Parklands Rainford, St. Helens

47 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA11), about 230 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 37502552.

  • Sales: 83 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £330,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 17, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 B; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainford, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 390 m away, and Linear Park (2.2 hectares) is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 47 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 47 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rainford Health Centre, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 13 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£330,000£330,000£330,000
20251£125,000£125,000£125,000
20245£120,000£105,000£127,000
20232£123,750£107,500£140,000
20225£330,000£96,500£565,000
20216£119,500£45,000£212,000
20202£115,000£110,000£120,000
20192£197,500£115,000£280,000
20183£112,000£70,000£264,314
20172£102,498£85,000£119,995
20162£104,975£99,950£110,000
20152£60,250£40,000£80,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 83)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 20262 WA11 8HYDetached£330,000
9 Dec 202517 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 202461 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£127,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 202455 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
18 Oct 202465 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£112,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 202421 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 202411 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 202317 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£107,500Leasehold.
5 Sep 202347 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 202263 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£96,500Leasehold.
23 Nov 20224 WA11 8HYDetached£360,000
23 Sep 202269A WA11 8HYSemi-detached£330,000
16 Sep 20227 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£118,000Leasehold.
27 May 202218 WA11 8HYDetached£565,000
22 Oct 202161 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£122,000Leasehold.
14 Oct 20213 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£113,500Leasehold.
17 Sep 20214 WA11 8HYDetached£212,000
15 Sep 202121 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£117,000Leasehold.
28 May 202115 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.
16 Apr 202151 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£133,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 202025 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
30 Jul 202033 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 201955 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
7 Jun 201971 WA11 8HYDetached£280,000
14 Dec 201847 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 20186 WA11 8HYDetached£264,314
11 Jun 201833 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£112,000Leasehold.
26 May 201747 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£119,995Leasehold.
5 May 201751 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 201649 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 201657 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold.
30 Mar 201559 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold.
13 Mar 201529 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£80,500Leasehold.
31 Oct 201411 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 201435 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
30 Apr 20147 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 201449 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
24 Sep 20135 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£79,950Leasehold.
10 Jul 201339 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£112,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 201253 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 201243 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
20 Apr 201247 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£67,000Leasehold.
19 Dec 201149 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 201111 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 201135 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 200925 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£107,500Leasehold.
20 Mar 200955 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 200823 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£122,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 200727 WA11 8HYTerraced£44,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 200741 WA11 8HYFlat or maisonette£110,000

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

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: Flat (24); House, detached (8); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1991-1995 (13); 1983-1990 (12); 1996-2002 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in St. Helens in 2026-27: Band D £2,403 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,602£1,869£2,136£2,403£2,937£3,472£4,006£4,807

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 690 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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
WA11 8HYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WA11 8JFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 47 addresses are between 44 m and 47 m above sea level (47 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
WA11 8HY100%100%100%0%
WA11 8JF100%96%96%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 stationsRainford 26,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Upholland 28,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Orrell 98,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parklands Rainford120 m
Bus or coach stationConcourse Skelmersdale5 km (3.1 miles)
EV charging pointsbp Pulse3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL19.4 km (12 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rainford Health Centre740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rainford Dental Surgery LTD1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalFairfield Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationSkelmersdale Police Station5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Rainford, Rainford Cashzone510 m (0.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,550 m²390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Linear Park 2.2 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 670 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha130 m
AllotmentsRainford Junction Allotments 1.1 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

5 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
Spring ValeValley680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The DelfLake or reservoir880 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Nursery PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Whalley's WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Dial House WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Bleak HillHill4.5 km (2.8 miles) south

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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
60 to 6410
Under 554647

1 of the street's 47 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 St. Helens: see them on the St. Helens 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
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11100 m No published inspection
Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
Rainford CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Rainford High SchoolSecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Rainford News and Wine WA11 8DQRetailers - other250 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
The Rainford Deli WA11 8BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Little Italy WA11 8BTPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good2 Jul 2025
The Village Chippy WA11 8BTTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m2 Improvement necessary13 Jan 2026
Cooks of Rainford Ltd WA11 8DQRetailers - other280 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Achieve Together WA11 8ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Brook Lodge Primary School WA11 8JXSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Rainford Labour Club WA11 8GGPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Rainford C of E Primary School WA11 8AJSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Rainford CE Primary Breakfast & After School Club WA11 8AJSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jul 2025
The Village End Rainford WA11 8HRTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory13 Oct 2025
Little Explorers - Rainford WA11 8ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jun 2026
The Co-operative Food WA11 8HERetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Waterfields WA11 8HERetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Well Pharmacy WA11 8HERetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jun 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.

13 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parklands (6); On or near Lathom Drive (3); On or near Scarisbrick Road (2); On or near Stanley Avenue (1); On or near Old Lane (1).

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: 265 residents in 123 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 age6740
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over52%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership9%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work32%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)50%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • WA11 8HY: 46 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • WA11 8JF: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lathom Drive · Victoria Street · Graces Close · Victoria Street · Astley Close · Alfred Street · Helen Bank Drive · Stanley Avenue · Scarisbrick Road · Arnian Road · Harrison Drive · Moss Brow

All the streets in WA11 and across St. Helens.

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.