Phillip's Close Formby, Sefton

8 addresses across 1 postcode (L37), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34102248.

  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Formby, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Village Surgery Formby, about 280 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 66 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 650 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 7 December 2026 to 21 December 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (major (paa) works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 7 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
L37 4BD100%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 stationsFormby 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25620 m (0.4 miles)
Freshfield 589,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Hightown 297,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Elbow Lane Formby100 m
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle12.8 km (7.9 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station470 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL28.1 km (17 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 The Village Surgery Formby280 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots250 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Elbow Lane Dental Practice250 m
HospitalRenacres Hospital9 km (5.6 miles)
Police stationMaghull Police Station8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Formby Cashzone620 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 4,850 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha110 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,020 m²790 m (0.5 miles)

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

Landmarks

10 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
Long CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Formby BeachBeach3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
New Moss WoodWood3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
Formby HillsHills3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Orrell Hill WoodWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-east
Mad WharfWetland3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

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
Under 5588

None of the street's 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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
Redgate Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Formby High SchoolSecondary11–18940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Freshfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Jerome's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Range High SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 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 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
One Stop Shop L37 4BJRetailers - other240 m5 Very good11 Jan 2024
Formby Pool Trust L37 4ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good11 Jun 2025
Boots the Chemist L37 4ABRetailers - other260 mExempt
Cross House Inn L37 4BHPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Sanderling House L37 4BNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good11 May 2026
James Fish Bar L37 4AJTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
The Tin Shed L37 4EDPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Geees' Coffee L37 4EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Blossoms L37 4EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Francini Cafe de Colombia Liverpool LLP L37 4DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Woodwards Wine Bar L37 4DUPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Sorrento L37 4AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
The Formby Club L37 4AQPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
The Tea Rooms L37 4DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
The Lifeboat L37 4AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024

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.

66 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour18
Drugs6
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson3
Robbery2
Public order2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (22); On or near Elbow Lane (13); On or near Duke Street (12); On or near Conifer Court (8); On or near Glendale Way (4).

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: 355 residents in 134 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 age5240
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)33%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings The Tea Rooms (restaurant/cafe/canteen, L37 4DU) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Formby Grill House and Pizzeria (takeaway/sandwich shop, L37 4HS) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

  • L37 4BD: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Phillips Lane · Tyrers Close · Meadowcroft · Dickinson Road · Duke Street · Norburn Crescent · Dickinson Close · Conifer Court · Glendale Way · Walker Close · Cropton Road · Elbow Lane

All the streets in L37 and across Sefton.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.