Ropeworks Close Bootle, Sefton

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (L20), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34104341.

15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 13, C: 2). 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 40% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Bootle New Strand, about 1.0 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 270 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 19 m above sea level. The nearest GP surgery is Aintree Road Medical Centre, about 510 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km. About 880 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 196 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.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (9); House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 2012 (9); 2007 (4); 2007-2011 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (2).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 A (92% of about 610 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 1.0 km

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

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
L20 6BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L20 6DAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 19 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
L20 6BF100%40%40%0%
L20 6DA100%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 stationsBootle New Strand 885,000 journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Walton (Merseyside) 370,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Orrell Park 976,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 62 within 800 m; nearest Aughton Road Orrell60 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station1.0 km
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle2.3 km
Car parksNCP Bootle Court Merton Road1.3 km
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL16.7 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Aintree Road Medical Centre510 m
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Drakes Pharmacy510 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Sefton Dental Practice840 m
HospitalFirst Response Team, Clock View Hospital1.5 km
Police stationMarsh Lane Police Station920 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m; nearest Go Local Cashzone180 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 1.9 ha270 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 590 m²470 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.8 ha800 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.1 ha940 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 3.2 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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
Greenacre Community Nursery SchoolNursery2–5150 m No published inspection
King's Leadership Academy HawthornesSecondary11–16340 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Linacre Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
Springwell Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11610 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Lander Primary AcademyPrimary2–11630 m No published inspection
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11630 m No published inspection
St Monica's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11750 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11810 m Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary2–11850 m No published inspection
Thomas Gray Primary SchoolPrimary2–11900 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11940 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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

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
Go Local (Hidderley's Off Licence) L20 6JJRetailers - other180 m4 Good14 May 2026
Mel-Inn Social Club L20 6JJPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good19 Feb 2020
One Stop L20 6AHRetailers - other240 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Middle East Bazar Liverpool L20 6AHRetailers - other260 m4 Good5 Aug 2024
The Brothers L20 6AHTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good28 Jul 2025
Go Local L20 6AHRetailers - other270 m5 Very good14 May 2024
Pablo Trap Kitchen L20 6AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Apr 2026
The Linacre Community Centre L20 5ALOther catering premises280 m5 Very good14 Jun 2023
Herbura L20 9DERetailers - other330 mAwaiting inspection
Kings Leadership Academy L20 6AQSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Orrell & District Veterans Club L20 0AHPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good12 Mar 2019
Naturavivauk Ltd L20 9DERetailers - other390 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Fun House L20 5AYTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Linacre Local L20 5AGRetailers - other420 m2 Improvement necessary23 Mar 2026
Asda Express Linacre Lane PFS L20 5AGRetailers - other420 m5 Very good9 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.

196 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Shoplifting57
Criminal damage and arson13
Public order13
Drugs10
Vehicle crime7
Anti-social behaviour5
Other crime4
Robbery4
Possession of weapons3
Other theft3
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ainsdale Road (74); On or near A566 (20); On or near Hackett Avenue (18); On or near Petrol Station (12); On or near Sefton Road (12).

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: 875 residents in 386 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 age3840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented65%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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.

  • L20 6BF: 16 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • L20 6DA: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Aughton Road · Eaton Avenue · Sefton Road · Hackett Avenue · Hanlon Avenue · Province Road · Grogan Square · Mahon Avenue · Ainsdale Road · Kirby Road · Netherton Road · Alt Road

All the streets in L20 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 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.