Moss Lane Sefton
10 addresses across 3 postcodes (L38), about 2 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 34103450.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026 (+2% on a year); private rents averaged £940 a month.
- Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, F: 1).
- Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
- Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 38 times (7 hours) in 2025.
- Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 830 m (0.5 miles) from its postcodes.
- Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A565, carries 32,094 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Hightown, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Blundell Green, is about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 3 to 6 m above sea level.
- Noise: 7 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hightown Village Surgery, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
- People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 of them fatal or serious.
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House sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in Sefton
A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 50% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £386,996 |
| Semi-detached | £246,240 |
| Terraced | £181,535 |
| Flat or maisonette | £125,367 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £189,330 |
Private renters in Sefton paid £940 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £623 |
| Two bedrooms | £815 |
| Three bedrooms | £995 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,414 |
Energy performance certificates
2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 139 m². Most common: House, detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2).
Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)
Gas and electricity use
No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 13 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel.
These are all the homes on each 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 L38.
Council tax
What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,722 | £2,009 | £2,296 | £2,583 | £3,157 | £3,731 | £4,305 | £5,166 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 2,570 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
- 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: yes, Sefton.
Listed buildings
- ROSE COTTAGE, grade II
- WHITEDGE FARMHOUSE, grade II
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.
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
- 17 September 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, stop/go boards, on the carriageway (minor works)
- 1 September 2026 to 3 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
- 26 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (minor works)
- 17 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.
High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| L38 3RA | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| L38 3RF | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| L38 6JQ | not in 2 or 3 | 2 / 1 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any 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.
Coastal erosion
The nearest projected erosion zone is 830 m (0.5 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).
| Projection | Policy for the frontage | Erosion | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Managed realignment Great Ormes Head to Scotland | none (the line is held) | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Managed realignment Great Ormes Head to Scotland | none (the line is held) | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| By 2105, if defences are not maintained or built | No intervention Great Ormes Head to Scotland | up to 177 m | 830 m (0.5 miles) |
Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.
Storm overflows
1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 38 times, for 7 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Alt.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Road Pumping Station United Utilities | River Alt | 38 | 7 | 830 m (0.5 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.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 10 addresses are between 3 m and 6 m above sea level (4 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L38 3RA | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| L38 3RF | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| L38 6JQ | 100% | 93% | 93% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Hightown 297,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Hall Road 384,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) | |
| Blundellsands and Crosby 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moss Lane Little Crosby | 420 m (0.3 miles) |
| Bus or coach station | Bootle Bus Station | 8.2 km (5.1 miles) |
| Ferry terminal | Liverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle | 8.9 km (5.5 miles) |
| EV charging points | Sainsburys Formby Smart Charge | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL | 24.2 km (15 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hightown Village Surgery Good Mar 2026 | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hightown Pharmacy | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest School Road Dental Surgery | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Hospital | Ashworth Hospital Healthcare Registry | 8.3 km (5.2 miles) |
| Care homes | Warren Park Nursing Home Requires improvement Jan 2021 | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) |
| Police station | Port of Liverpool Police | 6 km (3.7 miles) |
| Cash machines | Great Crosby NatWest | 3.2 km (2 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Blundell Green 780 m² | 2.7 km (1.7 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 1,800 m² | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 2.8 ha | 940 m (0.6 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1.1 ha | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross on the village green, 30m south east of the junction of Carr House Lane and Lady Green Lane, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Standing cross on the village green, 30m south east of the junction of Carr House Lane and Lady Green Lane | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) east |
| Hightown Cross on Alt Road, 60m south east of Hightown Station | Scheduled monument | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west |
| Wayside cross 150m north east of Ince Blundell Hall | Scheduled monument | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) east |
| Ince Blundell Park | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 2 km (1.2 miles) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Flea Moss Wood | Wood | 590 m (0.4 miles) south |
| Orrell Hill Wood | Wood | 730 m (0.5 miles) north |
| Fleetwood's Ground Wood | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) east |
| Formby Bank | Wetland | 3.2 km (2 miles) west |
| Formby Beach | Beach | 4 km (2.5 miles) north-west |
| Buckley Hill | Hill | 4.8 km (3 miles) south-east |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.7 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.6 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 10.4 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 4 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 3 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 3 | 10 |
7 of the street's 10 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 3–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 60% 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
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 61 childminders and 7 home childcarers (nannies) in Sefton. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pheasant Inn L38 3RA | Pub/bar/nightclub | 360 m | 5 Very good | 16 Dec 2025 |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (merseyside).
Road safety
8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 4 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark, and 38% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 60 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Dec 2024 02:20 | Serious | 2 people | B5193, 60 mph | Dark, no street lights |
| 17 Nov 2024 02:00 | Slight | 1 person | B5193, 60 mph | Dark, no street lights, wet road |
| 31 May 2023 18:19 | Serious | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | B5193, 60 mph | Daylight |
| 12 May 2023 22:50 | Serious | 2 people | B5193, 60 mph | Dark, no street lights |
| 22 Jul 2022 14:00 | Slight | 1 person: 1 cyclist | Minor road, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 29 Dec 2021 03:44 | Slight | 1 person: 1 child | Minor road, 60 mph | Dark, no street lights, wet road |
| 21 Aug 2021 19:34 | Serious | 1 person: 1 cyclist | Minor road, 60 mph | Wet road |
| 19 Jun 2021 19:20 | Slight | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | B5193, 60 mph | Daylight |
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 A565 between A565 Scaffold Lane intersects with B5193 Orrell Hill Lane and Roundabout where A5758 Broom's Cross Road meets A565, with 32,094 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 150 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A565 | A565 Scaffold Lane intersects with B5193 Orrell Hill Lane to Roundabout where A5758 Broom's Cross Road meets A565 | 32,094 estimated; counted 2023 | 2% | 150 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.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 51 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 14% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 28% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 68% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 39% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 4% | 17% |
| Private rented | 28% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 55% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 27% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 3% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 39% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 49% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 3% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 5% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 6% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 52% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 9% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 38% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
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.