Rosedale Road Birkenhead, Wirral

74 addresses across 3 postcodes (CH42), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44503041.

  • Sales: 119 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £125,099 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026 (+5.8% on a year); private rents averaged £862 a month.
  • Energy: 58 homes have an energy certificate (C: 18, D: 32, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels, is 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rock Ferry, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 74 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gladstone Med Ctr, about 350 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 179 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20261£125,099£125,099£125,099
20253£110,000£105,000£110,000
20242£122,750£117,500£128,000
20231£105,000£105,000£105,000
20225£107,000£88,000£118,000
20212£100,500£90,000£111,000
20201£67,250£67,250£67,250
20192£82,500£82,000£83,000
20185£85,000£67,500£87,500
20151£80,000£80,000£80,000
20142£69,476£58,952£80,000
20131£58,000£58,000£58,000
All 119 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Oct 19961 CH42 5PGTerraced£22,000
19 Oct 20163 CH42 5PGTerraced£63,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20143 CH42 5PGTerraced£58,952
15 Dec 20224 CH42 5PGTerraced£110,000
23 Nov 20015 CH42 5PGTerraced£25,000
10 Jul 20127 CH42 5PGTerraced£55,000
19 May 20007 CH42 5PGTerraced£33,000
1 May 19987 CH42 5PGTerraced£31,950
31 Mar 20228 CH42 5PGOther£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 202210 CH42 5PGTerraced£118,000
15 Jun 201810 CH42 5PGTerraced£86,500
29 Oct 200410 CH42 5PGTerraced£85,500
26 Jan 200110 CH42 5PGTerraced£33,950
20 Aug 201811 CH42 5PGTerraced£67,500
24 Jun 202513 CH42 5PGTerraced£110,000
20 Mar 200813 CH42 5PGTerraced£110,000
17 May 200713 CH42 5PGTerraced£114,000
21 Apr 200613 CH42 5PGTerraced£74,000
16 Mar 199913 CH42 5PGTerraced£32,000
31 Mar 200314 CH42 5PGTerraced£45,500
13 Feb 199814 CH42 5PGTerraced£29,000
17 Dec 201915 CH42 5PGTerraced£75,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Sep 200515 CH42 5PGTerraced£89,000
30 May 200315 CH42 5PGTerraced£47,950
27 Feb 199815 CH42 5PGTerraced£29,950
29 Jul 202016 CH42 5PGTerraced£73,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 201616 CH42 5PGTerraced£73,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 200616 CH42 5PGTerraced£85,000
6 May 200516 CH42 5PGTerraced£88,000
17 May 199616 CH42 5PGTerraced£27,000
14 Apr 202219 CH42 5PGTerraced£107,000
16 Feb 200719 CH42 5PGTerraced£96,000
1 Mar 200119 CH42 5PGTerraced£34,950
14 Oct 201120 CH42 5PGTerraced£92,500
12 May 201120 CH42 5PGTerraced£60,000
13 Nov 201421 CH42 5PGTerraced£65,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Oct 201021 CH42 5PGTerraced£55,000
22 Nov 201922 CH42 5PGTerraced£82,000
13 Nov 201822 CH42 5PGTerraced£56,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 May 200622 CH42 5PGTerraced£81,000
4 Dec 199822 CH42 5PGTerraced£23,000
30 Sep 202123 CH42 5PGTerraced£111,000
29 Jul 200523 CH42 5PGTerraced£85,000
6 Feb 199823 CH42 5PGTerraced£21,000
28 Aug 199824 CH42 5PGTerraced£30,000
8 Mar 201225 CH42 5PGTerraced£65,000
10 Aug 201125 CH42 5PGTerraced£44,000
14 May 200527 CH42 5PGTerraced£65,000
8 Dec 199827 CH42 5PGTerraced£20,000
1 Jul 201128 CH42 5PGTerraced£66,500
9 Jan 200329 CH42 5PGTerraced£30,000
27 Nov 199529 CH42 5PGTerraced£15,000
3 Jan 200230 CH42 5PGTerraced£35,000
23 May 200232 CH42 5PGTerraced£40,000
4 Jun 199932 CH42 5PGTerraced£30,000
3 Jan 202033 CH42 5PGTerraced£84,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 201833 CH42 5PGTerraced£82,200
3 Dec 201033 CH42 5PGTerraced£75,000
14 May 200333 CH42 5PGTerraced£40,000
7 Aug 201234 CH42 5PGTerraced£65,000
4 Jul 200335 CH42 5PGTerraced£56,950
7 Dec 199937 CH42 5PGTerraced£16,000
1 Oct 199937 CH42 5PGTerraced£16,350
21 Dec 202138 CH42 5PQTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Oct 200338 CH42 5PQTerraced£63,450
24 Aug 199839 CH42 5PGTerraced£31,000
24 Sep 200440 CH42 5PQTerraced£86,000
9 Apr 199940 CH42 5PQTerraced£34,950
15 Oct 199941 CH42 5PQTerraced£32,000
18 Nov 201444 CH42 5PQTerraced£80,000
5 Oct 200544 CH42 5PQTerraced£80,000
28 Sep 200145 CH42 5PQTerraced£29,950
1 Oct 202147 CH42 5PQTerraced£101,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 200747 CH42 5PQTerraced£109,500
22 Apr 200547 CH42 5PQTerraced£89,000
2 Apr 200147 CH42 5PQTerraced£34,950
2 Jul 202648 CH42 5PQTerraced£125,099
27 Nov 201548 CH42 5PQTerraced£80,000
3 Jun 201949 CH42 5PQTerraced£83,000
16 Sep 199949 CH42 5PQTerraced£27,000
19 Aug 202450 CH42 5PQTerraced£117,500
26 Jul 201350 CH42 5PQTerraced£58,000
15 Feb 202451 CH42 5PQTerraced£128,000
8 Jun 201551 CH42 5PQTerraced£67,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Apr 200351 CH42 5PQTerraced£44,995
30 Mar 202152 CH42 5PQTerraced£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Oct 202052 CH42 5PQTerraced£87,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 202053 CH42 5PQTerraced£67,250
10 Jan 200354 CH42 5PQTerraced£48,995
20 Jun 200254 CH42 5PQTerraced£43,950
16 Nov 201855 CH42 5PQTerraced£85,000
6 Jan 201155 CH42 5PQTerraced£83,000
9 Aug 200255 CH42 5PQTerraced£43,000
27 Apr 200055 CH42 5PQTerraced£31,000
9 Apr 201056 CH42 5PQTerraced£88,000
28 Nov 202257 CH42 5PQTerraced£99,000
7 Oct 202258 CH42 5PQTerraced£88,000
3 Oct 200558 CH42 5PQTerraced£81,000
21 Aug 202559 CH42 5PQTerraced£105,000
19 Oct 202061 CH42 5PQTerraced£76,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Oct 202061 CH42 5PQTerraced£86,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 201061 CH42 5PQTerraced£95,000
9 Jan 200261 CH42 5PQTerraced£38,500
9 Oct 199861 CH42 5PQTerraced£35,500
14 May 202162 CH42 5PQTerraced£90,000
13 Nov 200762 CH42 5PQTerraced£90,000
17 Jul 200162 CH42 5PQTerraced£34,500
6 Aug 199764 CH42 5PQTerraced£31,000
13 May 200365 CH42 5PQTerraced£20,000
6 Dec 201867 CH42 5PQTerraced£87,500
17 Nov 200667 CH42 5PQTerraced£102,950
26 Mar 199968 CH42 5PQTerraced£32,950
15 Jan 199969 CH42 5PQTerraced£34,700
24 Feb 202370 CH42 5PQSemi-detached£105,000
24 Sep 200470 CH42 5PQSemi-detached£83,500
17 Dec 202571 CH42 5PQTerraced£110,000
8 Oct 199974 CH42 5PQTerraced£22,250
6 Oct 200976 CH42 5PQTerraced£76,000
6 Nov 199878 CH42 5PQTerraced£31,000

House prices and rents in Wirral

A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 55% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£395,663
Semi-detached£252,118
Terraced£176,914
Flat or maisonette£125,172
Bought by a first-time buyer£190,039

Private renters in Wirral paid £862 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£574
Two bedrooms£743
Three bedrooms£909
Four or more bedrooms£1,255

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

58 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (53); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1900-1929 (48); before 1900 (9); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (28); owner-occupied (24); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (58 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,569 kWh of it on average in 2024, 16% less than the district's 10,240 kWh, and 2,701 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 2,919 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CH42 5PQ362,255 kWh 367,737 kWh
CH42 5PG352,119 kWh 356,825 kWh
CH42 5PF283,241 kWh 288,819 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CH42.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (98% of about 1,610 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels Liverpool 22LP/2379 Wind 1 turbine Planning application made Sep 2022 2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bromborough Dock Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Sep 1999 3.5 km (2.1 miles)
Bromborough Dock Landfill Gas 3.7 MW Operational Sep 1999 4 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 29 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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
CH42 5PQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CH42 5PGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 5PFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 74 addresses are between 21 m and 27 m above sea level (23 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
CH42 5PF100%100%100%0%
CH42 5PG100%100%100%0%
CH42 5PQ100%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 stationsRock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–25720 m (0.4 miles)
Green Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–25880 m (0.5 miles)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 66 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rosedale Road Tranmere60 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.2 km (7.6 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gladstone Med Ctr Good Sep 2019350 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rock Ferry Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Devonshire Park Dental Centre410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital640 m (0.4 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 1, 2 and 3 St Georges Gardens Good May 2026410 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nisa Local Cashzone360 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 (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 11 ha70 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 590 m²100 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha240 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Molyneux Allotments 5,340 m²390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birkenhead Priory, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1 mile) north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tranmere BeachBeach1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Outer BasinLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Marsh Hey CovertWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Prenton DellValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Devil's BankWetland4.7 km (3 miles) east

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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 59110
Under 556274

12 of the street's 74 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11110 m Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11380 m No published inspection 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 32% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–16840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.8 (38.9 in 2025 and 41.2 in 2024); 27.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025)
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 14% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 340 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Best Start Tots CH42 0LJ Sessional day care 23 May 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 340 m
Firbobs@ Mersey Park CH42 0PH Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 380 m
Partou Victoria Park Day Nursery & Pre-School CH42 4QJ Full day care 82 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Firbobs@Bedford Drive CH42 6RT Full day care 30 Not inspected yet 630 m (0.4 miles)
Barnyard Kids CH42 2BL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Rose Tree Day Nursery Ltd CH42 4PE Full day care 30 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Tennis Vision Holiday Club CH42 8LY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Daisy Chain Nursery CH42 4NT Full day care 52 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
First Class Nursery School (Wirral) Limited CH42 8NA Full day care 79 Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Firbobs@St Joseph's CH43 5UT Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 120 childminders and 12 home childcarers (nannies) in Wirral. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Well Lane Primary School CH42 5PFSchool/college/university110 m4 Good11 Sep 2026
Essentials CH42 4QHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good24 May 2023
Cricket Pavilion CH42 0LERetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Aug 2026
Albany Bowling Club CH42 3XWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m4 Good28 Mar 2023
PT Food and Wine CH42 3TFRetailers - other310 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025
Mr Shawarma CH42 0LDTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good2 Nov 2025
YUM CH42 3TFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good10 Nov 2025
THE FISH INN CH42 5NJTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory10 May 2026
Swettenham Chemists CH42 3TDRetailers - other330 mExempt
SMOKIE MOS CH42 3TFTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good24 Aug 2026
Khan Tandoori CH42 0LDTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good12 Jun 2025
Rumbling Tums CH42 3TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Dhillons News CH42 0LDRetailers - other340 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Tranmere Residents & Communities CH42 0LLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good3 May 2022
Golden Dragon CH42 0LJTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 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.

179 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences87
Public order22
Criminal damage and arson18
Anti-social behaviour11
Other theft10
Other crime9
Drugs8
Vehicle crime5
Possession of weapons4
Burglary3
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oriel Road (30); On or near Victoria Park Road (27); On or near Albany Close (22); On or near Downham Road (11); On or near Grasville Road (10).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202310
202411
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
5 May 2025 17:49 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
18 Sep 2024 07:56 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
24 Jan 2023 15:25 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
9 Jun 2021 13:45 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 540 residents in 252 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 age3540
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%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 neighbourhoods around this street are all 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.

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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.

Nearby streets

Elderwood Road · Grasville Road · Well Lane · Ivydale Road · Mossley Road · Linwood Road · Baytree Road · Jessamine Road · Bankville Road · Park Road · Westdale Road · Tudor Road

All the streets in CH42 and across Wirral.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.