Sandiway Knutsford, Cheshire East

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA16), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24102017.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £391,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 7, E: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knutsford, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 31 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Knutsford Medical Partnership, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 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
20232£391,250£362,500£420,000
20221£415,000£415,000£415,000
20211£415,000£415,000£415,000
20202£419,000£316,000£522,000
20184£342,500£318,000£380,000
20173£336,000£292,000£574,000
20162£422,800£355,500£490,100
20142£344,950£309,900£380,000
20132£310,000£240,000£380,000
20121£218,000£218,000£218,000
20103£180,000£175,000£361,500
20081£365,000£365,000£365,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Dec 202314 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£362,500
29 Aug 202329 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£420,000
4 Feb 202231 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£415,000
25 Jun 202118 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£415,000
16 Dec 202031 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£316,000
17 Apr 20206 WA16 8BUDetached£522,000
14 Dec 201812 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£350,000
10 Oct 201835 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£380,000
16 Aug 201816 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£318,000
15 Mar 201827 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£335,000
30 Aug 201711 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£292,000
31 Mar 201721 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£336,000
9 Mar 20171 WA16 8BUDetached£574,000
29 Oct 201615 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£355,500
29 Feb 201620 WA16 8BUDetached£490,100
4 Aug 20144 WA16 8BUDetached£380,000
25 Mar 201435 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£309,900
9 Aug 201312 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£240,000
30 Jul 20135 WA16 8BUDetached£380,000
30 Nov 201221 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£218,000
17 Nov 20109 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£180,000
17 Sep 201019 WA16 8BUDetached£361,500
18 Jun 201012 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£175,000
18 Mar 2008WOODEND WA16 8BUDetached£365,000
15 Oct 20073 WA16 8BUDetached£345,000
5 Jul 20077 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£285,000
19 Nov 200415 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£230,000
22 Jul 200318 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£177,000
2 Oct 200235 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£144,750
16 Nov 20011 WA16 8BUDetached£234,500
2 Nov 200118 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£147,000
11 Apr 200129 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£113,000
29 Jun 199829 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£84,000
29 Sep 19973 WA16 8BUDetached£107,000
13 Jun 199717 WA16 8BUSemi-detached£105,000
11 Aug 1995WOODEND WA16 8BUDetached£95,000

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

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (5); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (15); 1930-1949 (4); 2019 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (51% of about 930 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 31 October 2026.

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, 1 at medium risk and 5 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
WA16 8BUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA16 8BTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 5 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 addresses are about 65 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
WA16 8BT100%100%100%0%
WA16 8BU100%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 stationsKnutsford 371,000 journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Mobberley 23,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Plumley 19,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandiway Knutsford90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Knutsford700 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Street Car Park500 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN7.6 km (4.7 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knutsford Medical Partnership890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Studio520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalKnutsford Community Hospital940 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Altrincham Police Station9.9 km (6.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Knutsford Cashzone700 m (0.4 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,320 m²270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 8.9 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,090 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha160 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sparrow Lane Allotments 9,590 m²390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Cross, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m west. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St CrossListed building, Grade II*140 m west
Brook Street Unitarian ChapelListed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) west
Former Kings Coffee House and Gaskell Memorial TowerListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) west
Site of St John's Church and surrounding burial ground, 400m NW of Booths MereScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) east
Norbury Booths Hall moated site, fishponds and connecting channels.Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Tatton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site8.7 km (5.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sanctuary MoorWood680 m (0.4 miles) south
St John's WoodWood700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Higmere PlantationWood810 m (0.5 miles) north
Booths MereLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) east
Mobberley BottomsValley3 km (1.9 miles) north
Birch IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55303131

1 of the street's 31 addresses is 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11360 m No published inspection
Manor Park Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11390 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Egerton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Knutsford AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bexton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
The Builders Arms WA16 8EQPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good29 Apr 2024
Sister Barista WA16 8DLMobile caterer150 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Hope Centre WA16 8ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good8 Apr 2024
Knutsford convenience store Go local WA16 8BZRetailers - other160 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School WA16 8ALSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Sharston House WA16 8AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Aldi WA16 8BWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Dec 2024
The Legh Arms WA16 8EBPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Neki Cafe WA16 6DWOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2025
Stolen Lamb WA16 6DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Oct 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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime2
Other theft2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ella Grove (9); On or near Middle Walk (6); On or near Beech Drive (6); On or near Manor Crescent (5); On or near Thorneyholme Drive (4).

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: 310 residents in 124 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 age4340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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

Woodlands Court · Thorneyholme Drive · Woodlands Drive · Mobberley Road · The Shambles · Richmond Hill · Sharston Crescent · Moordale Road · Mansion Drive · Woodside · Middle Walk · Ella Grove

All the streets in WA16 and across Cheshire East.

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.