Luzley Brook Road Royton, Oldham

39 addresses across 1 postcode (OL2), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29400413.

  • Sales: 78 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £951 a month.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 12).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Oak Mills, is 170 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 4 times (10 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 175 to 178 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 39 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Royton & Crompton Family Practice, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20251£270,000£270,000£270,000
20232£271,500£250,000£293,000
20224£283,500£225,000£325,000
20202£197,500£185,000£210,000
20192£163,500£147,000£180,000
20182£173,500£160,000£187,000
20173£165,000£155,000£167,500
20163£171,500£150,000£199,000
20143£146,000£146,000£152,500
20131£126,500£126,500£126,500
20121£132,000£132,000£132,000
20111£185,000£185,000£185,000
All 78 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 20161 OL2 6SQDetached£199,000Leasehold.
8 Jul 20111 OL2 6SQDetached£185,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 20061 OL2 6SQDetached£184,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 20172 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
17 Jul 19983 OL2 6SQDetached£73,200New build.
28 Jul 20175 OL2 6SQDetached£165,000
30 Apr 20035 OL2 6SQDetached£124,500
1 Sep 19985 OL2 6SQDetached£73,550New build.
21 Sep 20076 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£157,500Leasehold.
6 Jul 20016 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£68,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 19987 OL2 6SQDetached£73,550New build.
24 Aug 20178 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£167,500Leasehold.
26 Nov 20128 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£132,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 20098 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£132,500Leasehold.
14 Mar 20038 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£99,950Leasehold.
3 May 20028 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£78,500Leasehold.
11 Sep 19989 OL2 6SQDetached£87,250New build.
6 Nov 201810 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 200110 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£70,000Leasehold.
29 May 199810 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£59,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 199811 OL2 6SQDetached£88,250New build.
15 Mar 201912 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£147,000Leasehold.
4 Jul 202514 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£270,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 201414 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£152,500Leasehold.
30 Sep 199815 OL2 6SQDetached£88,250New build.
31 May 200116 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£69,950Leasehold.
15 Dec 202317 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£250,000
14 Jan 202217 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£225,000
23 Oct 199817 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
2 Oct 199818 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£57,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 202019 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£210,000
29 Jul 200419 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£150,000
30 Oct 199819 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
8 Apr 201620 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£150,000
24 Oct 201420 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£146,000
6 Jul 200120 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£79,950
24 Jul 199820 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£61,150New build.
4 Aug 202321 OL2 6SQDetached£293,000
29 Jul 201621 OL2 6SQDetached£171,500
29 Apr 199921 OL2 6SQDetached£76,050New build.
25 Mar 202022 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£185,000
19 Sep 201322 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£126,500
29 Sep 199822 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£61,150New build.
5 Aug 202223 OL2 6SQDetached£272,000
18 Jul 201823 OL2 6SQDetached£187,000
25 Nov 200523 OL2 6SQDetached£160,750
6 Oct 200023 OL2 6SQDetached£80,000
25 Jun 199923 OL2 6SQDetached£76,050New build.
28 Apr 200024 OL2 6SQDetached£78,000
26 Jun 199824 OL2 6SQDetached£72,500New build.
12 Apr 199925 OL2 6SQDetached£76,050New build.
30 Jun 199926 OL2 6SQDetached£79,750New build.
29 Jan 199927 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
11 Dec 199828 OL2 6SQDetached£109,450New build.
29 Jul 202229 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£325,000
1 Mar 200429 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£124,995
24 May 200229 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£88,000
29 Jan 199929 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
27 Aug 199830 OL2 6SQDetached£80,450New build.
18 Aug 199832 OL2 6SQDetached£80,450New build.
3 Dec 199934 OL2 6SQDetached£74,000
25 Sep 199834 OL2 6SQDetached£75,050New build.
25 Feb 202236 OL2 6SQDetached£295,000
13 Dec 200236 OL2 6SQDetached£100,000
20 Nov 199836 OL2 6SQDetached£76,050New build.
12 Sep 201438 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£146,000
5 May 201038 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£140,000
14 May 199938 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
12 Jul 200740 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£145,000
13 May 199940 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
15 Jun 200742 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£148,000
14 Nov 200342 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£118,500
7 May 199942 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150
31 May 201944 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£180,000
28 Mar 200344 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£99,250
30 Apr 199944 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
26 Mar 199946 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.
26 Mar 199948 OL2 6SQSemi-detached£63,150New build.

House prices and rents in Oldham

A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier and 86% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£378,615
Semi-detached£247,700
Terraced£184,581
Flat or maisonette£132,991
Bought by a first-time buyer£198,052

Private renters in Oldham paid £951 a month on average in September 2026, 13.3% more than a year before. That is 59% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£708
Two bedrooms£888
Three bedrooms£1,078
Four or more bedrooms£1,466

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (8). Built: 1996-2002 (12); 1991-1995 (7); 2003-2006 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,160 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 11,435 kWh, and 3,289 kWh of electricity, 11% more than the district's 2,951 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OL2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 570 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Scouthead Power Plant Oldham 40861 Landfill Gas 2.9 MW Operational Sep 2003 4.6 km (2.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 4 times, for 10 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Luzley Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Cowlishaw Cso United Utilities Luzley Brook 4 10 90 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 170 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Oak Mills Moor Street, Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 170 m
Land off Cowlishaw Lane Cowlishaw Lane, Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 200 m
Land at Sutcliffe Street Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 350 m
Shawside Mill Oldham Road, Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 400 m (0.2 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 175 m and 178 m above sea level (177 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
OL2 6SQ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsMills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramShaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Spring Vale Way Luzley Brook140 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Car parks146 Turf Lane Parking1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN27.3 km (17 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Royton & Crompton Family Practice Good Nov 20221.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well750 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery820 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miller House Care Home Good Apr 2026400 m (0.2 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM840 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha220 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²300 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,570 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Crompton War Memorial, a listed building (Grade II*), 670 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crompton War MemorialListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower DingleValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Hodge CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Besom Hill ReservoirLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Higher Count HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Oozewood CloughValley2.5 km (1.5 miles) west
Ley WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
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 5910
Under 553839

1 of the street's 39 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 Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 10 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
E-ACT Royton and Crompton AcademySecondary11–16370 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.4 (38.7 in 2025 and 37.2 in 2024); 32.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Joseph's RC Junior, Infant and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Crompton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Blackshaw Lane Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025)
Royton Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Beal Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
The Crompton House Church of England AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.5 (46.8 in 2025 and 48.6 in 2024); 56.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 6.7% AAB or better; progress above average
East Crompton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Ss Aidan and Oswald's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection None published
Rushcroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Fir Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

8 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 540 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kids Planet Newbank House OL2 6NE Full day care 150 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Heyside Pre-school OL2 6LY Full day care 35 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
The Rises OL2 8PQ Full day care 47 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Holyrood Day Nursery Shaw OL2 8AP Full day care 83 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
The Childcare Village Preschool OL2 7RY Sessional day care 32 Requires improvement (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Childcare Village OL2 7TD Full day care 80 Requires improvement (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Beal Vale Pre-School Nursery OL2 7SY Full day care 34 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Conexus Tuition Learning Centre OL2 6PU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 114 childminders and 59 home childcarers (nannies) in Oldham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 10 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
Royal Oak Inn OL2 7DAPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good19 Mar 2024
Flower Pot Cafe OL2 6PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Shaw Comrades Social Club OL2 8SBPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good2 Jun 2021
St Josephs RC Primary School OL2 8SZSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good17 Jun 2024
St Joseph's Childcare Club OL2 8SZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good8 Mar 2023
Shaw Road Off Licence OL2 6NZRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Feb 2023
Vitasnap OL2 7AZRetailers - other390 mExempt
Shawside Care Home OL2 8SPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good16 Jul 2026
Central Co-op OL2 8RZRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Apr 2026
Jav's Stop 'N' Shop OL2 7AZRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 May 2024

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).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
3 Sep 2023 16:10 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 May 2021 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A663, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 323 residents in 123 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 age4540
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 13 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • OL2 6SQ: 39 addresses of 40 in the postcode

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.