Mill Gate Oldham

17 addresses across 5 postcodes (OL8), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29405335.

3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £240,000 across 1 sale. 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, F: 1). 18 addresses on its postcodes are 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 A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Moston, about 2.8 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Copster Park, is about 570 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 138 to 141 m above sea level. 6 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Hollinwood Medical Practice, about 210 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km. About 1,160 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20231£240,000£240,000£240,000
20201£145,000£145,000£145,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Nov 2025THOMAS DORNAN (PRINTERS) LTD OL8 4JLOther£440,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 20238 OL8 4JUSemi-detached£240,000
14 Oct 20204 OL8 4JUSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.

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 August 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 A (83% of about 1,420 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 August 2026 to 14 August 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 6 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
OL8 4JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL8 4NHnot in 2 or 3 14 / 4 / 6 unlikely
OL8 4JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL8 4JTnot in 2 or 3
OL8 4JZnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 138 m and 141 m above sea level (140 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
OL8 4JL100%0%0%0%
OL8 4JT100%100%100%0%
OL8 4JU100%100%100%0%
OL8 4JZ100%100%100%0%
OL8 4NH100%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 stationsMoston 106,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km
Underground, metro or tramSouth Chadderton (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km
Hollinwood (Manchester Metrolink)1.3 km
Freehold (Manchester Metrolink)1.7 km
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m, 57 within 800 m; nearest Mill Gate Hollins150 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station2.2 km
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Oldham1.7 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station570 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN21.9 km

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; nearest Hollinwood Medical Practice210 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Suburb Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest 221 Hollins Road (Dental Surgery)570 m
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital2.9 km
Police stationFitton Hill Police Post1.7 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Zaheer Service Station310 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Copster Park 4.0 ha570 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 430 m²520 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5.8 ha300 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,360 m²810 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 4.0 hectares in all.

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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
60 to 6420
55 to 5930
Under 551117

6 of the street's 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Oasis Academy OldhamSecondary11–1670 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lyndhurst Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11270 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oasis Academy LimesidePrimary2–11670 m Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's CofE Junior Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11690 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11900 m No published inspection
Coppice Primary AcademyPrimary3–11940 m No published inspection
Werneth Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Hathershaw CollegeSecondary11–161.1 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Limehurst Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km No published inspection
Holy Family RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km 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
St Thomas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.3 km Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Hollins Methodist Church OL8 4JUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m4 Good23 Feb 2023
Sapphire Exquisite Indian Cuisine OL8 3UTTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
White Hart Inn OL8 3TPPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
The Britannia Tavern OL8 4LBPub/bar/nightclub220 m4 Good19 Mar 2026
Hollins Road Convenience Store OL8 3UTRetailers - other250 m2 Improvement necessary29 Apr 2025
Focus Trust - Lyndhurst Primary Academy OL8 4JDSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Nissa Tandoori OL8 4LBTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m4 Good29 Jan 2026
Mezani Grill Ltd OL8 4NHMobile caterer300 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Chambers Convenience Store Ltd OL8 4NZRetailers - other320 m5 Very good8 Jun 2024
Nelson's OL8 3UTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
California Wines Express OL8 3BERetailers - other380 m5 Very good6 Aug 2026
Suburb Pharmacy OL8 3BERetailers - other390 mExempt
Heron Foods OL8 3BERetailers - other390 m5 Very good19 Apr 2024
Asda Supermarket OL8 4JZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
Hollinwood Service Station OL8 4JZRetailers - other390 m5 Very good3 Feb 2024

Crime within 250 m

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

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

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,162 residents in 489 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 age3640
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented32%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)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

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.

  • OL8 4JU: 8 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • OL8 4NH: 5 addresses of 73 in the postcode
  • OL8 4JL: 2 addresses
  • OL8 4JT: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • OL8 4JZ: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Colenso Street · Pretoria Road · Swallow Street · Mallard Close · Collier Hill · Clive Street · Vaal Street · Mafeking Street · Sandys Avenue · Medway Road · Ladysmith Street · Hazel Lane

All the streets in OL8 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.
  • 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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