Old Racecourse Road Maghull, Sefton

44 addresses across 5 postcodes (L31), about 330 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34102113.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 8, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 55 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 D; 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 Maghull, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodend, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maghull Family Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 900 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20241£250,000£250,000£250,000
20221£275,000£275,000£275,000
20212£265,550£251,150£279,950
20201£157,000£157,000£157,000
20192£207,000£190,000£224,000
20172£207,500£197,000£218,000
20162£135,000£125,000£145,000
20131£145,000£145,000£145,000
20121£135,000£135,000£135,000
20082£132,500£130,000£135,000
20062£172,750£163,000£182,500
20041£189,000£189,000£189,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Feb 202427 L31 8ANSemi-detached£250,000
12 May 20222 L31 8AWSemi-detached£275,000
5 Nov 20219 L31 8ANDetached£251,150
23 Sep 20217 L31 8ANTerraced£279,950
28 Oct 20207 L31 8ANTerraced£157,000
21 Jun 201921 L31 8ANTerraced£190,000
24 May 20194 L31 8AWSemi-detached£224,000
5 May 201710 L31 8AWSemi-detached£218,000
27 Jan 201713 L31 8ANSemi-detached£197,000
30 Mar 20168 L31 8AWSemi-detached£145,000
30 Mar 201613 L31 8ANSemi-detached£125,000
17 May 201315 L31 8ANSemi-detached£145,000
2 Nov 201214 L31 8AWSemi-detached£135,000
15 Dec 200825 L31 8ANTerraced£130,000
16 May 20084 L31 8AWSemi-detached£135,000
12 May 20068 L31 8AWSemi-detached£163,000
21 Apr 20063 L31 8ANSemi-detached£182,500
5 Nov 200431 L31 8ANSemi-detached£189,000
6 Sep 20028 L31 8AWSemi-detached£80,000
28 Mar 20024 L31 8AWSemi-detached£62,000
22 Sep 200013 L31 8ANSemi-detached£79,000
9 Jun 200010 L31 8AWSemi-detached£57,000
20 Nov 19981 L31 8ANSemi-detached£67,000
6 Feb 199831 L31 8ANSemi-detached£59,850

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 October 2008 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 106 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (2); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (5); 1967-1975 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 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 D (43% of about 1,140 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 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

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, 32 addresses are in areas at high risk, 23 at medium risk and 28 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 111 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 28 medium, 36 low and 7 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
L31 8AWzone 3 1 / 11 / 2 unlikely
L31 8ANzone 3 6 / 3 / 7 unlikely
L31 7AZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 11 unlikely
L31 8AEnot in 2 or 3 7 / 5 / 8 unlikely
L31 8BAzone 3 15 / 3 / 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 addresses are about 6 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
L31 7AZ100%100%100%0%
L31 8AE100%100%100%0%
L31 8AN100%100%100%0%
L31 8AW100%100%100%0%
L31 8BA100%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 stationsMaghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Old Roan 963,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Maghull North 614,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Racecourse Road Maghull150 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksStafford Moreton Way Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL20.5 km (13 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 Maghull Family Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meadows Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Liverpool Road South (Dental Surgery)780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry3 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationMaghull Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Costcutter Cashzone690 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 gardenWoodend 2,980 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,420 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,120 m²520 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Maghull Manor moated site, a scheduled monument, 380 m north. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Maghull Manor moated siteScheduled monument380 m north
Maghull ChapelListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) east
Sefton Old Hall moated site and fishponds, Sefton.Scheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buckley HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Millfield ClumpWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Thornton WoodWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) west
Long WoodWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) west
Tower WoodWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) west
Carr WoodWood3.8 km (2.4 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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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 7410
55 to 5950
Under 553844

6 of the street's 44 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
Maghull High SchoolSecondary11–18410 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Maricourt Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, MaghullPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Green Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Deyes High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 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
Hudson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Summerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Northway Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) 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
Fun Factor L31 8BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
Kidzcafe L31 8BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m4 Good11 Nov 2025
Manna Day Centre L31 8BTRetailers - other320 m5 Very good9 Mar 2018
Rosies Restaurant L31 8BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
Willow Day Centre Parkhaven Trust L31 8BRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour6
Violence and sexual offences6
Public order3
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lincoln Green (10); On or near Old Racecourse Road (5); On or near Sefton Lane (3); On or near Meadway (1); On or near Hathaway (1).

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: 901 residents in 384 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 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.

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.

  • L31 8AW: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • L31 8AN: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • L31 7AZ: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • L31 8AE: 1 address of 50 in the postcode
  • L31 8BA: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lincoln Green · Meadway · Gainsborough Avenue · Hathaway · Old Moat Lane · Claremont Avenue · Rosslyn Avenue · Sefton Drive · Sefton Lane · Sefton Lane Industrial Estate

All the streets in L31 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.