Librex Close Litherland, Sefton

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (L20), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34104329.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £183,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 7).
  • Flood: 23 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 A; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 84% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaforth and Litherland, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is North Park Health Centre, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 88 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
20261£183,000£183,000£183,000
20252£216,000£210,000£222,000
20241£163,000£163,000£163,000
20211£144,000£144,000£144,000
20201£184,000£184,000£184,000
20191£127,000£127,000£127,000
20181£113,500£113,500£113,500
20151£125,000£125,000£125,000
20141£130,000£130,000£130,000
201210£127,498£113,995£151,000
20115£123,995£119,995£132,995
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Jun 202612 L20 6GGSemi-detached£183,000
24 Oct 202514 L20 6GGSemi-detached£222,000
28 Mar 202525 L20 6GGSemi-detached£210,000
25 Oct 202416 L20 6GGSemi-detached£163,000
5 Mar 202111 L20 6GGSemi-detached£144,000
30 Oct 202017 L20 6GGDetached£184,000
15 Nov 201927 L20 6GGSemi-detached£127,000
27 Jul 20187 L20 6GGSemi-detached£113,500
19 Jun 201525 L20 6GGSemi-detached£125,000
7 Jul 201421 L20 6GGSemi-detached£130,000
15 Mar 201227 L20 6GGSemi-detached£123,995New build.
12 Mar 201225 L20 6GGSemi-detached£131,995New build.
5 Mar 201223 L20 6GGSemi-detached£131,995New build.
29 Feb 201219 L20 6GGSemi-detached£129,995New build.
29 Feb 201219 L20 6GGSemi-detached£129,995New build.
16 Feb 201221 L20 6GGSemi-detached£125,000New build.
31 Jan 20129 L20 6GGSemi-detached£123,995New build.
27 Jan 201217 L20 6GGDetached£151,000New build.
23 Jan 201215 L20 6GGSemi-detached£119,995New build.
13 Jan 201211 L20 6GGSemi-detached£113,995New build.
16 Dec 201116 L20 6GGSemi-detached£131,995New build.
16 Dec 20117 L20 6GGSemi-detached£123,995New build.
12 Dec 201114 L20 6GGSemi-detached£132,995New build.
8 Dec 201110 L20 6GGSemi-detached£119,995New build.
5 Dec 201112 L20 6GGSemi-detached£123,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); Bungalow, semi-detached (1); House, detached (1). Built: 2010 (12); 2007-2011 (4); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1).

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 A (80% 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, 15 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 5 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
L20 6GGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L20 6GEnot in 2 or 3 14 / 8 / 5 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 19 addresses are between 18 m and 19 m above sea level (19 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
L20 6GE100%84%84%0%
L20 6GG100%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 stationsSeaforth and Litherland 852,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Bootle New Strand 885,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bootle Oriel Road 692,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Havelock Road Orrell130 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksNCP Bootle Court Merton Road1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsubitricity1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL17.2 km (11 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest North Park Health Centre630 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sk Chemists470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tooth Talk Liverpool1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalFirst Response Team, Clock View Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationMarsh Lane Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alldays Bootle Cashzone310 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha150 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 720 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.1 ha810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 5.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Derby Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Derby ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gladstone Branch Dock Number 1Lake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Grain DockLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
Gladstone PassageLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Marine LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Buckley HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) north
Moor Hey PlantationWood4.7 km (2.9 miles) north

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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

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 5920
Under 551719

2 of the street's 19 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton 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 Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–1180 m No published inspection
King's Lander Primary AcademyPrimary2–11180 m No published inspection
Greenacre Community Nursery SchoolNursery2–5460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Linacre Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
King's Leadership Academy HawthornesSecondary11–16630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Springwell Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Gray Primary SchoolPrimary2–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–11850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; 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
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 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
Hawthorne Local L20 6LDRetailers - other170 m2 Improvement necessary8 Oct 2024
Jolly Miller Cafe L20 6LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good13 Feb 2018
GLS Food & Wine L21 8JSRetailers - other300 m5 Very good23 Oct 2026
La Scala L21 8JSTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Feb 2025
City Star L21 8JSTakeaway/sandwich shop300 mAwaiting inspection
UK Kebab Hut L21 8JSTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good13 Oct 2025
Bubu Toast & Coffee L21 8JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 mAwaiting inspection
All Days Bootle Go Local L21 8JSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good21 Feb 2024
Pizza Co & Coop's L21 8JPTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Bucharest Supermarket L21 8JSRetailers - other310 m2 Improvement necessary7 Mar 2025
Golden Fry L21 8JPTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good30 Jun 2026
RCCG Mount Zion Liverpool L21 8JUOther catering premises330 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Xen News L21 8JTRetailers - other340 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Sep 2026
King Wok * Panda Chef * Oriental Kitchen * Hungry Wok L21 8JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m4 Good6 May 2026
Pacific Hotel L21 8JUPub/bar/nightclub340 m4 Good1 Dec 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.

88 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences47
Public order10
Anti-social behaviour8
Drugs6
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime4
Robbery4
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Havelock Road (15); On or near Librex Close (9); On or near Hartwell Street (8); On or near Barnton Close (8); On or near Lander Road (7).

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: 551 residents in 245 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 age3940
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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 GLS Food & Wine (retailers - other, L21 8JS) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 23 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Pizza Co & Coop's (takeaway/sandwich shop, L21 8JP) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 21 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

  • L20 6GG: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • L20 6GE: 1 address of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Heathfield Drive · Havelock Road · Penpoll Close · Barnton Close · Webster Street · Ken Mews · Braby Road · Heathfield Close · Lander Road · Kirk Road · Willard Drive · Lunt Road

All the streets in L20 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.
  • 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.