Ocean Road Litherland, Sefton

23 addresses across 1 postcode (L21), about 60 m long. USRN 34102104.

Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £123,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 6, E: 2).
Flood: 9 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 A; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaforth and Litherland, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 390 m away, and Rimrose Valley Country Park (116 hectares) is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 14 to 16 m above sea level.
Noise: 19 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bridge Road Medical Centre, about 190 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 189 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£123,000	£123,000	£123,000
2023	1	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
2018	1	£78,000	£78,000	£78,000
2013	1	£57,500	£57,500	£57,500
2007	1	£120,000	£120,000	£120,000
2002	1	£27,000	£27,000	£27,000
2000	2	£25,625	£19,250	£32,000
1999	1	£28,000	£28,000	£28,000
1998	1	£13,500	£13,500	£13,500
1997	1	£16,000	£16,000	£16,000
1996	1	£23,000	£23,000	£23,000

Most recent sales (13)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
14 Jan 2026	2 L21 8NH	Terraced	£123,000
27 Feb 2024	24 L21 8NH	Terraced	£65,000	Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 2023	14 L21 8NH	Terraced	£77,500	Leasehold.
16 Mar 2018	20 L21 8NH	Terraced	£78,000	Leasehold.
4 Jan 2013	15 L21 8NH	Terraced	£57,500	Leasehold.
7 Dec 2007	17 L21 8NH	Terraced	£120,000
24 May 2002	12 L21 8NH	Terraced	£27,000	Leasehold.
18 Feb 2000	22 L21 8NH	Terraced	£19,250	Leasehold.
11 Feb 2000	16 L21 8NH	Terraced	£32,000	Leasehold.
26 Feb 1999	13 L21 8NH	Terraced	£28,000	Leasehold.
25 Mar 1998	15 L21 8NH	Terraced	£13,500	Leasehold.
10 Sep 1997	24 L21 8NH	Terraced	£16,000	Leasehold.
1 Nov 1996	20 L21 8NH	Terraced	£23,000	Leasehold.

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1900-1929 (12); 1930-1949 (2); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (90% of about 820 homes).

A90%

B9%

C1%

D0%

E0%

F0%

G0%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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): Bootle and Waterloo HMO.
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)

Litherland Methodist Church, Wilsons Lane, Netherton, not permissioned (340 m)
Former Litherland Methodist Church, Wilsons Lane, Netherton, not permissioned (340 m)
Former St Wilfrid’s School, Orrell Road, Bootle, not permissioned (370 m)
Church Hall and Land adjacent Orrell Road, Bootle, permissioned (480 m (0.3 miles))
Vine House, Kepler Street, Bootle, not permissioned (520 m (0.3 miles))
1, NORFOLK PLACE, BOOTLE, permissioned (550 m (0.3 miles))
50, Sandy Road, Crosby & Hightown, permissioned (630 m (0.4 miles))
Factory building, Sandy Lane, Crosby & Hightown, permissioned (810 m (0.5 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

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, 8 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 23 addresses are between 14 m and 16 m above sea level (15 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
L21 8NH	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Seaforth and Litherland 852,000 journeys in 2024–25	490 m (0.3 miles)
	Bootle New Strand 885,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.7 km (1 mile)
	Waterloo (Merseyside) 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25	1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops	13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Scarisbrick Avenue Linacre	110 m
Bus or coach station	Bootle Bus Station	1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminal	Liverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parks	NCP Bootle Court Merton Road	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points	Shell Recharge Charging Station	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL	17.8 km (11 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Road Medical Centre	190 m
Pharmacies	7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Road Chemist	190 m
NHS dentists	5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sefton Road Dental Surgery	370 m
Hospital	First Response Team, Clock View Hospital	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police station	Marsh Lane Police Station	1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines	5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Copplehouse Lane, Fazakerley	630 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha	390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Rimrose Valley Country Park 116 ha	490 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²	400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,940 m²	610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.2 ha	480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 125 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Derby Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Derby Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Grain Dock	Lake or reservoir	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Gladstone Branch Dock Number 1	Lake or reservoir	1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Gladstone Passage	Lake or reservoir	2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Marine Lake	Lake or reservoir	2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Buckley Hill	Hill	2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Burying Ground Plantation	Wood	4.1 km (2.6 miles) north

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	12.1	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.3	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	19	0
Under 55	4	23

19 of the street's 23 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	450 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary School	Primary	5–11	520 m (0.3 miles)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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 Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	2–11	610 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	620 m (0.4 miles)	Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Lander Primary Academy	Primary	2–11	680 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Rimrose Hope CofE Primary School Church of England	Primary	2–11	730 m (0.5 miles)	Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	860 m (0.5 miles)	Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenacre Community Nursery School	Nursery	2–5	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
Linacre Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
Springwell Park Community Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes	Secondary	11–16	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Gray Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.2 km (0.8 miles)	Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Kids Planet Linacre L21 8NJ	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	70 m	5 Very good	30 Jul 2025
Tesco L21 8NZ	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	100 m	5 Very good	25 Nov 2024
Red Lion Hotel L21 2PB	Pub/bar/nightclub	130 m	4 Good	3 Nov 2025
Bella pizza & pasta L21 6PH	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	140 m	Awaiting inspection
Cesar's Bistro L21 8NW	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	160 m	4 Good	2 Jul 2025
EyeCandy Deliveries L21 2QG	Retailers - other	170 m	5 Very good	25 Apr 2019
Ni Hao L21 6PH	Takeaway/sandwich shop	190 m	3 Generally satisfactory	20 Aug 2025
Go Local L21 6PH	Retailers - other	190 m	2 Improvement necessary	7 Jul 2026
KFC L21 7PJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	200 m	4 Good	17 Feb 2026
Roast Shack Ltd L21 2QG	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	210 m	5 Very good	15 Oct 2026
Home Bargains L21 8NP	Retailers - other	220 m	5 Very good	30 Jun 2026
Canal Coffee L21 7LB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	230 m	5 Very good	25 Jul 2025
Bema's Cafe L21 2PA	Takeaway/sandwich shop	240 m	5 Very good	24 Mar 2025
Subway L21 7PJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	250 m	5 Very good	10 Aug 2026
JSS Food Hub UK Limited L21 6PH	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	260 m	5 Very good	4 Jun 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.

189 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	69
Shoplifting	35
Criminal damage and arson	20
Anti-social behaviour	15
Public order	14
Drugs	8
Other crime	7
Vehicle crime	5
Robbery	5
Other theft	4
Possession of weapons	3
Burglary	2
Bicycle theft	2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ismay Road (50); On or near Sefton Street (28); On or near Ocean Road (19); On or near Jubilee Road (18); On or near Inman Road (18).

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: 459 residents in 217 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 street	England
Median age	43	40
Children under 15	14%	17%
Aged 65 and over	19%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	39%	61%
Owned outright	22%	33%
Shared ownership	3%	1%
Social rented	33%	17%
Private rented	25%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	57%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	10%	6%
Retired (of adults)	18%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	9%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	15%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	48%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	7%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	22%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	12%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	74%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	4%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	22%	34%
No qualifications	25%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	9%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	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

Food hygiene ratings Roast Shack Ltd (restaurant/cafe/canteen, L21 2QG) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 15 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

L21 8NH: 23 addresses of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Richmond Court · Guion Road · Delta Road · Inman Road · Tattersall Road · Bridge Road · Seaforth Road · Sefton Avenue · Scarisbrick Avenue · Cunard Road · Columbus Way · Servia Road

All the streets in L21 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.