Roscommon Way Widnes, Halton

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA8), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16105249.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £485,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 12).
  • Flood: 6 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 D; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Upton Rocks, is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fir Park Medical Centre, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,000 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20221£485,000£485,000£485,000
20192£280,500£266,000£295,000
20181£285,000£285,000£285,000
20141£275,000£275,000£275,000
20131£368,950£368,950£368,950
20122£240,750£236,500£245,000
20101£238,000£238,000£238,000
20071£280,000£280,000£280,000
200615£260,000£215,000£300,000
20059£269,000£234,000£315,000
20045£250,000£243,000£306,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Feb 202217 WA8 9SBDetached£485,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 20196 WA8 9SBDetached£266,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 20191 WA8 9SBDetached£295,000Leasehold.
7 Nov 20183 WA8 9SBDetached£285,000Leasehold.
11 Dec 201428 WA8 9SBDetached£275,000Leasehold.
24 Apr 201317 WA8 9SBDetached£368,950Leasehold.
14 Dec 201218 WA8 9SBDetached£245,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 20129 WA8 9SBDetached£236,500Leasehold.
27 Oct 20107 WA8 9SBDetached£238,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 20072 WA8 9SBFlat or maisonette£280,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 200624 WA8 9SBDetached£250,000New build. Leasehold.
7 Sep 200622 WA8 9SBDetached£230,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Jun 200630 WA8 9SBDetached£252,700New build. Leasehold.
16 Jun 200618 WA8 9SBDetached£269,000New build. Leasehold.
31 May 200614 WA8 9SBDetached£245,500New build. Leasehold.
30 May 200627 WA8 9SBDetached£260,000New build. Leasehold.
26 May 200625 WA8 9SBDetached£300,000New build. Leasehold.
26 May 200623 WA8 9SBDetached£297,750New build.
19 May 200626 WA8 9SBDetached£265,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Mar 200628 WA8 9SBDetached£297,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Mar 200629 WA8 9SBDetached£284,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Mar 200620 WA8 9SBDetached£245,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Feb 200612 WA8 9SBDetached£266,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Feb 200621 WA8 9SBDetached£256,000New build. Leasehold.
13 Jan 200619 WA8 9SBDetached£215,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Dec 200517 WA8 9SBDetached£314,500New build. Leasehold.
7 Sep 20059 WA8 9SBDetached£269,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Jul 200515 WA8 9SBDetached£315,000New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 200511 WA8 9SBDetached£234,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Jun 200516 WA8 9SBDetached£248,550New build. Leasehold.
15 Jun 20051 WA8 9SBDetached£284,000New build. Leasehold.
10 Jun 20053 WA8 9SBDetached£289,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Apr 20057 WA8 9SBDetached£254,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Mar 20056 WA8 9SBDetached£234,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Dec 20042 WA8 9SBFlat or maisonette£284,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Dec 200410 WA8 9SBDetached£250,000New build. Leasehold.
17 Dec 20048 WA8 9SBFlat or maisonette£243,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Dec 20044 WA8 9SBFlat or maisonette£306,000New build. Leasehold.
15 Dec 20045 WA8 9SBDetached£249,000New build. Leasehold.

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

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 138 m². Most common: House, detached (13). Built: 2003-2006 (12); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 1,030 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

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, 5 at medium risk and 7 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
WA8 9SBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 3 unlikely
WA8 9AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 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 27 m and 30 m above sea level (29 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
WA8 9AX100%100%100%0%
WA8 9SB100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queensbury Way Upton Rocks110 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL8.2 km (5.1 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 Fir Park Medical Centre490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy (Upton Rocks)490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Widnes Upton Rocks, Upton Rocks Cashzone430 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Upton Rocks 11 ha120 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²270 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,300 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The FieldWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Pex HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
George's WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Spike IslandIsland3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Runcorn SandsWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
Big WaterLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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, 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 5920
Under 552931

2 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–16880 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary5–71.5 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cronton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Co-operative Group WA8 9BDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Subway WA8 9BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Sep 2026
Bargain Booze WA8 9DURetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2024
Arch & Anchor WA8 9DUPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jul 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime6
Anti-social behaviour6
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary3
Other theft2
Drugs1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Regency Park (8); On or near Malahide Court (6); On or near Lingwell Park (5); On or near Longford Drive (5); On or near Larne Court (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: 999 residents in 311 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 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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

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.

  • WA8 9SB: 30 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • WA8 9AX: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Limerick Close · Portrush Close · Shannon Grove · Galway Avenue · Doughton Green · Larne Court · Larne Court · Longford Drive · Biddlestone Cross · Lingwell Avenue · Lingwell Park · Bloomsbury Way

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.