Onslow Close Oldham

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL1), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29401302.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £60,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5).
  • Flood: 2 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 Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), about 3.3 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 192 to 194 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Chowdhury Practice, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 12% of households owned their home and 16% 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
20181£60,000£60,000£60,000
20121£58,000£58,000£58,000
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Mar 201817 OL1 2HZFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
30 Jan 201217 OL1 2HZFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: Maisonette, mid-terrace (5); Maisonette, end-terrace (4); Flat (1). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1967-1975 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (96% of about 1,150 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 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): 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 30 September 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL1 2HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
OL1 2HYnot 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 12 addresses are between 192 m and 194 m above sea level (193 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
OL1 2HY100%100%100%0%
OL1 2HZ100%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 stationsMills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Moston 106,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWestwood (Manchester Metrolink)610 m (0.4 miles)
Oldham King Street (Manchester Metrolink)890 m (0.6 miles)
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 52 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Belmont Street Coldhurst90 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Diamond Valeting - Car Park Valeting790 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN24.4 km (15 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Chowdhury Practice480 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gardeners Chemist260 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Integrated Care Centre480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital620 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationOldham Police Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britannia Building Society680 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,260 m²370 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,710 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,830 m²580 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Independent Methodist Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 830 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Independent Methodist ChapelListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Church of St Mary and St PeterListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Oldham War Memorial, including memorial wall, piers, gates and steps to St Mary’s churchyard and forecourt walls, steps and balustrade (south side), and railings to St Mary's Churchyard (west side).Listed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Chadderton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Plumpton CloughValley1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Royley CloughValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Buckley WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Greenacres HillHill2.3 km (1.5 miles) east
Snipe CloughValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Lower Strinesdale ReservoirLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) east

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)14.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551112

1 of the street's 12 addresses is 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 Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

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
St Hilda's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11140 m Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northmoor AcademyPrimary2–11310 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Oldham College16 plus14–99520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Brian Clarke Church of England AcademySecondary11–16610 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Westwood AcademyPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Richmond AcademyPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Holy Cross Ceva Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Blue Coat CofE School Church of EnglandSecondary11–18940 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldham Sixth Form College16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Burnley Brow Community SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beever Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 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: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bread and Butter OL1 2EFTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Apr 2026
King Box Indian Takeaway OL9 6DPTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good11 Sep 2025
Desi Cakes & Shakes OL9 6DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good12 Nov 2021
St Hildas School OL1 2EQSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Wonderlust Bakery Ltd OL9 6DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Coldhurst Convenience Store Ltd OL1 2EWRetailers - other210 m4 Good20 Sep 2023
Al Amin Cash and Carry OL1 2PXDistributors/Transporters250 m4 Good25 Oct 2025
Age UK Oldham Selina House Day Care OL1 2DPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good13 Dec 2022
Franklin House OL1 2DPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m4 Good13 Feb 2026
Moza Bites OL1 2HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good1 Nov 2025
Holy Cross Junior School OL1 2PYSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Donner HQ OL1 2NJTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Al Emaan Foodstore OL1 2NJRetailers - other290 m4 Good8 Jun 2024
Tasty Fried Chicken OL1 2NJTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Jul 2025
Gardners Chemist OL1 2HGRetailers - other300 mExempt

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 448 residents in 174 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 age2940
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)12%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented74%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work32%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)21%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)15%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications43%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all14%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

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.

Nearby streets

Clarkwell Close · Dunbar Street · Ruskin Street · Redvers Street · Timperley Street · Davies Street · Trafalgar Street · Ruskin Street · Robin Street · Tilbury Street · Chadderton Way · Medina Grove

All the streets in OL1 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 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.