Mill Close Birkenhead, Wirral

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH42), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44502355.

  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Green Lane, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, and Mersey Park (8.4 hectares) is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Catherine's Surgery, about 250 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 356 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.

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 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 56 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (2); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (92% of about 840 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.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 November 2026 to 18 November 2026: MANWEB, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
CH42 0LWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 7HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 41 m above sea level.

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
CH42 0LW100%100%100%0%
CH42 7HB100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsGreen Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m (0.4 miles)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Conway Park 630,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 66 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aspendale Road Tranmere30 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park1.7 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.9 km (8 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherine's Surgery250 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tranmere Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherines Dental Centre250 m
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital250 m
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station740 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Tranmere - Tranmere Court, Church Road Cashzone260 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,910 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mersey Park 8.4 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,690 m²430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birkenhead Priory, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 46 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Outer BasinLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
The Princess DockLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Tranmere BeachBeach1.7 km (1 mile) east
Marsh Hey CovertWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Storeton HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Prenton DellValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west

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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
60 to 6420
Under 5535

2 of the street's 5 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–11450 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wirral Metropolitan College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead Park SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cathcart Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
The Imperial CH42 0LWPub/bar/nightclub10 m5 Very good21 Apr 2022
Cafe 39 CH42 7HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Lee Garden Fish & Chips CH42 7HBTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m4 Good5 Dec 2024
MP Food and Wine CH42 7HBRetailers - other70 m5 Very good30 Nov 2021
PSV Food and Wine CH42 0HXRetailers - other200 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Jul 2026
Hungry's CH42 5ABTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Subway CH42 5ABTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Co-op Tranmere Court CH42 5ABRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good3 Dec 2022
Age UK Wirral CH42 0LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
News & Booze CH41 2TERetailers - other330 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Jun 2024
Kings Cafe CH42 0PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
St Catherines Church CH42 5LFRetailers - other340 m5 Very good16 Aug 2018
Monaf's Indian Takeaway CH42 0HDTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good7 Apr 2025
Nourish @Nouyou CH42 0HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
Birkenhead News And Off Licence CH42 0HDRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory31 Mar 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.

356 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences125
Anti-social behaviour61
Shoplifting61
Public order27
Criminal damage and arson24
Drugs16
Other theft14
Other crime9
Vehicle crime7
Possession of weapons5
Burglary3
Bicycle theft3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (131); On or near St Catherines Gardens (57); On or near Harrowby Road (26); On or near Dewberry Close (25); On or near Derby Road (23).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 606 residents in 264 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 age3240
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: MANWEB: New service connection, 12 November 2026 to 18 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • CH42 0LW: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • CH42 7HB: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Whitfield Street · Liversidge Road · Aspendale Road · Maybank Road · Mill Close · Milton Road East · Harland Road · Victoria Road · Laurel Road · Dewberry Close · Shewell Close · Harrowby Road

All the streets in CH42 and across Wirral.

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.