Northway Sefton

32 addresses across 6 postcodes (L31,L39), about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 34102077.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £285,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 6, G: 1).
  • Flood: 10 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in 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 Maghull North, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 17 to 21 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 29 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Pastures Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,170 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£285,000£285,000£285,000
20242£217,500£190,000£245,000
20231£230,501£230,501£230,501
20221£225,000£225,000£225,000
20202£161,500£160,000£163,000
20141£166,560£166,560£166,560
20121£147,000£147,000£147,000
20101£70,000£70,000£70,000
20091£189,950£189,950£189,950
20041£159,950£159,950£159,950
20031£129,950£129,950£129,950
20001£76,000£76,000£76,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Feb 2025315 L31 0BWSemi-detached£285,000
15 Apr 2024311 L31 0BWSemi-detached£190,000
16 Feb 2024319 L31 0BWSemi-detached£245,000
16 Jan 2023333 L31 0BWSemi-detached£230,501
25 Apr 2022321 L31 0BWSemi-detached£225,000
10 Aug 2020315 L31 0BWSemi-detached£160,000
15 Jun 2020325 L31 0BWSemi-detached£163,000
29 Aug 2014305 L31 0BWTerraced£166,560
26 Apr 2012335 L31 0BWSemi-detached£147,000
30 Sep 2010319 L31 0BWSemi-detached£70,000
28 Aug 2009307 L31 0BWSemi-detached£189,950
25 Jun 2004329 L31 0BWSemi-detached£159,950
28 Feb 2003309 L31 0BWSemi-detached£129,950
30 Jun 2000317 L31 0BWSemi-detached£76,000
17 Sep 1999305 L31 0BWSemi-detached£70,000
19 Jan 1998307 L31 0BWSemi-detached£72,000

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

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); Bungalow, semi-detached (4); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 C (51% of about 2,020 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 3 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: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: yes, Sefton, West Lancashire.

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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 17 August 2026 to 19 August 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 25 January 2027 to 29 January 2027: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 25 January 2027 to 29 January 2027: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 October 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: VODAFONE GROUP, Statutory Infrastructure Works, lane closure, on the footway, verge (minor 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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 15 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 8 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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
L31 0BWnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 4 unlikely
L31 4EHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 5 unlikely
L31 0DGnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 6 unlikely
L31 0BLnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L31 4EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L39 6ABnot 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.

© 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 32 addresses are between 17 m and 21 m above sea level (19 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
L31 0BL100%100%100%0%
L31 0BW100%100%100%0%
L31 0DG100%100%100%0%
L31 4EH100%100%100%0%
L31 4EJ100%100%100%0%
L39 6AB0%0%0%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 stationsMaghull North 614,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Maghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Town Green 410,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenyons Lane Lydiate170 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station9.1 km (5.7 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle10.4 km (6.5 miles)
Car parksM Central Square Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL22 km (14 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Pastures Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lydiate Pharmacy920 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eastway Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationMaghull Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shell Maghull Cashzone670 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha300 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 720 m²370 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ridgeway Park 1.7 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,300 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holt GreenWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Massam's WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Big WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Lydiate WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Boundary PlantationWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Rabbit HillHill4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
70 to 7430
65 to 6960
60 to 64190
55 to 5910
Under 55332

29 of the street's 32 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

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
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, LydiatePrimary3–11330 m Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northway Primary SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lydiate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Deyes High SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, MaghullPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Green Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
First Class Nursery L31 0BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
St Thomas School Club L31 0BRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2020

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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Northway (7).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,168 residents in 481 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 10 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: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 25 January 2027 to 29 January 2027 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 25 January 2027 to 29 January 2027 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 30 October 2026 (lane closure) 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.

  • L31 0BW: 18 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • L31 4EH: 9 addresses
  • L31 0DG: 2 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • L31 0BL: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • L31 4EJ: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • L39 6AB: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Forest Mill Crescent · Anderton Way · Abbey Drive · Lawrence Close · Piper Close · Liverpool Road · Old Lane · Richmond Grove · Kenyons Lane · The Smallholdings · Old Lane · Ridgeway Drive

All the streets in L31, L39 and across Sefton.

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.