Mere View Helsby, Cheshire West and Chester

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA6), about 30 m long. USRN 41703123.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £192,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 13).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 18% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Helsby, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 9 to 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Helsby Health Centre, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£192,500£192,500£192,500
20251£130,000£130,000£130,000
20241£78,000£78,000£78,000
20231£52,000£52,000£52,000
20213£110,000£45,000£115,000
20166£123,975£53,000£170,000
20141£54,000£54,000£54,000
20122£54,225£53,500£54,950
20082£59,500£59,500£59,500
200616£133,995£75,237£169,995
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 202621 WA6 0FGTerraced£192,500
18 Jul 20256 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
10 May 202416 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 202317 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£52,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 202118 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 202119 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 20218 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 201621 WA6 0FGTerraced£138,500
7 Oct 201620 WA6 0FGTerraced£170,000
12 Aug 20165 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£124,950Leasehold.
5 Aug 201615 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
6 May 201610 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£123,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 20166 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£113,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 20143 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£97,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Aug 201417 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£54,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 20138 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£104,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Oct 201215 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£53,500Leasehold.
5 Mar 201218 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£54,950Leasehold.
7 Jul 20084 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£59,500Leasehold.
21 Feb 200817 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£59,500Leasehold.
22 Dec 200621 WA6 0FGTerraced£159,995New build.
22 Dec 20063 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£135,995New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 200623 WA6 0FGSemi-detached£169,995New build.
21 Dec 20068 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£134,995New build. Leasehold.
15 Dec 200620 WA6 0FGTerraced£169,995
15 Dec 200622 WA6 0FGTerraced£159,995New build.
13 Dec 20061 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£147,245New build. Leasehold.
8 Dec 20065 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£133,995New build. Leasehold.
8 Dec 200612 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£133,995New build. Leasehold.
8 Dec 200610 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£131,995New build. Leasehold.
6 Dec 200614 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£75,237New build. Leasehold.
6 Dec 200616 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£75,237New build. Leasehold.
6 Dec 200618 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£75,237New build. Leasehold.
6 Dec 20064 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£75,237New build. Leasehold.
29 Nov 200612 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£121,995New build. Leasehold.
28 Nov 20066 WA6 0FGFlat or maisonette£121,995New build. Leasehold.

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

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Flat (15); House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2003-2006 (14); 1996-2002 (1); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,000 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
WA6 0FGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA6 0FFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 23 addresses are between 9 m and 10 m above sea level (10 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
WA6 0FF100%100%100%0%
WA6 0FG100%18%18%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 stationsHelsby 124,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Ince and Elton (Cheshire) 100 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Stanlow and Thornton [note 1]4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Helsby150 m
Bus or coach stationEllesmere Port Bus Interchange8.6 km (5.3 miles)
EV charging pointsShell Recharge Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL9.1 km (5.6 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Helsby Health Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fearns Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalHalton Hospital Captain Sir Tom Moore Building8.1 km (5 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Frodsham Police Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Cash machinesBR Spar Elton, Ince Lane Cashzone2.8 km (1.7 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 490 m²90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2,810 m²230 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²80 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,730 m²60 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,220 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Promontory fort on Helsby Hill 250m north west of Harmers Lake Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Promontory fort on Helsby Hill 250m north west of Harmers Lake FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Helsby Quarry Woodland ParkWood670 m (0.4 miles) east
Helsby HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Harmers WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Helsby MarshWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Hollytree WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Crow MereLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) 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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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, 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 59130
Under 551023

13 of the street's 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Horn's Mill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alvanley and Manley Village SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Helsby Hillside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Helsby Community Sports Club WA6 0FXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Tesco WA6 0DJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025
Tesco Café WA6 0DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Yo! To Go! WA6 0DJTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Seaway Fish & Chip WA6 0DPTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good12 Jun 2024
Sher khan takeaway WA6 0DPTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good30 Jul 2026
Fearns Pharmacy WA6 0DPRetailers - other210 mExempt
RMS NEWS AND WINE WA6 0DXRetailers - other310 m5 Very good29 Nov 2025
CA Alternative Futures WA6 0DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Shell Threeways WA6 0EZRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Loxley Hall Nursing Home WA6 0BWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jan 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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Criminal damage and arson7
Shoplifting7
Public order6
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary2
Other crime1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Longster Close (19); On or near Hemlegh Vale (8); On or near Croft Road (7); On or near Crosland Drive (5); On or near Barlow Drive (2).

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: 400 residents in 188 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3940
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)38%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • WA6 0FG: 22 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • WA6 0FF: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Neston Close · Callender Gardens · George Close · Dixon Drive · Crosland Drive · The Arbour · Parker Drive · Callender Way · Ormiston Mews · Croft Road · Hemlegh Vale · Britannia Road

All the streets in WA6 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

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