Meynell Place Chester

41 addresses across 1 postcode (CH1), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901170.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026 (+3.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,000 a month.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21, D: 6, E: 2).
  • 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Deva Tip, is 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 3 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: An estimated 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 9,940 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A, which costs £1,678 a year in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bache, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Countess of Chester Country Park, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 41 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Western Ave Medical Ctre, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Water: Supplied by Severn Trent.
  • Policing: Cheshire Constabulary: 14.9% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 91.4% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
  • MP: Samantha Dixon, Labour, MP for Chester North and Neston.
  • Council: Blacon ward, Cheshire West and Chester: Labour won all 3 seats at its latest election, on 4 May 2023.
  • Crime: 58 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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.

See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£130,000£130,000£130,000
20201£111,000£111,000£111,000
20071£90,000£90,000£90,000
20061£90,000£90,000£90,000
20051£31,500£31,500£31,500
20031£52,000£52,000£52,000
20021£36,950£36,950£36,950
19981£20,000£20,000£20,000
All 8 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Oct 200614 CH1 5URTerraced£90,000
1 Sep 200314 CH1 5URTerraced£52,000
10 May 200214 CH1 5URTerraced£36,950
30 Oct 199814 CH1 5URTerraced£20,000
17 Feb 202317 CH1 5URTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
4 Jun 200719 CH1 5URTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
7 Oct 202020 CH1 5URTerraced£111,000
18 Jul 200524 CH1 5URFlat or maisonette£31,500New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Cheshire West and Chester

A typical home in Cheshire West and Chester cost £270,534 in August 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 49% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£439,091
Semi-detached£268,826
Terraced£211,455
Flat or maisonette£135,806
Bought by a first-time buyer£223,667

Private renters in Cheshire West and Chester paid £1,000 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 46% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£731
Two bedrooms£922
Three bedrooms£1,132
Four or more bedrooms£1,627

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (12); Flat (3). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1950-1966 (11); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (22); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,588 kWh of it on average in 2024, 8% less than the district's 10,474 kWh, and 3,048 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 3,286 kWh. There are gas meters for about 89% 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 CH1.

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 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 A (83% of about 660 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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 19 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 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 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 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 3 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Bache Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Chester Parkgate Court Sps Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Bache Brook 3 1 900 m (0.6 miles)

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

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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 1 to 3%: 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. 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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 450 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Deva Tip West Cheshire Hosp, Upper Chester, Cheshire 1962 to 1973 Commercial 450 m (0.3 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 41 addresses are between 8 m and 11 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
CH1 5UR100%100%100%0%

Water

This street's water is supplied by Severn Trent. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.

Severn Trent does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.

Sources: water company supply areas (Water UK) and tap samples from Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, from Stream, CC BY 4.0.

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 stationsBache 495,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Chester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Capenhurst 206,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canal Bridge Mollington280 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksEnterprise Car Parks - Mill@Upton Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blacon Crematorium GeniePoint630 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL14.5 km (9 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 surgeriesWestern Ave Medical Ctre Good Aug 20171.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swettenham Chemists1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBowmere Hospital880 m (0.5 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lauren Court Residential Care Home Requires improvement Apr 2023270 m
Police stationChester Police Station380 m
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Chester Blacon Blacon A, Blacon Cashzone410 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Countess of Chester Country Park 23 ha290 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²70 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blacon Youth Village Play Area 1.7 ha320 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,940 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grosvenor Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 3 km (1.8 miles) south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*3 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gorse HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
The DaleValley1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Icehouse PlantationWood2 km (1.2 miles) north
Viaduct WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Donkey FieldWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir3 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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 5910
Under 554041

1 of the street's 41 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 Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 15 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
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 38% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
The Arches Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Highfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)
J H Godwin Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 32% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Blacon High School, A Specialist Sports CollegeSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 30.3 (33.2 in 2025 and 37.2 in 2024); 19.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Dee Point Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 40% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 35% in 2024 and 35% in 2023)
Upton Heath CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Mill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 83% 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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 370 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Chester Hopscotch CH1 4BE Full day care 76 Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 370 m
S4YC @ Blacon Cc CH1 5DB Full day care 79 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
Bright Horizons Countess of Chester Day Nursery and Preschool CH2 1UL Full day care 72 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 109 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Cheshire West and Chester. 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 15 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
Lauren court CH1 5USHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 mAwaiting inspection
King George V Community Sports Hub CH1 5BDTakeaway/sandwich shop350 mAwaiting inspection
Aldi Stores Ltd CH1 4BERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Busy Bees at Chester Hopscotch CH1 4BEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good19 Oct 2026
Asda Express PFS Parkgate CH1 4BERetailers - other360 m5 Very good16 Aug 2023
St Theresas RC Primary CH1 5UUSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Avenue Services CH1 5UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good7 Apr 2025
The Bread and Butter Thing CH1 5UURetailers - other370 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Morrisons Daily CH1 5BBRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good1 Jul 2026

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.

58 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft3
Shoplifting2
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Palgrave Close (14); On or near Housman Close (10); On or near Coleridge Close (9); On or near Tennyson Walk (7); On or near Wordsworth Square (6).

Policing

This street is policed by Cheshire Constabulary. Of the 77,345 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 14.9% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.

In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 91.4% of its 152,881 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.

What happened to the crimes recorded in 2025/26
OutcomeCheshire ConstabularyEngland and Wales
Charged or summonsed14.9%9.3%
Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice)6.9%4.4%
Closed with no suspect identified26.1%37.8%
Closed: the victim did not support further action28.4%25.4%
Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence17.2%15.1%
Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere)4.7%3.9%
No outcome yet (still under investigation)1.8%4.0%

Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.

Sources: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales, open data tables, offences recorded in 2025/26, and 999 call answering data published on police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 9,940 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 360 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 9,940 counted 2025 1% 360 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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: 321 residents in 134 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 age3340
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented61%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)16%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

Politics

This street is in the Chester North and Neston constituency. Its MP is Samantha Dixon, Labour.

2024 general election in Chester North and Neston
CandidatePartyVotesShareChange
Samantha Dixon (elected)Labour22,258 49.8% -0.5
Simon EardleyConservative10,388 23.2% -15.2
Nicholas GouldingReform UK5,870 13.1% +10.4
Nick BrownGreen Party4,102 9.2% +7.0
Steve GribbonLiberal Democrat2,076 4.6% -1.5

Labour hold, with a majority of 11,870 votes (26.6%). 44,694 valid votes from an electorate of 70,215, a turnout of 64.0%.

Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Council: Blacon ward, Cheshire West and Chester

This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 4 May 2023, for 3 seats.

4 May 2023 in Blacon
CandidatePartyVotes
Sheila Little (elected)Labour1,689
Carol Gahan (elected)Labour1,687
Alan Smith (elected)Labour1,561
Chris HughesConservative392
Ben FletcherConservative382
Maria JombikovaConservative347
Simon Ward BrownGreen Party301
Kris James PattersonLiberal Democrat194

Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

What has changed

  • Flood risk Flood risk figures for CH1 5UR changed: 0 addresses at high risk, 0 medium, 19 low (was 0, 0, 17) found 15 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.

Nearby streets

Wordsworth Crescent · Stearns Close · Palgrave Close · Housman Close · Wordsworth Square · Tennyson Walk · Tennyson Walk

All the streets in CH1 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; 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.