Lunt's Heath Road · Chetwood Drive · Fox Bank Close · Hanging Birches

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.