Lake View Close Southport, Sefton

3 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR8), about 20 m long. USRN 34104400.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026 (+2% on a year); private rents averaged £940 a month.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • Flood: 12 addresses on its postcodes are 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.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Crowland Street - Energy Recovery Park, is 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A570, carries 20,116 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Meols Cop, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 390 m away, and Town Lane (22 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 3 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kew Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 148 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

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Sefton

A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 50% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£386,996
Semi-detached£246,240
Terraced£181,535
Flat or maisonette£125,367
Bought by a first-time buyer£189,330

Private renters in Sefton paid £940 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£623
Two bedrooms£815
Three bedrooms£995
Four or more bedrooms£1,414

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 March 2026 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (1); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,780 kWh of it on average in 2024, 29% less than the district's 12,348 kWh, and 2,986 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 3,208 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
PR8 5BF52,243 kWh 75,707 kWh
PR8 5PA182,524 kWh 189,977 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 PR8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (46% of about 780 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Crowland Street - Energy Recovery Park Sefton DC/2021/02723 Anaerobic digestion Planning application made Nov 2021 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Crossens Pumping Station - Solar Array Sefton 2021/0937/FUL Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2022 1.6 km (1 mile)

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.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 3 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
PR8 5BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR8 5PAnot in 2 or 3 4 / 8 / 3 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.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Fine Janes Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Janes Brook Road Pumping Station United Utilities; monitored 83% of the year Fine Janes Brook 0 0 190 m

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.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

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.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 3 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
PR8 5BF100%0%0%0%
PR8 5PA100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsMeols Cop 79,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Southport 3.8 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Birkdale 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aintree Crescent Kew110 m
Car parksFoul Ln Parking800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL34.2 km (21 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kew Surgery Good Dec 2017540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kew Dental Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSouthport And Formby District General Hospital Requires improvement Nov 2019210 m
Care homes14 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashdown Close - Southport Good Jan 2018550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationSouthport Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Town Lane Cashzone140 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 5,550 m²390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Town Lane 22 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,120 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meols Park 7.4 ha220 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,270 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hesketh Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.7 km (1.7 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hesketh ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
King's Gardens and South Marine GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High Brows CovertWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Twist's CovertWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) east
Shirdley HillHill3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Marine LakeLake or reservoir3.1 km (2 miles) north-west
Southport BeachBeach3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-west
The Bog BreastWetland4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-west

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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

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
60 to 6410
Under 5523

1 of the street's 3 addresses is 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Kew Woods Primary SchoolPrimary3–11320 m No published inspection 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Meols Cop High SchoolSecondary11–16620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.9 (44.7 in 2025 and 41.1 in 2024); 40.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Philip's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Norwood Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Linaker Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.8 (41.8 in 2025 and 41.5 in 2024); 36.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 5.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Birkdale Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 30% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 49% 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 940 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Cherubs Day Nursery PR8 6DX Full day care 25 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 940 m (0.6 miles)
Partou Curiosity Corner Day Nursery & Pre-School PR8 6PA Full day care 78 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Hazeldene Day Nursery PR8 6AE Full day care 49 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Fun 4 Kidz - St Philip's PR8 6SS Out-of-school day care 18 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 61 childminders and 7 home childcarers (nannies) in Sefton. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 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
The Richmond PR8 5HLPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
RVS Hospital Shop PR8 6PNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Southport Hospital PR8 6PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good8 May 2025
Yo! To Go! (Within Tesco) PR8 5JHTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Londis Town Lane PR8 5HLRetailers - other290 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Chippy T PR8 6JWTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Spar Southport PR8 6JWRetailers - other310 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Tesco Family Dining at Tesco PR8 5JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Tesco PR8 5JHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets320 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Hickory's Smokehouse PR8 5PHPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
McDonalds Restaurants Ltd PR8 5HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Forty Seven Bar & Lounge PR8 6JWPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2026
The Old Duke PR8 5HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jul 2025

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.

148 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences89
Public order18
Other theft10
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour9
Other crime4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (122); On or near Sawdon Avenue (11); On or near Ganton Close (5); On or near Lake View Close (4); On or near Ayr Close (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

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 A570 between B5276 Meols Cop Rd and LA Boundary, with 20,116 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 460 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A570 B5276 Meols Cop Rd to LA Boundary 20,116 estimated; counted 2022 2% -8% since 2015 460 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.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 316 residents in 132 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 age4240
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Tesco Family Dining at Tesco (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR8 5JH) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 15 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • PR8 5BF: 2 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • PR8 5PA: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ayr Close · Cheltenham Way · Aintree Crescent · Sawdon Avenue · Catterick Fold · Scarisbrick New Road · Ganton Close · Redcar Close · Tinsley Avenue · Ovington Drive · Ripon Close · Cartmel Close

All the streets in PR8 and across Sefton.

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.