Sefton Lane Maghull, Sefton

218 addresses across 10 postcodes (L31), about 1.6 km (1 mile) long, classed as a b road. USRN 34102594.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £330,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026 (+2% on a year); private rents averaged £940 a month.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 21, E: 7).
  • Flood: 76 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: 2 recorded floods covered 1 of its 10 postcode centres, most recently in July 2010.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Lunt Sefton Meadows No.2, is 0 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 3 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Liverpool Road, Bickerstaffe - Biomass boiler, is 4.7 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 83% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maghull, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 860 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 118 of its 218 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maghull Family Surgery, about 870 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20262£330,000£265,000£395,000
20253£290,000£260,050£310,000
20241£230,000£230,000£230,000
20221£255,000£255,000£255,000
20215£289,000£200,000£317,500
20202£305,500£216,000£395,000
20191£260,000£260,000£260,000
20182£232,850£198,200£267,500
20171£200,000£200,000£200,000
20165£206,000£195,000£273,000
20152£203,750£200,000£207,500
20132£213,500£202,000£225,000
All 53 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Jul 20253 L31 8AESemi-detached£290,000
6 Oct 20213 L31 8AESemi-detached£289,000
16 Jul 20073 L31 8AESemi-detached£247,000
14 Feb 20135 L31 8AESemi-detached£225,000
22 Jan 20167 L31 8AESemi-detached£200,000
15 Nov 199611 L31 8AESemi-detached£71,500
2 May 201913 L31 8AESemi-detached£260,000
27 Nov 201515 L31 8AESemi-detached£207,500
13 Dec 202117 L31 8AESemi-detached£310,000
26 May 199519 L31 8AESemi-detached£72,000
8 Dec 202023A L31 8AEDetached£395,000
8 Jun 201827 L31 8AESemi-detached£267,500
24 Jan 201229 L31 8AESemi-detached£215,000
25 Sep 200935 L31 8AESemi-detached£172,000
31 Aug 202139 L31 8AESemi-detached£317,500
4 Mar 200539 L31 8AESemi-detached£178,000
11 May 201843 L31 8AESemi-detached£198,200
26 Feb 201643 L31 8AESemi-detached£195,000
29 Sep 200047 L31 8AESemi-detached£89,950
11 Aug 201749 L31 8AESemi-detached£200,000
19 Mar 202151 L31 8AESemi-detached£200,000
28 Oct 202253 L31 8AETerraced£255,000
23 Mar 199555 L31 8AESemi-detached£73,000
4 May 201257 L31 8AESemi-detached£210,000
1 Mar 200057 L31 8AESemi-detached£59,000
4 Aug 202559 L31 8AESemi-detached£260,050
23 Oct 202061 L31 8AESemi-detached£216,000
3 Jul 199861 L31 8AESemi-detached£61,000
2 Apr 200763 L31 8AEDetached£322,000
6 Sep 200265 L31 8AESemi-detached£145,000
24 Aug 200165 L31 8AESemi-detached£115,000
15 Jul 201667 L31 8AESemi-detached£273,000
28 Apr 201067 L31 8AESemi-detached£269,950
30 Aug 199667 L31 8AESemi-detached£72,000
9 Nov 201569A L31 8AEDetached£200,000
7 Jul 202671 L31 8AESemi-detached£395,000
21 Sep 202171 L31 8AESemi-detached£225,000
30 Nov 201673 L31 8AESemi-detached£206,000
23 Mar 201673 L31 8AESemi-detached£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Oct 200575 L31 8AESemi-detached£203,710
4 Jul 201677 L31 8AESemi-detached£257,500
27 Nov 200077 L31 8AESemi-detached£95,000
6 Oct 200679 L31 8AESemi-detached£200,000
3 Mar 202680 L31 8AFSemi-detached£265,000
25 Jul 202581 L31 8AESemi-detached£310,000
4 Mar 201381 L31 8AESemi-detached£202,000
9 Jul 201081 L31 8AESemi-detached£202,000
9 Feb 200481 L31 8AESemi-detached£149,950
7 Jun 202482 L31 8AFSemi-detached£230,000
23 Apr 200282 L31 8AFSemi-detached£95,200
27 Mar 2014102 L31 8BTOther£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 1995142 L31 8BTSemi-detached£64,950
19 Oct 2018UNIT 1G, SEFTON LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE L31 8BXOther£15,600Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Sefton

A typical home in Sefton cost £221,105 in August 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 50% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£386,996
Semi-detached£246,240
Terraced£181,535
Flat or maisonette£125,367
Bought by a first-time buyer£189,330

Private renters in Sefton paid £940 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£623
Two bedrooms£815
Three bedrooms£995
Four or more bedrooms£1,414

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 118 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (23); Bungalow, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (21); 1900-1929 (6); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,476 kWh of it on average in 2024, 21% more than the district's 11,181 kWh, and 3,861 kWh of electricity, 22% more than the district's 3,159 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
L31 8AE423,115 kWh 4318,130 kWh
L31 8AA153,173 kWh 1910,762 kWh
L31 8AQ392,071 kWh 399,231 kWh
L31 8BF513,990 kWh 5310,303 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 L31.

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 Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 1,780 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 3 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: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 45 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: yes, Sefton.

Listed buildings

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Liverpool Road, Bickerstaffe - Biomass boiler West Lancashire 2021/0202/FUL Biomass 0.5 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2021 4.7 km (2.9 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

  • 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 29 September 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway (minor 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, 43 addresses are in areas at high risk, 33 at medium risk and 36 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 143 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 42 medium, 12 low and 14 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
L31 8BXnot in 2 or 3 6 / 6 / 12 unlikely
L31 8AEnot in 2 or 3 7 / 5 / 8 unlikely
L31 8BTzone 3 5 / 2 / 0 unlikely
L31 8AFzone 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L31 8AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
L31 8AQzone 3 13 / 19 / 7 unlikely
L31 8BFnot in 2 or 3 8 / 1 / 4 unlikely
L31 8BNzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
L31 8BUzone 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L31 8BYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

2 recorded floods covered 1 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in July 2010 (Sefton Lane; main river).

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
20 Jul 2010Sefton Lane Main river; channel capacity exceeded (no raised defences) L31 8BT
10 Aug 2004Dover's Brook Main river; channel capacity exceeded (no raised defences) L31 8BT

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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 3 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Maghull Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Rear 23 Liverpool Road North Cso United Utilities; monitored 82% of the year Maghull Brook 3 1 70 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 0 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Lunt Sefton Meadows No.2 Sefton Lane, Sefton Meadows, Sefton, Merseyside 1975 to 1981 Household 0 m
Sefton Meadows Landfill Site Sefton Lane, Maghull, Merseyside 1949 to 1957 Inert, industrial, commercial, household 40 m
Sefton Meadows Ext No.1 Off Lunt Road, Lunt, Sefton, Merseyside from 1949 Commercial, household 60 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 218 addresses are between 4 m and 11 m above sea level (6 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
L31 8AA100%100%100%0%
L31 8AE100%100%100%0%
L31 8AF100%100%100%0%
L31 8AQ100%100%100%0%
L31 8BF100%100%100%0%
L31 8BN100%100%100%0%
L31 8BT100%83%83%0%
L31 8BX100%93%93%0%
L31 8BY100%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 stationsMaghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Maghull North 614,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Old Roan 963,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Liverpool Road South Maghull110 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Car parksStafford Moreton Way Car Park830 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL20.7 km (13 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maghull Family Surgery Good Sep 2018870 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meadows Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Liverpool Road South (Dental Surgery)880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Beeches Good Feb 2022190 m
Police stationMaghull Police Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Costcutter Cashzone650 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 gardenUnnamed 4.1 ha860 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,900 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha250 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,120 m²270 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Maghull Manor moated site, a scheduled monument, 260 m north-west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Maghull Manor moated siteScheduled monument260 m north-west
Maghull ChapelListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) east
Sefton Old Hall moated site and fishponds, Sefton.Scheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buckley HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Millfield ClumpWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) west
Lydiate WoodWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) north
Big WoodWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) east
Carr WoodWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) north-west
Holt GreenWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
70 to 7450
65 to 6950
60 to 64920
55 to 59160
Under 55100218

118 of the street's 218 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Maghull High SchoolSecondary11–18440 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.4 (39.6 in 2025 and 38.5 in 2024); 24.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, MaghullPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Deyes High SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.1 (42.8 in 2025 and 45.7 in 2024); 41.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 10.5% AAB or better; progress below average
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Maricourt Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.6 (44.5 in 2025 and 42.1 in 2024); 34.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Green Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Hudson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Northway Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Summerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 87% in 2023)
Lydiate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, LydiatePrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 86% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 93% in 2024 and 94% 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 690 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
XT Club Active Sports Centre L31 8BT Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 690 m (0.4 miles)
Bumbles Maghull L31 7BG Full day care 59 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 920 m (0.6 miles)
Bright Days L31 6DE Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 920 m (0.6 miles)
Little Chicks Day Nursery and Wraparound Care L31 8BW Sessional day care 28 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 61 childminders and 7 home childcarers (nannies) in Sefton. 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 4 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
Willow Day Centre Parkhaven Trust L31 8BRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good20 May 2026
The Beeches - Parkhaven Trust L31 8ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good20 May 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour8
Violence and sexual offences3
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near B5422 (13); On or near Claremont Avenue (1); On or near Rosslyn Avenue (1).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
3 Aug 2025 12:50 Slight 1 person B5422, 30 mph Wet road

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 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,730 residents in 722 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • L31 8BX: 137 addresses of 142 in the postcode
  • L31 8AE: 48 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • L31 8BT: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • L31 8AF: 2 addresses
  • L31 8AA: 1 address of 25 in the postcode
  • L31 8AQ: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • L31 8BF: 1 address of 57 in the postcode
  • L31 8BN: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • L31 8BU: 1 address
  • L31 8BY: 1 address

Nearby streets

Claremont Avenue · Liverpool Road South · Rosslyn Avenue · Old Moat Lane · Sandringham Road · Old Racecourse Road · Bartlett Close · Bankhouse Drive · Sefton Drive · Gainsborough Avenue · Ormonde Drive · Windsor Road

All the streets in L31 and across Sefton.

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.