Ruislip Close Oldham

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL8), about 30 m long. USRN 29405518.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mossley (Manchester), about 3.9 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Alexandra Park, is about 470 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 186 to 190 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alexandra Group Med Pract, about 790 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£215,000£215,000£215,000
20151£164,000£164,000£164,000
20131£143,000£143,000£143,000
20071£142,500£142,500£142,500
20061£107,000£107,000£107,000
20001£74,500£74,500£74,500
19982£69,750£67,000£72,500
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Sep 20254 OL8 2JNDetached£215,000Leasehold.
14 Aug 20155 OL8 2JNDetached£164,000
2 Jul 20133 OL8 2JNDetached£143,000Leasehold.
5 Jan 20074 OL8 2JNDetached£142,500Leasehold.
25 Oct 20061 OL8 2JNSemi-detached£107,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 20006 OL8 2JNDetached£74,500
22 Sep 19986 OL8 2JNDetached£72,500
28 Aug 19982 OL8 2JNDetached£67,000Leasehold.

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, detached (4). Built: 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 620 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 7 addresses are between 186 m and 190 m above sea level (188 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
OL8 2JN100%100%100%0%
OL8 2JW100%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 2024–253.9 km
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km
Moston 106,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km
Underground, metro or tramOldham Mumps (Manchester Metrolink)1.4 km
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)1.6 km
Oldham King Street (Manchester Metrolink)1.8 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 32 within 800 m; nearest Warren Lane Glodwick220 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange1.4 km
Car parksSouthgate Street Car Park1.4 km
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station1.3 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN23.6 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Alexandra Group Med Pract790 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Chemist Corner Internet Pharmacy410 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Abbey Hills Road (Dental Surgery)380 m
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital3.1 km
Police stationFitton Hill Police Post910 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Clarksfield Food Store670 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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Alexandra Park 22 ha470 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 70 m²550 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha150 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,520 m²260 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alexandra Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 770 m north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*770 m north-west
Greenacres CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snipe CloughValley440 m south-west
The OrchardWood740 m south-east
Deanshut CloughValley1.0 km south
The RockHill1.2 km south-east
Rocher ValeValley1.3 km south-east
Knott Hill ReservoirLake or reservoir3.1 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5567

1 of the street's 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Alexandra Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–11390 m Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Glodwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7540 m No published inspection
Roundthorn Primary AcademyPrimary3–11670 m Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy LeesbrookSecondary11–16890 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alt AcademyPrimary3–11900 m No published inspection
Medlock Valley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenhill AcademyPrimary2–111.0 km Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horton Mill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Martin's CofE Junior Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Broadfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Hugh's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oasis Academy ClarksfieldPrimary3–111.3 km Good (Apr 2023, 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Don Mart Top Shop OL8 2JERetailers - other120 m5 Very good9 Jul 2022
Abbey Hey Care Home OL8 2BYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
TNA Bros OL8 2BSRetailers - other380 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Dec 2025
Abbeyhills Grocery Store OL8 2BSRetailers - other380 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Abbey Hills Store OL8 2BSRetailers - other390 m4 Good13 Aug 2024
Burglicious OL8 2BSTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Brook Lane Convenience Store OL8 2BDRetailers - other440 m5 Very good13 Jul 2024
Alexandra Park School OL8 2BESchool/college/university440 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Manor Inn OL8 2DHPub/bar/nightclub450 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Abbey Hills Local Shopper OL8 2DHRetailers - other450 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Park Shop OL4 1AHRetailers - other460 m4 Good6 Jun 2023
Abbeyhills Mini Market OL8 2DHRetailers - other460 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Arzu Halal Meat & Groceries OL8 2DHRetailers - other480 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Cheeky Desserts OL8 2DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (durham).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 497 residents in 136 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 age2940
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Finsbury Close · Perivale Drive · Netherhey Street · Chalfront Close · Nuttall Street · Warren Lane · Skipton Street · Swansea Street · Pearl Mill Close · Flowery Bank · Abbeyhills Road · Beacon Grove

All the streets in OL8 and across Oldham.

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.