Leaway Wardle, Rochdale

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL12), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32004344.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Rochdale costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 189 to 190 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Littleborough Group Practice, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20231£215,000£215,000£215,000
20191£180,000£180,000£180,000
20112£130,000£130,000£130,000
20071£155,000£155,000£155,000
20043£139,950£119,950£142,000
20031£102,950£102,950£102,950
19999£57,950£52,000£59,950
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Oct 20233 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£215,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 20193 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
1 May 20157 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£136,529Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Sep 20137 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£100,800Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Apr 20116 OL12 9JSTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
14 Apr 20116 OL12 9JSDetached£130,000
2 Nov 20073 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
11 Oct 20045 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£142,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 20044 OL12 9JSTerraced£119,950Leasehold.
28 May 20043 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£139,950Leasehold.
17 Apr 20035 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£102,950Leasehold.
20 Oct 19999 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£59,950New build. Leasehold.
31 Aug 19997 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£59,950New build. Leasehold.
20 Aug 19995 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£59,950New build. Leasehold.
23 Jul 19994 OL12 9JSTerraced£52,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Jul 199911 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£57,950Leasehold.
9 Jul 19993 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£57,950Leasehold.
9 Jul 19991 OL12 9JSSemi-detached£57,950New build. Leasehold.
28 Jun 19992 OL12 9JSTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Jun 19996 OL12 9JSTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1996-2002 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rochdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,179£3,757£4,335£5,202

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 840 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 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: of the 25 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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
OL12 9JSnot in 2 or 3 4 / 2 / 0 unlikely
OL12 9JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© 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 10 addresses are between 189 m and 190 m above sea level (190 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
OL12 9JS100%100%100%0%
OL12 9JW100%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 stationsSmithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brook Street Wardle140 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksLake Bank Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN34.7 km (22 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 surgeriesLittleborough Group Practice1.9 km (1.2 miles)
PharmaciesCohens Chemist1.8 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dentistry@442 LTD320 m
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationRochdale Police Station4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesGreengate Mini Market Cashzone1.5 km (0.9 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 gardenUnnamed 7,610 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,450 m²180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,010 m²270 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Shore Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 940 m (0.6 miles) east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shore HallListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birch HillHill560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Starring WoodWood740 m (0.5 miles) east
East HillHill870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Starring HillHill870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Rydings DamLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Hills CloughValley1.4 km (0.9 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 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 Rochdale: see them on the Rochdale page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–1140 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Wardle AcademySecondary11–16760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Kentmere Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
St. James C of E School OL12 9JWSchool/college/university40 m5 Very good10 Oct 2024
Charlies Coffee and Cake OL12 9NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Wardle Conservative Club OL12 9JUPub/bar/nightclub190 mExempt
Hare & Hounds OL12 9LQPub/bar/nightclub230 m4 Good18 Aug 2025
The Globe Inn OL12 9NUPub/bar/nightclub260 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2025
Tattersall's Bakery Ltd OL12 9LBRetailers - other310 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Mr Bakers OL12 9LHTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Wardle News OL12 9LHRetailers - other320 m5 Very good18 Jul 2026
Little Sparks Wardle OL12 9LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good5 Nov 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

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: 699 residents in 300 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Nearby streets

Crossfield Road · Lodge Street · Wasp Mill Drive · Haymaker Rise · Hartley Street · Brook Street · Holly Street · Fern Street · Old School Place · Crossfield Close · Birch Street · East Street

All the streets in OL12 and across Rochdale.

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.