Roach Vale Smallbridge, Rochdale

9 addresses across 1 postcode (OL16), about 30 m long. USRN 32007113.

8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Rochdale costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, about 1.3 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 580 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. The nearest GP surgery is Inspire Medical Centre, about 1.0 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 1 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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (3); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Rochdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,179£3,757£4,335£5,202

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (85% of about 540 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 1.0 km

  • Dene Works, Edgar Street, Smallbridge: up to 21 homes, not permissioned (220 m)
  • 431 Halifax Road, Wardle: up to 6 homes, permissioned (280 m)
  • Dale Mill / Arkwright Mill, Rochdale: up to 74 homes, not permissioned (710 m)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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
OL16 2PQ100%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 stationsSmithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km
Underground, metro or tramNewbold (Manchester Metrolink)2.0 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 21 within 800 m; nearest Smallbridge Library180 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange2.1 km
Car parksUnion Street Carpark2.0 km
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.8 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN32.8 km

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; nearest Inspire Medical Centre1.0 km
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Cohens Chemist250 m
NHS dentistsDentistry@442 LTD1.6 km
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital1.3 km
Police stationRochdale Police Station2.5 km
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m; nearest Heybrook Corner Service Station Cashzone410 m

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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,050 m²580 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 6.7 ha600 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,600 m²510 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha350 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,750 m²120 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 8.9 hectares in all.

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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Alice Ingham Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary5–11210 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kentmere Primary AcademyPrimary3–11370 m No published inspection
Hamer Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m No published inspection
Heybrook Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km No published inspection
Belfield Community SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Mar 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
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wardle AcademySecondary11–161.2 km No published inspection
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Smithy Bridge Foundation Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenbank Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Healey Foundation Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Braeside Nursing Home OL16 2PUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m4 Good10 Nov 2025
Cohens Chemist OL12 9SARetailers - other250 mExempt
Smallbridge Fish and Chips OL12 9SATakeaway/sandwich shop250 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Sep 2026
Premier Store OL12 9SARetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jun 2026
Zoha's Pizza Plus OL12 9SATakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Our Local Pantry Smallbridge OL12 9SARetailers - other250 m5 Very good3 Nov 2022
Alice Ingham R.C. Primary OL16 2NUSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Breakfast Club @ Alice Ingham OL16 2NUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 mExempt
Sunshine Snacks Ltd OL16 2SHManufacturers/packers300 m4 Good25 Sep 2025
The Apple Tree Private Day Nursery OL16 2PBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good3 Jan 2025
Breakfast Club OL12 9EESchool/college/university330 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Kentmere Academy & Nursery OL12 9EESchool/college/university330 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
National Neurological Services OL12 9SFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
The Old Library Nursery OL12 9ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Heybrook Service Station OL16 2NTRetailers - other410 m5 Very good20 Jul 2019

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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Royal Street (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: 438 residents in 141 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 age3740
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications41%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

Leach Close · Filey Street · Spokeshave Way · Newman Street · Harold Street · Coopers Walk · Martha's Terrace · Spring Mill Walk · Royal Street · Windham Street · Whitworth Street · Edgar Street

All the streets in OL16 and across Rochdale.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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