Park Lane Pickmere, Cheshire East

64 addresses across 6 postcodes (WA16), about 850 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 24101776.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £500,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, B: 4, C: 6, D: 7, E: 4).
  • 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 G; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lostock Gralam, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 34 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Witton Street Surgery, about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,010 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 43% 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 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
20261£500,000£500,000£500,000
20251£587,500£587,500£587,500
20242£325,000£270,000£380,000
20231£391,000£391,000£391,000
20221£250,000£250,000£250,000
20214£647,500£415,000£999,999
20202£326,000£320,000£332,000
20192£515,000£457,499£572,500
20182£420,000£365,000£475,000
20162£520,500£380,000£661,000
20151£230,000£230,000£230,000
20101£207,500£207,500£207,500
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 May 20263, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£500,000
7 Aug 2025HILL CREST WA16 0LHDetached£587,500
27 Feb 2025GLEN ESK, MEREVIEW FARM WA16 0LGOther£10,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Nov 20242, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£380,000
23 Feb 20241, LYNSWOOD COURT WA16 0JXTerraced£270,000
10 Nov 202314 WA16 0JXOther£610,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jul 2023WAYSIDE COTTAGE WA16 0LHSemi-detached£391,000
28 Nov 2022THE OAKS WA16 0JXDetached£250,000
12 Feb 2021PARK LANE FARM WA16 0LHDetached£870,000
5 Feb 2021PARK LANE BARN WA16 0LHDetached£999,999
14 Jan 20214, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£415,000
8 Jan 20213, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£425,000
9 Dec 20201, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£332,000
8 Dec 20202, THE ELMS WA16 0XJSemi-detached£320,000
16 Jul 2020PARK LANE BARN WA16 0LHOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 2019WILLOW HOUSE WA16 0JXDetached£572,500
17 May 2019HIGH GARTH WA16 0LHDetached£457,499
21 Jun 20186 WA16 0JXDetached£365,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 2018ROSE COTTAGE WA16 0JXDetached£475,000
31 Mar 20174, THE ELMS WA16 0XJOther£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Nov 2016MERE VIEW COTTAGE WA16 0LHDetached£661,000
16 May 2016THE POST OFFICE WA16 0JXSemi-detached£380,000
16 Jun 201510 WA16 0JXDetached£230,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 2010THE BAYS WA16 0JXDetached£207,500
26 Sep 20083, LYNSWOOD COURT WA16 0JXTerraced£225,000
12 Sep 2008PICKMERE COTTAGE WA16 0JXDetached£312,500
10 Sep 2008PICKMERE HOUSE WA16 0JXDetached£720,000
3 Mar 20082 WA16 0JXDetached£345,000
24 Jan 2007THE BAYS WA16 0JXDetached£205,000
14 Aug 20062, LYNSWOOD COURT WA16 0JXTerraced£220,000
28 Oct 20051, LYNSWOOD COURT WA16 0JXTerraced£230,000
25 Aug 2005HOLLY HOUSE WA16 0JXDetached£385,000
12 Jul 20058 WA16 0JXDetached£249,950Leasehold.
27 May 2003PICKMERE HOUSE WA16 0JXDetached£400,000
9 Jan 20036 WA16 0JXDetached£250,000Leasehold.
1 Oct 2002MERE VIEW COTTAGE WA16 0LHDetached£298,000
27 Jul 2001THE OAKS WA16 0JXDetached£112,500
6 Jul 2001WAYSIDE WA16 0LHSemi-detached£196,000
30 Nov 2000THE BAYS WA16 0JXDetached£97,500
28 Apr 20006 WA16 0JXDetached£166,500Leasehold.
21 Mar 2000ROSE COTTAGE WA16 0JXDetached£246,500
2 Jul 1998THE OAKS WA16 0JXDetached£65,000
2 May 19976 WA16 0JXDetached£102,000Leasehold.
28 Jun 1996HOLLY HOUSE WA16 0JXDetached£120,000
31 Mar 1995WAYSIDE WA16 0LHSemi-detached£98,000

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 July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 129 m². Most common: House, detached (9); Bungalow, detached (7); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 2020 (6); before 1900 (4); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (29% of about 720 homes).

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: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: yes, Cheshire East.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway (major works)
  • 21 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 15 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 1 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
WA16 0JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA16 0LGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA16 0LHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA16 0XJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WA16 0JRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA16 0WHnot 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 64 addresses are between 34 m and 44 m above sea level (40 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
WA16 0JR100%90%100%0%
WA16 0JX100%92%92%0%
WA16 0LG100%50%50%0%
WA16 0LH100%57%57%0%
WA16 0WH100%100%100%0%
WA16 0XJ100%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 stationsLostock Gralam 61,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Plumley 19,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Northwich 189,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Elms PH Pickmere230 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Knutsford6.3 km (3.9 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN14.1 km (8.8 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 surgeriesWitton Street Surgery4.1 km (2.5 miles)
PharmaciesEastfield Pharmacy2.4 km (1.5 miles)
NHS dentistsRudheath Dental Health Centre4.1 km (2.6 miles)
HospitalIcc Victoria Infirmary4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationNorthwich Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Northwich Cheshire Av, Lostock Gralam Cashzone2.4 km (1.5 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 1,800 m²140 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 810 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,020 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,510 m²430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 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
Pickmeremoss WoodWood550 m (0.3 miles) east
Pick MereLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Pickmere RoughWood880 m (0.5 miles) west
Leonard's WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Mill BottomsValley2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Castle HillHill4.9 km (3.1 miles) south-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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 59170
Under 554264

22 of the street's 64 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Wincham Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Frog Lane (4); On or near Beaver Close (2); On or near Wayfarers Court (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,013 residents in 399 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 age4740
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)19%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • WA16 0JX: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • WA16 0LG: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WA16 0LH: 11 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • WA16 0XJ: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • WA16 0JR: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • WA16 0WH: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Beaver Close · Beaver Close · Wayfarers Court · Clover Drive · Mere Lane · Jacobs Way · Thistle Close · Merehaven Close · Crofters Close

All the streets in WA16 and across Cheshire East.

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.