Holt Avenue Billinge, St. Helens

41 addresses across 2 postcodes (WN5), about 290 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37500962.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £163,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16, D: 17, 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 C; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 58% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Garswood, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 75 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Billinge Medical Practice, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 66 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
20251£163,000£163,000£163,000
20231£155,000£155,000£155,000
20221£157,000£157,000£157,000
20183£137,750£115,000£142,500
20133£110,000£46,000£115,000
20121£120,000£120,000£120,000
20112£95,000£80,000£110,000
20081£152,000£152,000£152,000
20043£94,500£92,500£132,000
19991£47,000£47,000£47,000
19962£36,500£35,500£37,500
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Jul 202521 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£163,000
21 Sep 202311 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£155,000
29 Jun 20226 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£157,000
31 Aug 201821 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£115,000
18 Jul 201851 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£137,750
13 Jul 201829 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£142,500
6 Sep 201321 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£115,000
26 Apr 20138 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£110,000
22 Jan 20135 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£46,000
9 Mar 201211 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£120,000
24 Jun 201121 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£110,000
16 May 201129 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£80,000
4 Apr 200810 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£152,000
27 Oct 200410 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£132,000
31 Mar 200421 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£92,500
16 Mar 20044 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£94,500
27 Aug 199910 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£47,000
13 Dec 19968 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£37,500
16 Aug 199610 WN5 7PWSemi-detached£35,500

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 May 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (34). Built: 1930-1949 (27); 1950-1966 (6); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (22); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in St. Helens in 2026-27: Band D £2,403 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,602£1,869£2,136£2,403£2,937£3,472£4,006£4,807

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,430 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 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

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 on this street 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 41 addresses are between 75 m and 83 m above sea level (79 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
WN5 7PW100%100%100%0%
WN5 7QZ100%58%58%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 stationsGarswood 136,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Orrell 98,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Upholland 28,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lilac Grove Birchley Road100 m
Bus or coach stationSt Helens Bus Station4.6 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL19.8 km (12 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 surgeriesBillinge Medical Practice2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well170 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery170 m
HospitalFairfield Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationSt Helens Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Santander320 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 4,000 m²240 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 8,990 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha170 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,380 m²280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birchley Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birchley HallListed building, Grade II*220 m west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birchley WoodWood460 m (0.3 miles) west
Fir WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) west
Chadwick WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Billinge HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
Carr Mill DamLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Barton CloughValley2 km (1.2 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
70 to 7410
55 to 5950
Under 553541

6 of the street's 41 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 St. Helens: see them on the St. Helens 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
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11270 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Billinge Chapel End Primary SchoolPrimary2–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge Church of EnglandPrimary2–11910 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Carr Mill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Birchley St Mary's Catholic Club WN5 7QTPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good14 Sep 2023
Buttylicious WN5 7PFTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 2026
Galloways WN5 7PFRetailers - other190 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Varini Cafe WN5 7PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Birchley St Mary's Primary School WN5 7QJSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good10 Oct 2024
Spar WN5 7PFRetailers - other280 m5 Very good3 Oct 2023
Billinge Chapel End Labour Club WN5 7PBPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good13 Jun 2024
Billinge Discount Store Ltd WN5 7PERetailers - other310 m4 Good21 Apr 2026
Billinge Newsagents Ltd WN5 7PERetailers - other310 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Billinge Spice WN5 7PETakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good8 May 2025
The Co-operative Food WN5 7PERetailers - other310 m5 Very good5 Mar 2024
The Billinge Arms WN5 7PBPub/bar/nightclub370 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jan 2026
Progress ARC Billinge WN5 7TTSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Nugent House School WN5 7TTSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good24 Oct 2023
Billinge Chapel End Primary School WN5 7TXSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Sep 2026

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.

66 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Public order12
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour4
Shoplifting4
Burglary3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Drugs2
Robbery2
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (18); On or near Delph Meadow Gardens (15); On or near Holt Avenue (8); On or near Holt Crescent (5); On or near B5205 (5).

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: 533 residents in 243 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented27%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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.

  • WN5 7PW: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • WN5 7QZ: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Holt Crescent · Delph Meadow Gardens · Coronation Walk · Lilac Grove · St Marys Avenue · Beulah Avenue · Clifton Road · Myrtle Grove · Braeside Crescent · Main Street · Ellis Road · Hillside Close

All the streets in WN5 and across St. Helens.

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.