Leahurst Close Chester

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH2), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901011.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 D; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 74% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Alexandra Park, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Medical Centre, about 140 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 69 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£600,000£600,000£600,000
20191£495,000£495,000£495,000
20151£390,000£390,000£390,000
20101£287,500£287,500£287,500
19971£122,000£122,000£122,000
19951£110,000£110,000£110,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Oct 202410 CH2 3NSSemi-detached£600,000
6 Sep 20196 CH2 3NSSemi-detached£495,000
9 Jan 20151 CH2 3NSDetached£390,000
30 Sep 20104 CH2 3NSSemi-detached£287,500
28 Feb 19972 CH2 3NSSemi-detached£122,000
27 Oct 19956 CH2 3NSSemi-detached£110,000

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 October 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 160 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (61% of about 620 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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
CH2 3NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CH2 3NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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.

© 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 8 addresses are between 27 m and 28 m above sea level (28 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
CH2 3NL100%74%74%0%
CH2 3NS100%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 stationsChester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dene Hotel Hoole80 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksApcoa Parking1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL14.8 km (9.2 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Medical Centre140 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swettenhams Chemists590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandon Dental Surgery380 m
HospitalCountess Of Chester Hospital (Coc NHS Trust)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Natwest480 m (0.3 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alexandra Park 2.8 ha70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lime Wood Fields 6.1 ha230 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coronation Playing Field 4.6 ha190 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hoole Allotments 5.0 ha370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Newton Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 750 m (0.5 miles) north. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Newton HallListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) north
Chester Railway StationListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Part of a Roman camp at Hoole 200m south of Hoole HallScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Roman camp 300m west of Upton Grange FarmScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Moated site at Upton Grange, UptonScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Overleigh Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Donkey FieldWood940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Gallows HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Bellevue WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Fox CovertWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
The DaleValley2.8 km (1.7 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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
Under 5578

1 of the street's 8 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 Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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 Martin's Academy ChesterPrimary4–11170 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Newton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 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
Hoole Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upton-by-Chester High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oldfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Upton Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Grosvenor Park Church of England AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boughton Heath AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Victoria Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Cheltenham Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Oaklands Hotel CH2 3NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Kilmorey Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Chester Court Hotel CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Mar 2026
St Martins Academy CH2 3NJSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Lavender Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good12 May 2018
Chester House CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good28 Apr 2018
Heart and Soul Cafe CH2 3HZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good11 May 2026
All Saints Church CH2 3HZOther catering premises210 m4 Good17 Apr 2025
Baytree Lodge CH2 3NLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good19 May 2018
Bren Brews CH2 3NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Ba-Ba Guest House CH2 3NJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jan 2024
Lewis Van P969 EOP CH2 3BBMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Lewis N317 TOC CH2 3BBMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order6
Drugs6
Other theft2
Theft from the person2
Burglary2
Other crime2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near A56 (44); On or near Shavington Avenue (10); On or near Plemonstall Court (6); On or near Hoole Road (4); On or near Oaklea Avenue (2).

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: 395 residents in 175 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 age5040
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van33%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • CH2 3NS: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • CH2 3NL: 1 address of 50 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Shavington Avenue · Knowsley Road · Oaklea Avenue · Hoole Road · Plemonstall Court · Elmwood Avenue · Newton Lane · Fairfield Road · Panton Road · Gosforth Place · Plas Newton Lane · Vicarage Road

All the streets in CH2 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.