Second Avenue Runcorn, Halton

4 addresses across 3 postcodes (WA7), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16101493.

  • 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 B; 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 Runcorn East, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 130 m away, and Town Park (104 hectares) is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Weaver Vale Practice, about 300 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 209 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 B (37% of about 650 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

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.

© 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 6 addresses are between 58 m and 62 m above sea level (59 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
WA7 2HG100%100%100%0%
WA7 2PD100%100%100%0%
WA7 2SX100%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 stationsRuncorn East 196,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Frodsham 269,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Halton Lea North Palace Fields130 m
Bus or coach stationWarrington Bus Interchange Stand T9.7 km (6 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Runcorn Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.3 km (6.4 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 Weaver Vale Practice300 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery300 m
HospitalHalton Hospital540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationCheshire Constabulary60 m
Cash machinesJesani Stores Ltd, Northwich Road820 m (0.5 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.2 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Town Park 104 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²340 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,450 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 560 m²1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 135 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Library, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) north. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish LibraryListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north
The Old HallListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north
The Castle Hotel Public HouseListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north
Halton Castle: a ruined shell keep castle on the site of an earlier motte and baileyScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) north
Augustinian Abbey known as Norton PrioryScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pickerings RoughWood910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Windmill HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Big PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Murdishaw ValleyValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) east
Wigg IslandIsland2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Astmoor Salt MarshWetland2.9 km (1.8 miles) north

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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
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, 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
60 to 64100
Under 55566

1 of the street's 6 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 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
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Brow Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Palace Fields Primary AcademyPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Woodside Primary SchoolPrimary5–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hallwood Park Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11930 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle View Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England Academy Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Bridgewater Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Astmoor Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Halton Community Shop and Cafe WA7 2FSRetailers - other90 m5 Very good30 Mar 2026
FJ's Cafe - Restaurant WA7 2GYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good20 Nov 2025
Poundstretcher WA7 2BSRetailers - other150 m5 Very good8 Jan 2024
Coffee Van WA7 2EUMobile caterer160 m4 Good5 Sep 2017
Store Twenty One WA7 2EURetailers - other160 mExempt
Morrisons Daily WA7 2GWRetailers - other170 m2 Improvement necessary21 Apr 2026
Iceland WA7 2BXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m4 Good27 Jan 2026
Superdrug Stores Plc WA7 2BXRetailers - other180 mExempt
Greggs WA7 2GZRetailers - other200 m4 Good31 Mar 2026
Subway WA7 2GZTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good11 Dec 2024
New Look WA7 2GXRetailers - other200 mExempt
Showboat Amusements WA7 2GXRetailers - other200 mExempt
Card Factory WA7 2GXRetailers - other200 mExempt
Savers Health and Beauty WA7 2GXRetailers - other200 mExempt
Costa Coffee WA7 2GXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

209 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences70
Public order30
Anti-social behaviour24
Shoplifting18
Drugs17
Other theft16
Criminal damage and arson13
Burglary8
Possession of weapons7
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holt Lane (81); On or near Fourth Avenue (30); On or near Shopping Area (27); On or near Parking Area (17); On or near Police Station (15).

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: 267 residents in 122 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 age3940
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented57%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • WA7 2HG: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode
  • WA7 2PD: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • WA7 2SX: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

Nearby streets

East Lane · Holt Lane · Northway · East Lane · Holt Lane · Fourth Avenue · Fifth Avenue · Crown Gate · West Lane · Southway · The Uplands

All the streets in WA7 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.