Longdown Road Congleton, Cheshire East

169 addresses across 9 postcodes (CW12), about 1.4 km long, classed as a local road. USRN 9100716.

171 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £615,000 across 1 sale. 83 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 20, D: 54, E: 3). 10 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 3.8 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 92 to 97 m above sea level. 9 of its 169 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Readesmoor Medical Group Practice, about 2.1 km away. About 1,510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 3 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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£615,000£615,000£615,000
20253£284,500£275,500£300,000
20246£303,500£240,000£447,500
20233£240,000£226,000£305,000
20228£254,000£190,000£420,000
20214£230,000£171,000£275,000
20204£346,750£340,000£430,000
20198£194,475£132,500£264,000
20187£210,000£162,500£363,000
20175£300,000£285,000£340,000
20161£120,000£120,000£120,000
20155£263,000£179,950£350,000
Most recent sales (171)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Feb 202618 CW12 4QJDetached£615,000
8 Dec 202572 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£275,500
4 Dec 202548 CW12 4QPSemi-detached£300,000
28 Mar 2025116 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£284,500
19 Dec 2024159 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£275,000
15 Nov 202417 CW12 4QHDetached£400,000
15 Nov 202494 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£287,000
27 Sep 20245 CW12 4QHDetached£447,500
20 Sep 2024175 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£240,000
2 Aug 2024137 CW12 4QRTerraced£320,000
14 Dec 202392 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£226,000
26 Jul 202358 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£305,000
24 Mar 2023143 CW12 4QRTerraced£240,000
9 Dec 2022201 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£220,000
7 Dec 2022141 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£340,000
26 Oct 2022193 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£190,000
19 Aug 202221 CW12 4QHDetached£410,000
2 Aug 202274 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£223,000
28 Jul 20226 CW12 4QJDetached£420,000
31 May 2022167 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£195,000
15 Mar 2022122 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£285,000
7 Dec 202158 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£275,000
17 May 202146 CW12 4QPSemi-detached£171,000
2 Feb 2021179 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£185,000
22 Jan 20218 CW12 4QJDetached£275,000
27 Nov 202063 CW12 4QHSemi-detached£343,500
26 Jun 202031 CW12 4QHDetached£350,000
28 Feb 202019 CW12 4QHDetached£430,000
13 Feb 202018 CW12 4QJDetached£340,000
18 Dec 2019185 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£158,000
28 Oct 2019159 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£132,500
7 Oct 2019107 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£189,000
27 Sep 2019122 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£210,000
26 Jul 201990 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£219,950
12 Jul 2019103 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£183,000
28 Jun 201993 CW12 4QPSemi-detached£199,950
26 Apr 2019137 CW12 4QRTerraced£264,000
24 Sep 2018128 CW12 4QTTerraced£215,000
24 Aug 2018116 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£210,000
15 Jun 201878 CW12 4QRSemi-detached£162,500
8 Jun 201848 CW12 4QPSemi-detached£182,000
23 Mar 20181 CW12 4QHDetached£363,000
14 Feb 2018130 CW12 4QTTerraced£210,000
15 Jan 2018163 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£169,800
19 Dec 201720 CW12 4QJDetached£305,000
26 Jul 201712 CW12 4QJDetached£290,000
2 Jun 201714 CW12 4QJDetached£340,000
5 May 201723 CW12 4QHDetached£300,000
28 Apr 201737 CW12 4QHDetached£285,000
24 Mar 2016157 CW12 4QTSemi-detached£120,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

83 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (31); House, detached (22); Bungalow, semi-detached (22). Built: 1967-1975 (63); 1950-1966 (12); 1976-1982 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (63); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 2,020 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

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

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

Roadworks

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 16 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026: CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 4 September 2026: CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 9 August 2026 to 12 August 2026: CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 46 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
CW12 4QRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 9 / 24 unlikely
CW12 4QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW12 4QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
CW12 4QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW12 4QPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
CW12 4QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW12 4PYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 8 unlikely
CW12 4QNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CW12 4TZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 169 addresses are between 92 m and 97 m above sea level (94 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
CW12 4PY100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QH100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QJ100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QN100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QP100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QR100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QS100%100%100%0%
CW12 4QT100%100%100%0%
CW12 4TZ100%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 stationsCongleton 324,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Holmes Chapel 244,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km
Goostrey 40,000 journeys in 2024–257.9 km
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 45 within 800 m; nearest Black Firs Primary West Heath120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Alighting Only Congleton2.4 km
Car parksBlake Street Car Park1.7 km
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.3 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN20.0 km

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 surgeriesReadesmoor Medical Group Practice2.1 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest West Heath Pharmacy890 m
NHS dentistsWest Street (Dental Surgery)2.1 km
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital3.2 km
Police stationCheshire Police - Congleton Police Station2.5 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - West Heath, Sandbach Road Cashzone910 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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha110 m
Play area7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 620 m²430 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,210 m²770 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 220 m²1.9 km

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 3.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman camp at Bent Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km south. 3 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman camp at Bent FarmScheduled monument1.8 km south
Congleton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km east
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site8.2 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black Firs PlantationWood340 m north-west
Radnor WoodWood1.1 km north-east
Forge WoodWood1.1 km east
Scar WoodWood1.5 km north
Astbury MereLake or reservoir1.7 km south-east
Daffodil DellValley4.2 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5980
Under 55160169

9 of the street's 169 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Black Firs Primary SchoolPrimary3–11150 m No published inspection
Congleton High SchoolSecondary11–18540 m No published inspection
The Quinta Primary SchoolPrimary2–11900 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m.

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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Melton Close (2); On or near Eastcott Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,509 residents in 706 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 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.

Nearby streets

Eastcott Close · Black Firs Lane · Melton Close · Lynalls Close · Maple Close · Delamere Road · Stopsley Close · Sycamore Avenue · Melton Drive · Chatsworth Drive · Firbeck Close · Laburnum Close

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.