Lower Appleton Road Widnes, Halton

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA8), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16102174.

40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £107,500 across 1 sale. 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 9, E: 3, F: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 850 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 270 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 25 to 27 m above sea level. 11 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Peelhouse Medical Plaza, about 220 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km. About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 314 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2024	1	£107,500	£107,500	£107,500
2022	2	£126,813	£117,625	£136,000
2019	1	£112,000	£112,000	£112,000
2017	2	£78,000	£78,000	£78,000
2016	1	£65,000	£65,000	£65,000
2015	1	£80,000	£80,000	£80,000
2014	1	£85,000	£85,000	£85,000
2013	2	£91,000	£91,000	£91,000
2012	1	£78,000	£78,000	£78,000
2011	2	£79,473	£78,945	£80,000
2008	1	£95,000	£95,000	£95,000
2006	3	£83,500	£70,000	£88,000

Most recent sales (40)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
21 Apr 2026	2 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£80,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Feb 2024	17 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£107,500
31 May 2022	29 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£136,000
28 Jan 2022	3 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£117,625
23 Jul 2021	12 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£75,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jan 2019	31 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£112,000
7 Nov 2018	35 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£63,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 2017	15 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£78,000
28 Apr 2017	2 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£78,000
4 Nov 2016	12A WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£65,000
1 Sep 2015	23 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£80,000
6 Jan 2014	31 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£85,000
16 Dec 2013	29 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£91,000
1 Nov 2013	21 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£91,000
20 Apr 2012	33 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£78,000
20 Oct 2011	2 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£80,000
4 Mar 2011	1 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£78,945
14 Mar 2008	19 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£95,000
15 Dec 2006	29 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£83,500
31 May 2006	19 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£88,000
21 Apr 2006	2 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£70,000
29 Jul 2005	23 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£79,500
15 Oct 2004	21 WA8 6HQ	Semi-detached	£74,000
27 Sep 2004	31 WA8 6HQ	Semi-detached	£80,000
20 Aug 2004	13 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£47,000
6 Apr 2004	21 WA8 6HQ	Semi-detached	£50,000
22 Mar 2004	25 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£65,000
19 Dec 2003	14 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£41,000
18 Nov 2003	9 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£67,000
7 Mar 2003	12A WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£46,000
10 May 2002	14 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£33,000
2 May 2002	31 WA8 6HQ	Semi-detached	£37,950
15 Feb 2001	7 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£30,000
11 Dec 2000	13 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£40,000
14 Oct 1999	14 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£7,000
29 Sep 1997	14 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£7,000
25 Jul 1997	25 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£30,000
14 Jun 1996	12A WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£29,500
8 Feb 1996	29 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£31,000
31 Jul 1995	9 WA8 6HQ	Terraced	£31,000

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (3); Flat (2). Built: 1900-1929 (11); 1930-1949 (4); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,578	£1,841	£2,104	£2,367	£2,893	£3,418	£3,944	£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (89% of about 1,040 homes).

A89%

B10%

C1%

D0%

E0%

G0%

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): Halton Borough Council Article 4 - 1, Halton Borough Council Article 4 - A4D_1.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Land At Rose View Avenue, Widnes: up to 4 homes, permissioned (600 m)
Greenoaks Farm Industrial Estate, Warrington Road, Widnes: up to 3 homes, permissioned (750 m)
Greenoaks Farm Industrial Estate, Warrington Road, Widnes: up to 3 homes, permissioned (750 m)
Walmsley Street Site, Widnes: up to 49 homes, permissioned (790 m)
Part of Former Fairfield school site, Peel House Lane, Widnes: up to 5 homes, permissioned (830 m)
Part of Former Fairfield school site, Peel House Lane, Widnes: up to 5 homes, permissioned (830 m)
Widnes Films Ltd., Warrington Road: up to 69 homes, permissioned (900 m)
Brosley House, Widnes Road, Widnes: up to 16 homes, not permissioned (1.0 km)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 11 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
WA8 6HQ	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 3	unlikely
WA8 6EX	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 8	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 30 addresses are between 25 m and 27 m above sea level (26 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
WA8 6EX	100%	100%	100%	0%
WA8 6HQ	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–25	850 m
	Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.3 km
	Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.9 km
Bus stops	11 stops within 400 m, 43 within 800 m; nearest Peelhouse Lane Appleton	230 m
Bus or coach station	Prescot Bus Station	8.2 km
Car parks	1 within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Car Park - Widnes	560 m
EV charging points	6 within 1.6 km; nearest Routledge Street	130 m
Airport with scheduled flights	Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL	9.2 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Peelhouse Medical Plaza	220 m
Pharmacies	8 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Well	220 m
NHS dentists	7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Albert Road (Dental Surgery)	230 m
Hospital	Highfield Hospital	670 m
Police station	Widnes Police Station	750 m
Cash machines	6 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone	250 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	4 within 800 m; nearest Victoria Park 14 ha	270 m
Largest park within 800 m	Crow Wood Park 21 ha	620 m
Play area	4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,240 m²	390 m
Playing field	3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²	570 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,410 m²	660 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km north. 6 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch	Scheduled monument	1.3 km north

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Spike Island	Island	2.0 km south
Bower's Pool	Tidal water	2.4 km south
Hempstones Point	Wetland	2.4 km south-east
Pex Hill	Hill	3.0 km north-west
The Field	Wood	3.1 km north-west
Big Pool	Lake or reservoir	3.8 km south

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	11.2	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.6	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.4	40	15

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: 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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	11	0
Under 55	19	30

11 of the street's 30 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Fairfield Primary School	Primary	4–11	260 m	No published inspection
St Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman Catholic	Primary	5–7	420 m	Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman Catholic	Primary	7–11	440 m	Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wade Deacon High School	Secondary	11–16	680 m	Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsway Primary Academy School	Primary	3–11	840 m	Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchfield Nursery School	Nursery	2–5	850 m	No published inspection
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery School	Nursery	2–4	850 m	No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman Catholic	Secondary	11–16	1.0 km	No published inspection
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	4–11	1.1 km	No published inspection
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School	Primary	2–11	1.1 km	Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Riverside College Halton	16 plus	16–99	1.1 km	No published inspection
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.4 km	Good (Jul 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
River Queen WA8 6HQ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	30 m	3 Generally satisfactory	12 Jun 2025
My Local WA8 6HQ	Retailers - other	30 m	5 Very good	9 Jan 2024
St Johns Church Pre School WA8 6HA	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	110 m	5 Very good	24 Apr 2024
R.A.O.B Club WA8 6EE	Pub/bar/nightclub	220 m	5 Very good	11 Mar 2019
Papas Pizzas WA8 6LB	Takeaway/sandwich shop	220 m	5 Very good	19 Mar 2024
Sandos Pizza WA8 6LB	Takeaway/sandwich shop	230 m	5 Very good	28 Apr 2025
Cakes By Kerry WA8 6LB	Retailers - other	230 m	4 Good	24 Jul 2025
Hollywood Pizza WA8 6LB	Takeaway/sandwich shop	230 m	5 Very good	21 Apr 2026
King Smokehouse WA8 6LB	Retailers - other	230 m	4 Good	14 Nov 2024
Hot Stuff Sandwich Bar WA8 6TN	Takeaway/sandwich shop	240 m	5 Very good	22 Oct 2024
Good News WA8 6LB	Retailers - other	240 m	4 Good	30 Jul 2026
Fairfield Primary School Infants Edsential Catering WA8 6TH	School/college/university	240 m	5 Very good	16 Jul 2024
Fairfield Primary School Junior Edsential Catering WA8 6TH	School/college/university	240 m	5 Very good	16 Jul 2024
Kid's Space Ltd - Fairfield WA8 6TH	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	240 m	5 Very good	26 Nov 2024
Blue Sky WA8 6TJ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	240 m	5 Very good	30 Nov 2022

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.

314 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	156
Public order	58
Anti-social behaviour	29
Criminal damage and arson	19
Drugs	15
Other theft	13
Other crime	8
Robbery	4
Possession of weapons	3
Shoplifting	3
Burglary	2
Theft from the person	2
Vehicle crime	1
Bicycle theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Albert Road (106); On or near Midland Street (32); On or near Sycamore Avenue (25); On or near Foster Street (22); On or near Park Road (22).

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: 290 residents in 127 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 street	England
Median age	38	40
Children under 15	21%	17%
Aged 65 and over	14%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	71%	61%
Owned outright	32%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	2%	17%
Private rented	27%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	61%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	9%	6%
Retired (of adults)	15%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	7%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	24%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	55%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	4%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	14%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	86%	65%
Work 30 km or more away	4%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	26%	34%
No qualifications	15%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	97%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

WA8 6HQ: 29 addresses of 30 in the postcode
WA8 6EX: 1 address of 53 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Breck Road · Park Road · Elm Grove · Maple Avenue · Greenway Road · Foster Street · Routledge Street · Routledge Street · Pine Avenue · Allerton Road · Routledge Street · Westmorland Avenue

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.