Roaches Way Mossley, Tameside

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL5), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39305686.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £187,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4, 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 C; Band D in Tameside costs £2,447 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mossley (Manchester), about 1.5 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Roughtown Green, is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 162 to 176 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pennine Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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
20251£187,500£187,500£187,500
20242£315,000£280,000£350,000
20231£280,000£280,000£280,000
20211£305,000£305,000£305,000
20201£210,000£210,000£210,000
20161£185,000£185,000£185,000
20141£180,000£180,000£180,000
20121£175,000£175,000£175,000
20111£165,000£165,000£165,000
20101£201,450£201,450£201,450
20072£207,500£205,000£210,000
20064£207,500£197,000£215,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Mar 20252 OL5 9DZDetached£187,500Leasehold.
8 Nov 202413 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£280,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 20249 OL5 9DZDetached£350,000Leasehold.
14 Feb 202326 OL5 9DZDetached£280,000Leasehold.
26 Feb 202123 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£305,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 202024 OL5 9DZTerraced£210,000Leasehold.
16 Apr 20188 OL5 9DZOther£725Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jun 201612 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
2 May 201423 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 20126 OL5 9DZDetached£175,000Leasehold.
12 May 201112 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£165,000
5 Nov 20101 OL5 9DZDetached£201,450Leasehold.
29 Jun 20075 OL5 9DZDetached£205,000Leasehold.
23 May 20079 OL5 9DZDetached£210,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 200624 OL5 9DZTerraced£197,000Leasehold.
5 May 200611 OL5 9DZTerraced£207,500
5 May 200611 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£207,500Leasehold.
28 Apr 20065 OL5 9DZDetached£215,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 200518 OL5 9DZTerraced£170,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 20053 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£194,000Leasehold.
14 May 200430 OL5 9DZDetached£159,500Leasehold.
5 Dec 200330 OL5 9DZDetached£111,000Leasehold.
2 May 200311 OL5 9DZTerraced£139,000New build.
2 May 200311 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£139,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 200327 OL5 9DZDetached£115,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 20026 OL5 9DZTerraced£96,000Leasehold.
15 May 200217 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£89,500
15 Feb 200223 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£72,500Leasehold.
20 Jul 200124 OL5 9DZTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 200014 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£86,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 20006 OL5 9DZTerraced£79,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 19991 OL5 9DZDetached£89,950Leasehold.
9 Apr 19983 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£82,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 19978 OL5 9DZDetached£59,000Leasehold.
22 May 19974 OL5 9DZTerraced£59,450Leasehold.
17 Oct 199514 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£44,500Leasehold.
3 Mar 199521 OL5 9DZSemi-detached£58,500Leasehold.

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (3); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (1); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tameside in 2026-27: Band D £2,447 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,631£1,903£2,175£2,447£2,991£3,535£4,079£4,894

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 910 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 October 2026 to 15 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 22 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 August 2026 to 17 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (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, 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
OL5 9DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL5 9DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 31 addresses are between 162 m and 176 m above sea level (170 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
OL5 9DB100%89%92%0%
OL5 9DZ100%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 stationsMossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Greenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Stalybridge 840,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Roaches Way Hey Farm Estate80 m
Bus or coach stationStalybridge Bus Station5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksCo-Op Grotton, Oldham Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN25.8 km (16 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 Pennine Medical Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mckeevers Chemists1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apollonia House Dental & Health Care LTD1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalTameside General Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Uppermill Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesPremier - Raja Bros, Mossley Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 Roughtown Green 1,280 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 380 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,690 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,260 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Buckton Castle: a ringwork and site of 17th century beacon 350m north east of Castle Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) south. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buckton Castle: a ringwork and site of 17th century beacon 350m north east of Castle FarmScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Noonsun HillHill700 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Holly BankHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Castle CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Scout GreenWood2 km (1.2 miles) south
AlphinHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Willow LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
55 to 5930
Under 552831

3 of the street's 31 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 Tameside: see them on the Tameside page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Mossley Hollins High SchoolSecondary11–16710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Friezland Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Milton St John's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Micklehurst All Saints CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St George's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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
Livingstone Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greenfield St Mary's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Dysarts Arms OL5 9BTPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Tollemache Arms OL5 9BGPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Fire Station Day Nursery OL5 9BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Tumbles Catering Limited OL5 9BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Lal Quilla OL5 9BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
The Roaches Lock OL5 9BBPub/bar/nightclub330 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
Castle Top Private Day Care Nursery OL5 9BWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
The Royal George OL3 7HXPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good18 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.

2 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadow Close (2).

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: 561 residents in 223 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 age4840
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 7 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: New service connection, 30 October 2026 to 2 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 13 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • OL5 9DZ: 30 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • OL5 9DB: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

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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.