Peacock Close Newton-le-Willows, St. Helens

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA12), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37504804.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £304,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 20).
  • 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 St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Earlestown, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 330 m away, and Lyme and Wood Pits Country Park (100 hectares) is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Patterdale Lodge Med Ctre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 910 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 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
20252£304,000£270,000£338,000
20242£239,000£230,000£248,000
20232£330,000£310,000£350,000
20221£280,000£280,000£280,000
20201£193,000£193,000£193,000
201916£188,995£158,995£258,995
20184£191,995£178,995£252,995
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Oct 202519 WA12 9NQDetached£338,000
12 Mar 202510 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£270,000
6 Dec 20243 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£230,000
3 Jun 20242 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£248,000
26 Oct 202314 WA12 9NQDetached£350,000
30 Jun 202319 WA12 9NQDetached£310,000
2 Dec 20224 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£280,000
28 Jul 202010 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£193,000
10 Jun 201916 WA12 9NQDetached£227,995New build.
7 Jun 201914 WA12 9NQDetached£257,995New build.
7 Jun 201912 WA12 9NQDetached£205,995New build.
31 May 201918 WA12 9NQDetached£258,995New build.
31 May 201920 WA12 9NQDetached£206,995New build.
7 May 201910 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£177,995New build.
10 Apr 20192 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£176,995New build.
5 Apr 20194 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£199,995New build.
5 Apr 20198 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£177,995New build.
5 Apr 201911 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£175,995New build.
4 Apr 20195 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£158,995New build.
29 Mar 20191 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£177,995New build.
27 Mar 20196 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£199,995New build.
22 Mar 20199 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£177,995New build.
1 Mar 20193 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£158,995New build.
27 Feb 20197 WA12 9NQDetached£225,995New build.
20 Dec 201821 WA12 9NQDetached£252,995New build.
20 Dec 201819 WA12 9NQDetached£204,995New build.
19 Dec 201817 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£178,995New build.
19 Dec 201815 WA12 9NQSemi-detached£178,995New build.

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 November 2018 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (8). Built: 2019 (16); 2018 (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (65% of about 1,640 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, 2 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
WA12 9NQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA12 9YHnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 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 22 addresses are between 29 m and 32 m above sea level (31 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
WA12 9NQ100%100%100%0%
WA12 9YH100%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 stationsEarlestown 331,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Newton-Le-Willows 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
St Helens Junction 206,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Short Street Newton Common120 m
Bus or coach stationEarlestown Bus Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL18.2 km (11 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Patterdale Lodge Med Ctre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Earlestown Pharmacy And Health Clinic1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalNewton Community Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationNewton-le-Willows Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.2 km (0.7 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lyme and Wood Pits Country Park 100 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 800 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Field 3.8 ha250 m
AllotmentsBertram Street Allotments 7,690 m²810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 171 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey Brook, a listed building (Grade I), 810 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sankey Viaduct Over Sankey BrookListed building, Grade I810 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Bradlegh Old Hall moated site and fishpondScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Battle of Winwick (also known as Battle of Red Bank) 1648Registered battlefield4 km (2.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rough Hey WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Park Brow PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
LittlewoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Cowhey DamLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Golborne DaleValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) east
Tithe Barn HillockHill3.8 km (2.4 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552122

1 of the street's 22 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
Lyme Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The District CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grange Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Burtonwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Academy HaydockSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wargrave CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–112 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
Evolution Childcare WA12 9EZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Drugs2
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Short Close (9); On or near Brimstone Drive (7); On or near Tully Avenue (6); On or near Common Street (5); On or near Barnett Avenue (4).

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: 905 residents in 400 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 age3340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 3 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

Brimstone Drive · Short Street · Short Close · Common Road · Admiral Close · Barnett Avenue · Common Street · Penkford Street · Marian Avenue · Tully Close · Tully Avenue · Grayling Close

All the streets in WA12 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.