Hollins Drive Winwick, Warrington
12 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42203990.
- Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £455,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Warrington cost £259,224 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £903 a month.
- Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 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.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
- Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Winwick Link Road, Winwick - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A49, carries 39,470 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Warrington costs £2,448 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Newton-Le-Willows, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 130 m away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 20 to 22 m above sea level.
- Noise: 2 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Parkview Medical Centre, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away.
- People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 31 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
- Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | £455,000 | £455,000 | £455,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | £307,500 | £307,500 | £307,500 |
| 2013 | 1 | £235,000 | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | £235,000 | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | £289,950 | £289,950 | £289,950 |
| 2002 | 2 | £207,250 | £187,000 | £227,500 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2016 | 1 WA2 8RS | Detached | £307,500 | |
| 14 Mar 2013 | 1 WA2 8RS | Detached | £235,000 | |
| 27 Sep 2002 | 1 WA2 8RS | Detached | £227,500 | New build. |
| 2 Sep 2022 | 3 WA2 8RS | Detached | £455,000 | |
| 7 Dec 2012 | 3 WA2 8RS | Detached | £235,000 | |
| 11 Dec 2007 | 3 WA2 8RS | Semi-detached | £289,950 | |
| 31 Jan 2002 | 3 WA2 8RS | Semi-detached | £187,000 | New build. |
| 15 Apr 2026 | SAFEHANDS NURSERY WA2 8RS | Other | £1,032,166 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 20 Aug 2015 | SAFEHANDS NURSERY WA2 8RS | Other | £475,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
House prices and rents in Warrington
A typical home in Warrington cost £259,224 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 56% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £443,902 |
| Semi-detached | £269,053 |
| Terraced | £207,583 |
| Flat or maisonette | £135,874 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £215,884 |
Private renters in Warrington paid £903 a month on average in September 2026, 5.3% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £676 |
| Two bedrooms | £839 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,022 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,462 |
Energy performance certificates
9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 56 m². Most common: Flat (6); House, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (7); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).
Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 17,693 kWh of it on average in 2024, 89% more than the district's 9,372 kWh, and 4,527 kWh of electricity, 59% more than the district's 2,855 kWh. There are gas meters for about 90% of the homes.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WA2 8RS | 9 | 1,623 kWh | 8 | 12,010 kWh |
| WA2 8XP | 21 | 4,767 kWh | 19 | 18,775 kWh |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WA2.
Council tax
What each band costs in Warrington in 2026-27: Band D £2,448 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,632 | £1,904 | £2,176 | £2,448 | £2,992 | £3,535 | £4,079 | £4,895 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 980 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
- 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: yes, Warrington.
Listed buildings
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
- The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane, Winwick, WA2 8LE, not permissioned (470 m (0.3 miles))
- Delph Farm, Delph Lane, Winwick, Warrington, WA2 8RW, permissioned (570 m (0.4 miles))
Energy projects nearby
1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winwick Link Road, Winwick - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Warrington 2025/00859/FULM | Anaerobic digestion | 1 MW | Planning application made Jul 2025 | 1.3 km (0.8 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, 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA2 8RS | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| WA2 8XP | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | 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
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.
Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 12 addresses are between 20 m and 22 m above sea level (21 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WA2 8RS | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| WA2 8XP | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Newton-Le-Willows 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25 | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) |
| Earlestown 331,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3.3 km (2.1 miles) | |
| Padgate 118,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4 km (2.5 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winwick Park | 150 m |
| Bus or coach station | Earlestown Bus Station | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| Car parks | Gemini Retail Park Car Park | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| EV charging points | 1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL | 19.6 km (12 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Parkview Medical Centre Good Jul 2019 | 3 km (1.8 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orford Pharmacy | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cotswold Dental Care | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Hospital | Hollins Park Hospital | 320 m |
| Care homes | 2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Winwick Park Good Jul 2018 | 50 m |
| Police station | Newton-le-Willows Police Station | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | ATM | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.4 ha | 130 m |
| Play area | 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m² | 100 m |
| Playing field | Unnamed 3,510 m² | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 5,450 m² | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.4 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Oswald, a listed building (Grade I), 300 m east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St Oswald | Listed building, Grade I | 300 m east |
| Battle of Winwick (also known as Battle of Red Bank) 1648 | Registered battlefield | 1 km (0.6 miles) north |
| Bowl barrow west of Highfield Lane | Scheduled monument | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) east |
| St Oswald's Well, 150m south of Woodhead | Scheduled monument | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Coney Grove Woods | Wood | 460 m (0.3 miles) south-west |
| Asps Wood | Wood | 480 m (0.3 miles) north-west |
| Alder Root Wood | Wood | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west |
| Cop Holt Wood | Wood | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west |
| Houghton Green Pool | Lake or reservoir | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) east |
| Golborne Dale | Valley | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) north |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 11.0 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.7 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.7 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 10 | 12 |
2 of the street's 12 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 Warrington: see them on the Warrington page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winwick CofE Primary School Church of England | Primary | 4–11 | 390 m | No published inspection | 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 21% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 42% in 2023) |
| Sandy Lane Nursery and Forest School | Nursery | 2–4 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | No published inspection | |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School Church of England | Primary | 4–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | None published |
| St Stephen's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 2 km (1.2 miles) | Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 60% in 2023) |
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
1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 20 m from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cheshire Day Nursery @ Winwick WA2 8RS | Full day care | 137 | Outstanding (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 20 m |
Ofsted also registers 89 childminders and 8 home childcarers (nannies) in Warrington. 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
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire Day Nursery @ Winwick WA2 8RS | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 80 m | 5 Very good | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust WA2 8WA | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 320 m | 5 Very good | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Friday Feeling WA2 8WA | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 320 m | 5 Very good | 12 Jun 2026 |
| St Oswalds Care Home WA2 8SZ | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 320 m | 5 Very good | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Myddle ground coffee & Co WA2 8LG | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 360 m | 5 Very good | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Thorougoods WA2 8NJ | Retailers - other | 450 m (0.3 miles) | 2 Improvement necessary | 14 Mar 2025 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 20 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 4 |
| Other theft | 2 |
| Public order | 2 |
| Vehicle crime | 2 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Browning Drive (18); On or near Hollins Drive (4); On or near Crompton Drive (3); On or near Hollins Lane (2); On or near Alcott Place (2).
Road safety
No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.
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 A49 between M62 and A49 Winwick Link Road roundabout, with 39,470 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 480 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A49 | A49 Winwick Link Road roundabout to A573 | 20,059 estimated; counted 2024 | 2% | -10% since 2015 | 310 m |
| A49 | M62 to A49 Winwick Link Road roundabout | 39,470 estimated; counted 2024 | 3% | +12% since 2015 | 480 m (0.3 miles) |
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 | 42 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 21% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 11% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 89% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 28% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | under 1% | 17% |
| Private rented | 11% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 69% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 15% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 45% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 49% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 2% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 51% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 14% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 51% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 10% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 3% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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
Fleming Drive · Ballantyne Place · Alcott Place · Crompton Drive · Austen Drive · Marryat Close · Bronte Close · Browning Drive · Beckett Drive · Hollins Lane · Church Walk · The Priory
All the streets in WA2 and across Warrington.
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.