Mere Close Uppermill, Oldham

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL3), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29408321.

21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 20, C: 1). 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 February 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (8); House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 2015 (20); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (1).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 2,100 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 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 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, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
OL3 7FTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
OL3 7AHnot 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.

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
OL3 7AH100%100%100%0%
OL3 7FT100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11130 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Greenfield St Mary's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11860 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Friezland Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km No published inspection
Saddleworth SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Chad's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–112.0 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Greenfield Primary School OL3 7AASchool/college/university90 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Swan Meadow Cottage OL3 7AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Kingfisher OL3 7AEPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Saddleworth Pizza OL3 7AETakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
The Wellington OL3 7AFPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good6 Mar 2024
The Stock Pot OL3 7AFPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Funky Fitness & Fun OL3 7AQOther catering premises180 mExempt
Tesco OL3 7AQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good28 Jun 2022
Knitwits and Odditeas OL3 7BTMobile caterer180 mExempt
Golden House OL3 7JRTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Tame Valley Tennis & Squash Club OL3 7JRPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Well Pharmacy OL3 7DBRetailers - other300 mExempt
Greenfield Newsagents OL3 7JJRetailers - other320 m5 Very good1 Feb 2022
The Railway Hotel OL3 7JZPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good6 Mar 2024
Platform 13 OL3 7JZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

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

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.

  • OL3 7FT: 21 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • OL3 7AH: 1 address of 61 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wellington Road · Grayson Way · South Avenue · Knoll Close · Shaw Street · Arthur's Lane · Queensway · Wilson Street · Wharmton View · Lower Carr Lane · Knoll Close · Higher Arthurs

All the streets in OL3 and across Oldham.

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.
  • Anything about planning applications, noise or air quality yet.

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